[Marxism] ForLiberation Newsletter August 2007

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Dear Comrades,

Many apologies for the missed newsletter for the month of July. I will try to 
make it up in the coming months.

Read this newsletter online http://www.forliberation.org

For Humanity's Liberation
Danish Feroze

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Biocapital: The vectors of Biopolitical

By Malcolm Bull

Taking coordinates from Aristotle, Malcolm Bull finds in Agamben?s biopolitics 
and Nussbaum?s capabilities approach the disconnected fragments of a lost 
vision of society, adumbrated by Marx, glimpsed and rejected by Arendt. Strange 
meetings as the trajectories of the disenfranchised and the empowered, human 
and non-human, converge.

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article010807.htm

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Biocapital: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health

By Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Drawing on fieldwork in India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan analyses the mechanics of 
global pharmaceutical trials. The outsourcing of drug testing not as 
neo-colonial plunder, but part of a dual dynamic, under the aegis of 
?biocapital?: expropriation of Third World subjects, exploitation of medicated 
populations in the First. 

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article020807.htm

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Outsourcing Risks: Testing new drugs on the world?s poor 

By Sonia Shah

Many medicines developed for the rich are tested on poor people from developing 
countries. This is a failure in the allocation of scientific resources and, 
worse, a threat to the public health of the entire world.

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article030807.htm

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The Chinese Road: Cities in the Transition to Capitalism

By Riachard Walker and Daniel Buck

The PRC?s breakneck transition to capitalism seen through the prism of 
19th-century Europe and America, as its cities rehearse the processes analysed 
by Marx: commodification of land and labour, formation of markets and 
capitalist elites. What lessons might the West?s past hold for China?s future?

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article040807.htm

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Capital: Finance and the Fourth Dimension

By Robin Blackburn

The concept of alternative futures, banished from postmodernity?s eternal 
present, flourishes on the financial summits of the global economy. Robin 
Blackburn argues against a neo-Luddite dismissal of the new financial 
engineering techniques by the Left, while coolly assessing the economic and 
social costs of their current configurations.

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article050807.htm

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Global Economy: The new Global Financial Architecture?

By Robert Wade

As the world economy shows growing signs of vulnerability, what mechanisms 
exist for averting repeats of the Asian or Mexican crises? Banking and 
regulatory regimes as instruments of standardization, pulling national 
economies into Anglo-American orbits.

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article060807.htm

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Unbalancing Power from Gulf to China: The new great game

By Vicken Cheterian

For 10 years Central Asia has been caught up in a new "great game" designed to 
fill the gap left by the collapse of the Soviet Union. By deploying its forces 
in the Red Army?s former bases in Uzbekistan, Washington is demonstrating how 
its influence has spread since the cold war ended.

http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0807/article070807.htm

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