Koizumi Goes Postal

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Good news from Japan is as rare as fresh and cheap toro in the
American Midwest, at least from the point of view of an activist on
the left.  Here's an exception.  Japan's upper house of Parliament
unexpectedly turned down Koizumi's key piece of neoliberal
legislation: the privatization of Japan's post office.  See John
Mage's "Koizumi Goes Postal," on the homepage of mrzine.org today:
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/mage140805.html>.  The world's last
anti-communist Keynesian state, saddled as it is with "by far the
largest [government debt] in proportion to GDP of any advanced
industrial nation" (Mage, <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/
mage140805.html>), lives to see another day.  Mage has some kind
words for the JCP for its feisty fight against postal privatization.

Yoshie Furuhashi
<http://montages.blogspot.com>
<http://monthlyreview.org>
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* Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud-
ahmadinejads-face.html>;  <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez-
congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/
2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>