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Vol. 73/No. 11      March 23, 2009

 
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A prisoner’s studies
I am 24 years old and incarcerated in a Maryland prison. My studies are surrounded by Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto; Engels’s Socialism: Utopian and Scientific; John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy; Marx’s Wage Labor and Capital and Value, Price and Profit; Noam Chomsky’s The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; V.I. Lenin’s State and Revolution.

I will be subscribing to your newspaper with my next letter.

A prisoner
Maryland

Capitalism has crashed
Capitalism has crashed and burned in front of our eyes. Pundits say we must expect periodic crashes that wipe out the savings of millions of Americans, and that this is just the cost of “free enterprise.” This cost must be too high because the ruling class manages not to pay it. They turn to the government with their hands out and walk away with the cash while the citizens get the bill.

John King
Tampa, Florida

Listeriosis scandal again
Last summer, 20 Canadians died after developing the food-borne illness listeriosis. The outbreak, which was traced to tainted meat processing at a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, highlighted deficiencies in Canada’s food safety system and has become a political millstone around the neck of the Harper government.

Now the scandal has taken a new turn. The government is being accused of dragging its feet on the release of key information about the health crisis. The charge stems from an Access to Information Act request by the Canadian Press to the Privy Council for “all transcripts and minutes” of government conference calls that took place in August and September. The council said it needed more time to consult other agencies, delaying its response for four months in possible violation of the act.

Michael Pennock
Alexandria, Minnesota

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