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...against 39 pharmaceutical companies over the right to sidestep patents by importing generic drugs to fight the AIDS crisis. Challenging AIDS drug patents is fast emerging as the defining issue of a new Third World solidarity, although this time it's directed at improving their leverage in the world capitalist system rather than overthrowing...
...among Third World revolutionaries has become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...
...danger for the pharmaceutical industry, of course, is that the battle over AIDS drugs has fashioned a new solidarity among Third World governments, which, despite their capitalist orientation, seek to challenge the terms of trade with the industrialized world. And that's a battle the Quixotic old warrior in Havana is only too willing to join...
...mainland U.S., and a dunning letter she sends to her father, who happens to be a dean at B.U., elicits a predictably chilly response. So Sharon drifts, acquiring another boyfriend and growing and selling organic marijuana in a jungle on Molokai: "We lived a pastoral life with capitalist interruptions...
From a personnel viewpoint then, Bush's reversal seems to be questionable business practice. Yet in our competitive capitalist society it is sometimes worthwhile for employers to undercut their employees. I'm not referring to Chainsaw Al. Bush cites Department of Energy statistics about the increased cost of electricity to consumers as his reasoning for deciding not to regulate emissions, judging (I would assume) that the cost of the energy policy would be greater than the cost of undercutting his appointee...