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NYT article about the struggle of textile workers in Bangladesh. Alonzo S., the AFL-CIO observer mentioned in the article, is a Filipino-America activist from the Seattle area who was a leader of the cannery workers union there, and the progressive movement more generally, that many of us who lived in Seattle in the 1980s will recall. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/world/asia/as-bangladesh-becomes-export-powerhouse-labor-strife-erupts.html?_r=1&hpw ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com