During the formative years of the communist, workers' and peasants'
movement in Albania in the 1930s, there was cruel suppression of
the people by the semi-feudal regime and the Italian fascist
occupiers. Execution, long jail terms and exile were the lot of any
patriotic or progressive Albanian w
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 16:00:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Charles W. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Jobs For All - The First Installment
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CREATE 3.4 MILLION* NEW GOOD** JOBS BY 1999!!
The Problem: Nearly 17 million people want good jobs
** 6.8
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:59:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Charles W. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Jobs For All Goes to Wall St. 10/16
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Join us in New York City's financial district for a
TOUR OF LOST JOBS AND LOST OPPORTUNITIES
with the Nationa
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1996
RELEASED TODAY:
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- Both unemployment and nonfarm payroll
employment were essentially unchanged in September. The jobless rate
was 5.2 percent in September; it had been 5.1 percent in August.
Payroll employment fell in manufactu
The World Bank's involvement in health care in LDCs is ambiguous
right now as far as I am concerned and I would appreciate clarification
from anyone who knows more about it than I do. The World Bank has
announced a major health-sector loan to India of US$350 million
which will go to health-care r
Yasser Arafat was grim-faced and refused to speak at the conclusion
of the Washington Summit, October 2. Even the chieftain of U.S.
imperialism, Clinton, admitted that the peace process was in
serious danger and that nothing substantive emerged from the
meeting. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Ne
In response to Nancy Breen's note
The plan to "invest" in health is quite significant, especially in light
of its potential to create previously nonexistent markets in LDCs that
may then provide new profit streams (Debt supported) to US, European
and Japanese medical technology firms, particu
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Not just the very poorest; the VP for Latin America was prominent among the
> singers of the new song. And I don't know what it means - I'm just passing
> along fresh information.
I don't know what it means either, but here is one jaundiced
interpretation which should tempe
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:26:10 -0400
> From: Mauricio Banda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Multiple Recipients of List Mexico2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [JOC] Apparel workers stranded as plant moves to Mexico
>
>The Journal of Commerce
>09/24/96
>
>
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:59:14 -0400
> Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: DISNEY VIOLATES GARMENT WORKERS' RIGHTS IN THAILAND (fwd)
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> LABOR-L, This is a current message (at
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 01:31:42 -0500
> From: David Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Striking Labor Unions Bring Argentina to Near Standstill
>
> New York Times -- September 28, 1996
>
> STRIKING LABOR UNIONS B
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:57:22 +0100
> Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: LabourNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: UK dockers march for jobs in year-long dispute
>
> UK dockers march for jobs in year-long dispute
>
> Source: Reuters
>
> LIVER
>
> Argentine ports strike-bound, flights little hit
>
> Source: Reuters
>
> BUENOS AIRES, Argentine ports were hard hit by the 36-hour general strike
> due to last until midnight local time (0300 Saturday GMT), the national
> ports authority and shipping agents said Friday.
>
> But internatio
At 9:04 AM 10/4/96, Breen, Nancy wrote:
>the business section of yesterday's Wash Post discusses this change. It
>includes more debt forgiveness, more money for ed & health. The article
>points out that this is a change in rhetoric and policy, but it won't affect
>a large number of countries an
The U.S.Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
in the early 1950s was advised that in order to escalate the
ideological offensive, it was necessary to assume a "more
aggressive stance." It described this stance as one which would
consist of "hard hitting advocacy of the Ameri
the business section of yesterday's Wash Post discusses this change. It
includes more debt forgiveness, more money for ed & health. The article
points out that this is a change in rhetoric and policy, but it won't affect
a large number of countries and they are only the very poorest, most in
At 12:39 AM 10/4/96, Alex Izurieta wrote:
>* I do not think the WB/IMF really realize that the huge increase of
>poverty and inequality after decades (two at least) of applying SAPs
>and the like it is their fault. On the contrary, all the stuff I read
>till now clearly point towards those 'polic
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1996
Construction spending rebounded in August from a July drop as private
builders picked up the slack from a slumping public sector
(Washington Post, page D10)_Construction spending rose
nine-tenths of 1 percent in August. Record outlays for comme
Whoa! sorry for sending previous message to the list.
Thad
Dear friends,
Thanks to doug henwood for his comments on the teach-in at Columbia. I am glad
to hear that it attracted large and enthusiastic crowds. I do have one point to
raise. There were many "stars" of the left there. Let us hope that they are
all ready for the long haul. Singularly
Working with a multinational organisation like the World Bank raises deep
problems for NGOs. But Doug Hendwood's note raises an important question
about contradictions within the World Bank.
Wolfensohn has spent the last year pushing his initiative to effectively
write off the debt of some twenty
Hi Doug, I have a great nominee for you--my girlfriend, Adria Scharf, who is
in New York through end of the year. She is a Ph.D student at the University
of Washington in Seattle, writing her thesis on worker ownership in
Washington state. She has a lot of experience in research assistantships,
ha
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood)
> Subject: [PEN-L:6464] World Bank repudiates its history?
> Just talked to a journalist friend who's covering the World Bank/IMF
> meetings in Washington. He reports a remarkable change of rhetoric coming
> out of at least part of the WB -
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