[PEN-L:836] Micro-credit

1998-08-13 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Dear Folks I have jut heard a story concerning micor-credit and Thatcher's son. I would like to know what micro-credit is. Rebecca

[PEN-L:729] Re: Re: Taxpayers

1998-08-10 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Jim:...shouldn't we add "plus the benefits of welfare-state programs such as unemployment insurance benefits" ? then, the wage struggle is about (1) real after-tax private wages plus (2) the real net social wage (welfare-state benefits minus taxes on wages). IMHO, pushing to raise both of these

[PEN-L:578] Taxpayers

1998-08-06 Thread Rebecca Peoples
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0109_01BDC135.686F6440 charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Folks I have been thinking about the cliché "its coming out of the taxpayers pocket" and other related clichés: My view is that this kind of sentiment is a cliché that has a

[PEN-L:260] Fw: Belfast Agreement

1998-07-20 Thread Rebecca Peoples
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0080_01BDB426.165A1040 charset="iso-8859-1" Date: 20 July 1998 21:25 Subject: Belfast Agreement Hi Comrades, Attached is an interesting and valuable piece from the Sunday Tribune written by Ed Moloney on the Belfast Agr

[PEN-L:215] Orange marching season

1998-07-15 Thread Rebecca Peoples
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0020_01BDB00F.FC971640 charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Comrades There has been much controversy surrounding the question of the Orange parades marching down roads such as the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Ireland. The view of Sinn

[PEN-L:184] Factsheet - Orange marches

1998-07-10 Thread Rebecca Peoples
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. charset="iso-8859-1" THE MARCHING SEASON In the North of Ireland A Fact Sheet a.. The Marching Season in the Six Northeastern Counties of Ireland spans from April through to December. The majority of these marches are organised by what are te

[PEN-L:35] New coomunist mailing list

1998-06-18 Thread Rebecca Peoples
To sub to the new communist mailing list: no subject and in message body write subscribe communist to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rebecca

[PEN-L:523] Social welfare

1998-06-11 Thread Rebecca Peoples
In Ireland the social welfare system is relatively speaking quite generous. Indeed people immigrate into the country to avail of its benefits. On top of that one can avail of social welfare benefits and yet work in the black economy with little fear of being discovered. This is because the state h

EMUcharset="iso-8859-1"

1998-01-28 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Folks, I have been examining the matter of the European single currency. Ireland is poised to join it. There are those that say that joining will entail surrendering the power of the Irish state to more freely manage economic policy --monetary, interest rate policies etc. They argue that single cu

Ireland & civil rightscharset="iso-8859-1"

1998-01-20 Thread Rebecca Peoples
 The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement Given the sectarian character of the six county capitalist state in the north of Ireland it is clear that full civil rights cannot be achieved without the dynamic of the industrial working class. Given conditions as they existed in 1968 it was just as

McAliskey & peace processboundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD2525.63A7C940"

1998-01-19 Thread Rebecca Peoples
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Fw:

1997-12-29 Thread Rebecca Peoples
-Original Message- From: Jim Monaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29 December 1997 18:46 This was written by a friend on the end of the last Peace initiative Jim Monaghan What's behind the breakdown of the Irish Peace Process? by Gerry Foley

Diana's death

1997-12-29 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Dear Folks, Vanity Fair ran an apparently good article on the whole Di thing. I would be grateful is someone would download it to me. Regards, Rebecca

Re: Violence against women

1997-12-21 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Bill: You make three slightly several different claims here, none of which is persuasive. If sexist violence perpetrated by males against females "has its source in the nature of capitalist society", we should not expect to see it prior to the advent of capitalist relations. Rebecca: Of course y

Violence against women

1997-12-20 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Below is is a tentative piece of mine on male violence against women that has partly grown out of discussion on the Marxism list on the question of male violence against women. Violence of male individuals against female individuals. Again this form of violence has its source in the nature of capi

Against Nature

1997-12-08 Thread Rebecca Peoples
http://www.channel4.com/news/against_nature/index.html Against Nature.url

Against Nature documentary

1997-12-08 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Dear James,   I found the documentary featuring Frank Furedi interesting.   Essentially is was an attack against the green movement from within a bourgeois framework. It failed to expose the real nature of the green movement. The programme simply used the same strategy used by the green mov

Re: U.S. growthboundary="----=_NextPart_000_0039_01BD0228.10952880"

1997-12-06 Thread Rebecca Peoples
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0039_01BD0228.10952880 charset="iso-8859-1" Shawgi, Would you please explain to me how the unemployment rate underestimates = the unemployment situation. And what is the difference between the = jobless rate and the unemp

Re: Stags

1997-10-30 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Hi folks, Can anybody expalin to me in a clear way what is meant by the term STAG in stock market parlance. I know what is meant by bear and bull. Rebecca

Irish Presidential election

1997-10-30 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Some observations on the presidential campaign in the Irish Republic. Tomorrow there is to be a Presidential election in Ireland. There are five Presidential hopefuls: Mary McAleese, Mary Banotti, Dana, Adi Roche and Derek Nally. According to most o fthe opinion polls McAleese is tipped to win.

Re: the crash and politics

1997-10-29 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Please expalin to me how the crash is a sympton of a long-time monetary crisis. Rebecca Romain Certainly you are not. But that crash is only a symptom of a long-time monetary crisis, and that's this crisis which discredits not only "neo-liberalism", but simply capitalism.

[PEN-L:12619] Russian help

1997-09-27 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Hi folks, I desperately need help on Russia today: recommended books, artcles sites, etc. Rebecca

[PEN-L:12501] Russia

1997-09-21 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Hi Can anybody on this list tell me what the state of the godl reserves of Russia are? Would anyone know how much gold is produced in Russia and what is done with it? Finally are there any books articles etc in electornic or hard print form that they can recommend on the state of the Russian ec