On Sun, 14 May 2000, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
In re: the last sentence, some people have already figured
out what political understanding we want to promote. We
want to defend living standards of the working class by
strengthening trade unions and by extending the capacity
of the State to
MHL:
"Keeping China out of the WTO will not defend living standards or the trade
unions or the capacity of the state to provide a greater social wage. It
is a distraction relative to all of those. It will however lead many
workers to think that the main cause of problems in the US is the
As far as the ILO is concerned, on Henwood's list somebody
posted a quote from Robert Litan of Brookings to the effect
that it would be nice if the globalization protests could
be diverted to the ILO, since that was a nice "sandbox"
they could play in without putting sand in the gears
of commerce
