[PEN-L:3024] correction on living wage contact

One of the authors of the article I cited does have an email address. Article was Madeline Janis-Aparicio, Steve Cancian and Gary Phillips, "Building a Movement for a Living Wage," POVERTY AND RACE, Jan/Feb. 1996. Janis-Aparicio, who is involved in the LA Living Wage Coalition, is reachable at

[PEN-L:3025] Intnl Budget Deficits Data Request

I was wondering if anyone could update the following and provide the source: Budget Deficits as a % of GDP, 1991. Japan Germany U S U K Italy 0.018 0.028 0.046 0.09 0.105 Source: IMF, *International Financial Statistics*, April 1995 Thank you and you and you.

[PEN-L:3026] Re: Intnl Budget Deficits Data Request

At 9:10 AM 2/16/96, Jim Westrich wrote: I was wondering if anyone could update the following and provide the source: Budget Deficits as a % of GDP, 1991 General government (i.e., central, provincial/state, and local) estimated financial balances, % of GDP, 1995 (annex table 30, from the OECD

[PEN-L:3027] Re: Re: labor-power as a commodity?

On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Ajit Sinha writes: ... that labor-power cannot be treated as a commodity as a scientific concept in Marx's theory. Marx's analysis of capitalism reveals that the APPEARANCE of the capital-wage labor relation as a commodity relation is an IDEOLOGICAL aspect of the

[PEN-L:3028] Re: Intnl Budget Deficits Data Request

Do not assume that OECD's deficit numbers match up with those from the IMF. It would probably be best to stick with the OECD numbers for all years you are looking at. Barnet Wagman Economics U. of Northern B.C.

[PEN-L:3029] Haass On Unleashing the CIA

Just thought I would forward this to pen-l. I have been working on the issues, mechanisms, techniques, institutions, front groups, interests and imperial imperatives driving U.S. social systems engineering campaigns in "Third World" regions; of course "social systems engineering" goes on in

[PEN-L:3030] Chomsky to speak in Vancouver

In person Noam Chomsky "Controlling the Public Mind" Sunday, March 3, 1996 7 p.m.

[PEN-L:3031] Concern at the top about backlash from globalization

Another perspective: GLOBALIZATION BACKLASH IS SERIOUS Klaus Schwab and Claude Smadja GENEVA -- Economic globalization has entered a critical phase. A mounting backlash against its effects, especially in the industrial democracies, is threatening to disrupt economic activity and social

[PEN-L:3032] IR lectureship at LSE (fwd)

Forwarded message: Warnings-To: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 10:33:03 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IR lectureship at LSE London School of Economics and Political Science. Department of Industrial Relations and

[PEN-L:3033] Re: Re: labor-power as a commodity?

At 2:13 PM 2/16/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This hints that the issue of labor-power's uniqueness is simply subjective (political, moral, etc.) and thus arbitrary. I would say instead that the issue is based on (imperfectly-perceived) objective reality: the uniqueness of labor-power as

[PEN-L:3034] fantasy programs

I would like to follow up on my earlier post about Germany and progressive programs. I think that the German experience shows that there is no perfect reform program. That however does not mean that there is nothing for us to do -- rather it means that instead of trying to find a way of helping