[PEN-L:11963] Re: The call for new Teamsters election and Michae

Well, isn't this a fine serving of cow pie? > From: Louis N Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:11937] The call for new Teamsters election and Michael Ansara > I guess everybody has heard about the courts ordering a new election for > the office of Teamster president. Ca

[PEN-L:11962] Face-To-Face With Gladys Marmn. The Communist Party Of Chile Learns From Eastern Europe's Experience

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[PEN-L:11961] Avoidable Consequences

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[PEN-L:11960] Re: Big mouth

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Louis N Proyect wrote: > I was wrong about the usual villain being a minority member on "Law and > Order" but I'll stick with everything else I said about the show. There > is nothing liberal about it. To use the word liberal to describe it would > strip the word of all mean

[PEN-L:11959] Re: Big mouth

I was wrong about the usual villain being a minority member on "Law and Order" but I'll stick with everything else I said about the show. There is nothing liberal about it. To use the word liberal to describe it would strip the word of all meaning. There have been weekly dramatic series on TV t

[PEN-L:11958] Re: Big mouth

> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:11955] Re: Big mouth > On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Louis Proyect wrote: > > > I'm glad god blessed me with a big mouth. The TV show "

[PEN-L:11957] Re: UPS/IBT provocateur

Hey Louis, Thanks for your remarks. Insightful per usual. I tried to qualify my comments by saying in no way did I mean to belittle the significance of the IBT victory for the defense of the material interests of the U.S. working class. I was just thinking out loud, hoping that the main politi

[PEN-L:11956] IN SUPPORT OF ORGANIZED LABOR

I hope folks at Pen-L can sign on to this. It would be good to get endorsements beyond the labor historians. Elaine Original message Hi - I hope you will add your name to this public statement which will be released on September 1. Please

[PEN-L:11955] Re: Big mouth

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Louis Proyect wrote: > I'm glad god blessed me with a big mouth. The TV show "Law and Order" is > filming on the premises of Columbia Teachers College where I work. The show > presents a right-wing version of the crime problem, as would be indicated > by the title. It is basi

[PEN-L:11954] Hoffa Jr. vs Carey (From Against the Current)

Now Which Way for Teamster Reform? New Teamsters 2, Old Guard 0 by Henry Phillips LAST FALL FEATURED one election, at least, that working people had a stake in. Clinton/Dole? Forget it. But how `bout them Teamsters? The choice seemed clear enough: Jimmy Hoffa Jr., a mob- connected lawyer who h

[PEN-L:11953] Re: Swing

Nathan wrote, > One reason that the 40s, especially the war years, might have created a > more socialist-mided public was the war itself. The 1940s was certain a profound decade for many people. I can't generalize from this, but my father's experiences might be relevant. His parents were unemploy

[PEN-L:11952] Re: UPS/IBT provocateur

On Sun, 24 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would the left be content with a world in which the package > carrying working class could afford to purchase and consume the > mail order catalogue goods they deliver, in the private splendor > of their tract homes with a sport utility vehicle in ev

[PEN-L:11950] Yearlong Effort Key to Success for Teamsters

August 25, 1997 Yearlong Effort Key to Success for Teamsters By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Early on a brisk March morning, 150 brown-suited drivers and loaders huddled outside the United Parcel Service terminal just off Interstate 80 in New Jersey, chanting: "It's our contract. We'll fight for it." Th

[PEN-L:11949] Big mouth

I'm glad god blessed me with a big mouth. The TV show "Law and Order" is filming on the premises of Columbia Teachers College where I work. The show presents a right-wing version of the crime problem, as would be indicated by the title. It is basically "Dirty Harry" without the vigilantism. The "b

[PEN-L:11948] Re: Swing

A question, such as the percentage favoring socialism, will be highly sensitive to the phrasing -- probably moreso at the time. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:11947] Re: Swing

On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Louis N Proyect wrote: > On the other hand, Fortune magazine reported in 1942 that 25% of the > American people were for socialism and that close to half thought it was > worth considering. George Lipsitz's study of this period titled "Rainbow > at Midnight" makes the case t

[PEN-L:11946] Re: Swing

> Fortune magazine reported in 1942 that 25% of the > American people were for socialism and that close to half thought it was > worth considering. > Louis Proyect in contrast, Patricia Cayo Sexton - in her *The War on Labor and the Left: Understanding America's Unique Conservatism* - indicates