[PEN-L:132] Key Challenges for the Labor Movement (fwd)

1998-09-11 Thread michael
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[PEN-L:130] Incomes Policies, etc. {was Re: Winning Socialism}

1998-09-11 Thread James Devine
I wrote: in simple terms, the theory tells us that the capitalists have the whip hand in the economy and if the economy and the government don't deliver the goods to them, they punish us with unemployment and/or inflation. Note that this is very different from MF's theory is which is simply a

[PEN-L:128] Re: Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread James Devine
Tom Walker wrote: I didn't see a response to Max's questions, which I believe were posed to Jim Devine. Max seems to be implying that Keynesian policies didn't cause stagflation. I think that's correct. Keynesianism fell out of favour with ruling circles in the U.S. because it was too

[PEN-L:126] Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
Jim Devine wrote, --- in simple terms, the theory tells us that the capitalists have the whip hand in the economy and if the economy and the government don't deliver the goods to them, they punish us with unemployment and/or inflation. Note that this is very different from MF's theory is which

[PEN-L:122] Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
Jim Devine wrote, As for the stag, the argument I presented above can be stated in turns of an adverse shift in the Phillips Curve: the greater the inflationary potential of the economy due to low profit rates, the more unemployment is needed to avoid inflationary acceleration. Isn't that the

[PEN-L:119] Re: RE: Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread James Devine
I had written: . . . For example, Keynesian policies worked for quite awhile in the US, but contributed in a big way to the stagflation crisis of the 1970s.) Max Sawicky writes: If you take away the oil price spikes, how do you derive stagflation from Keynesian policy? You can't take away the

[PEN-L:117] Logic of Profit/Power

1998-09-11 Thread James Michael Craven
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[PEN-L:115] Re: Re: Chile

1998-09-11 Thread Thomas Kruse
Gar Lipow wrote: When Neruda died during the coup Actually, he died on the 23rd. At the time of the coup he was terminally ill with cancer, I believe. But the coincidence of the two events was devastating. This afternoon we're hoilding an event at the University, bringing together

[PEN-L:113] Indigenous peoples

1998-09-11 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
James, Actually I never thought we disagreed, although I was not surprised that you initially thought we did. Again, it was some sloppy remarks by good old Uncle Lou that set me off, and after some listing of examples of "smallpox blankets" (which I had already alluded to) he has more or

[PEN-L:112] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: South Korea as model?

1998-09-11 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Replying to my own message, ooog, :-). Actually I think there is a way to resolve this dispute about the Japanese role in the Korean school system. The Japanese expanded it and introduced some scientific and technical education. OTOH the schools were in Japanese and were a vehicle

[PEN-L:116] Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky wrote, If you take away the oil price spikes, how do you derive stagflation from Keynesian policy? If you think the government heated up the economy too much in the late 1960's, generating at the very least an increase in the price level, how does this translate into the 'stag' part

[PEN-L:118] Peltier - Please help (fwd)

1998-09-11 Thread James Michael Craven
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[PEN-L:123] the Word on Russia

1998-09-11 Thread James Devine
saith Paul Krugman in his recent SLATE column: "In Russia property really is theft, pure and simple." for the whole column (if you want to give Chairman Bill his bux), see: http://www.slate.com/Dismal/98-09-10/Dismal.asp Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:129] Re: Indigenous peoples and death by acciden

1998-09-11 Thread Frank Durgin
I have absolutley no expertise what so ever regaarding the question of indigenous peoples.. I recall, however, many years back someone referred me to Jackson's Third (I think it was the Third) address to Congress. A portion of that address was devoted to the Indian question. I recall reading

[PEN-L:133] Yevgeny Primakov

1998-09-11 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
The new Premier of Russia, Yevgeny Primakov, has an interesting background prior to holding his most recent position as Foreign Minister. Immediately prior to that he was head of the SVR, the successor to the KGB's First Directorate which deals with foreign affairs. The SVR's

[PEN-L:136] Russia: World Bourgeoisie Primakov

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
Dear pen-l'rs, The below news-sketch parallels the situation immediately following the abdication of the Czar and the assumption of power by (what proved to be) the feeble provisional government headed by Kerenskii. Then, as now, the Western bourgeoisie hailed him as an "authoritative leader"

[PEN-L:138] Russia: Weir on Wed. 09/09/98

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
From: Fred Weir in Moscow Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 For the Hindustan Times MOSCOW (HT Sept 8) -- Russia is spinning out of control and even if the current government crisis is resolved the country is headed for a hard winter and possible dictatorship, analysts say. "The only thing we can

[PEN-L:139] Russia: Hunger and Shortages Bite

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
As Moscow dithers, shortages across Russia bite MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Russia's economic crisis has emptied shops, made basic goods scarce and stoked popular anger from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea, a survey by Reuters reporters across the country showed on Wednesday. While

[PEN-L:140] RUSSIAN DISASTERS AND WESTERN COMPLICITY

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
RUSSIAN DISASTERS AND WESTERN COMPLICITY By Abraham Brumberg Ever since Boris Yeltsin took over the reins of government in Russia in June 1991, Western media, statesmen and Russian experts have portrayed the new president as the savior of Russia, a man deeply committed to democratic

[PEN-L:143] Russia and Regulation

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
Flawed Capitalism Requires Regulation, State Role, Jospin Says Paris, Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Responsible government and effective regulation must play a role in the world economy next century to counterbalance the effects of unbridled capitalism, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said.

[PEN-L:145] Russia: Weir - More on Capital flight

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
From: Fred Weir Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 Subject: Capital Flight By Fred Weir MOSCOW (CP) -- Capital has hemorrhaged out of post-Soviet Russia on a scale unseen anywhere else in the world, leaving the country without needed resources to rebuild its economy, a joint Canadian-Russian

[PEN-L:146] Russia: Desperation on the Submarine

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
Teenage Sailor Kills Eight on Russian Submarine MOSCOW -- (Reuters) A teenage conscript sailor killed eight crew mates aboard a Russian submarine of the Northern Fleet on Friday, the Defense Ministry said. "An emergency occurred on a submarine of the Northern Fleet involving the death of

[PEN-L:148] THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER #2 (fwd)

1998-09-11 Thread michael
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[PEN-L:147] Russia: Economy Is As Bad As It Was

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
A Political Consensus Has Been Reached, but the Economy Is As Bad As It Was Yevgeny Primakov will become a reliable cover for the unknown vice Premier, who will really manage the economy Nezavisimaya Gazeta 09/11/98 Yevgeny Primakov's nomination as prime minister was a strong political move by

[PEN-L:144] Russia: Weir on Gorbachev, Capital Flight

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
From: Fred Weir Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:36:34 (MSK) Subject: Gorbachev on Primakov and Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev happened to be at a press conference today, a joint Russian-Canadian academic project on capital flight, and he offered his remarks on Primakov. For the record, here they are,

[PEN-L:142] RUSSIA'S CRISIS AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW LEFT

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
RUSSIA'S CRISIS AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW LEFT By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW - A few days back, my friend Rod came round unexpectedly to visit. He brought a bottle of vodka with him, but he wasn't feeling festive. Quite the reverse. An Englishman who has spent much of the 1990s in Moscow, Rod had

[PEN-L:141] Russia:Violence Unlikely, but Many Worried

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
Russians Say Violence Unlikely, but Many Worried September 8, 1998 MOSCOW -- (Reuters) Tamara Kravtsova knows first-hand that life in post-Communist Russia can be violently unpredictable. An engineer by training, Kravtsova, 60, spent several decades living peacefully in the Chechen capital of

[PEN-L:137] Russia: Miners call for Yeltsin's resignation

1998-09-11 Thread Gregory Schwartz
YELTSIN MUST GO, RUSSIAN MINERS SAY. PROTESTS CALLED FOR 7 OCTOBER. Russia's powerful mining unions are increasing their pressure for Boris Yeltsin to step down. As wage arrears continue to mount, other Russian unions are swinging behind the miners' call for a nationwide protest on 7 October,

[PEN-L:135] Re: Incomes Policies, etc. {was Re: WinningSocialism}

1998-09-11 Thread James Devine
I wrote: Incomes Policies make the most sense in a place where both capital and labor are very centralized (and where capital doesn't see fleeing to low-wage areas as an option), as it used to be in Sweden. IPs used to be one piece of the bigger program of social democracy; from what I've read,

[PEN-L:131] BLS Daily Report

1998-09-11 Thread Richardson_D
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BDDDCF.8B290EC0 BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1998 Little-known price indexes hint at rising inflation, though by most

[PEN-L:127] Protests by unions and displaced paralyze Colombia oil town

1998-09-11 Thread Colombian Labor Monitor
= There were no reports of serious violence from Thursday's mass street protests involving up to 10,000 peasants who have

[PEN-L:121] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: South Korea as model?

1998-09-11 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
I am not sure this went out the first time so this is attempt #2. It is a response to Barkley's question on land reform in South Korea. Marty In terms of Korea, perhaps the following helps provide background to the question below on land reform in Korea, it comes from page 339 in Korea Old and

[PEN-L:125] If microsoft built cars

1998-09-11 Thread DOUG ORR
Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry.He stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response, General Motors issued a press