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40996 UAW & women -- rank: 1000

Mike Yates wrote: >"Final Offer" is available from California Newsreel, 149 9th St., #420, San >Francisco, CA 94103. I do not remember the rental or purchase price, but it >probably is not too high. One interesting thing about the film is the >absolute domination of men in the UAW. Not a woman on the bargaining team. Too bad. One of the great little labor triumphs of recent years was of the workers at Barnard College, almost all women, led by women, who developed an inte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 29 19:48:42 PDT 1998

40997 BRC debate -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >So let me get this right. > >The sum effect of our debate over the BRC was that Rakesh, for failing >to wholy endorse the BRC was denounced as a naive racist and resigned, >leaving us a little closer to being an exclusively white list. > >Happy? No, not at all. I'm sorry Rakesh left, but I thought what was said against him was in the range of normal polemic. Apparently he didn't agree. >Incidentally, on Keynes and the Nazis, wasn't his book publishe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 29 07:49:41 PDT 1998

40998 Resurrected Fascism -- rank: 1000

William B. Ryan wrote: >1. From Warren Mosler's "Full Employment and Price Stability," ~Journal >of Post Keynesian Economics~, Winter 1997-98: [etc] >2. From Paul Einzig, ~The Economic Foundations of Fascism~, London: >Macmillan, 1933, pages 47-56: > [etc] Oh, I get it, anyone advocating a public jobs program is a fascist. Swedish social democrats too? Bill Mitchell asked me to post this response. Since he's been personally attacked by William Ryan, it's his right to l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 29 07:24:18 PDT 1998

40999 Autosaurs -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher posted an AP story to his own mailing list about savage fighting within the Teamsters. Here's the lead: >Teamsters Have Internal Strife > >By Kevin Galvin >Associated Press Writer >Saturday, June 27, 1998; 12:44 p.m. EDT > >WASHINGTON (AP) -- As doubts grow about the >upcoming Teamsters election, acting union president Tom >Sever has raised tensions with political rivals by >dismantling the union department responsible for >reaching out to memb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 28 10:41:01 PDT 1998

41000 Rakesh and Louis P. -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >I am sorry to see two of my favorite people slinging mud at each other. > >Both have too much to contribute to waste their energies in that way. You're right. I unsub'd Rakesh, as he asked, but I'm really sorry to see things come to this pass. We should be fighting the stinking pig oppressors, not each other. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 28 09:47:52 PDT 1998

41001 Resurrected Fascism -- rank: 1000

William B. Ryan wrote: >Bill Mitchell, an economics department chairman, wrote on Post Keynesian >Thought http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pkt/jun98/0477.html in response to >my statement regarding his buffer stock proposal that "in other words, >if you do not work, you do not eat": > >"Bullshit. If you can work, you do not get welfare or a BSE wage. This >doesn't mean you don't eat. It might, in which case you would start >working. In a BSE, it means that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 27 16:01:08 PDT 1998

41002 the auto -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, I don't expect the UAW to do much thinking either about the ecological sustainability of the auto. Contrast this with Tony Mazzocchi, who thought that in a better world most of the oil, chemical, and atomic workers wouldn't have their present jobs. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 27 10:12:43 PDT 1998

41003 GM strike -- rank: 1000

I'm really surprised by the weakness of the responses to my comments on the GM strike. Lots of evasions and empty moralizing. Tom Lehman wrote: > Dear Doug and the Left Buysiness Observers, >It's always easy to blame the union leadership, and, that's the easy way >out that a lot of people take when the pressure is on!!! > >I know you to be a very smart and righteous gentleman---now is the time >for you to get involved with your union leadership in Detroit. Give your >union ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 27 09:49:03 PDT 1998

41004 'universalism' (was Re: Asia and hormones) -- rank: 1000

This bounced to me for some reason or other... Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 08:31:00 -0800 From: Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at netcom.com> Reply-To: djsaylor at netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LBO <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: 'universalism' (was Re: Asia and hormones) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello everyone, Yoshie writes about whites across the spectrum as if all whites are equal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 27 08:43:35 PDT 1998

41005 GM strike -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >They manage to sustain a worthless army of managers, not to mention grossly >over-compensated executives at all levels. Why question only the viability >of those at the bottom of the ladder? If GM can pay millions in salary, >stock options, retirement plans, golden handshakes, and all the other perks >of exploitation, what's the matter with a wire harness assembler earning >enough to raise a family with a modicum of comfort. Besides $44 is total &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 26 17:32:27 PDT 1998

41006 GM strike -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >When the strike ends in a month or so, because >the company has to settle by then in order to >able to prepare to offer new models for the >coming year, and when the company goes on and >Capitalism goes on, will any prophets of doom >here have a good explanation for how this all >proved to be possible, given that the company >and the economy supposedly can't possibly sustain >these wages? > >And will you predict another unresolvable conflict & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 26 12:26:23 PDT 1998

41007 GM strike -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I am always suspicious when I see a number like this, because the people >usually making that much are usually 30-year veterans working overtime. >It is true that many UAW folks make solid incomes; maids in hotels make >less, airline pilots make more. So what? Why shouldn't folks working in >a hard, sometimes tedious job make a good income, especially when the >company makes billions in profit each year. > >We should be fighting for all workers to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 26 12:09:31 PDT 1998

41008 GM strike -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >On Fri, June 26, 1998 at 12:22:02 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: >>I know the righteous thing to do is to support the Flint strikers, but >>there was a comment in one of the papers the other day from a Wall Street >>analyst who said something like, "In this world you can't sustain $44 an >>hour jobs assembling wire harnesses." Really, how can you? > >As Michael Moore said last night to Ted "The Hair, The Hair" Koppel, > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 26 10:57:07 PDT 1998

41009 GM strike -- rank: 1000

I know the righteous thing to do is to support the Flint strikers, but there was a comment in one of the papers the other day from a Wall Street analyst who said something like, "In this world you can't sustain $44 an hour jobs assembling wire harnesses." Really, how can you? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 26 09:22:02 PDT 1998

41010 BRC -- rank: 1000

This has been posted here before, but at the end of longish screeds, so it might have been missed. The Black Radical Congress' web site is <http://www.blackradicalcongress.com>. There are several discussion threads there, including one on the role of nationalism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 26 09:05:16 PDT 1998