Re: RE: Re: RE: Marx's speech on Free Trade

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max Sawicky wrote:

> Max,
>       We're still waiting to hear the long list
> of Third World unions that are calling for
> trade sanctions against their own countries'
> exports as useful tools to help them out in
> their struggles.  Will you be the one to provide
> this extensive list? . . .
> Barkley Rosser
>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> No I will not.
>
> Of course, in countries where unions are illegal
> and unionism is a capital crime, such endorsements
> could prove difficult to obtain.

Barkley's gone - but not forgotten, of course. For anyone so
inclined, the ICFTU has a lot on the WTO at
<http://www.icftu.org/campaigns/WTO/index.html>. I'm the first to
admit the ICFTU is not the perfect working class international, but
it does represent something like 125 million union members in over
140 countries.

Doug