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

["Patrick Bond" <pbond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 Dec 99, at 18:35, Max Sawicky wrote:
Will you be the one to provide this extensive list? . . .
Barkley Rosser
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No I will not.

Interestingly, in addition to Chile's CUT endorsing labour clauses to
ratchet up pressure on its own government for better labour laws
(so I've been told), South Africa's Cosatu union federation has
endorsed labour clause protection against cheap IMPORTS to SA
(we've had lots of alleged Bangladesh dumping the last few years).
Cosatu takes a position similar to ICFTU/AFL etc, and even went
to Seattle hand-in-hand with Alec Erwin's "united" delegation of
government, labour and business (at least another dozen far more
militant activists from social movements and the Food and Allied
Workers Union were there, but not in the delegation, instead out in
the streets; their report-back on Thursday, at a very bad time of the
year for politics, attracted 50... and today the spirit is being taken
yet further in a big Jubilee Johannesburg session).

Patrick Bond
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