Report Card
Fiefer, William Paul
REPORT CARD William Paul Fiefer Coming Home LAND VIETNAMESE IN THAILAND: An Inadequate Response by Representative William McCollum The U.S. Committee for Refugees, 815 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite...
...The material assembled here frames the issues clearly and offers a variety of answers for anyone seeking a humane resolution to the impending monetary crisis...
...Many have been resettled in America and abroad, with the remainder consigned to overcrowded camps lacking adequate sanitation...
...What is necessary, the contributors to this packet suggest, is a more cooperative approach to the problem, which would place lenders and borrowers at the bargaining table to develop equitable terms for rescheduling debt payments...
...12pp...
...They document the growing poverty abroad as debtor nations slash domestic programs to meet interest payments on borrowed dollars...
...370 pp...
...Despite the buoyancy felt in this nation over falling oil prices and interest rates, the global debt bomb keeps on ticking...
...This publication emphasizes revitalizing the movement by repealing legislation that interferes with workers' rights to strike and boycott industry, halting the international flight of capital, and democratizing the workplace...
...75 cents...
...Labor should also enlist the help of civil libertarians...
...Removing the chains from labor," the authors state, "requires change inside the unions themselves...
...Shop Talk REVITALIZE THE LABOR MOVEMENT: Union Militancy, Union Democracy, and Workers' Control by the Socialist Party, USA 1011 N. Third Street, Milwaukee, WI 53203...
...With the red ink now exceeding $ 1 trillion, neither side can afford to look askance at the predicament...
...Free...
...Organized labor has long since passed its heyday in the United States...
...In short, empower labor by radicalizing and politicizing it...
...Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be, organized in four broad sections, addresses this neglected but potentially destructive issue...
...Some, according to William McCollum, a conservative Florida Republican, fled Vietnam to escape the war raging about them...
...The pamphlet recommends that labor develop a network of rank-and-file employees willing to pressure management for concessions...
...This brief report touches only lightly on the roots of the current conflict in Cambodia and U.S...
...Since the late 1970s, 12,000 to 14,000 'land Vietnamese' have become trapped in several different camps on the border between Thailand and Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia," the report says...
...We urge working people to take economic and political power away from the capitalist class," say the authors, "and to establish workers' and popular control over society for the benefit of all...
...Nonsufficient Funds NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE: The International Debt Crisis and Its Impact on Developing Countries by the Global Negotiations Information Project and the Non-Governmental Liaison Service 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017...
...Committee for Refugees, 815 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005...
...Government restrictions, sagging worker solidarity, an ossified and often-corrupt union bureaucracy, and a slumping job market all have contributed, with other forces, to its decline...
...Repatriation, he argues, is unrealistic...
...2 pp...
...The negative consequences of indebtedness for the people in developing countries, and the instability of the world economic system, make it abundantly clear that we face a situation which no one can afford to ignore," say the editors of this report...
...The majority, however, left because of their past associations with pro-American Saigon regimes or because of direct links to U.S...
...business in that nation...
...support for the brutal Khmer Rouge fighters...
...The solution, says McCollum, is to allow these refugees to emigrate to the United States and other nations...
...Eleven years after the United States withdrew from direct military involvement in Vietnam, more than 4,000 Vietnamese remain in refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border...
...Yet, by publicizing the misfortunes of these refugees, it reminds us of the lingering toll in that region...
Vol. 50 • May 1986 • No. 5
