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...prognosis is grim for new talks on restraints. Until now the TGWU's adherence to the contract had discouraged other unions from breaking the wage-restraint agreement. With 1.9 million members, the TGWU is the largest single union within the umbrella-like Trades Union Congress, which ostensibly represents organized labor in Britain. Now other major unions are demanding release from the agreement. At the mine workers' union convention in Tynemouth last week, delegates representing 262,000 members voted to demand raises by Nov. 1. The 1.3 million-member engineers' union has also voted against further wage restraints...
...champion of pluralism. It is the co piousness of choice, the diversity of life in America that he held up as a model in his seminal Without Marx or Jesus. Stalinism is just the opposite: a retreat from modernity into a hard shell of suspicion and ignorance. Despite its grim tone, Revel's ebulliently argued book is meant to be a reminder of how best to combat Stalinism: with at least two - if not three - cheers for democracy...
...terms vary: fast food, road food, convenience food, service food or (to the distaste of its producers and the grim delight of its detractors) junk food. Whatever it is called, America's infatuation with such fare is nothing new. The hot dog made its debut on these shores over a hundred years ago; a recognizable version of the modern hamburger was unveiled at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. But sophisticated new marketing and advertising techniques, computer technology and entrepreneurial zeal have whetted a nationwide hunger of apparently limitless depths...
Soweto (an acronym for southwest townships) remembered its grim anniversary last week in a solemn moratorium that its residents, with calculated irony, called "Black Christmas." There was a two-day general strike by African workers and packed church services fiercely punctuated with raised black-power salutes. Hymns of liberation like Senzenina (What Have We Done?) were sung about Azania-the name that black nationalists use for South Africa. Black sports and entertainment events were canceled. Even Soweto's 400 illegal drinking shebeens were closed. White and African police gathered in force outside the wire fences that border the township...
...specifics have been sporadically reported, if criminals have often been called to account, urban systems still manage to fend off basic reform. They will continue to do so until voters decide otherwise. For that millennium to occur, there need to be more Jeremiahs like Newfield willing to howl their grim, invaluable message over and over again. It cannot be heard by too many citizens, or heeded by too many cities...