Wednesday, May 01, 2019


MAYDAY IS LUCY PARSONS BIRTHDAY
SHE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE #IWW
AS DOCUMENTED HERE WITH HER FOUNDING SPEECH

ALSO CHECK OUT THIS GREAT BIO ON LUCY


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LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: The Origins and Traditions of May Day


LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: The Origins and Traditions of May Day:    I wrote the Origins and Traditions of Mayday in 1997. Yes way back then, it was one of my first web postings. It was used to launch MayDay ...
Apr 30, 2001 - The May Day holiday now associated with scenes of urban mayhem ... to Eugene Plawiuk, author of The Origins and Traditions of Mayday.

Contemporary Consumption Rituals: A Research Anthology
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Cele C. Otnes, ‎Tina M. Lowrey - 2004 - ‎Business & Economics
Toward an understanding of consumer ambivalence. Journal of Consumer Research, 24, 80–93. Plawiuk, E. (1995). The origins and traditions of Mayday.

Le Gauche Review - OoCities MY ORIGINAL PAGE FROM 1996 ON GEO CITIES 


Labour News Article by Eugene Plawiuk, May 1996 ... Click above for my index of labour history articles on the web. ... The Origins and Traditions of Mayday.


Tuesday, April 30, 2019


THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 
AND 
THE PERMANENT ARMS ECONOMY TODAY



U.S. tops world in defense spending; Russia falls out of top 5













April 29 (UPI) -- The United States spent more than any other country on defense in 2018, but Russia fell out of the top five for the first time in nearly 15 years, a report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said Monday.

The report detailed regional and selected national military expenditure data for 2018 and trends over the past 10 years. The SIPRI database outlines military spending by countries from 1949 to 2018.


According to the report, the United States spent $649 billion on defense for 2018, far and away more than any other country, followed by China with $250 billion and Saudi Arabia with $67.6 billion. India spent $66 billion and France nearly $64 billion. Russia was sixth, with $61.4 billion.


"Starting in 2016, Russia's military budget has trended downwards," the report said. "However, due to a one-off government debt repayment of almost $11.8 billion to Russian arms producers in 2016, spending rose 7.2 percent. Without this payment, Russia military spending would have fallen by 11 percent."


The report noted Russia spending is still 27 percent higher than it was in 2009. Russia had been in the top five since 2006.

U.S. spending increased by 4.6 percent and continues to spend more on defense than the next eight countries combined, the study said.


Concern over Russia's military, though, continues to drive spending in Europe. Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia and Lithuania all showed an increase in military spending.

"The increases in Central and Eastern Europe are largely due to growing perceptions of a threat from Russia," Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher at SIRPI, said. "This is despite the fact that Russian military spending has fallen for the past two years."

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The warfare state and economic decline: 
toward a comparative political economy of militarism
 in Canada and the U.S.

Monday, April 29, 2019

1919 
WAS THE YEAR OF GENERAL STRIKES
 ACROSS THE WORLD
IN NORTH AMERICA THEY BEGAN WITH 
SEATTLE







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