Ukraine Crisis Proves EU is Imperialist Trap Subservient to US, w/ former Greek MP Costas Lapavitsas
Rania Khalek Dispatches
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The German Industrial Revolution in the Eighties
Until the seventies, well into the Seventies, real wages actually grew in germany. That was the mechanism through which this happened and that sustained german industrial pre eminence and power. When the german lit was faced with the new conditions of the monetary union, absorbing the east and dealing with the new liberal shift of the gue,. The real answer they gave was domestic, basically. And unfortunately, the trade unions accepted what was essentially a faustim pact. They accepted, they accepted a deal whereby egainst the productivity will go to capital, as long as there would be jobs - so long as ther would not be un employment.That basically meant freezing wages for
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