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“I thought that the price of labour-power (wages) was defined, like all other commodities, by the amount of labour time that creates and sustains it.”
Perhaps it is more accurate to say that what you say is the general cause of pay differentials between various workers.
But I always thought that the value of labour-power was unique; because unlike other commodities, it was determined by the combative power of the respective antagonists, the employer and the employee, and the level of wages stemmed from the class struggle, albeit contained within certain parameters, subsistence level at the low end (and that varies historically) and the employers return vis a vis labour costs at the high end and his ability and flexibility to intensify the work process to extract more surplus value to compensate for high wages.
“Biden didn’t just bring back Remain in Mexico. He’s made it even worse.” says Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a former immigration attorney who is now policy counsel at the American Immigration Council.
The United States and the European Union say China’s activities “undermined peace and security in the region,” and stressed the need to manage “competition and systemic rivalry”
https://www.dw.com/en/us-eu-concerned-by-chinas-problematic-actions-at-sea/a-60003861
Herve Blejean, director general of the EU military staff, said there could be greater EU-US coordination to “express our strong desire to defend international law at sea against de facto policies that we’ve seen in the South China Sea.”
The USA opposes a ban on terminator killer robots
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/02/us-rejects-calls-regulating-banning-killer-robots
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that Europe could be returning to what he called the “nightmare of military confrontation”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59503762
Lavrov said Nato was refusing to constructively consider proposals to de-escalate tensions and prevent dangerous incidents.
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that, at current rates, the UK will be contributing to a disastrous temperature rise of 2.7C by 2100.
The Independent in a lengthy article on banking and the creation of money (M4) plus the goldsmiths theory.
US Supreme Court set to undermine access to abortion
Russia has plans to take “significant aggressive moves” against Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned…Biden’s administration had made it clear to Russia that should it “follow the path of confrontation” with Ukraine, the US “will respond resolutely, including with a range of high-impact economic measures that we have refrained from pursuing in the past”.
The not so secret police state by George Monbiot
“Any future Russian aggression against Ukraine would come at a high price and have serious political and economic consequences for Russia,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. “We need to be prepared for the worst and we need to convey a message to Russia that they should not conduct a military incursion into Ukraine,” he said, adding that alliance members could impose sanctions.
Ukraine is not a NATO member and not covered by the alliance’s mutual defense pact. Putin reiterated that NATO involvement in Ukraine was considered a “red line” for him.
https://www.dw.com/en/nato-warns-russia-against-ukraine-aggression/a-59980842
Blinken warned Russia of “serious consequences” if Moscow were to launch an incursion into Ukrainian territory.
“Any escalatory actions by Russia would be of great concern to the United States,” he said.
Meanwhile, acting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that Moscow would have to “pay a high price for any form of aggression.”
Latvia’s defense minister, Artis Pabriks, told DW he “shares the concerns” of the US and other NATO allies over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pabriks also expressed fears about other countries in the region as Russia continues to exert its authority over its neighbors. He said that Moscow “basically controls almost all activities within Belarus” as it seeks to strengthen its influence in the region.
An interesting story of Cuban asylum seekers in Greece
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/30/cubans-struggle-to-apply-for-asylum-in-greece
Visa free flight to Moscow, Visa free flight to Serbia and then a bus to the Greek border.
Applying for a UBI trial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/29/universal-basic-income-los-angeles-pilot-big-leap
