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• European Central Bank cuts interest rate below zero
  7 June 2014, by Robert Paris

  European Central Bank cuts interest rate below zero
  By Stefan Steinberg
  The European Central Bank (ECB) slashed one of its interest rates to negative territory and unveiled a €400bn loan package for Europe’s banks in response to the ongoing economic slump and the threat of deflation.
  At its meeting in Frankfurt Thursday, the central bank cut its main lending rate to 0.15 percent from its current historic low of 0.25 percent, and its overnight deposit rate from zero to minus 0.10 (…)

• Empty Promises Won’t End the Violence
  25 January 2013, by Robert Paris

  Empty Promises Won’t End the Violence
  Last week President Obama made a speech promising empty solutions to all the mass shootings. Just like after every other mass shooting, we are fed the same debates about gun access and video games that never go anywhere or change anything. The politicians and the media always talk about these killings like they are isolated problems, only the fault of single individuals who have “snapped” or criminals bent on committing evil. But in reality these (…)

• A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
  9 January 2024, by Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James
  A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
  THERE IS A LOGIC IN HISTORY AND DESPITE ALL THE rich and strange episodes of historical evolution there is a consistent line which can be followed. We can see the future of the Third International in the role it plays in the Spanish revolution. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
  When Franco launched his attack on the Popular Front Government, that hybrid showed exactly what is to be expected from these political combinations of bourgeoisie and (…)

• Egyptian army coup topples Islamist president Mursi
  4 July 2013, by Robert Paris

  Egyptian army coup topples Islamist president Mursi

• Arguments of Bohr against Einstein
  1 October 2018, by Robert Paris

  Niels Bohr (1949)
  Discussions with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics
  WHEN invited by the Editor of the series, Living Philosophers, to write an article for this volume in which contemporary scientists are honouring the epoch-making contributions of Albert Einstein to the progress of natural philosophy and are acknowledging the indebtedness of our whole generation for the guidance his genius has given us, I thought much of the best way of explaining how much I owe to (…)

• Wirtings of Karl Marx upon India
  13 March 2018, by Robert Paris

  Karl Marx, Wirtings upon India
  The British Rule in India
  British Incomes in India
  The East India Company — Its History and Results
  Sir Charles Woods’ East India Reforms
  The Government of India
  Marx and Colonialism in India
  The East India Question
  India
  The Revolt in the Indian Army
  The Revolt in India
  The Indian Question
  Indian News
  State of the Indian Insurrection
  Investigation of Tortures in India
  The Revolt in India
  The Capture of Delhi, by Frederick (…)

• The CIA war against Syria
  29 March 2013, by Robert Paris

  The CIA war against Syria
  After US President Barack Obama’s so-called “peace” trip to Israel last week, on the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Washington is escalating its bloody intervention in the Middle East.
  After threatening Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his main ally, oil-rich Iran, in a speech in Jerusalem, Obama is intensifying the US proxy war against Syria. Immediately after Obama’s visit, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Iraq and summarily ordered (…)

• Science and Revolution
  16 December 2015, by Robert Paris

  Science and Revolution
  The Forgotten Revolution – How Science was born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn ?
  The Scientific Revolution
  Scientific Revolution
  The scientific Revolution in England
  Revolution in science
  Revolutionary Thinkers in Science Revolution in the Process of Science
  Sciences are only based on facts or on revolutionary thinkers ?
  Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
  Beauty and Revolution in Science
  Only one world, only one science (…)

• Two more US coal miners killed - Deux mineurs de plus de tués au travail aux USA
  23 February 2013, by Robert Paris

  Two more US coal miners killed
  By Clement Daly
  Two more coal miners were killed in Illinois and West Virginia last week, bringing the nation’s coal mining fatalities to five this year. The deaths come on the heels of those of West Virginia coal miners Edward L. Finney and Brandon E. Townsend the week previous (See, “Two West Virginia coal miners killed”).
  On Wednesday, 28-year-old Timothy K. Chamness was killed at the Prairie Eagle South Underground Mine in Cutler, Illinois. According (…)

• China : millions of workers losing their jobs !!!!
  3 March 2016, by Robert Paris

  Chinese government prepares to sack millions of workers
  In the lead-up to the National People’s Congress (NPC) starting on Saturday, the Chinese government has announced massive layoffs in state-owned enterprises in coal and steel. Further sackings in other basic industries are being foreshadowed in moves that will result in millions of workers losing their jobs and heightened political and social tensions.
  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has delayed taking steps to deal (…)