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• Readings on Physics and Philosophy
  25 September 2023, by Robert Paris

  Readings on Physics and Philosophy
  Cohen-Tannoudji
  http://www.matierevolution.org/IMG/pdf/Philosophy_20th_century_physics.pdf
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article6427&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  James Jeans
  https://archive.org/details/physicsandphilos031647mbp/page/n5/mode/2up
  Dirac
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article6844&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  Bohr-Heisenberg (…)

• 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 (…)

• Big Bill Haywood: A Giant in the Struggles of the Working Class
  2 October 2012, by Robert Paris

  Big Bill Haywood: A Giant in the Struggles of the Working Class
  Big Bill Haywood was one of the most important and colorful leaders of the U.S. working class. He was a leader of some of the most important labor battles from the 1890′s until the 1920s.
  He was born in 1869 in the Mormon frontier settlement of Salt Lake City, Utah. His father died when he was three. At age seven, he blinded himself in one eye in an accident with a sling shot. At age nine, he was already working in the mines (…)

• The peasants’revolt of 1381 in UK - La révolte des paysans en Angleterre
  7 January 2013, by Robert Paris

  The Peasants’ Revolt, Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event in the history of England. Tyler’s Rebellion was not only the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history but also the best-documented popular rebellion to have occurred during medieval times. The names of some of its leaders, John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, are still familiar in popular culture, although little is (…)

• Estranged Labour, Karl Marx
  3 October 2018, by Robert Paris

  "We have proceeded from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property, the separation of labor, capital and land, and of wages, profit of capital and rent of land – likewise division of labor, competition, the concept of exchange value, etc. On the basis of political economy itself, in its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities; that the (…)

• Credit crunch hits China
  24 June 2013, by Robert Paris

  Credit crunch hits China

• STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  20 September 2024, by Robert Paris

  C.L.LR. James
  STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  EVEN WHILE THE STALINISTS, BY FALSIFICATION AND PHYSICAL repression, were destroying the propagandists of international Socialism, the world revolution which had seemed so remote in October, 1924, stirred itself, and even while the new theory was being made law presented the International with one of its greatest opportunities. We have to pass over how the Stalinists forced the Communist Party of Poland to support Pilsudski in the coup (…)

• Readings Upon Dialectics
  17 October 2017, by Robert Paris

  Readings Upon Dialectics
  “The whole world, natural, historical, intellectual, is represented as a process – i.e., as in constant motion, change, transformation, development; and the attempt is made to trace out the internal connection that makes a continuous whole of all this movement and development.”
  Engels, Socialism: Utopian & Scientific
  "It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only completes its orbit in periods of time for which our terrestrial (…)

• Trotsky’s answer to Stalin
  13 December 2023, by Robert Paris

  Trotsky’s answer to Stalin
  November 1926
  The following speech was delivered by Trotsky at the Seventh Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in November 1926.
  Comrades! The resolution accuses the Opposition including me, of a social democratic deviation. I have thought over all the points of contention which have divided us, the minority of the CC from the majority during the period just past, that is, the period in which the designation “Opposition bloc” has (…)

• 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 (…)