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• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Le socialisme utopique de Fourier, la sexualité et le mariage bourgeois
  16 February 2015, by Robert Paris

  Lire "Le nouveau monde amoureux" de Charles Fourier
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  Qui était Fourier
  The Passionate Series by Charles Fourier
  The series of groups is the method adopted by God in the organisation of the kingdoms of nature and of all created things. The naturalists, in their theories and classifications, have unanimously accepted this system of organisation; they could not have departed from it without coming into conflict with nature and falling into confusion.[28]
  If human (…)

• 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 (…)

• Dozens killed and wounded as sectarian bloodshed escalates in Iraq
  24 December 2013, by Robert Paris

  Dozens killed and wounded as sectarian bloodshed escalates in Iraq
  By Rosa Shahnazarian
  Over the past week, waves of sectarian bombings and shootings have torn into Iraq, hitting victims throughout the country. Yesterday, at least 14 people were killed in three separate attacks. Two roadside bombings 100 miles north of Baghdad in Tuz Khurmato led to the deaths of nine people. Twenty-four were injured. Further north, in the town of Hawija, two adjacent homes were stormed by militants who (…)

• The Proletariat in Power, for Trotsky after 1905 Russian Revolution
  17 October 2024, by Robert Paris

  The Proletariat in Power, for Trotsky after 1905 Russian Revolution
  Revolution and the Proletariat
  Revolution is an open measurement of strength between social forces in a struggle for power. The State is not an end in itself. It is only a machine in the hands of the dominating social forces. Like every machine it has its motor, transmitting and executive mechanism. The driving force of the State is class interest; its motor mechanism is agitation, the press, church and school (…)

• International solidarity with chinese workers, activists and unionists arrested
  2 June 2011, by Robert Paris

  International solidarity with chinese workers, activists and unionists arrested
  “What workers should do are those things that they can achieve through their own power!” —— F. Engels, The Conditions of Working Class in England
  Release arrested strikers. Legalise the right to strike and to organise in China.
  Laogaï camps, the chinese goulag
  Over the last two decades of economic reform, millions of workers have been laid off without due (…)

• FBI, Homeland Security withheld information on Boston bombing suspects from local, state police
  20 May 2013, by Robert Paris

  Congressional hearing confirms
  FBI, Homeland Security withheld information on Boston bombing suspects from local, state police
  By Barry Grey
  The Boston police commissioner and a top Massachusetts Homeland Security official told Congress Thursday that the local and state police were never informed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Department of Homeland Security of multiple warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon.
  Tamerlan (…)

• The legacy of Charles Darwin
  30 December 2009

  The legacy of Charles Darwin
  Wednesday, 16 December 2009. 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
  Roy Farrar, from The Socialist (weekly paper of CWI England and Wales)
  Charles Darwin’s theory of ’natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ’intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are teaching evolution (…)

• Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism
  8 September 2019, by Robert Paris

  Who Was Christian Rakovsky
  Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism
  Speech to the Fifteenth Party Congress
  (December 1927)
  Comrades! The sphere of international relations is that sphere which necessitates the greatest unity in the party. Our foreign enemy is the most dangerous of all enemies, both for our party and the proletarian dictatorship. [Voices: “That is way you are breaking up the party. You should have known this before! You should have remembered that on November 7th!”] (…)