US surpasses other industrialized countries in infant death rate
By Naomi Spencer
A new report on motherhood paints a devastating portrait of social conditions for poor women and their babies around the world. In both developing and industrialized countries, the first month of birth is the most dangerous of an infant’s life.
“State of the World’s Mothers,” a report from the humanitarian organization Save the Children, released May 7, finds more than three million babies die within (...)
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Workers Struggles: The Americas - Latin America
24 May 2013, by Robert ParisWorkers Struggles: The Americas
Latin America
Brazil
Brazilian dockworkers strike over privatization legislation Stevedores at the southern Brazilian ports of Santos, Rio de Janeiro and Paranaguá held a “flash strike” at noon on May 14 to protest grain terminal privatization legislation being debated in the national Senate after passage by the lower house of Congress. The strike took place in the midst of a backlog of soybeans, grain and corn waiting for export, with over 200 (...) -
No to the Slaughter in Syria
20 September 2013, by Robert ParisSay No to the Slaughter in Syria
The U.S and Russian governments continue their chess match with the lives of the Syrian people. Last week, Russia made a move that pushed the U.S. to temporarily delay its aggressive march to an open war on Syria. The Russian government took advantage of the widespread opposition to any U.S. bombing of Syria – internationally as well as here in the U.S. The Russian government still claims that there is no proof that Assad’s regime did in fact use chemical (...) -
What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat
3 October 2013, by Robert ParisRead here
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JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe
18 June 2013, by Robert ParisJPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe
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Did Neanderthals create cave art?
15 November 2012, by Robert ParisDid Neanderthals create cave art?
By Philip Guelpa
10 July 2012
A newly published article in the journal Science (Pike et al, 15 June 2012, “U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain”) indicates that Paleolithic cave art in Europe dates even earlier than previously known, to at least 40,800 years ago. This is only a few thousand years, at most, after the earliest documented appearance of anatomically modern humans on the continent and at least 4,000 years older than the (...) -
Fed “taper” decision points to deepening financial crisis
3 October 2013, by Robert ParisFed “taper” decision points to deepening financial crisis
The decision last week by the US Federal Reserve Board not to begin reducing its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program has again underscored the dependence of the global financial system on the continued injection of ultra-cheap money.
It also revealed that, far from having been resolved, the crisis that erupted with the collapse of Lehman Brothers five years ago is deepening, as the policies of the Fed and other central banks (...) -
Year of the Snake – a year of struggle in China
13 February 2013, by Robert ParisThe coming year promises major challenges to the CCP dictatorship. Socialists must prepare for a new wave of struggle, as Xi Jinping attempts to introduce new capitalist reforms that will increase the burdens on the masses, thinly wrapped perhaps in some cosmetic and ‘moderate’ populist anti-corruption measures.
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How bad is China’s debt crisis?
22 April 2013, by Robert ParisHow bad is China’s debt crisis?
Socialist magazine (published by the Chinese section of the CWI) asked Vincent Kolo, senior editor of chinaworker.info, about rising levels of debt in China and whether this heralds a financial collapse?
Socialist magazine: How serious are China’s debt problems?
Vincent Kolo: A recent Bloomberg report says China’s economy has become a “credit junkie”. The growth of the shadow banking sector in particular is a sign of rapidly rising financial risks. (...) -
Class struggle in the US
17 September 2012, by Robert ParisRead here
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- Bangladesh wage protests shut garment factories
- Memorial Day – Glorifying a System of Violence
- Autoworkers vote for strike as UAW continues silence on talks
- Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest
- Black history month - The struggle Hasn’t End -
- British banks may get bad ?
- Cambodian security forces shoot striking garment workers
- Chicago Teachers Vote to Continue Their Strike
- Chicago – Teachers Draw the Line Against Attacks
- China: 2,000 workers riot at Foxconn factory
- Conflit de l’entreprise Ceramica Cleopatra : affrontements à السويس Suez
- Emeutes à Ferguson après l’incendie du mémorial Michael Brown - Riots in Ferguson after the Michael Brown Memorial have been destructed
- Events The Struggle in Syria – Reality Behind the Myth
- For workers’ power in Egypt!
- Haiti threatened by a new earthquake
- Hundreds more US coal miners laid off
- Hunger and Misery are the Agitators, Not Us
- India: Contaminated school-meal kills 22 children
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Books On Line
- Nazi Offensive in the USA
- Political crisis deepens in Mexico as army is called on to testify on Iguala massacre
- Political Document on Greece
- Puerto Rico: Profits Over People
- Reading upon dialectic
- Salaire non payé : émeute devant l’Hôtel Nile City Tower au Caire – 2 août 2012
- Second St. Louis area police shooting highlights unrestrained police violence in the US
- South Africa’s unions use mass sackings and murder to suppress miners
- Strike in Cambodia
- Strike in South Africa
- Struggles in Ecuador - Affrontements en Equateur - En français - In English
- Syria : begining of the third wold war ?
- Terrorism of ISIS and Terrorism of USA and France are inseparable
- The Crisis in Yemen – Not a Domestic Product
- The horrific events in Charlottesville
- The State Of Black America – A State Of Emergency
- The Struggles of Labor
- Toward World War III
- Trump : "American Billionaire First !"
- US launches air strikes inside Syria
- US military occupation of Haïti
- USA News
- War Against All Peoples Is Also War Against US People
- Washington ships arms to Al Qaeda-linked forces in Syria
- We Can Learn From the Russian Revolution
- Who is Responsible for the Disruption of Our Lives – BART Workers or the Bosses?
- Workers ! Future depends on ourselves !
- Workers riot in Greece - Emeute ouvrière en Grèce
- Workers’s opposition to Morsi
- Yuhang mass protests shake Chinese regime