UAW provides Obama a platform for his austerity assault on workers
By Jerry White
President Obama gave a campaign-style speech at a suburban Detroit auto factory Monday afternoon, enlisting the support of the United Auto Workers union for his attack on basic social programs at the heart of the deficit-reduction deal he is negotiating with congressional Republicans.
Union officials standing behind the president and packing the audience served as extras in this latest stage-managed (...)
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John Reed, "Ten Days that Shook the World", 2nd part
17 January 2010Chapter IV
The Fall of the Provisional Government
WEDNESDAY, November 7th, I rose very late. The noon cannon boomed from Peter-Paul as I went down the Nevsky. It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates.
“What side do you belong to?” I asked. “The Government?”
“No more Government,” one answered with a grin, “Slava Bogu! Glory to God!” That was all I could get out of him&….
The street-cars were (...) -
Egypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over
15 August 2013, by Robert ParisEgypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over
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Sao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal
5 June 2013, by Robert ParisSao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal
By Bill Van Auken
Brazilian teachers remain on strike in the municipal school system of the city of Sao Paulo after their counterparts in the Sao Paulo state system saw their strike betrayed by their union. Both sections of teachers have demanded significant wage increases, improved working conditions, smaller class sizes and a halt to the universal drive to privatize and cut public education.
The walkouts are symptomatic of (...) -
Le socialisme utopique de Fourier, la sexualité et le mariage bourgeois
16 February 2015, by Robert ParisLire "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 (...) -
Karl Marx, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
29 June 2019, by Robert ParisKarl Marx, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
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The process which precedes the formation of the capital relation or of original accumulation
One of the prerequisites of wage labor, and one of the historic conditions for capital, is free labor and the exchange of free labor against money, in order to reproduce money and to convert it into values, in order to be consumed by money, not as use value for enjoyment, but as use value for money. Another prerequisite is the separation of free (...) -
Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
7 November 2012, by Robert ParisMillions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
By Bill Van Auken
One week after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Eastern Seaboard of the United States with high winds and a record storm surge, nearly two million homes and businesses remain without power in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut as temperatures fall near the freezing mark.
Fear is growing that Sandy’s death toll, already topping 100, will be augmented by further fatalities, caused not by natural (...) -
Mao Zedong’s granddaughter among China’s super-rich
1 June 2013, by Robert ParisMao Zedong’s granddaughter among China’s super-rich
Billionaires’ fortunes have increased by almost 17 percent in a year while the poor get poorer
chinaworker.info
Mao Zedong’s granddaughter has climbed into the ranks of China’s richest people. Kong Dongmei, granddaughter of the ‘great helmsman’, and her husband Chen Dongsheng, have amassed a combined wealth of five billion yuan (US$820 million), according to the Guangdong-based New Fortune magazine. Their personal fortune, which (...) -
Several texts of Leon Trotsky
24 February 2013, by Robert ParisSeveral texts of Leon Trotsky
The Soviet and the Revolution – Trotsky
Why the German Social-Democracy Failed
On the Events in Dublin – Trotsky
The Farce of Dual Power
The Struggle for State Power
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Syria – Still in the Crosshairs of the U.S.
7 October 2013, by Robert ParisSyria – Still in the Crosshairs of the U.S.
Today Syria is being torn apart by a bloody civil war. Since 2001 the ruling regime of Bashar Al-Assad’s Ba’ath Party has faced an uprising that has threatened to overturn his rule. Since the beginning of the conflict, over 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting, and about 2 million or ten percent of Syria’s population have become refugees in surrounding countries.
In addition to the internal struggle, Syria has become a site of (...)
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