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 (...)
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Striking South African miners oppose rally called by official unions
30 October 2012, by Robert ParisStriking South African miners oppose rally called by official unions
By Julie Hyland
29 October 2012
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called a rally and march Saturday at the Olympia Stadium, Rustenburg in what was meant to be a show of strength. COSATU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi had vowed to “reclaim the Rustenburg area from the forces of counterrevolution.”
Vavi was to appear before an audience bussed in from surrounding areas, alongside Blade Nzimande, (...) -
What is our programme ? - James Connolly
19 January 2010"Our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth!"
James Connolly: “Be Moderate”
James Connolly
What Is Our Programme?
(1916)
From Workers’ Republic, 22 January 1916.
Transcribed by The James Connolly Society in 1997.
We are often asked the above question. Sometimes the question is not too politely put, sometimes it is put in frantic bewilderment, sometimes it is put in wrathful objurgation, sometimes it is put in tearful entreaty, sometimes it is put by (...) -
Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science
2 April 2018, by Robert ParisRead also :
Dialectical Materialism
Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Readings Upon Dialectics
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Hegel’s Dialectics and Modern Science
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Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science
ONE of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been (...) -
Friedrich Hegel, The Critical Philosophy
19 May 2018, by Robert Paris§40
In common with Empiricism the Critical Philosophy assumes that experience affords the one sole foundation for cognitions; which however it does not allow to rank as truths, but only as knowledge of phenomena.
The Critical theory starts originally from the distinction of elements presented in the analysis of experience, viz. the matter of sense, and its universal relations. Taking into account Humes’s criticism on this distinction as given in the preceding section, viz. that (...) -
South African miners mount new wave of wildcat strikes
3 June 2013, by Robert ParisSouth African miners mount new wave of wildcat strikes
By Thomas Gaist
A new strike wave is shaking South Africa’s mines, with the second strike this week ready to begin yesterday evening at Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplat) Rustenburg site.
Representatives of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) announced that as of Thursday evening, miners will refuse to go underground, as the company prepares to announce over 6,000 layoffs. The company had previously (...) -
Castes et classes en Inde
19 février 2013, par Robert ParisLire aussi sur Gandhi
Castes et classes en Inde
Les castes sont des divisions de l’ensemble des êtres humains qui ont existé de manière particulière en Inde et sont formées de groupes fondés d’abord sur une position relativement à la religion hindouiste. Cette dernière n’est nullement la première religion ou civilisation qu’ait connu la région mais c’est celle qui a survécu jusqu’à nous. Cela signifie que les castes sont très loin d’avoir toujours existé en Inde et elles n’ont même pas (...) -
For Human Heart, Deterministic Chaos is not Disorder nor Disease : It Is the Dynamical Order
7 March 2017, by Robert ParisFor Human Heart, Deterministic Chaos is not Disorder nor Disease : It Is the Dynamical Order
Regularity is disease and chaos, it is health!
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In Heartbeat, Predictability Is Worse Than Chaos
Dynamics of Heart Rate : Chaos
Non-Linear Dynamics of Heart
Chaos Theory, Heart Rate (...) -
Texts of Friedrich Hegel
25 November 2012, by Robert ParisThe Task of the Historian of Philosophy
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Nikolai Bukharin Programme of the World Revolution
22 June 2012, by Robert ParisRead here
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