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• 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 (…)

• News from USA
  13 July 2012, by Robert Paris

  Elections in the U.S. – No Choice for the Working Class
  In the U.S., the contest for President has begun again, once again coming down to a choice between two candidates who both represent the interests of the bourgeoisie – Barack Obama, from the Democratic party, and Mitt Romney, from the Republican party. So far, this election is playing out like most other elections. Both candidates are raising record amounts of money as they try to carry out their strategy of saying whatever they think (…)

• Working class struggles in China
  27 February 2012, by Robert Paris

  Working class struggles in China
  Working class struggle is an important part of modern Chinese history, and is rising.
  In a late industrialising country, the Chinese working class emerged and became organised only in the early 20th century after the country was forced to open up to global capitalism.
  However, shaped by harsh economic exploitation and foreign semi-colonial domination, China’s working class quickly established itself in the space of a few decades. This culminated in mass (…)

• Working More for Less Than Ever Before
  18 January 2013, by Robert Paris

  Working More for Less Than Ever Before
  In the last week, the government has released reports which show the rate of workers’ wages and the productivity of workers. The numbers could not possibly be more striking. In the last decades not only have workers’ wages stayed flat or started to fall, but employers are getting more and more out of the work that each of us does. It couldn’t be clearer. This is how the rich get richer – they make us do more work for less money.
  Up until 1975, (…)

• Japan: Fukushima worker sues TEPCO over radiation exposure
  13 May 2014, by Robert Paris

  Japan: Fukushima worker sues TEPCO over radiation exposure
  By Will Morrow - WSWS
  A worker, who was among the first to respond to the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, has filed a legal case against the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plant’s private operator, for unnecessary exposure to high levels of radiation. The lawsuit comes amid growing anger among workers at the crippled plant, over low pay and extremely dangerous and exploitative conditions. (…)

• Theses On Feuerbach
  11 June 2012, by Robert Paris

  Karl Marx 1845
  Theses On Feuerbach
  Written: by Marx in Brussels in the spring of 1845, under the title “1) ad Feuerbach”;
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  The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object [Objekts], or of contemplation [Anschauung], but not as human sensuous activity, practice [Praxis], not subjectively. Hence it happened that the active side, in opposition (…)

• France: Socialist Party government bows to business demands for social cuts
  4 November 2012, by Robert Paris

  France: Socialist Party government bows to business demands for social cuts
  By Antoine Lerougetel
  1 November 2012
  In an exchange on Monday with Le Parisien readers, French Socialist Party (PS) Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault asserted that for him the 35-hour week was not “taboo.” Asked whether his government would return to the 39-hour week, he replied: “Why not? I’m not dogmatic.”
  Government advisors feared that that his “slip”, when the transcript was published on Tuesday, would (…)

• Matter and Revolution
  16 January 2018, by Robert Paris

  Matter and Revolution
  What Revolutions of Matter?
  A Travel to the Land of Revolutions (material and social)
  Why saying Matter is Revolution?
  Particle of Matter or Emergence of Structure in the Vacuum
  Discontinuity of Matter, Energy, Light and Vacuum
  Is "dark matter" a mere illusion effect
  The Physics of Matter and the Dialectical Philosophy
  A Philosophy of Matter
  Some Misconceptions about Matter
  Matter : What is astonishing ?
  What is a phase transition?
  A material (…)

• Franz Mehring The Origins of German Middle Class Culture The Lessing Legend
  24 October 2012, by Robert Paris

  Franz Mehring
  The Origins of German Middle Class Culture
  The Lessing Legend

• The destruction of health care in Greece
  12 December 2012, by Robert Paris

  The destruction of health care in Greece
  By Ernst Wolf
  Five austerity programmes within the space of two and a half years have reduced the health system in Greece to the level of a developing country and stripped working people of the basic right to adequate medical care.
  Although winter has begun and the recent cuts have already had life-threatening and sometimes fatal consequences, the troika of the International Monetary Fund, European Union and European Central Bank are insisting (…)