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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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Lenin and Trotsky join forces to fight bureaucracy
  25 February 2020, by Robert Paris

  1922-1923: when Lenin and Trotsky were united against Stalin
  Lenin and Trotsky join forces to fight bureaucracy
  ‘Stop the retreat’
  Lenin, in his report to the Tenth Congress of the party, made it clear that the New Economic Policy would strengthen capitalism in the countryside: ‘... the switch from the appropriation of surpluses to the tax will mean more kulaks [rich peasants] under the new system. They will appear where they could not appear before.’ [1] In his summing-up of the (…)

• Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  1 March 2018, by Robert Paris

  By Hal Draper
  The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in Marx and Engels
  1 The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in Marx and Engels
  The phrase ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ first appeared in a series of articles by Marx, later titled The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850, published in what was then Marx’s own London magazine. The first article, written in January 1850, came off the press in early March. The expression or its equivalent appeared not once but three times – in each of (…)

• Theranos Conviction Shows that Lying and Fraud are Part of the System
  17 November 2022, by Robert Paris

  Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, being recognized for her talents within the capitalist system.
  Theranos Conviction Shows that Lying and Fraud are Part of the System
  Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, a health technology company, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud investors and wire fraud. While we can all be happy that Holmes was caught in the act and has fallen from her perch of wealth and power, we should not lose sight of the larger lessons – that Holmes and her (…)

• Hegel’s philosophy and science
  1 January 2010

  Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
  Analytical Table of Contents Preliminary
  § 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness. § 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency. § 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises from the other. § 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole. § 196 The idea as nature can be named mathematics, physics, and physiology.
  PART I: Mathematics (…)

• Mursi declares state of emergency as protests escalate in Egypt
  29 January 2013, by Robert Paris

  Mursi declares state of emergency as protests escalate in Egypt
  By Alex Lantier and Johannes Stern
  Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi declared a 30-day state of emergency in three Suez Canal cities yesterday, as protests begun on the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution spread throughout the country. Police and army units fired live ammunition, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds, while protesters attacked police stations and offices of Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) (…)

• Reform Or Revolution?
  7 January 2010

  Reform Or Revolution?
  By Daniel DeLeon
  An address delivered at
  Wells’ Memorial Hall, Boston, Mass.,
  January 26, 1896
  Mr. Chairman and Workingmen of Boston:
  I have got into the habit of putting two and two together, and drawing my conclusions. When I was invited to come to Boston, the invitation reached me at about the same time as an official information that a reorganization of the party was contemplated in the city of Boston. I put the two together and I drew the conclusion (…)

• The Ways of Matter to Build New Structures
  17 November 2017, by Robert Paris

  Emergence, Self-organization, Negentropy far from Balance and Deterministic Chaos, the Non-linear Ways of Matter to Build New Structures
  What is Emergence?
  What is self-organization?
  What is Entropy and Negentropy?
  What is Deterministic Chaos?
  Self-organization or order spontaneously resulting from the disorder
  What is Non-linearity
  Non-linear Dynamics creates New Structures
  The Theory of Deterministic Chaos
  Particle of Matter and Emergence of Structure in the Vaccum
  Why (…)