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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 (...)

• Striking South African miners oppose rally called by official unions
  30 October 2012, by Robert Paris

  Striking 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, (...)

• Child poverty in US among the highest in developed world
  20 April 2013, by Robert Paris

  Child poverty in US among the highest in developed world
  By Nick Barrickman
  A recent report by the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) details the growing levels of poverty facing children in the major capitalist countries. Compiled with information taken in the final two years of last decade (2009-2010), the report reveals a staggering level of child poverty in the “developed” world, with the standards of living in the United States, which has the highest gross domestic (...)

• Charles Dickens by Franz Mehring
  8 November 2012, by Robert Paris

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• Mao Zedong’s granddaughter among China’s super-rich
  1 June 2013, by Robert Paris

  Mao 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 (...)

• South African police fire on striking farm workers
  20 January 2013, by Robert Paris

  South African police fire on striking farm workers
  By Joshua Lumet
  Confrontations between striking farm workers and South African police and private security guards have left several people wounded and some 50 arrested.
  On Thursday, the second day of a renewed agricultural strike, a community leader was reportedly shot and wounded by private security guards in the town of De Doorns, in South Africa’s Western Cape province, the center of the strike.
  The violence against the strikers (...)

• Class struggle in Greece
  28 January 2013, by Robert Paris

  Greek government mobilizes riot police to break Athens subway strike
  By Christoph Dreier
  The Greek government has declared martial law and mobilized riot police to break the nine-day strike by Athens subway workers. As of this writing, it appears that subway service has been partially restored and at least some of the striking workers have returned to work under threat of prosecution and up to five years in prison.
  However, bus and tram service has been halted by rolling strikes (...)

• Biography of Fredrick Engels
  26 March 2014, by Robert Paris

  Biography of Fredrick Engels
  By Marx
  By Franz Mehring
  By Riazanov
  By Lenin
  By JD Bernal
  By Lafargue
  Writings of Engels
  Confession of faith by Engels
  Biography of Engels
  By Michael Herbert
  By Roland Boer
  By WSWS

• Leon Trotsky - The First Five Years of the Communist International
  4 July 2012, by Robert Paris

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• Europe in crisis as Cyprus faces national bankruptcy
  22 March 2013, by Robert Paris

  Europe in crisis as Cyprus faces national bankruptcy
  By Jordan Shilton and Chris Marsden
  The vote by Cyprus’s parliament Tuesday evening to reject the terms of the European Union (EU) bailout agreed last Saturday has deepened a crisis which threatens to spread across Europe, posing the risk of national bankruptcy.
  Thirty-six parliamentarians voted against the deal, while 19 abstained and none voted in favour. The initial bailout plan would have charged investors with deposits in (...)