Empty Promises Won’t End the Violence
Last week President Obama made a speech promising empty solutions to all the mass shootings. Just like after every other mass shooting, we are fed the same debates about gun access and video games that never go anywhere or change anything. The politicians and the media always talk about these killings like they are isolated problems, only the fault of single individuals who have “snapped” or criminals bent on committing evil. But in reality these (...)
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New York bus drivers continue strike to defend jobs
21 January 2013, by Robert ParisNew York bus drivers continue strike to defend jobs
WSWS
Striking school bus drivers picketed bus garages throughout New York City Friday, and a delegation of drivers and supporters demonstrated outside the Brooklyn headquarters of the Department of Education (DOE).
The drivers’ strike affects over 100,000 public and 50,000 parochial school children, many of whom are special education students. According to the DOE just 2,320 of its 7,700 bus routes were operating on Friday. (...) -
China among the world’s most unequal nations
20 December 2012, by Robert ParisChina among the world’s most unequal nations
New study puts China’s Gini coefficient at 0.61, almost level with South Africa • Real unemployment level double the official figure
Chinaworker.info
China’s sharply widening wealth gap places it among the most unequal nations, a new survey by a Chinese academic institute shows. The report, which was published on 9 December, adds to the pressure on China’s new authoritarian leaders who are anxious to defuse growing popular discontent. They (...) -
George Plekhanov - The Bourgeois Revolution - The Political Birth of Capitalism
9 February 2013, by Robert ParisGeorge Plekhanov - The Bourgeois Revolution - The Political Birth of Capitalism
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Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, in english
4 December 2012, by Robert ParisLes Miserables, by Victor Hugo, in english
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Poverty and the American two-party system
19 November 2012, by Robert ParisPoverty and the American two-party system
Nearly 50 million people are living in poverty in the United States. This was the dire news delivered eight days after the presidential election in a report from the US Census Bureau.
The new report’s findings—which factor in expenses and government-provided benefits, providing a more accurate picture of US poverty—are a damning indictment of American capitalism. Based on data from 2011, three full years into Obama’s first term, the report is (...) -
What is the “fiscal cliff”
17 November 2012, by Robert ParisWhat is the “fiscal cliff”?
By Patrick Martin
The term “fiscal cliff,” first used by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last February, refers to the simultaneous expiration of tax cuts and imposition of spending cuts on January 1, 2013.
The American media has seized on the term “fiscal cliff” and promoted it, in part, to suggest that measures which would otherwise be enormously popular—ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy or cutting military spending—are threatening, even (...) -
Year One of the Russian Revolution - Victor Serge
7 May 2013, by Robert ParisRead here
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Obama administration blocks information request on assassination of US citizens
19 January 2013, by Robert ParisObama administration blocks information request on assassination of US citizens
By Tom Carter
On Wednesday, at the request of the Obama administration, US federal judge Colleen McMahon relied on expansive “national security” privileges to deny requests by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Times for government records related to the assassination of US citizens.
The US government’s “targeted killing” program, initiated under the Bush administration and expanded under (...) -
Georgi Plekhanov - Essays on the History of Materialism
9 February 2013, by Robert ParisGeorgi Plekhanov - Essays on the History of Materialism
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- Bangladesh wage protests shut garment factories
- Memorial Day – Glorifying a System of Violence
- Autoworkers vote for strike as UAW continues silence on talks
- Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest
- Black history month - The struggle Hasn’t End -
- British banks may get bad ?
- Cambodian security forces shoot striking garment workers
- Chicago Teachers Vote to Continue Their Strike
- Chicago – Teachers Draw the Line Against Attacks
- China: 2,000 workers riot at Foxconn factory
- Conflit de l’entreprise Ceramica Cleopatra : affrontements à السويس Suez
- Emeutes à Ferguson après l’incendie du mémorial Michael Brown - Riots in Ferguson after the Michael Brown Memorial have been destructed
- Events The Struggle in Syria – Reality Behind the Myth
- For workers’ power in Egypt!
- Haiti threatened by a new earthquake
- Hundreds more US coal miners laid off
- Hunger and Misery are the Agitators, Not Us
- India: Contaminated school-meal kills 22 children
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Books On Line
- Nazi Offensive in the USA
- Political crisis deepens in Mexico as army is called on to testify on Iguala massacre
- Political Document on Greece
- Puerto Rico: Profits Over People
- Reading upon dialectic
- Salaire non payé : émeute devant l’Hôtel Nile City Tower au Caire – 2 août 2012
- Second St. Louis area police shooting highlights unrestrained police violence in the US
- South Africa’s unions use mass sackings and murder to suppress miners
- Strike in Cambodia
- Strike in South Africa
- Struggles in Ecuador - Affrontements en Equateur - En français - In English
- Syria : begining of the third wold war ?
- Terrorism of ISIS and Terrorism of USA and France are inseparable
- The Crisis in Yemen – Not a Domestic Product
- The horrific events in Charlottesville
- The State Of Black America – A State Of Emergency
- The Struggles of Labor
- Toward World War III
- Trump : "American Billionaire First !"
- US launches air strikes inside Syria
- US military occupation of Haïti
- USA News
- War Against All Peoples Is Also War Against US People
- Washington ships arms to Al Qaeda-linked forces in Syria
- We Can Learn From the Russian Revolution
- Who is Responsible for the Disruption of Our Lives – BART Workers or the Bosses?
- Workers ! Future depends on ourselves !
- Workers riot in Greece - Emeute ouvrière en Grèce
- Workers’s opposition to Morsi
- Yuhang mass protests shake Chinese regime