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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 (…)

• Average US student debt tops $20,000
  1 May 2013, by Robert Paris

  Average US student debt tops $20,000
  By Zac Corrigan
  In the last decade, the percentage of US 25-year-olds with student debt has grown by nearly one third, and the average amount owed by them has risen by a staggering 91 percent. These are two key findings of a report published April 17 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY). This explosion of youth indebtedness has correlated with other economic trends—especially since the recession triggered in 2008—to indenture a huge (…)

• US military plans direct intervention in Syria
  25 July 2013, by Robert Paris

  US military plans direct intervention in Syria
  By Alex Lantier
  The Pentagon is planning a major escalation of the US-led war against Syria, involving direct US military involvement to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
  In a letter to Democratic Senator Carl Levin, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Martin Dempsey spelled out proposals and cost estimates for various potential US interventions in Syria. His plans include training opposition militias in Syria; (…)

• Questions mount about Boston bombers’ links to US intelligence agencies
  26 April 2013, by Robert Paris

  Questions mount about Boston bombers’ links to US intelligence agencies
  By Joseph Kishore
  Information coming to light about the background of the Boston Marathon bombings raises many questions about the relationship of US intelligence agencies to the alleged bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
  It is now clear that the older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a police shootout in the early morning hours of April 19, was well known to both the FBI and the CIA.
  After first (…)

• Face aux réactions violentes contre la police raciste de Minneapolis, Trump lance une guerre civile - Protests and demonstrations have erupted throughout the US in an explosive reaction to the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  30 mai 2020, par Robert Paris

  Des policiers tuent sciemment George Floyd
  Trump appelle à tirer sur les manifestants qui protestent contre l’assassinat d’un noir par un policier de Minneapolis. L’armée et la garde nationale interviennent violemment pour sauver la police raciste de Minneapolis
  Lire ici sur la police raciste des USA
  La version en français suit le texte in english
  Trump threatens to mobilize the military to shoot protesters
  Mass anger erupts throughout the US in protests against police murder of (…)

• Mossoul - Terrorisme et dictature : les deux prétextes d’une offensive impérialiste dont les civils sont les premières victimes
  18 juin 2017, par Robert Paris

  L’aviation de la coalition occidentale vient encore de frapper des civils
  Mossoul : les civils, victimes de toutes les armées, aussi terroristes les unes que les autres…
  Mi-juin, l’ONU estime à plus de 860.000 le nombre d’Irakiens qui ont été déplacés à un moment ou à un autre par la bataille de Mossoul.
  Au moins 4.000 civils ont ont été tués par les troupes américaines. Plus de 200.00 habitants ont pu fuir Mossoul-Ouest depuis un mois, d’après les autorités irakiennes. Mais environ (…)

• La révolution abolitionniste de John Brown
  16 mars 2019, par Robert Paris

  La révolution abolitionniste de John Brown
  Élisée Reclus :
  « John Brown »
  1867
  « John Brown était un de ces rudes travailleurs américains que leur éducation sans uns société libre rend propres aux occupations les plus diverses. Élevé comme trappeur dans les forêts de l’Ouest, il se fit successivement tanneur, berger, marchand de laines, fermier ; souvent aussi il changea de résidence, habitant tour à tour le Connecticut, l’Ohio, l’État de New-York, la Pennsylvanie et dans ses voyages (…)

• L’affrontement Chine-USA, cause des menaces mondiales ou nouveau moyen de les masquer
  30 mai 2019, par Robert Paris

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  L’affrontement Chine-USA, cause des menaces mondiales ou nouveau moyen de les masquer
  Les grandes puissances occidentales feignent de découvrir que la Chine serait une menace dans la concurrence mondiale et même une menace militaire et elles redécouvrent que ce pays est gouverné par le parti unique maoïste et que la démocratie n’y règne pas. Trump a lancé la politique de menaces verbales à l’égard de la Chine. Macron a affirmé, du moins dans les média français, que l’Europe ne (…)

• An Injury To One Is An Injury To All
  1 November 2013, by Robert Paris

  An Injury To One Is An Injury To All
  People across the Bay Area were shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of two BART workers on Saturday. Less than two days into the BART strike the lives of two people were taken due to BART management’s incompetence, recklessness, willful neglect and disregard for those who operate the BART system.
  For months the well-paid management have spewed forth lies and contempt for the workers who maintain and operate the system every day. Now, (…)

• Communism and stalinism in USA
  12 January 2010

  The End of the Comintern And The Prospects of Labor Internationalism James P. Cannon
  Comrade Chairman, Comrades:
  The formal dissolution of the Communist International is undoubtedly an event of great historical significance, even though everybody understands that it is simply the formal certification of a fact that was long since accomplished. Some of the bourgeois commentators and politicians may exaggerate a bit when they speak of the dissolution of the Communist International as the (…)