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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 (…)

• Le crime, un des piliers de la société bourgeoise
  18 October 2017, by Robert Paris

  Le crime, un des piliers de la société bourgeoise
  Karl Marx : Le crime est inséparable de la genèse du capitalisme
  Karl Marx contre tous les discours creux, de bonne intention, sur le crime
  Crimes dans le monde capitaliste
  « Bénéfices secondaires du crime », K. Marx :
  « Non seulement le crime est normal, mais il est facile de prouver qu’il a bien des utilités.
  Un philosophe produit des idées, un poète des vers, un curé des sermons, un professeur des bouquins, etc. Un criminel (…)

• Chronologie des grèves aux USA - List of strikes in America
  6 February 2015, by Robert Paris

  Troupes anti-grèves et grévistes, le face à face...
  Chronologie des grèves aux USA - List of strikes in America
  « Il n’y a plus de riches et plus de pauvres, plus de Noirs et plus de Blancs, il n’y a que des Américains », clamaient les média à chaque occasion d’unanimisme : célébrant les débuts des USA, de la conquête à la guerre d’indépendance, dans la deuxième guerre mondiale, face aux attentats du World Trade Center, célébrant Martin Luther King, ou encore se félicitant de l’élection (…)

• Readings Upon Dialectics
  17 October 2017, by Robert Paris

  Readings Upon Dialectics
  “The whole world, natural, historical, intellectual, is represented as a process – i.e., as in constant motion, change, transformation, development; and the attempt is made to trace out the internal connection that makes a continuous whole of all this movement and development.”
  Engels, Socialism: Utopian & Scientific
  "It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only completes its orbit in periods of time for which our terrestrial (…)

• Healthy Profits or Healthy Lives
  5 March 2013, by Robert Paris

  Healthy Profits or Healthy Lives
  Companies everywhere have started a new strategy to go after workers and make more money – Wellness Programs. Under these programs, companies punish workers if we don’t meet certain health requirements that the companies choose. Companies are setting limits on body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, cigarette smoking, minimum exercise requirements and more. And if workers don’t meet the guidelines that the bosses pick, our health care costs can go (…)

• The legacy of Hegel
  14 July 2013, by Robert Paris

  The legacy of Hegel

• Lenin on Dialectics, Cliff Slaughter
  19 October 2012, by Robert Paris

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• Egypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over
  15 August 2013, by Robert Paris

  Egypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over

• Two years after earthquake - North eastern Japan still a disaster zone
  13 March 2013, by Robert Paris

  Two years after earthquake
  North eastern Japan still a disaster zone
  By Peter Symonds
  Two years ago today, northern Japan was hit by a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake, triggering a tsunami that flattened dozens of coastal towns and a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Nearly 19,000 people were killed or went missing, presumed dead, according to official figures. The north eastern region, known as Tohoku, remains a disaster zone, with reconstruction barely begun in (…)

• 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 (…)