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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 (…)

• Australian big business launches campaign for austerity, market “reform”
  28 April 2013, by Robert Paris

  Australian big business launches campaign for austerity, market “reform”
  By Patrick O’Connor
  The Business Council of Australia (BCA), representing the country’s largest 120 corporations, has launched a new public campaign in the lead up to September’s federal election. BCA president Tony Shepherd addressed the National Press Club on Wednesday, outlining a series of measures aimed at boosting corporate profits and productivity, at the expense of the working class.
  The speech marked the (…)

• Periodic Stimulation of Biological Oscillators
  9 November 2019

  Synchronization and Rhythmic Processes in Physiology
  Multiple Oscilators Provide Metastblity in Rhythm
  Phase-locking
  Zones of phase locking
  Respiratory System
  Cardiac Phase-locked Rhythms
  Cardiac Phase Resetting
  Phase-locking in Parasystole Rhythms
  Van der Pol Oscillator
  Phase-locking of the van der Pol Oscillator Dynamical Features od Neurons and the Brain
  Periodic Stimulation of Biological Oscillators
  Periodic stimulation of spontaneously oscillating (…)

• What is our programme ? - James Connolly
  19 January 2010

  "Our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth!"
  James Connolly: “Be Moderate”
  James Connolly
  What Is Our Programme?
  (1916)
  From Workers’ Republic, 22 January 1916.
  Transcribed by The James Connolly Society in 1997.
  We are often asked the above question. Sometimes the question is not too politely put, sometimes it is put in frantic bewilderment, sometimes it is put in wrathful objurgation, sometimes it is put in tearful entreaty, sometimes it is put by Nationalists (…)

• Anger in the Middle East – More than Just a Video
  30 September 2012, by Robert Paris

  Anger in the Middle East – More than Just a Video
  September 24th, 2012
  Starting on September 11th this year, protests erupted in front of U.S. embassies all over the Middle East, spreading to North Africa, and as far away as Pakistan, Indonesia, and the immigrant communities in Europe. These protesters around the world have gathered to express their anger at the target which makes the most sense to them – the United States.
  The protests began after the release of a video on Youtube (…)

• 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 (…)

• Mursi, army debate imposing martial law as strike wave shakes Egypt - Morsi et le débat dans l’armée sur l’imposition de la loi martiale pour écraser la vague de grèves qui parcourt à nouveau l’Egypte
  28 March 2013, by Robert Paris

  Mursi, army debate imposing martial law as strike wave shakes Egypt - Morsi et le débat dans l’armée sur l’imposition de la loi martiale pour écraser la vague de grèves qui parcourt à nouveau l’Egypte
  By Thomas Gaist and Alex Lantier
  In advance of a possible bread strike, as workers struggles spread throughout Egypt, Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is in talks with the army to impose martial law.
  Bakers are threatening a strike, protesting a government decision to withhold 400 million (…)

• Union isolates Australian glass workers as plant closures loom
  28 April 2013, by Robert Paris

  Union isolates Australian glass workers as plant closures loom
  By Mike Head
  Workers at CSR Viridian glass making plants are being deliberately isolated by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) as the company proceeds with its plans to axe more than 200 jobs and shut the Ingleburn, Sydney plant by mid-July. An Ingleburn worker told the WSWS: “We have been left to rot. The union is just fighting for dribs and drabs, while we are being left to find our own way.”
  The AWU has not said a public (…)