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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 (…)

• A significant report on the global economy
  26 November 2012, by Robert Paris

  A significant report on the global economy
  By Nick Beams
  A report by a major US forecasting group has poured cold water on the idea that China, or any of the so-called emerging markets, can provide a new base of expansion for the global capitalist economy, either in the short- or long-term.
  The Conference Board, described by Wikipedia as an unbiased and “trusted source for statistics and trends, second only perhaps to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics,” issued a series of economic (…)

• JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe
  18 June 2013, by Robert Paris

  JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe

• Whose Holidays – Ours or The Corporations’?
  6 December 2012, by Robert Paris

  Whose Holidays – Ours or The Corporations’?
  In case you haven’t noticed, the holiday season has already arrived. Everywhere we go we’re now bombarded by sights and sounds that try to convince us to stay in a festive mood and buy our loved ones all the things that will make this the holiday season to remember. Commercial after commercial, on the TV, radio and internet, all reminding us that the deal of the century is at our fingertips – and all we have to do is buy it.
  And after we have (…)

• French Social Revolution of Yellow Vests
  21 December 2018, by Robert Paris

  It’s a revolt?
  No my lord, it’s a revolution!
  French Social Revolution of Yellow Vests
  The working class in the protest of yellow vests: abolition of all indirect taxes!
  It’s not Macron, it’s the street that changes the climate!
  Yellow vests: workers’ committees everywhere!
  What really hinders the state power and the possessing classes in the movement of yellow vests
  Finished, outdated, impossible, social revolutions, did you say? !!!
  Yellow vests: this is just the (…)

• The Egyptian coup and the tasks facing the working class
  1 August 2013, by Robert Paris

  The Egyptian coup and the tasks facing the working class
  The July 3 military coup in Egypt and the subsequent repression have starkly revealed the principal problem facing the working class internationally: the crisis of revolutionary leadership.
  More than two years after the upheavals that forced out longtime US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military—headed by its US-educated commander, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi—is seeking to restore the political setup that existed prior to (…)

• 100 Years since the Russian Revolution
  20 January 2017, by Robert Paris

  100 Years since the Russian Revolution
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• Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
  7 November 2012, by Robert Paris

  Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
  By Bill Van Auken
  One week after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Eastern Seaboard of the United States with high winds and a record storm surge, nearly two million homes and businesses remain without power in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut as temperatures fall near the freezing mark.
  Fear is growing that Sandy’s death toll, already topping 100, will be augmented by further fatalities, caused not by natural (…)

• Turkey: Mass movement challenges Erdogan government
  14 June 2013, by Robert Paris

  Turkey: Mass movement challenges Erdogan government

• Class Struggle in Africa
  6 January 2018, by Robert Paris

  Class Struggle in Africa
  Africa
  Angola
  Benin
  Botswana
  Burkina Faso
  Burundi
  Cameroon
  Central African Republic
  French Comoros
  Congo Brazzaville
  Congo Kinshasa (Congo DR Congo) or Zaire
  Ivory Coast
  Djibouti
  Eritrea
  Ethiopia
  Gabon
  Gambia
  [Ghana -> http://w