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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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Hegel’s philosophy and science
  1 January 2010

  Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
  Analytical Table of Contents Preliminary
  § 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness. § 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency. § 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises from the other. § 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole. § 196 The idea as nature can be named mathematics, physics, and physiology.
  PART I: Mathematics (…)

• Hegel & Mathematics
  7 March 2013, by Robert Paris

  Ernst Kol’man and Sonia Yanovskaya (1931)
  Hegel & Mathematics
  Source: Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts, New Park Publications, 1983; First published: in Unter dem Banner des Marxismus, 1931.
  The enormous interest shown in the study of Hegel by science in the Soviet Union is best justified in Lenin’s philosophical legacy:
  ’Modern natural scientists (if they know how to seek, and if we learn to help them) will find in the Hegelian dialectics materialistically interpreted a series of (…)

• It is their crisis, not ours !
  6 January 2010

  Rising Unemployment:
  Why Not Share The Work
  With No Cut In Pay!
  Unemployment is now officially over nine percent in California and expected to go higher. Jobs have been cut in construction, manufacturing, transportation, retail, the high tech and service sectors and city and state and federal governments.
  In addition, there has been an increase in the numbers of workers who have had their hours cut or who are forced to work part-time because they can’t find a fulltime job. And (…)

• India: Thousands join convention and protest to defend victimised Maruti Suzuki workers
  28 December 2012, by Robert Paris

  India: Thousands join convention and protest to defend victimised Maruti Suzuki workers
  By Arun Kumar
  Thousands of auto workers joined a convention and a protest march in New Delhi last Sunday to defend the victimised workers of the Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) car assembly plant in Manesar, in the northern Indian state of Haryana, defying threats and intimidation by the Congress governments of both Delhi and Haryana. This underscores the growing militancy among auto workers in India, who (…)

• STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  20 September 2024, by Robert Paris

  C.L.LR. James
  STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  EVEN WHILE THE STALINISTS, BY FALSIFICATION AND PHYSICAL repression, were destroying the propagandists of international Socialism, the world revolution which had seemed so remote in October, 1924, stirred itself, and even while the new theory was being made law presented the International with one of its greatest opportunities. We have to pass over how the Stalinists forced the Communist Party of Poland to support Pilsudski in the coup (…)

• Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association “The First International”
  14 November 2022, by Robert Paris

  Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association “The First International”
  1864 - Marx/Engels
  Workingmen:
  It is a great fact that the misery of the working masses has not diminished from 1848 to 1864, and yet this period is unrivaled for the development of its industry and the growth of its commerce. In 1850 a moderate organ of the British middle class, of more than average information, predicted that if the exports and imports of England were to rise 50 per cent, (…)

• Turmoil in emerging economies a symptom of global crisis
  29 August 2013, by Robert Paris

  Turmoil in emerging economies a symptom of global crisis
  By Barry Grey
  This summer’s crisis of the so-called “emerging market” economies reached a new stage last week, as India, Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia all announced emergency measures in an attempt to stem a plunge in their currencies and stock and bond markets.
  India, whose rupee has fallen 15 percent versus the US dollar since the start of the year, announced restrictions on the amount of money individuals and companies can send (…)