California’s Drought: Water For Profit
For months we’ve been hearing about how severe California’s drought is. Governor Jerry Brown has made several warnings that drastic measures might have to be taken if the drought continues. And usually the overall message is clear: individuals need to cut back on their water consumption, and if necessary, extreme water rationing will be imposed on cities and households.
This blames excessive water use on individuals while it lets corporations off (...)
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US: Hostess to close three plants as strikes continue
15 November 2012, by Robert ParisUS: Hostess to close three plants as strikes continue
By Shannon Jones
Hostess Brands said it was permanently closing three bakeries as a series of strikes continue by members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM). The facilities located in Seattle, St Louis and Cincinnati produce bread and snack foods and employ 627 workers.
The strikes, which began November 9, have impacted Hostess operations from coast to coast, reportedly (...) -
The fascist atrocities in east Ukraine and the fraud of “humanitarian” war
15 August 2014, by Robert ParisThe fascist atrocities in east Ukraine and the fraud of “humanitarian” war
By Alex Lantier
The siege of the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, launched by the regime in Kiev and abetted by the US government and the European Union (EU), is a barbaric act of collective punishment.
The political gangsters in Kiev and their sponsors in Washington and the European capitals have unleashed fascist paramilitary units, such as Right Sector and the Azov Battalion, to wage war on the (...) -
Zionism and Anti-Semitism
22 October 2013, by Robert ParisRead here
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Writings of C.L.R. James
13 May 2012, by Robert ParisRead here
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A Nation of Mass Incarceration
27 February 2014, by Robert ParisA Nation of Mass Incarceration
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Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
28 July 2014, by Robert ParisF.F. Raskolnikov
Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin
Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
This document, dated August 17, 1939, was first published in the Paris émigré newspaper Novqya Rossya of October 1, 1939. According to Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge, (p.257), in 1964 the author’s widow, a resident of France, brought the original of the letter to Moscow. It circulated widely through samizdat channels in the mid-1960s. The translator is indebted to the Current Affairs Research Section (...) -
UAW provides Obama a platform for his austerity assault on workers
19 December 2012, by Robert ParisUAW provides Obama a platform for his austerity assault on workers
By Jerry White
President Obama gave a campaign-style speech at a suburban Detroit auto factory Monday afternoon, enlisting the support of the United Auto Workers union for his attack on basic social programs at the heart of the deficit-reduction deal he is negotiating with congressional Republicans.
Union officials standing behind the president and packing the audience served as extras in this latest stage-managed (...) -
John Reed, "Ten Days that Shook the World", 2nd part
17 January 2010Chapter IV
The Fall of the Provisional Government
WEDNESDAY, November 7th, I rose very late. The noon cannon boomed from Peter-Paul as I went down the Nevsky. It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates.
“What side do you belong to?” I asked. “The Government?”
“No more Government,” one answered with a grin, “Slava Bogu! Glory to God!” That was all I could get out of him&….
The street-cars were (...) -
Egypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over
15 August 2013, by Robert ParisEgypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over
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- Bangladesh wage protests shut garment factories
- Memorial Day – Glorifying a System of Violence
- Autoworkers vote for strike as UAW continues silence on talks
- Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest
- Black history month - The struggle Hasn’t End -
- British banks may get bad ?
- Cambodian security forces shoot striking garment workers
- Chicago Teachers Vote to Continue Their Strike
- Chicago – Teachers Draw the Line Against Attacks
- China: 2,000 workers riot at Foxconn factory
- Conflit de l’entreprise Ceramica Cleopatra : affrontements à السويس Suez
- Emeutes à Ferguson après l’incendie du mémorial Michael Brown - Riots in Ferguson after the Michael Brown Memorial have been destructed
- Events The Struggle in Syria – Reality Behind the Myth
- For workers’ power in Egypt!
- Haiti threatened by a new earthquake
- Hundreds more US coal miners laid off
- Hunger and Misery are the Agitators, Not Us
- India: Contaminated school-meal kills 22 children
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Books On Line
- Nazi Offensive in the USA
- Political crisis deepens in Mexico as army is called on to testify on Iguala massacre
- Political Document on Greece
- Puerto Rico: Profits Over People
- Reading upon dialectic
- Salaire non payé : émeute devant l’Hôtel Nile City Tower au Caire – 2 août 2012
- Second St. Louis area police shooting highlights unrestrained police violence in the US
- South Africa’s unions use mass sackings and murder to suppress miners
- Strike in Cambodia
- Strike in South Africa
- Struggles in Ecuador - Affrontements en Equateur - En français - In English
- Syria : begining of the third wold war ?
- Terrorism of ISIS and Terrorism of USA and France are inseparable
- The Crisis in Yemen – Not a Domestic Product
- The horrific events in Charlottesville
- The State Of Black America – A State Of Emergency
- The Struggles of Labor
- Toward World War III
- Trump : "American Billionaire First !"
- US launches air strikes inside Syria
- US military occupation of Haïti
- USA News
- War Against All Peoples Is Also War Against US People
- Washington ships arms to Al Qaeda-linked forces in Syria
- We Can Learn From the Russian Revolution
- Who is Responsible for the Disruption of Our Lives – BART Workers or the Bosses?
- Workers ! Future depends on ourselves !
- Workers riot in Greece - Emeute ouvrière en Grèce
- Workers’s opposition to Morsi
- Yuhang mass protests shake Chinese regime