Sao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal
By Bill Van Auken
Brazilian teachers remain on strike in the municipal school system of the city of Sao Paulo after their counterparts in the Sao Paulo state system saw their strike betrayed by their union. Both sections of teachers have demanded significant wage increases, improved working conditions, smaller class sizes and a halt to the universal drive to privatize and cut public education.
The walkouts are symptomatic of (...)
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Le socialisme utopique de Fourier, la sexualité et le mariage bourgeois
16 February 2015, by Robert ParisLire "Le nouveau monde amoureux" de Charles Fourier
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Qui était Fourier
The Passionate Series by Charles Fourier
The series of groups is the method adopted by God in the organisation of the kingdoms of nature and of all created things. The naturalists, in their theories and classifications, have unanimously accepted this system of organisation; they could not have departed from it without coming into conflict with nature and falling into confusion.[28]
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Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
7 November 2012, by Robert ParisMillions 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 (...) -
Mao Zedong’s granddaughter among China’s super-rich
1 June 2013, by Robert ParisMao Zedong’s granddaughter among China’s super-rich
Billionaires’ fortunes have increased by almost 17 percent in a year while the poor get poorer
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Mao Zedong’s granddaughter has climbed into the ranks of China’s richest people. Kong Dongmei, granddaughter of the ‘great helmsman’, and her husband Chen Dongsheng, have amassed a combined wealth of five billion yuan (US$820 million), according to the Guangdong-based New Fortune magazine. Their personal fortune, which (...) -
Several texts of Leon Trotsky
24 February 2013, by Robert ParisSeveral texts of Leon Trotsky
The Soviet and the Revolution – Trotsky
Why the German Social-Democracy Failed
On the Events in Dublin – Trotsky
The Farce of Dual Power
The Struggle for State Power
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Syria – Still in the Crosshairs of the U.S.
7 October 2013, by Robert ParisSyria – Still in the Crosshairs of the U.S.
Today Syria is being torn apart by a bloody civil war. Since 2001 the ruling regime of Bashar Al-Assad’s Ba’ath Party has faced an uprising that has threatened to overturn his rule. Since the beginning of the conflict, over 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting, and about 2 million or ten percent of Syria’s population have become refugees in surrounding countries.
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India: Plummeting rupee sparks fears of current account crisis
7 July 2013, by Robert ParisIndia: Plummeting rupee sparks fears of current account crisis
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Writings on the U.S. Civil War
17 January 2022, by Robert ParisKarl Marx and Frederick Engels Writings on the U.S. Civil War
Karl Marx,
The North American Civil War
London, October 20, 1861 For months the leading weekly and daily papers of the London press have been reiterating the same litany on the American Civil War. While they insult the free states of the North, they anxiously defend themselves against the suspicion of sympathising with the slave states of the South. In fact, they continually write two articles: one article, in which they (...) -
Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik
9 June 2014, by Robert ParisRead here
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Rape of Delhi woman sparks protests in India
9 January 2013, by Robert ParisRape of Delhi woman sparks protests in India
By Deepal Jayasekera
The gang rape of a young woman in New Delhi earlier this month has become a major political issue in India, sparking protests, police reprisals and calls for beefing up the powers of the state.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student, still hospitalized with extensive internal injuries she received during her ordeal in a moving bus on December 16, narrated the experience to the police from her hospital bed last Friday. (...)
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- Chicago Teachers Vote to Continue Their Strike
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- 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
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- South Africa’s unions use mass sackings and murder to suppress miners
- Strike in Cambodia
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- The Crisis in Yemen – Not a Domestic Product
- The horrific events in Charlottesville
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- The Struggles of Labor
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- Trump : "American Billionaire First !"
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- USA News
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