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• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
  1 March 2009

  Chapter Summary
  Daily use which the Anglo-Americans make of the right of association
  —Three kinds of political associations
  —In what manner the Americans apply the representative system to associations
  —Dangers resulting to the State
  —Great Convention of 1831 relative to the Tariff
  —Legislative character of this Convention
  —Why the unlimited exercise of the right of association is less dangerous in the United States than elsewhere
  —Why it may be looked upon as necessary (...)

• John Brown, Warrior of the Abolitionist Revolution
  12 October 2018

  Speech to the Court at his Trial, after his conviction (2 November 1859) :
  “In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves.…”
  John Brown, Warrior of the Abolitionist Revolution
  John Brown was a revolutionary militant of liberty. There was nothing alien or exotic about him; he was a genuine growth of the American soil. The roots of his family tree on both sides reached back among the first English settlers of (...)

• CLR JAMES AND THE NEGRO MOVEMENT IN THE USA
  22 March 2009

  C L R James 1939 The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
  Source: SWP New York Convention Resolutions, 11 July 1939.
  In 1930 Negroes in America constituted nearly twelve million, or 10 percent of the American population. Of these, two-thirds were still in the South, despite the war and postwar emigration to the North. In the cities of the North and East, the Negroes form only a small minority of the population, generally less than 10 percent. (...)

• Theranos Conviction Shows that Lying and Fraud are Part of the System
  19 January 2022

  Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, being recognized for her talents within the capitalist system.
  Theranos Conviction Shows that Lying and Fraud are Part of the System
  Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, a health technology company, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud investors and wire fraud. While we can all be happy that Holmes was caught in the act and has fallen from her perch of wealth and power, we should not lose sight of the larger lessons – that Holmes and (...)

• One in five US children do not have enough to eat
  27 April 2014

  One in five US children do not have enough to eat
  By Andre Damon Feeding America, the US national network of food banks, released its annual report on local food insecurity Thursday, showing that there are dozens of counties throughout in the US where a third of children do not get enough to eat.
  Fourteen million people, or 16 percent of the population, lived in food insecure households in 2012, the latest year for which figures are available. This is up from 11.1 percent in 2007. (...)

• Quand le Parti Communiste Américain, optant sous l’égide de Staline pour l’alliance avec l’impérialisme américain, lâchait le combat des noirs comme il lâchait le combat des travailleurs
  26 septembre 2008, par Robert Paris

  Une alliance sur le dos des peuples travailleurs et notamment des noirs américainsRichard Wright rendit sa carte du PC américain lorsque les militants du PC refusèrent de soutenir la marche du militant des droits civiques Philipp A. Randolph en 1942 sous le prétexte que les USA étaient des alliés de l’URSS.
  Lire ici "American Hunger" de Richard Wright
  Lire aussi
  "Une faim d’égalité" (en Américain "American Hunger") de Richard Wright
  Biographie de Richard Wright
  Motivé par le (...)

• Philosophy of Religion
  1 December 2014, by Robert Paris

  Philosophy of Religion
  Thoughts on Religion by Diderot
  On Religious Cruelty by Baron d’Holbach
  Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
  Religion is the Greatest Obstacle by Anacharsis Cloots
  Introduction to the philosophy of religion, by Hegel
  Religion by Hegel
  Lectures on the History of Philosophy by G W F Hegel
  Philosophy of Religion by Hegel
  The Essence of Christianity by Feuerbach
  Lectures on the Essence of Religion
  Letter To Hegel by Feuerbach (...)

• Consequences of the crisis in USA
  22 May 2009, by Robert Paris

  Occupation of the workers of Chicago
  Strike at General Motors
  “We’re going to see the end of the retail Christmas….we’re going to see a fundamental shift take place….putting food on the table is going to be more important that putting gifts under the Christmas tree,” said Celente, adding that the situation would be “worse than the great depression”.
  “America’s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,” said Celente, noting that people’s refusal to (...)

• The Black Movement in the USA
  22 March 2009, by Robert Paris

  "Revolutions overturn systems."
  MALCOLM X
  “ . . . Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn’t kill ‘em, they sent some old house Negro along behind him to undo what he said. You have to read the history of slavery to understand this. “ . . .There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negro got too much out of line, he held (...)

• Jim Crow in Los Angeles
  24 December 2020

  “Jim Crow in Los Angeles”, Hal Draper, 1947
  Over a hundred thousand people in Los Angeles live in a concentration camp.
  Not the kind you read about over in Europe. No barbed wire, no gas chambers. That isn’t the only thing that makes a concentration camp.
  Racial segregation, restriction of liberty, brutality in uniform, vigilante storm-troopers on the loose – these make the concentration camps that exist in American cities, and in Los Angeles.
  They are the Jim Crow ghettos. Behind (...)