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• Comment Macron travaille à relancer… le mouvement des gilets jaunes
  17 février 2019, par Robert Paris

  Il ne recule pas : il fonce droit dans le mur !Comment Macron travaille à relancer… le mouvement des gilets jaunes
  Bien des groupes de Gilets jaunes, aux quatre coins du pays, ont planché sur cette équation difficile : avec la fatigue, la répression invraisemblable par sa violence, les calomnies médiatiques et politiciennes, les attaques gouvernementales, les divisions inévitables, la destruction de points de rencontre des ronds-points, comment s’organiser pour rebondir. Eh bien, c’est (...)

• Estranged Labour, Karl Marx
  25 October 2018

  "We have proceeded from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property, the separation of labor, capital and land, and of wages, profit of capital and rent of land – likewise division of labor, competition, the concept of exchange value, etc. On the basis of political economy itself, in its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities; that the (...)

• Chronologie des grèves aux USA - List of strikes in America
  28 February 2015, by Robert Paris

  Troupes anti-grèves et grévistes, le face à face...Chronologie des grèves aux USA - List of strikes in America
  « Il n’y a plus de riches et plus de pauvres, plus de Noirs et plus de Blancs, il n’y a que des Américains », clamaient les média à chaque occasion d’unanimisme : célébrant les débuts des USA, de la conquête à la guerre d’indépendance, dans la deuxième guerre mondiale, face aux attentats du World Trade Center, célébrant Martin Luther King, ou encore se félicitant de l’élection (...)

• China Workers
  6 March 2009, by Robert Paris

  site : china worker
  Hukou – China’s apartheid system Sat, 9 Aug 2008.
  China’s one-party state is authoritarian towards its people but libertarian towards capital
  Vincent Kolo and Chen Lizhi
  Whereas life for China’s poor majority is micro-managed through an oppressive system of permits, surveillance and penalties governing where they can live, work or study, and how many children they can have, capital enjoys one of the most deregulated environments in the world. China’s one-party (...)

• The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
  25 June 2008

  The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
  Loren Goldner
  ABSTRACT
  Similar to patterns that have been played out in Spain and Portugal (1974-76) as well as in Brazil (1978-83) since the mid-1970’s, the Korean working class in the late 1980’s destroyed the foundations of a decades-old military dictatorship with remarkable mass strikes in the years 1987-1990. The strikes resulted in the creation, briefly (1990-1994) of radical democratic unions (...)

• Chronological list of strikes
  8 December 2008, by Robert Paris

  Seventeenth Century
  • Strike of Polish craftsmen in Jamestown (1619, British colonies)
  • Maine indentured Servants’ and Fisherman’s Mutiny (1636, Maine, British colonies)
  • Virginia’s Indentured Servants’ Plot (1661, Virginia, British colonies) • Maryland Indentured Servants’ Strike (1663, Maryland, British colonies) • Boston ship Carpenter’s Protest (1675, Massachusetts, British colonies)
  • Bacon’s Rebellion (1676, Virginia, British colonies) • New York City Carters’ Strike (1677, (...)

• Workers struggle in China
  14 August 2009, by Robert Paris

  Jilin province: 30000 workers at Tonghua Steel on strike to protest against privatisation
  Thu, 30 Jul 2009.
  Striking workers violently clash with the police, the chief executive is dead, dozens of police vehicles destroyed and dozens of workers arrested
  Lizhi Chen, chinaworker.info
  On Friday 24 July, several tens of thousands of workers and retired employees as well as their relatives at the state-owned enterprise of Tonghua Steel Group Corporation in the city of Tonghua (Tonghua (...)

• Citations de Karl Marx, sur « le travail »…
  15 janvier 2021, par Robert Paris

  Citations de Karl Marx, sur « le travail »… « Le domaine de la liberté commence seulement là où l’on cesse de travailler par nécessité et opportunité imposée de l’extérieur ; il se situe donc par nature au-delà de la sphère de la production matérielle proprement dite. »
  Karl Marx, dans « Le Capital », Livre III)
  « Le travail lui-même est nuisible et funeste non seulement dans les conditions présentes, mais en général, dans la mesure où son but est le simple accroissement de la (...)

• Jack London - War of the Classes
  28 December 2021, by Robert Paris

  Jack London
  War of the Classes
  PREFACE
  When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of creature, because, forsooth, I was a socialist. Reporters from local papers interviewed me, and the interviews, when published, were pathological studies of a strange and abnormal specimen of man. At that time (nine or ten years ago), because I made a stand in my native town for municipal ownership of public utilities, I was branded a "red-shirt," a "dynamiter," and an "anarchist"; and (...)

• The failure of socialism during the first world war
  1 March 2009, by Robert Paris

  James Connolly
  Revolutionary Unionism and War
  (1915)
  From International Socialist Review, March 1915.
  Transcribed by The Workers’ Web ASCII Pamphlet Project in 1997.
  Proofread by Chris Clayton, August 2007.
  Since the war broke out in Europe, and since the socialist forces in the various countries failed so signally to prevent or even delay the outbreak, I have been reading everything in American socialist papers or magazines that came to hand; to see if that failure and the (...)