Mois : octobre 2014

Watch this Interview with Marta Harnecker and Gregory Wilpert, 27.12 min, published on Zvideo, Oct 20, 2014 – (first on TeleSUR englisch).

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What is left of the left? Partisanship and the political economy of labour market reform: why has the social democratic party in Germany liberalised labout markets? on London School of Economics LSE /European Institute, by Patrick Lunz, July 2013, 58 pdf pages;   Continuer la lecture de « 20th and 21st Century Socialism »

• Tory policies on higher education are hugely progressive, on The Guardian, by David Willetts, Oct 19, 2014;
• Right to die campaigner who starved herself said she had no alternative, on The Guardian, by PA, Oct 19, 2014: Jean Davies, 86, called five-week fast to end her life intolerable but said her children supported her right to choose to die. The DPP said the likelihood of healthcare professionals being prosecuted for assisting suicide depended on their specific and professional duty of care to the person in question;
• Banks set to defy European regulator on bonus rules, on The Telegraph, by James Titcomb, Oct 18, 2014: European Banking Authority’s request for banks to change policies related to ‘allowances’ expected to go unheeded this year; Continuer la lecture de « a bunch of links »

Published on ZNet (first on TeleSUR english), by Atilio Boron, October 18, 2014.

The landslide victory of Evo Morales has a very simple explanation: he won because his government has been, without a doubt, the best in the troubled history of Bolivia. “The best” means, of course, that he came through on the great promise, so many times unfulfilled, of all democracies: to guarantee the material and spiritual well being of the large national majorities, from that heterogeneous mass of oppressed plebeians, exploited and humiliated for centuries. It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that Evo represents a watershed moment for Bolivian history: there is a Bolivia before his government and one after, a distinct and better one that came after his arrival to thePalacio Quemado.   Continuer la lecture de « Why Did Evo Win? »

Quebec Government’s Love Affair with Big Oil – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Projet’s E-Bulletin no. 1048, by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, Oct 17, 2014.

It’s an evening like any other. The first item on the Téléjournal is about the controversial Cacouna oil port project Then the spokesperson for TransCanada, the project’s sponsor, appears onscreen. His talking points aren’t particularly noteworthy, but his face is strangely familiar. I’ve seen it before, but where? For hours, the question nagged at me. Later that evening, it came to me in a flash: we had crossed paths during the summer of 2012 in Quebec, during negotiations between the student movement and the Jean Charest government … // Continuer la lecture de « Cacouna, Couillard and the Ties that Bind »

Published on Russia Today RT, Oct 15, 2014.

European and US businesses are “categorically” against Russian sanctions because they act against their commercial interests, but can’t say so freely, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. “I’m absolutely certain that European businesses are categorically against this because it’s contrary to their interests,” the Prime Minister said in an interview with CNBC aired Wednesday. “I’ve also talked with US business representatives. Naturally, they also say that they are opposed. They whisper: ‘Well, you know that this is the decision of the government and we have to comply, but we consider it completely destructive’,” he said. Continuer la lecture de « US, EU businesses oppose Russia sanctions but can't say it- Medvedev »