Mois : janvier 2015

Interview with author Arnold August – Published on Dissident Voice – Part 1, by Kim Petersen, January 6, 2015.

Political economy is more often than not depicted as a Left-Right bifurcation. This is too simplistic. It overlooks the difference between, on the one hand, right-wingers such as the Conservatives, Labour Party, and Liberal Democrats from, on the other hand, the far Right British National Party in the United Kingdom. It also omits the differences on the Left, for example, between Communists and anarchists … // Continuer la lecture de « Anarchism and Communism in Cuba »

THEIR ACTUAL WEBSITE: en français: Charlie Hebdo, le journal des survivants; translated – Charlie Hebdo, the journal of the survivors; next issue: 14 January 2015.

Survivors to publish new issue of Charlie Hebdo:

• Stupidity will not win;
• survivors start work on new issue;
• survivors, former contributors to publish edition next week;
• Charlie Hebdo promises special survivors’ issue, says won’t let ‘stupidity’ win;
• The survivors on Google News-search; on YouTube-search; and on Google Images-search;
• Charlie Hebdo already on this blog.

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s e-bulletin no. 1065, by Ursula Huws, Jan 6, 2015.

In these straitened times, the idea of a basic income, granted unconditionally to every citizen, from cradle to grave, feels utopian. How on earth could it be paid for, we wonder. Wouldn’t everyone just stop working? Where would we be then? … // Continuer la lecture de « An Unconditional Citizen's Income »

• les Cartoons: on Google Images search;
• les morts: dans Le Parisien;
• l’attaque: dans YouTube: 1 ère video, 0.34 min; 2 ème video, 0.42 min; 3 ème vidéo, 13.22 min; … et dans sare (YouTube channel);
• en direct: dans le Parisien; on Russia Today RT;
• Worldwide vigils held for Charlie Hebdo victims;
• My comment: death penalty means nothing for these guys, except if they pass away by the hand of a woman.

Published on Global Research.ca (first on WSWS), by Andre Damon, Jan 6, 2015.

As the New Year begins, the social crisis gripping tens of millions of working people in the United States is worsening. Hunger, poverty and long-term joblessness remain at the highest levels in decades, while vital social services continue to be slashed.

One would never know this from reading the press, watching the evening news, or listening to the statements of politicians. The official discourse is dominated by the supposed revival of the American economy, characterized by record corporate profits and stock prices. The fact that the great majority of the population finds it increasingly difficult to make ends meet finds no reflection in the media or official politics.   Continuer la lecture de « The State of American Society as 2015 Begins »