Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Published on Social Europe, by Guy Ryder, Feb 1, 2017.

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development commits UN member states to “leave no one behind.” One crucial component of that commitment – encompassed in the International Labor Organization’s own agenda – is decent work for all. At a time when worker frustration and disillusionment is being expressed in elections across the world, this goal could not be more important.   Continuer la lecture de « Decent Work or Indecent Politics »

… Marxist framing and revolutionary movement-building – Published on Pambazuka News.org, by Patrick Bond, Jan 27, 2017.

it is a great period to be a revolutionary activist in Africa. Yet the sense of stop-start progress and regress in so many sites of struggle reflects in part how poorly the working-class, poor, progressive middle class, social movements and other democrats have made alliances. The African uprising against neoliberalism hasn’t yet generated a firm ideology. In this case the best strategy would be a critical yet non-dogmatic engagment with the various emerging forces on the left … // Continuer la lecture de « African labour and social militancy »

… to protect citizens from threats as defined by apparatchiks in Brussels – Published on Wolf Street, by Don Quijones, Jan 28, 2017.

The central authorities in Europe just launched their most important offensive to date in their multiyear War on Cash. The new move comes directly from the European Union’s executive branch, the European Commission, which just announced its intention to “explore the relevance of potential upper limits to cash payments,” with a view to implementing cross-regional measures in 2018. Continuer la lecture de « Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash »

• Cycling across America from Boston to Seattle, 57.57 min, uploaded by zevnikov, Sept 12, 2015;
• uploaded by Chris Roach: Around the world by bike, 8.24 min, July 6, 2013; Cycling Bhutan 2011, 5.16 min, April 30, 2013:
• The man who cycled the world, uploaded by Farid Mamedov, Jan 9-10, 2013: Ep 1, 28.51 min; Ep 2, 28.59 min; Ep 3, 28.46 min;
• Mit dem Fahrrad um die Welt – Doku 2015, 41.14 min, von Doku Yil am 29. Nov 2015;
• Wenn ich will, kann ich weg – von Menschen, die im Camper leben, 31.52 min, hochgeladen von MäuseKino, am 23. Juli 2015; Continuer la lecture de « biking »