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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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• Le mouvement noir aux USA
  1er octobre 2010, par Robert Paris, Tiekoura Levi Hamed

  Malcolm X face au pouvoir US
  Le mouvement noir
  Assassinat des blacks panthers
  Le mouvement noir aux USA, ce n’est pas seulement quelques leaders, c’est un mouvement de masse qui a submergé les USA, a menacé le pouvoir capitaliste et a bien failli faire du principal pays capitaliste le plus instable socialement. Les leaders ont exprimé ce mouvement ou l’ont cantonné ou encore l’ont trahi. mais ce mouvement a été porteur un moment d’une transformation révolutionnaire. ce n’est pas (...)

• 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 (...)

• Qu’est-ce que l’école de Copenhague de la physique ?
  6 septembre 2015, par Robert Paris

  Niels Bohr, le fondateur de l’Ecole de Copenhague de la physique
  « Les deux vues sur la nature de la lumière doivent plutôt être considérées comme des tentatives différentes d’interpréter la preuve expérimentale en termes de l’expression, suivant des voies complémentaires, de la limitation des concepts classiques. »
  « Quantum Theory and measurement », Bohr, Wheeler et Zurek Le face à face Bohr-Einstein
  Le physicien Léon Lederman :
  « On raconte que nombre des discussions entre Bohr (...)

• Poésies contre l’esclavage
  27 juin 2015, par Robert Paris

  Poésies contre l’esclavage
  Antoine Dupré :
  Si un jour sur tes rives
  Reparaissent nos tyrans
  Que leur horde fugitive
  Serve d’engrais à nos champs.
  Alain Phoebé Caprice :
  PÉYI AN MWEN (mon pays)
  S’il me fallait te dire mon pays
  je te dirais :
  Il est dans la sagesse du volcan.
  Mais ne t’y fies pas trop !
  Car un volcan qui dort
  N’est pas un clochard îvre-mort
  Et dans le réveil des laves incandescentes
  Le spectre en furie
  de Delgres
  Déjecté en scories de la (...)

• 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. (...)