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Spanish protesters cheer for ‘world revolution’ as ban on demonstration takes effect
MADRID — Thousands of protesters in Madrid furious over soaring unemployment staged a silent protest and then erupted in cheers of joy as a 48-hour ban on their demonstration took effect on Saturday. Continue reading
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Mass Protest in Spain: No Vote for Traditional Parties! By junge Welt
Madrid. Tens of thousands of people, especially youth, demonstrated again on Tuesday evening in the Spanish capital of Madrid, against the political and economic system of the country, which they called corrupt. Continue reading
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Spain takes to the Streets!
21 May 2011 Un grito silencioso. Performance de Callao a Sol. 20 de mayo de 2011 / A quiet shout. Performance of Sun Pebble. 20 May 2011. A mass protest in Spain involving hundreds of thousands of people against the austerity cuts and massive (45%) youth unemployment and all on the eve of local elections, Continue reading
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Inflation Hits Money and Lies By Joel S. Hirschhorn
How do the powerful keep the US population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. First we learned that official unemployment figures are too low by a factor of two. Now, understand that the official rate of inflation hitting consumers is even more… Continue reading
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Mummies and Dummies: Leave Or Stay, The Egyptian Crisis Will Only Get Deeper With No Quick Fix Likely By Danny Schechter
The tomb may be the appropriate metaphor not only for wannabe President for forever Hosni Mubarak but also for the 30 plus year neo-colonial economic system that he has presided over. Not surprisingly Frank Wisner Jr, the former U.S. Ambassador and son of a CIA dirty tricksters, wants the President to stick around –in the… Continue reading
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The Revolt Shaking France
This revolt is the latest in a wave of struggles that have rocked France over more than a decade, dating back to a wave of public-sector strikes in 1995 that stopped a conservative government from imposing changes to the pension system. Continue reading
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Their multiple crisis and our solutions: an ecosocialist transitional programme : Socialist Resistance: Fourth International in Britain
Britain has experienced the deepest crisis among the advanced capitalist countries and it is far from over. The recovery in services and manufacturing has slowed; there are jobs cuts in construction. With the slowdown in the US and Europe, the export miracle hoped for by the Con-Dems is also not happening. In summer 2010 Britain… Continue reading
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Organizing for the poor Pt.2
Williams: Articulating demands and needs of working class people is what’s required from the movement Continue reading
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Global Poverty and The Economic Crisis – Selected Articles 22-27 August, 2009
Global Poverty and The Economic Crisis. Selected Articles 22-27 August, 2009 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 