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  • José Ramon Rivero: “In Venezuela, we are going against the tide of neo-liberalism”
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Cathy Ceïbe
    Latin America: An interview with the Venezuelan labour minister, José Ramon Rivero, who describes the reform of working hours in Venezuela, recalling also the tensions between the Government and the Venezuelan Employers’ Confederation (Fedecamaras).
    Huma: The working-time reform should start in 2010: six hours a day or 36 hours a week. In what way is this a “socialist proposal”, which is how you have refered to it?
    José Ramon Rivero: In these times when capitalist (…)

  • Manu Chao: Playing with Fire – interview at Sziget Festival in Budapest (+ video)
    10 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    No interview was planned after the concert, at least for the mass-media, but indymedia is different. Manu Chao knew that we were not supposed to ask him about his favorite film or whether blondes are more attractive than brunettes.
    So we spoke about the big issues like globalization, nature, the hope stolen from the new generation, about 1968 and about tomorrow. About playing with fire. Manu Chao talked about the world and his role in it.
    Interview conducted in French by Gábor Kardos, (…)

  • Hit them and hit them hard
    9 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Channel Four, producers of the "investigative" programme, Dispatches, have been reported to the industry regulator, Ofcom, by the West Midlands police for undermining community cohesion by misreporting the words of a Muslim preacher at the Birmingham Green Lane mosque.
    The preacher, an American Muslim, Abu Usamah, is reported by C4 as having made several racist and homophobic remarks. These, Abu Usamah says, were all taken out of context and, after examining over 50 hours of footage, the (…)

  • Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism
    8 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Castillo, in his cool Asunción office, with the standard Paraguayan herbal tea, tereré in his hand, said these operations marked a shift in US military strategy. "The kind of training that used to just happen at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia is now decentralized," he explained. "The US military is now establishing new mechanisms of cooperation and training with armed forces." Combined efforts, such as MEDRETEs, are part of this agenda.
    Written by Benjamin Dangl (…)

  • Train drivers threaten to derail the Merkel miracle
    7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Roger Boyes in Berlin
    Germans faced the prospect of summer holiday chaos yesterday as train drivers voted for an unlimited nationwide strike. It seems set to be the worst rail strike in 15 years and, along with a threat of industrial action by airline pilots, could bring the country to a standstill.
    The timing is bad news for Angela Merkel, the Chancellor, who had hoped to crown Germany’s economic recovery with the successful privatisation of Deutsche Bahn, the German rail service. (…)

  • Minimal Europe, NO! Social Europe, YES!
    2 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By European Left
    1. The agreement on a mandate for a new IGC to work out a new EU Treaty decided by the Heads of State during the last European Council is a clear sign of the lack of added value of this governmental Europe for the improvement of citizens’ life.
    The governments have decided to include in a new Treaty and through amendments of the previous ones the main part of the Constitutional Treaty – rejected by the French and Dutch peoples. The Party of the European Left criticises (…)

  • Work: A Health Hazard for One in Three Europeans
    29 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Thomas Lemahieu
    Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned.
    A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”.
    Employees from the countries newly (…)

  • Sheehan Arrested in Impeachment Protest
    24 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat’s refusal to try to impeach President Bush.
    Sheehan was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers’ office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Mich., chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any (…)

  • 1789, The Spirit of the French Revolution
    14 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Lucien Louvrier
    In a brilliant synthesis entitled "1789, The Heritage and the Memory" ("1789, l’héritage et la mémoire"), French historian Michel Vovelle sums up a lifetime of research into the French Revolution’s heritage and the history of its memory in French society and beyond.
    To conflate in a dense historiographic synthesis the sum of a lifetime of research on the French Revolution is a formidable achievement, especially as the author takes in both the political, institutional, (…)

  • Philippe Marlière : "It would be suicidal for the Left to import Blairism in France"
    13 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jacqueline Sellem
    In 1998, Tony Blair declared before French deputies: “There is no right or left politics in economic management today, but economic policies which work and other which don’t work.” ... "It is amusing to hear some elements in the French media talking about a ’socially-sensitive Blair’ whereas he has actually re-used Thatcher’s neoliberal recipes and promoted the interests of the advocates of the financial capitalism."
    HUMA: When French media summed up Blair’s legacy (…)