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Sri Lankan president imposes strikes ban on state-sector workers

Sri Lankan opposition parties and the unions who are equally nervous about the developing social opposition among workers and the poor, have not opposed Rajapakse’s repressive measures.

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Monthly Review | The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow

History of England, (ca. 1900) Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of philosophy at the École normale supérieure and founder of the faculty of philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII. He is the author of numerous books and essays. This essay is adapted and updated from Polemics, translated by Steve Corcoran (London: Verso, 2006). The new sections have been translated by James Membrez. In 1871, Karl Marx proposed an account of the Paris Commune that is wholly inscribed in the question of the state. For him, it comprises the first historical case in which the proletariat assumes its transitory function of the direction, or administration, of the entire society. From the Commune’s initiatives and impasses, he is led to the conclusion that the state machine must not be “taken” or “occupied,” but broken.

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Thomas Piketty, the CADTM and Public Debt

Thomas Piketty, the CADTM and Public Debt Piketty and public debt Piketty devotes a dozen very interesting pages to the question of public debt over the last two centuries, focusing his analysis mainly on France and the United Kingdom. He rightly states that in discussing public debt, studying the past is worthwhile for understanding and dealing with the challenges of the current crisis: “The complex question of government debt Government debt The total outstanding debt of the State, local authorities, publicly owned companies and organs of social security. and the nature of the wealth associated with it is no less important today than it was in 1800, and by studying the past we can learn a lot about an issue of great contemporary concern. Although today’s public debt is nowhere near the astronomical levels attained at the beginning of the nineteenth century, at least in Britain, it is at or near a historical record in France and many other countries and is probab

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How did Lenin plan to apply Marxism to Russia?

How did Lenin plan to apply Marxism to Russia?
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How did Lenin plan to apply Marxism to Russia

How did Lenin plan to apply Marxism to Russia
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