LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Socialized Medicine Began In Alberta: ‘Alberta sets the agenda for Canada’ Jean Charest 1996 HEALTH CARE REFORM OR MANAGEMENT REFORM When we hear about reforming h…
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LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Brian Aldiss – Non-Stop
ResoluteReader: Brian Aldiss – Non-Stop: *Warning Spoilers* Brian Aldiss’ Non-Stop is a extraordinarily fine science fiction novel that has barely dated since its initial publication. It’s a classic novel that no connoisseur of science fiction should fail to read.
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Charlie Clutterbuck – Bittersweet Brexit: The Futu…
ResoluteReader: Charlie Clutterbuck – Bittersweet Brexit: The Futu…: The argument of his book, is that Brexit offers a unique opportunity to transform British agriculture in order produce healthy, sustainable food that rewards those who work the land, and produce the food. As Clutterbuck explains while dealing with the question of
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Matthew T. Huber – Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom & the F…
ResoluteReader: Matthew T. Huber – Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom & the F…: For those of us battling for radical action on climate change the role of the fossil fuel corporations within capitalism is a key issue. How they operate, why they behave like they do, and their role in maintaining fossil
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Mike Wendling – Alt Right: From 4chan to the White…
ResoluteReader: Mike Wendling – Alt Right: From 4chan to the White…: The election of Donald Trump as US President allowed a tidal wave of far-right politics to enter mainstream political discussion. But this new “alt-right” did not come from nowhere, rather they had been growing in confidence and numbers for a
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Peter Binns, Tony Cliff & Chris Harman – Russia: F…
ResoluteReader: Peter Binns, Tony Cliff & Chris Harman – Russia: F…: This short 1987 collection of essays brings together four short pieces by leading British Marxists of the International Socialists and the Socialist Workers’ Party. Only the first, an introductory piece by the Palestinian Jewish Marxist Tony Cliff is new
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ResoluteReader: Sally Magnusson – The Sealwoman’s Gift: *** Spoilers *** Sally Magnusson’s novel Sally Magnusson’s novel The Sealwoman’s Giftis one of those stories which seems so unbelievable, it cannot possibly be based on fact, and yet it turns out that the events at the heart of the story, and much of
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2018-07-01 05:43:00
Chinese experts have not recordered any increase in background radiation level following North Korea’s alleged nuclear weapon test, Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a statement Wednesday. BEIJING (Sputnik) — On January 6, 2016 Pyongyang claimed it had carried out a hydrogen bomb test. The same day, the Chinese Environment Ministry said
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: The Archaeology News Network: Evidence of a Mesolithic stone industry discovered…
FLINTSTONES The Archaeology News Network: Evidence of a Mesolithic stone industry discovered…: The excavation in progress this year suggested from the very beginning that the human presence on the acropolis of Selinunte is several millennia older than previously assumed. In fact, below the first level of the Greek settlement, under
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: EconoSpeak: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Str…
EconoSpeak: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Str…: A piece of work is Professor Walter E. Williams of George Mason University. Back in February, I flagged a column by Williams in which the n…
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LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Canada’s First Internment Camps: CANADA’S RACIST HISTORY OF EXPLOITATION OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS “Ukrainian and other internees at the Castle Mountain Al…
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Wash Park Prophet: The Iron Law of Oligopoly In Action
Wash Park Prophet: The Iron Law of Oligopoly In Action: Markets naturally tend to form oligopolies (i.e. markets dominanted by a small number of firms), a tendency called the Iron Law of Oligopoly…
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Frederick Engels – The Peasant War in Germany
ResoluteReader: Frederick Engels – The Peasant War in Germany: This short work by Frederick Engels is rarely read, but it forms an important part of his contribution to Marxist historical works and the…
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – The German Ideology…
ResoluteReader: Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – The German Ideology…: Reading The German Ideology I am once again reminded about how clear the writing of Marx and Engels can be. That said, it’s always usefu…
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: ResoluteReader: Stephen Basdeo – The Life & Legend of a Rebel Lead…
ResoluteReader: Stephen Basdeo – The Life & Legend of a Rebel Lead…: Stephen Basdeo’s book is a fascinating study of the cultural impact of one of England’s most famous rebels: Wat Tyler, who was a k…
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Refuse to Cooperate: Karl Marx – Founder of Historical Materialism
Refuse to Cooperate: Karl Marx – Founder of Historical Materialism: “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” – Karl Marx This short biography is based on Friedrich Engels’ ver…
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Refuse to Cooperate: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy – A Revie…
Refuse to Cooperate: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy – A Revie…: “Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.” – Karl Marx, C…
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KARL MARX, “On the Jewish Question” (1843) In: The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert Tucker, New York: Norton & Company, 1978. p. 26 – 46. Political emancipation is at the same time the dissolution of the old society, upon which the sovereign power, the alienated political life of the people,rests.
Continue readingLA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Spinuzzi: Reading :: Dialectics of Nature (second reading)
Spinuzzi: Reading :: Dialectics of Nature (second reading): Dialectics of Nature By Frederick Engels I bought the 1940 version of this book, which was in its 6th printing (1971). It has an amazing …
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