Across the country, landlords and developers are seizing every opportunity to raise rents, kick out workers and the poor, and bring in families able to pay skyrocketing prices for housing. Housing is becoming a luxury that only the rich can …
Images originally shown November 14th on CNN have made it around the world. They show migrants in Libya being sold as slave at auctions. For a few hundred euros… The people smugglers who take advantage of people’s misery to extort …
The holiday season is coming around. For many, it may be a chance to take some time to spend with family and friends. It’s always nice to have time to catch a breath from work. For others that work in …
Macron’s reform for higher education, the “education plan”, unveiled on October 30th, will be debated in parliament. “No selection, only better orientation for more success” they tell us. And yet, the logic of the new bill is to prevent working …
download pdf of this pamphlet There are many heroes and heroines in the working-class movement, but sadly most workers today have never heard their names or their stories. One such heroine that everyone should know about is Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. …
download pdf of this pamphlet In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. The people of Lawrence came from 51 different countries. More than four fifths of them were born in countries other than the …
An international collaboration between news organisations revealed some dark secrets of fiscal “optimisation” practiced by multinationals and the super-rich. In France, €20 billion escape income tax, and that’s a conservative estimate. That’s four times the shortfall in the social security …
What the bosses’ union (Medef) had been dreaming about, the government did. The administration put a “calculator of severance pay for wrongful dismissal” online on its service-public.fr website, for the bosses to use. It’s quite easy to use. Say you’re …
Harvey Weinstein, a Hollywood power broker, was recently charged by a number of well-known actresses with rape and sexual assault. This violent predator was a Hollywood celebrity and a friend of the Clintons. The rumors about Weinstein go back to …
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