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World's 'most expensive' tea grown in Chinese panda poo
Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:51 PM EST (INQUIRER.net Breaking News)
Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi is convinced he has found the key ingredient to produce the world’s most expensive tea — panda poo.
There is no reformist way out of the crisis of capitalism – Part Two
Seeded on Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:24 PM EST (In Defence of Marxism)
Another variation on the demand to “tax the rich” is the call for a tax on financial transactions, otherwise known as a “Financial Transactions Tax” (FTT), “Tobin Tax” (after the Nobel economics laureate, James Tobin, who first proposed th …
The Egyptian army's iron fist
Seeded on Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:21 PM EST (Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org)
The Egyptian military has carried out a crackdown on protesters outside the Cabinet office building, shocking the world with scenes of brutality caught on video and broadcast over the Internet and even on Egyptian television. The demonstrators, taking inspiration from the m …
Prospects for a new global left
Seeded on Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:05 PM EST (Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org)
Western post-Marxists—living in countries where the absolute or relative size of the manufacturing workforce has shrunk dramatically in the last generation—lazily ruminate on whether or not ‘proletarian agency’ is now obsolete, obliging us to think in …
Police massacre striking oil workers in Kazakhstan
Seeded on Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:55 PM EST (World Socialist Web Site)
A public commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Kazakhstan independence on Friday in the town of Zhanaozen, located in Mangystau Province just 60 kilometers from the shore of the Caspian Sea, turned into a violent police attack on striking oil workers.
Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62
Seeded on Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:40 PM EST (The New York Times)
Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former co …
At Occupy Frankfurt, Calm Anarchy Has Staying Power
Seeded on Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:58 PM EST (The New York Times)
The Frankfurt version of the Occupy Wall Street movement has many of the trappings of the New York City original, including a tattered cluster of tents, a location close to the beating heart of financial power and a diverse group of activists trying to come up with a unifyin …
Russian parliamentary elections highlight growing popular discontent
Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2011 8:16 PM EST (World Socialist Web Site)
United Russia, the ruling party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, suffered major losses in parliamentary elections on December 4.
The Occupy London movement at the crossroads
Seeded on Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:37 PM EST (World Socialist Web Site)
Having initially maintained their distance from the protest outside St.
U.S. last in unionization among developed countries
Seeded on Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:52 PM EST (Articles » peoplesworld)
The United States is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce, a new study says - and it's not because of globalization or high technology.
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