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Greeman: Scrooge Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Blog Post, December, 30 2012
Richard Greeman
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The award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, the chief debt-collector and austerity-enforcer, is a Merry Christmas slap in the face to the suffering peoples of Greece, Spain, Italy and Ireland.
Greeman: The horrors of socialized medicine in France
Blog Post, August, 20 2012
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Longtime Marxist-humorist and activist Richard Greeman describes what it is like to need three operations in France, under state-controlled, initiative-killing, bureaucratic, inhuman, impersonal, inefficient socialised medicine, constrained by tot...
Greeman: News from Moscow
Blog Post, June, 30 2012
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
New mass demonstrations in Russia show that the anti-Putlin, pro-democracy movement is far from dead.
Greeman: Unions under attack in Iraq and US
Blog Post, May, 30 2012
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
The chickens have come home to roost as US imperialism, after repressing unions in Iraq, now turns on workers in the US.
Greeman: Opposition Rising in Russia: first-hand report and analysis
Blog Post, May, 19 2012
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
First hand accounts of big demos in Moscow by Alexei and Julia Guseva indicate rising opposition, while the Putin regime seems clueless.
Greeman: Russia: Return of the Revolution
Blog Post, February, 07 2012
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
As 100,000+ demonstrators brave the cold to demand free elections and the Putin regime's stability is suddenly revealed, veteran activist and Marxist historian Alexei Gusev of PRAXIS, analyses 'The Return of the Russian Revolution: Nature and Pers...
Greeman: Insurance: A Legalized Racket
Blog Post, September, 28 2011
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
As premiums skyrocket, Insurance companies are cashing in big thanks to their legal monopoly established by Obamacare, soon to be enforced by law.
Greeman: Update on Greece
Blog Post, June, 18 2011
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
On 15 June there was a general strike with some 30,000 ?demonstrators marching in down town Athens, where the 'Indignados' ?("Aganaktismenoi" in Greek) have been camping in the parliament square ?(Syntagma sq. meaning 'Constitution' sq.) for the p...
Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
Blog Post, May, 25 2011
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of a brutal government crackdown against the democratic movement in Morocco, with violent police attacks on demonstrators in fourteen cities during the monthly national mobilisati...
Greeman: May Day Arab Spring
Blog Post, April, 29 2011
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
This year May Day promises to be a true international festival thanks to the historic 2011 Arab Spring, which has re-awakened revolutionary hopes across North Africa and the Middle East, inspiring new resistance among the embattled workers of the...
Greeman: Libya: Who’s Side Are We On?
Blog Post, April, 01 2011
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
As a lifelong Marxist and non-violent revolutionary, I do not of course 'support' the US-NATO hypocritical intervention in Libya -- as if these war-mongering imperialist governments wanted or needed my support! On the other hand, there are realiti...
Greeman: The Korean Powder Keg II
Znet Article, December, 11 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Korea remains a tinder-box as U.S. and S. Koreans ratchet up threats and intimidating live-fire war 'games.' The slightest miscalculation could ignite a second Korean War.
Greeman: The Korean Powder Keg
Znet Article, December, 07 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Halt U.S. provocations NOW! N. Korea is a powder keg. Why is Obama playing with matches? Analysis.
Greeman: The Crisis in France: Third report
Znet Article, November, 05 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
For months working people all over Europe have been mobilizing to defend their livelihoods against austerity measures imposed by the central banks.
Greeman: The Crisis in France: Third Report
Blog Post, November, 04 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
As workers all over Europe respond to banker-imposed austerity measure, the strike wave in France shows a militant mass base frustrated by the dilatory tactics of the official Left parties and unions.
Greeman: Join the Resistance in the ME/Arab World
Blog Post, October, 30 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Capitalist imperialism with its unquenchable thirst for oil has no 'solution' to the Middle East crisis other than continuously escalating wars and more barbaric depredations. We must begin ‘thinking globally and acting locally’ by forging people-...
Greeman: Update on French Strikes
Blog Post, October, 21 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
As the struggle between French workers and the Right-wing Sarkozy government intensifies, Richard Greeman reports on the mobilization of French youth and the new stage of the conflict.
Greeman: France: Massive Demos and Strikes
Blog Post, October, 15 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Richard Greeman reports from Montpellier, France about the ongoing mass demonstrations and national strikes against Sarkozy's attempt to raise the retirement age.
Greeman: The Invisible International
Blog Post, May, 05 2010
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
Is it time to organize a 'Fifth International?' Let's first look at previous attempts and see what we can learn. Can uniting the worlds' oppressed best be accomplished by a 'vertical' strategy like the Third and Fourth Internationals? Or better b...
Greeman: How to get from Here to There: A Modern 'Archimedes Hypothesis'
Znet Article, June, 21 2009
Richard Greeman
Greeman's ZSpace page
By all appearances, capitalism, decadent since the First World War is rapidly descending into economic depression, social barbarism and ecological suicide. In 2009, slowly reforming the system - always a dubious proposition - seems less and less p...
