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France in Recession – Government Maintains Austerity Course

Gene Zbikowski — 2013-05-18T16:42:18Z

France has gone into recession with a second quarter of negative growth, like most of the euro zone countries. This situation is the result of European economic austerity policies.
This comes as no “surprise” according to Economics Minister Pierre Moscovici, who on May 15 guaranteed that it is “largely due to the euro zone environment.” Thus France joins nine euro zone countries in the recession spiral and in the overall gloomy economic climate in Europe. Indeed, at the same time that the (...)

- Economy

Taubira in favour of a "land ownership policy" for the descendants of slaves.

Leopold O'Shea — 2013-05-17T22:35:00Z

Minister for Justice, Christiane Taubira "has never wanted to get involved" in the debate surrounding a "financial compensation" for slavery, a position reiterated by the Council for the representation of black associations (Cran) on Friday, but instead advocates a "land ownership policy" for the descendants of slaves overseas.
Referring to the racism and discriminations that are "the traces of that violence", the minister for Justice affirmed, in an interview with Journal du Dimanche, (...)

- Politics / Slavery

Kong Dongmei: On the shoulders of Giants

Hervé Fuyet — 2013-05-15T10:54:52Z

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Mao's granddaughter a millionaire
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Kong Dongmei: On the shoulders of Giants
An article is published in "China Daily" : Kong Dongmei: On the shoulders of giants (Kong Dongmei: sur les épaules des géants)
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The article shows that Dong, granddaughter of Mao, out of political conviction and family spirit, decided to open a publishing house centered on her grandfather works and life. The (...)

- World

To Desire to Make Capitalism Moral is, in Reality, to Demand its Suppression.

Leopold O'Shea — 2013-05-15T06:55:58Z

The demand to moralize capitalism emerged in public debate, ironically, during Nicholas Sarkozy's term of office, while he himself was embarking on ultra-free-market policy laden with scandalous human consequences. Its expression however is sapped by a strange contradiction, which manifests its limitations from the start. This contradiction presupposes that there is indeed something immoral in capitalism, since it would not need to be moralized otherwise. And at the same time, and for the (...)

- "Tribune libre" / Capitalism

Mao's granddaughter a millionaire

Harry Cross — 2013-05-15T06:40:48Z

The granddaughter of Mao Zedong has appeared on a public list of millionaires leading to accusations of hypocrisy charged at a regime which continues to officially claim to uphold the revolutionary ideals upon which the People's Republic was founded.
Forty-year-old Kong Dongmei and her husband Chen Dongsheng are in 242nd place on a list of rich indivuals published by the Chinese financial magazine New Fortune. Their worth is estimated at 5 billion Yuan (806 million dollars). Mrs Kong is the (...)

- World / China

China has triggered a salutary change in Africa

Chrysanthie Therapontos — 2013-05-05T08:43:24Z

Published in Humanité Dimanche, 18-24 April 2013.
On 17 April, a China-Africa business summit was held in South Africa. At a time when closer economic and political relations are being established between the Chinese giant and African countries, Jean-Joseph Boillot, an economist and coauthor of "Chindiafrica, China, India and Africa (in French Chindiafrique) will build tomorrow's world ", sheds light on the reality of these exchanges.
HD: What are the main challenges of the business Summit (...)

- World / China, Africa, India, Economy

Jean-Michel Carré: “China is not affected by this neoliberal bureaucracy.”

Jonathan Pierrel — 2013-05-04T14:43:30Z

Franco-German TV channel Arte broadcast on April 30 Jean-Michel Carré's documentary: Chine, le nouvel empire (China: The New Empire), a brilliant documentary which presents an eminently contradictory but hopeful society.

- World / Mao Zedong, China, Maoism

Mali: Tuareg Refugees View the Future With Alarm

Isabelle Métral — 2013-04-24T14:26:37Z

Afraid of the Malian army's demands, a great many Northern Mali Tuareg fled their villages. They have been wandering ever since in the desert or have found shelter in camps in neighboring countries like Burkina-Faso.
From our special correspondent in Mentao. Issa Ag Mohammed, wearing a fez that partly hides his wizened face, comes out of his tent with a dignified air. And yet his tent is far from being luxurious, made up of hessian sacks, mats and white heavy canvas handed out by the UN (...)

- World

Aminata Traoré persona non grata in France !

Isabelle Métral — 2013-04-24T14:25:58Z

Mali's Former Minister For Culture Denied a Renewal Of Her Visa. Is France making Aminata Traoré pay for her opposition to the war in Northern Mali? The question is well worth asking, seeing how the French consulate refused to deliver a visa to a renowned essayist, no-global militant and former Malian minister for culture.
Aminata Traoré was invited by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Prokla daily and the association AfricAvenir to take part in a convention in Berlin from the 17th to the (...)

- World / Françafrique, Mali

Some comments on our newspaper Humanité!

Chrysanthie Therapontos — 2013-04-24T14:24:30Z

Some comments on our newspaper Humanité! Submitted on April 17, 2013 - 15:42 by Pierre Kulemann. These comments are intended to help to improve the newspaper Humanité. While sometimes a bit critical, it is to help, not hurt!
Patrick Le Hyaric, director of Humanité in his request for money to Humanité writes: "it is however not true that there exists an" all-digital" alternative economic model, as large groups, large oligopolies like Google, or some State circles, would like to impose on us." (...)

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