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Major anti-nuclear conference in Japan calls international day of action
On January 14-15 2012 more than 10,000 participants from more than 30 countries attended a Global conference for a nuclear free world in Yokohama, Japan. More than 100 guest speakers addressed the conference which included those who had witnessed the disaster of Chernobyl in 1986 and the US nuclear test site on Marshall Islands as well as Fukushima. Attendance from other Asian countries was particularly noticeable but it also included a significant number of European and Australian (...) - Energy, nuclear / Anti-Nuclear Movement, Fukushima, Yokohama

Yokohama Declaration for a Nuclear Power Free World
This Declaration was drafted by the Organizing Committee of the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World, and is supported by participants from around the world. The 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and related melt down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has led to great suffering for the people of Japan and has increased radioactive contamination across the globe. It has also sounded a warning bell throughout the world about the long-term health, environmental and (...) - Energy, nuclear / Anti-Nuclear Movement, Fukushima, Yokohama

Le Forum alternatif mondial de l'Eau (FAME)
Auto-présentation du FAME tiré de son site Internet en date du 17 février 2012. Qu'est ce que le FAME ? L'objet du Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau (FAME) est de construire une alternative concrète au VIe Forum Mondial de l'Eau (FME) organisé par le Conseil Mondial de l'Eau, organe des sociétés transnationales et de la Banque Mondiale qui prétend s'arroger la gouvernance mondiale de l'eau. Depuis des années l'ensemble des mouvements de la (...) - Eau / France (Fr), Marseille, Fame

Ne pas se tromper de colère : les mesonges du FN
Reproduction d'un tract diffusé par l'Union syndicale Solidaires. Un État fort ? Pour encore moins de justice sociale ! Hormis quelques formules bateaux, « le Front national propose de bâtir un État fort », « un État stratège qui aiguillonne notre pays vers l'innovation, la prospérité et assure son rayonnement », « un État protecteur et solidaire, garant des services publics » : rien de précis, notamment sur la redistribution des richesses et sur la fiscalité qui sont (...) - Fascisme, extrême droite / France (Fr), Mouvement ouvrier, Solidaires (France), FN (France)

Support to the Greek people
STANDING ORDER APPROVED BY FIOM-CGIL CENTRAL COMMITTEE SUPPORT TO THE GREEK PEOPLE The Fiom-Cgil Central Committee express its total solidarity to the greek workers struggling against the austerity measures imposed by the Troika and accepted by the greek parliament. No economic situation justifies the repeated measures imposed to a people in which the 30% has already reached the poverty. The decrease of salary, the elimination of national contracts in favour of the individual labour (...) - Social movements, labor / Italy, Greece

Eternit et Holcim, la saga actuelle de transnationales helvétiques
En date du 14 février 2012, nous avions, dans la foulée d'une introduction, reproduit sur ce site une enquête faite – avec les limites soulignées par CAOVA – sur la trajectoire de Stephan Schmidheiny. En fait, une contre-enquête à ce qui est rapporté dans l'ouvrage de René Lüchinger et Ueli Burkhard Stephan Schmidheiny : Sein langer Weg zu sich selbst, publié par Stämpfli Verlag, en 2009 (288 pages, 39.90 CHF). Cet ouvrage a servi de « source » et « (...) - Santé et travail / Inde, Transnationales (Fr), Italie, Amiante, Suisse, Eternit, Holcim

Un état des lieux de l'extrême-droite en Europe
A l'approche des élections présidentielles en France, Touteleurope.eu publie une série d'entretiens sur les familles politiques en Europe. Premier volet : un état des lieux de l'extrême-droite européenne avec Jean-Yves Camus, politologue et chercheur associé à l'IRIS, spécialiste des nationalismes et extrémismes en Europe. Touteleurope.eu : Comment définir aujourd'hui l'extrême-droite européenne ? Jean-Yves Camus : Vaste sujet, qui divise depuis (...) - Fascisme, extrême droite

An Excess of Democracy
The philosophy and experience of radical movements in the 1960s and 70s are in several ways complementary to the ideas of the direct action movements of today. Hilary Wainwright examines the possibility of forging a new kind of political economy by learning from the best of both of them. The ability of the Occupy movement to create platforms outside our closed political system to force open a debate on inequality, the taboo at the heart of the financial crisis, is impressive. It is a new (...) - Analysis & Debates

Another Road for Europe
The Euro crisis is more than an economic crisis ; it has also unveiled an insidious disregard for democracy at the heart of the European project. How can we democratise the EU « from below » ? These papers have been prepared as background for the TNI-Red Pepper-LSE conference to be held on 17 February in London School of Economics London « Taking on the technocrats : paths towards another Europe. » ‘Italy needs reforms not elections,' declared Herman Van Rompuy, president of (...) - Which Europe?

A different kind of Europe
What would a progressive pan-European response to the Euro crisis look like? Professor Trevor Evans calls for a radical downsizing of the financial sector, debt audits, democratisation of the Commission and a full employment policy. These papers have been prepared as background for the TNI-Red Pepper-LSE conference to be held on 17 February in London School of Economics “Taking on the technocrats: paths towards another Europe.” In place of the current German-dominated axis (...) - Which Europe? / Economy, Finance (eng), Euro (Eng)