Avigdor Lieberman: A Profile in Ultranationalist Extremism (tags)
a rogue Israeli politician
Carta del comisario a la señora Maigret y a Jacques Chirac (tags)
El comisario Maigret explica a su esposa y a Jacques Chirac, respectivamente, su orgullo ante la capacidad de autocrítica que acaba de descubrir en la misma y su rechazo a los excesos de manipulación mediática cometidos por las derechas post-modernas.
France: Government launches assault on immigrants (tags)
A demonstration called by a broad alliance of anti-racist organisations has been called in Paris today, assembling at the Place de la République at 2 p.m. The French government has launched a major racist offensive against immigrants. Despite the tenacity and extent of the protest movement against the First Job Contract (CPE—giving employers the right to fire young workers at will), which continued throughout February, March and much of April and witnessed days of action bringing up to 3 million university and high school students and workers onto the streets, the government is continuing its programme of reactionary legislation with the Immigration Bill. This bill, which will greatly increase the social and job insecurity of immigrants, is to be put before parliament May 2, without any disruption in its parliamentary schedule.
Carta de las Visitadoras a San Pantaleón (tags)
Motivadas por la defensa del comisario Maigret del espacio ético de Charo la prostituta, las Visitadoras del Pantaleón de Vargas Llosa acuden a San Pantaleón para implorar a éste una alianza que por una parte legitime el espacio ético de las peticionarias y que por otra parte garantice al santo el éxito de la lucha del mismo en la reducción del impacto de la degradación de la ética en la actualidad
Had French society allowed for nonviolent social movements to form and flourish, violence would have seemed politically inefficient. Because immigrants and the working-class are so effectively shut out of French society, they have no other way to effect change than to violently demand it.
CO-FOUNDER OF FRANCE'S GREEN PARTY EXPELLED FOR ANTI-SEMITISM AND NEGATIONISM (tags)
A co-founder of France's Green Party in 1984, Ginette Skandrani, has been expelled after a trial by the party's regional administrative committee in the Ile de France region, which includes Paris and its suburbs, after formal complaints were filed against her, the center-left Parisian daily Liberation reported today -- under the headline, "A Green Too Brown for Her Party".