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Billionaires gain as living standards fall - World Socialist Web Site
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Les riches toujours plus riches, les pauvres toujours plus pauvres

Billionaires gain as living standards fall
11 January 2013

The world’s 100 richest people added $241 billion to their combined wealth in 2012, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The top 100 controlled an aggregate $1.9 trillion as calculated by the prices on world stock markets December 31, for an average of nearly $20 billion apiece.

If the top 100 were a separate state, their combined wealth would outstrip the Gross Domestic Product of all but eight countries. They would rank behind Italy, but ahead of India and Russia. Of course, being billionaire capitalists, the top 100 don’t actually produce anything. They own, and reap the benefits of, the labor of others.

US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries - World Socialist Web Site

L’espérance de vie aux Etats-Unis : la plus basse de tous les pays industrialisés

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US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries
By Kate Randall
11 January 2013

Life expectancy in the United States continues to lag behind that in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, according to a new report commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study’s findings are a stinging indictment of social inequality in the US and its impact on the conditions of life for wide layers of the American population, young and old.

The panel of experts from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine identified the inaccessibility of health care, high levels of poverty and income inequality, as well as the prevalence of gun violence as major contributing factors to the poor life expectancy rate in the US.

Saudi Arabia executes young Sri Lankan housemaid - World Socialist Web Site

L’Arabie saoudite exécute une “petite bonne” Sri Lankaise de 24 ans

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Saudi Arabia executes young Sri Lankan housemaid
By Vilani Peiris
11 January 2013

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded 24-year-old Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek, who had been convicted of murdering her employer’s infant child. Nafeek denied the charge. Her plight has been widely condemned by human rights groups internationally and in Sri Lanka.

The execution exposes not only the reactionary character of the Saudi regime but also the callous attitude of Sri Lankan government toward the fate of hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan migrant workers in the Middle East.

South African police fire on striking farm workers - World Socialist Web Site

Ça devient une habitude, la police sud-africaine tire sur les manifestants. Beaucoup de blessés.

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South African police fire on striking farm workers
By Joshua Lumet
11 January 2013

Confrontations between striking farm workers and South African police and private security guards have left several people wounded and some 50 arrested.

On Thursday, the second day of a renewed agricultural strike, a community leader was reportedly shot and wounded by private security guards in the town of De Doorns, in South Africa’s Western Cape province, the center of the strike.

Danish Red-Green Alliance supports budget cuts - World Socialist Web Site

Finallement... Ils n’ont pas résisté.

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Danish Red-Green Alliance supports budget cuts
By Sybille Fuchs
11 January 2013

In November the Danish centre-left government passed a budget for 2013 that seamlessly pursues the same austerity measures as its conservative predecessor. This reactionary budget was supported by the Red Green Alliance (RGA—in Danish, Enhedslisten, literally The Unity List ), an amalgam of pseudo-left groups.

Since October 2011, Denmark has been governed by a coalition of the Social Democrats, Socialist Peoples Party (SF) and the Danish Social Liberal Party under Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. The government does not have a parliamentary majority and thus relies on the support of the right-wing opposition or the Red-Green Alliance.