A nexus between labour movement and labour movement: the Knights of Labor and the financial side of global labour history

The rise of global and transnational labour history has revolutionised the study of working-class movements and individuals and the global forces that shaped them. Some of the more mundane considerations of these movements, however, have so far been neglected in this rapidly growing field. One of the most important of these considerations was money, or in other words the financial affairs of transnational movements such as trade unions and political parties. This article is a call to write the financial side of global labour history. It focuses on a global working-class movement that is itself often neglected in the historical literature, the Knights of Labor, and their outposts in Britain and Ireland. It examines the history of the British and Irish Knights through the prism of their financial history, so far as we can reconstruct it from the scanty sources that are available. This article argues that their financial ties with the United States and a series of embezzlement cases became major causes of their decline and, ultimately, their dissolution. Finally, this article draws conclusions from the financial misadventures of the British and Irish Knights of Labor that are relevant to the study of other international working-class movements and to the writing of global labour history in general.     

把握国情,是走中国特色社会主义道路的客观要求

"中国是个大国,又是个小国",决定了我国要走中国特色的社会主义道路。我们要用发展的办法解决我国现阶段的主要矛盾及基本矛盾,这是走中国特色社会主义道路的客观要求。"摸着石头过河",符合我国国情,这是中国特色社会主义实践的本质要求,体现着和彰显着探索中国特色社会主义道路的自觉性和创新性。     

“坚持以人民为中心”的创新理念和重大实践对民办高校思政教育队伍建设的启示

习近平总书记在福建工作期间形成了极为宝贵的创新理念和重大实践。这些理念和实践具有前瞻性、开创性、战略性,其中“坚持以人民为中心”的理念和实践对民办高校思想政治教育队伍的建设有重要的指导意义。目前,民办高校思想政治教育队伍存在理论学习不深入、学生思想动态调研不充足、专业技能学习不及时、融入学生群体不顺畅、思想政治辅导员队伍不稳定、辅导员与思想政治理论课教师之间的思想政治教育不融合等薄弱点。针对这些问题,应将“坚持以人民为中心”作为民办高校思想政治教育工作的理念和实践,将一切工作的初衷紧紧围绕着学生这个群体,促进思想政治教育队伍的建设。     

International Disorder and China's Strategic Thoughts

Since the 2008 international financial crisis,international political and economic disorder has become obvious.Major reasons are the decline of US-led Western developed economies' global influence;US and other Western countries inaction or ineffective actions;power diffusion allowing non-state actors to intervene;a global governance short of needed rules;and mainstream economic theory's overemphasis on market roles.International disorder is a long-term process posing a potential threat to China' s national interests.The situation challenges China to create an international economic and trade order,thereby shaping itself as prophet of global free trade,shaper of international economic and trade rules,and trendsetter for globalization.     

以市场需求为导向协调发展餐饮业

我国餐饮业目前发展低迷并存在同质化竞争等问题,而影响餐饮业发展的主要因素是政策和环境。目前餐饮业在急剧变化环境下出现了"危"与"机",以市场需求为导向,分层次定位与协调发展,是餐饮业持续健康发展的可行性道路。     

Public support for coercive diplomacy: Exploring public opinion data from ten European countries

Scholarship has increasingly acknowledged the importance of public attitudes for shaping the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy. Economic sanctions emerged as one of CFSP's central tools. Yet despite the emergence of sanctions as a popular instrument in the EU foreign policy toolbox, public attitudes towards sanctions are yet to be studied in depth. This article explains public support for EU sanctions, using the empirical example of sanctions against Russia. It looks at geopolitical attitudes, economic motivations and ideational factors to explain the variation in public support for sanctions. The conclusion suggests that geopolitical factors are the most important, and that economic factors matter very little. Euroscepticism and anti‐Americanism play an important role in explaining the support for sanctions at the individual level.     

网络民主热的冷思考

网络民主热潮的背后,折射出了现实政治的诸多困境.它的“一枝独秀”很大程度上缘于现实参与渠道的不畅通、多元民主力量的缺失以及代议机构功能不足等,它的有效治理取决于现实政治的容纳和对接,有赖于多元民主力量的壮大,以及各种民主形式之间的优势互补.     

消费教育：高校“两课”教学的重要内容

20世纪80年代随着中国经济发展,消费主义也开始涌入并悄悄地改变人们的价值观念、生活方式和精神信仰。大学生受到消费主义思潮的影响而产生了超前消费、炫耀消费、奢侈消费等不良消费方式,而这种影响尚未引起学校教育的重视。因此学校应加强消费教育,重视对大学生健康的消费观念的培养与塑造,引导大学生养成良好的消费习惯,这在当前国情下具有非常重要的意义。     

论社区矫正在刑罚中的运用

《中华人民共和国刑法修正案（八）》规定对判处管制、宣告缓刑、被假释的犯罪分子实施社区矫正,但对社区矫正如何执行并未做具体规定。针对社区矫正试点工作中存在的问题,应着重从社区矫正立法、执法理念及适用范围等方面,探讨如何进一步完善我国社区矫正制度。