By from the Editors The September 21 Peoples Climate March and related activities–notably, the September 19-20 NYC Climate Convergence Conference–make a timely occasion to look at the dimensions of the global environmental crisis and how to confront it.If solutions are…
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Refugee Crisis on Our Border: What Can We Do now?
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By Duane Campbell By Duane Campbell Over the past several years and in particular since February of 2014, the number of children and families fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and arriving on the U.S. southwestern border has grown significantly.…
Venezuelan Socialist Party swaps God for Chavez in new prayer
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By americansocialists CARACAS (Reuters) – A member of Venezuela’s Socialist Party has rolled out a variation of the classic Christian “Lord’s Prayer” to implore beloved late leader Hugo Chavez for protection from the evils of capitalism. “Our Chavez who art…
The Socialist Party USA is a Feminist Party
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By admin A response to Deseret News editor Drew Clark, by Lew Jeppson Writing in the Deseret News yesterday, Mr Clark has shown that he is really obsessed with the matter of contraception. The conservative Christian faiths (and Islam) are…
Right-wing stance riles socialist rebels
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By americansocialists PARIS — Splits in France’s ruling Socialist Party, which sparked an emergency government reshuffle last week, continue to widen as members on the left flank snipe at a prime minister they see as attempting a “Tony Blair”-style lurch…
We’re Stronger Together
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By Dustin Guastella Sarah Jane Rhee/ loveandstrugglephotos.com By Maria Svart Growing up, I knew unions were good. Family members could see that the union had improved their wages and working conditions. I learned that “no one looks out for the…
Labor Day’s Forgotten Roots
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By woodlanham The Washington Socialist Labor Day 2014 By Kurt Stand Labor Day, like other holidays and traditions in the United States, has largely been stripped of its content over the years. Often ignored except as the last summer holiday…
Report on Socialist Organizing Weekend/Young Leaders Retreat
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By woodlanham The Washington Socialist Labor Day 2014 By Jose Gutierrez Several under-40 year-old Metro DSA members participated in a national retreat located in Bolivar, Pa. The event served as both the Young Democratic Socialists’ (DSA’s youth section) summer conference…
Socialist Party L.A. Local Freedom School: “Rethinking Socialist Humanism after Poststructuralism and Postmodernism”
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By msoltysik When: Saturday, September 13th, 6pm Where: 2617 Hauser Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA What’s going on: Presented by Professor Kevin Anderson Since the 1970s, antihumanist and anti-Hegelian currents, from the structuralist Marxism of Althusser to non-Marxist critiques of radical…
DC Mayoral Race Gets the Press, but Open Council Seat Draws the Crowds
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By woodlanham The Washington Socialist Labor Day 2014 By Bill Mosley Readers of the Washington Post and other mainstream local publications can be forgiven for thinking that the only contest of interest in this fall’s District of Columbia election is…
Local DSA Cecily McMillan Solidarity Event: Police Repression and the Legacy of Occupy
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By woodlanham The Washington Socialist Labor Day 2014 By Kurt Stand On July 19, nearly two-dozen people attended a Metro DC DSA event in solidarity for Cecily McMillan, a DSA member in New York City. Sentenced to 90 days, she…
SPNJ Marches at the Botto House Labor Day Parade
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The Socialist Party of New Jersey joined dozens of unions and political organizations at the American Labor Museum (Botto House) Labor Day Parade. The Parade started at the historic Botto House in Haledon and ended at Paterson’s Great Falls. The…
Rearranging Deck Chairs in France
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By americansocialists With this kerfuffle, the Socialist Party has been split into two factions — one supporting the bitter medicine of slashing government spending prescribed by the European Central Bank and Angela Merkel’s government in Germany, and the other joining…
The Way They Worked
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By Jobs With Justice Source: The Way They Worked
Polls show wide support in France for changes in 35-hour week
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By americansocialists Montebourg’s removal followed his tirade against Germany’s “obsession” with austerity, and angered many on the left wing of the Socialist Party who had been calling for an economic policy U-turn away from budgetary rigor. News Source: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=99b73fc532d04… Source:…