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…
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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:…
The Teachers’ Trifecta: Democracy, Social Justice, Mobilization
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By by Lois Weiner This article was originally published by New Politics.Across the United States, we are in the midst of a great struggle over the nation’s education system. On one side is a bipartisan effort to privatize schools and…
French socialist prime minister attacked for being a ‘fuddy-duddy’ version of Margaret Thatcher over his plans to woo business
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By americansocialists This was despite his party coming to power in 2012 after President Francois … Ex Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair is also viewed as a radical who rejected Socialist dogma in favour of pro-business policies. Allegedly trying to…
A Second Look for Labor Films
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By Dustin Guastella Whether you’re watching in your own home or (better yet) sponsoring a showing with a discussion, labor films are a great way to reconnect with the passion and purpose of the labor movement. We polled the guest…
Utopia and Anti-Utopia
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By by Angela E. Hubler The majority of young adult dystopian and utopian fiction is shaped by the Cold War horror of a collective. It’s rare to encounter a dystopian novel like Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and its sequels,…
Allan Sekula, Against the Grain
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By Fred Lonidier ALLAN SEKULA, “photographer ,film-maker, cultural theorist and political activist (and) one of the outrstanding Marxist intellectuals of his generation,” died August 10, 2013 in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. (See Steve Edwards, “Socialism and…
Fred Ho, Presente!
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By Brad Duncan SAXOPHONIST, COMPOSER AND revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho (1957-2014) was a dynamic and prolific force within Jazz and radical left movements for over 40 years. A baritone saxophonist inspired by the avant-garde currents in African-American music, Ho…
Making the Rulers Obey
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By Diana C. Sierra Becerra Until The Rulers Obey:Voices from Latin American Social MovementsBy Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, editorsForeword by Raúl ZibechiPM Press, 2014, 528 pages, $29.95 paper.UNTIL THE RULERS Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements, edited by…
One Historian’s Journey
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By Dan Clawson A Contest of Ideas:Capital, Politics, and LaborBy Nelson LichtensteinUniversity of Illinois Press, 2013, 336 pages, $25 paper.NELSON LICHTENSTEIN REPORTS that “My real education came from Berkeley’s [1960s] radical student milieu, especially from my political sect of choice,…
Military Emancipation
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By Connor Donegan The Fall of the House of Dixie:The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the SouthBy Bruce LevineNew York: Random House, 2013, 303 pages, Paperback edition $17.Freedom National:The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865By…
One Step Up, Three Steps Down
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By an interview with Barbara Garson INEQUALITY HAS BECOME a heated political issue with the eruption of the Occupy movement, followed by the spread of minimum wage struggles — including the election of socialist candidate Kshama Sawant to Seattle city…