By woodlanham GOOD READS FOR SOCIALISTS The Washington Socialist February 2015 Human Activities Are Pushing the Earth Past 4 Dangerous Limits: Report — Ongoing economic expansion, inappropriate technologies and human population growth together are pushing past four environmental boundaries that…
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Huge Madrid march in support of anti-austerity party
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By americansocialists One protester, Fernandez, who lives with her husband on a 700-euros-a-month combined pension cheque said she used to vote for the Socialist party but had lost faith in it because of its handling of the economic crisis and…
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Greek Myths – and Realities
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By Bill Barclay Commondreams.org, Lorenzo Gaudenzi/flickr By Bill Barclay Everybody “knows” that Greece has too much debt, that is unsustainable and thus a “responsible” government must reduce spending and pay off the debt. And, because Greece is facing some maturity…
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The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America.
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By Lisa Adler Home-care workers – the fastest growing, lowest paid workforce in our country – are central to the future of our economy, and we can no longer afford to ignore their needs. These workers are on the front…
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2/4 The Hidden Radical Legacy of MLK
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By Chris Morrill The Hidden Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. An International Socialist Organization public forum358 Washington St, Dorchester MAThursday, February 4th , 7pm RSVP on Facebook Most people learn in school that Martin Luther King was a…
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Syria dissociation no longer realistic: Jumblatt
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By americansocialists BEIRUT: Lebanon’s dissociation policy towards the Syria crisis was no longer applicable, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said Friday. “Let’s be realistic. As Lebanese, there are [certain] issues that we can resolve and others that ……
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Sallie Mae Owes the Federal Government a Lot of Money. Why Isn’t Anyone Collecting?
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By Chris Hicks For the millions of Americans drowning in debt, non-payment is not an option. Of course, there are the social stigmas attached to not paying back your debt – after all, your word is only as good as…
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Behind Syriza’s Landslide: A “Note from Afar” on the Greek Elections
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By by Stathis Kouvelakis Editor’s note: these comments were written before the results from the election. The analysis remains valuable.I’ll make a few brief remarks on the Greek election campaign and the situation within Syriza, in order to help overcome…
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Unions turn lights off on French prime minister
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By americansocialists Valls was starting a speech to about 700 people in support of his Socialist party’s candidate for a by-election on Tuesday night when the lights went out and his microphone turned silent. The electricity stayed off for about…
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Shut Out from Democracy
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By Bilal Dabir Sekou By Bilal Dabir Sekou The 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of “previous condition of servitude,” and the 19th Amendment extended the franchise to women, but an…
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Syriza’s triumph shows the power of big ideas
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By americansocialists the People’s Party and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party; and in Greece, New Democracy and the socialist Pasok. As they fought their increasingly ritual political battles, they came to be almost identical in their policies — at least…
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Greek vote beginning of EU’s end?
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By americansocialists Greece has voted for a new government, led by the socialist Syriza party. They won on a campaign vow not to accept economic cutbacks demanded by the European Union, in return for a promised $336-billion bailout. But as…
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Cops, Class, and Race: How the police protect the 1%
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By erickerl As communities around the nation have taken to the streets in the ongoing movement against police brutality the question of the police and their role in society has taken on new importance. With the police killing a Black…
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The Road Not Taken: an episode in socialist history
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By Eldon Since the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs collapsed in the early 1920s, social democrats/democratic socialists have almost constantly sought some way to be politically effective, while remaining true to their core principles. At the same time as the…
