By admin CHARLES FREDRICKS – Despite some omissions, this film is worthy of support, an important contribution to getting the word out about the tragedy befalling our country’s systems of higher learning. The film focuses only on ‘public’ institutions, which…
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Eric Cantor’s Loss is Likely to Widen the Immigration Debate
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By Harold Meyerson by Harold Meyerson The winner in last Tuesday’s mind-boggling defeat of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wasn’t just David Who? (Actually, David Brat.) It also was gridlock — for the remainder of this congressional session, and…
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“Free Range Socialist” Runs for Sheriff in Milwaukee
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By Angela Walker interviewed by Dan La Botz Angela Walker, an independent socialist, is running for the office of Sheriff in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this coming November. Her campaign is part of a trend of independent labor, Green Party, and socialist…
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Rail Strike Is Stress for French and Test for President François Hollande
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By americansocialists Faced with a stagnant economy, a vast and underfunded system of social-welfare benefits and deep levels of unpopularity, Mr. Hollande is trying to persuade his Socialist party to embrace a more centrist path that includes tax and spending…
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Scholars Share Research and Ideas at the Fourth Annual LRAN Conference
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By Sarita Gupta Yesterday I had the honor of kicking off the fourth annual national Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference, hosted by the Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown University. Over 250 labor scholars and practitioners from unions, universities and…
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Oil War’s Bloody Legacy in Iraq
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By americansocialists At the time of Bush and Blair’s catastrophic and criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Socialist Party and Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) warned it could lead to the break-up of Iraq and terrible sectarian war…
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Event: Glenn Greenwald in LA: Edward Snowden, the NSA & the US Surveillance State
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By admin Glenn Greenwald will be stopping in Los Angeles as part of a speaking tour, for those who are interested. From the event page: Glenn Greenwald speaks, introducing his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA…
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Look at what San Francisco just did
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By Jonathan Williams Learn more: http://lat.ms/1kGZAW3 Source: Look at what San Francisco just did
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Socialist Party L.A. Local June Freedom School – “A New Gilded Age”
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By msoltysik When: Saturday, June 21st, 6pm Where: 2617 Hauser Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1437738649817912/ What’s going on: “A New Gilded Age: How Wealth and Power Determine Educational Policy in the 21st Century” with Mark Elinson The…
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Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
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By Dsa By Thom Hartmann Never in the history of the developed world has an entire generation had to go into debt just to get an education and a job. Until now. Back in January, 31-year-old Tony Muzzatti, who at…
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Nazis were rightists, not leftists (letter)
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By americansocialists My jaw dropped in amazement when I read Mr. Brillhart’s revision of history when he wrote, “Recall, the Nazi Party was at heart a militant lefty socialist group.” In the early days of Hitler’s assuming power, he purged…
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Think & Defy the Capitalists
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By americansocialists Living Cheaply. — The cheapest and most innocent mode of life is that of the thinker; for, to mention at once its most important feature, he has the greatest need of those very things which others neglect and…
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The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition’s five point anti-cuts pledge
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By americansocialists The latest fashion among all the parties in Westminster is to steal the Socialist Party’s slogan and claim they are introducing policies that help ‘the millions not the millionaires’. Nothing could be further from the truth! The latest…
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To Think About on Fathers’ Day: Reproduction, Production and the Gender Division of Labor
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By Bill Barclay In the late 1960s, I was teaching at a community college in upstate New York. Among the books I assigned to my students was Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique. It usually generated good discussions, perhaps the most…
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French PM warns disgruntled Socialists they could “disappear”
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By americansocialists calling on his Socialist party to back his government’s business-friendly reform plans. France’s Socialists are reeling from humiliating losses in local and European elections this year, with the latter seeing the hard-right National Front top a national ……