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The Hill
March 5, 2018
At the end of 2017, Philip Alston, the United Nation's special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights toured the United States and Puerto Rico. His goal was to turn a global lens on our nation in order to assess the depth and breadth of poverty in America, especially extreme poverty. Today fewÃâà...
Berkeley Daily Planet
March 2, 2018
Many socialists were enthusiastic during the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign for claiming he is a socialist. Among the outcomes is that his ... Michael Harrington, who was among the founders of DSA, insisted that "the Democratic Party must be our main political arena". He claimed that this route offersÃâà...
Truth-Out
February 24, 2018
Eljeer Hawkins is a community, labor and antiwar activist, and has been a member of Socialist Alternative/Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) for 23 years. Socialist .... DSA is a different organization from its original foundations in the 1960s under the leadership of Michael Harrington. I think thisÃâà...
People's World
February 22, 2018
He drew on those years for The Other America (1962), his groundbreaking book on poverty in America, and returned there twenty years later for research on The New American Poverty. In between those two books and subsequent ones came a lifetime of socialist organizing and activism as well as writingÃâà...
The Nation.
December 21, 2017
Its founder, Michael Harrington, grew up in a Republican Irish-Catholic family and had aspired to be a poet. Then he had an epiphany in a ... In 1962, he published The Other America, a book on poverty that challenged the perception that America had become a middle-class country. Poverty persistedÃâà...
Lifehacker
September 12, 2017
It was formed in 1982 from the merger (rare in politics) of two socialist movements, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the ... Upon the DSA's founding, writers and activists Michael Harrington and Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Nickel and Dimed) were elected as co-chairs of theÃâà...
Vox
August 5, 2017
Meanwhile, a separate faction of socialists associated with Michael Harrington wanted an end to the war and for the American left to align much more closely with the growing radical movements of the 1960s. Harrington and Irving Howe, another socialist intellectual, “realized they had to connect socialismÃâà...
In These Times
July 31, 2015
In a lifetime of political engagement, Michael Harrington must have given ten thousand speeches, and of those, probably a thousand in New York City, where he had made his home since his arrival in 1949, age 21. He gave his final speech in the city 40 years later, in May 1989. Suffering from the cancer ofÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
May 7, 2013
Joe Allen continues a debate about Michael Harrington and socialist politics with Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara (previous contributions here, here and here). ... I WANT to thank Bhaskar Sunkara for continuing the discussion about the late American socialist Michael Harrington ("What we can learn fromÃâà...
