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Liberation
March 9, 2018
Some socialists suggest this student movement, just for raising the question of gun regulations, empowers the state or threatens the right to self-defense. .... This would not be achieved overnight but under socialism the working class has real power over the issues that affect their communities, the stateÃâà...
Socialist Project
March 9, 2018
The best way for left forces to regroup – while recognizing the crucial difference between organizing the left and organizing the class – and seriously put a progressive break with neoliberalism on the agenda is to unite fragmented issue-based struggles within a broader socialist vision. Indeed one of theÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 8, 2018
A number of senior Socialists had called on the 70-year-old political veteran to choose between the opposition benches and the government. Le Drian, who served as defense minister under former Socialist president Francois Hollande before switching his loyalties to Macron, told Cnews television he hadÃâà...
RFI
March 8, 2018
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has quit the Socialist Party after 44 years's membership. He had effectively made his decision when he joined President Emmanuel Macron's government, a symptom of the crisis that hit the former ruling party after its traumatic defeat in last year's electionsÃâà...
TeenVogue.com
March 8, 2018
In her book Women and Socialism, historian Sharon Smith explains that although the strike took more than two months during a brutal winter, the women won recognition for ... “Most of the strikers were teenagers and immigrants, with young Jewish socialists playing a key role in leading the strike forward.
The Guardian
March 8, 2018
The long rearguard action fought for Labour socialism by Nye Bevan; the out-manoeuvring of the left by Wilson as prime minister; the unions' belated ... and then the Labour right's outrage when the left attempted to do something similar, by deselecting MPs deemed insufficiently socialist during the 70s.
Merced Sun-Star
March 6, 2018
A Russian dissident by the name of Solzhenitsyn said, “Socialism of any type leads to the total destruction of the Human spirit.” Barack Obama is a socialist, he and his group want to turn America into a socialist state. Socialism does not work. Look at every socialist state and you will see failure. WinstonÃâà...
vtdigger.org
March 6, 2018
Westminster, Vermont: Democratic Socialist Ben Mitchell is formally announcing his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives at the Westminster Town Meeting on Saturday, March 3. A Westminster resident for more than twenty years, Mr. Mitchell describes himself as “an insurgent,Ãâà...
The Bulletin
March 6, 2018
The fact that so many of my peers in the university system think it's great that we have a “democratic socialist” from Vermont in the senate is a key indicator of this fact. What I've noticed is that when people claim that socialism and/or communism is good they start with the idea that they're “fair.” I think that's aÃâà...
The Guardian
March 6, 2018
Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism – review. Liam Young's memoir-cum-analytical study of Jeremy Corbyn's appeal to young voters lacks coherence. Stephen Bush Ãâ÷ @stephenkb. Tue 6 Mar 2018 02.00 EST. Share on Facebook Ãâ÷ Share on Twitter Ãâ÷ Share via Email; View more sharingÃâà...
The Conversation AU
March 6, 2018
More recently, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann accused Shorten of plagiarising the “socialist, populist playbook” of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. And Turnbull railed against “the most anti-business, the most anti-investment, the most anti-jobs policy of any Labor leader since Whitlam”.
Chicago Tribune
March 6, 2018
That capitalism is inimical to the best of liberalism isn't a new concern: It's a long-standing critique, present in early socialist thought. That both capitalism and liberal governance have changed since those days without displacing the criticism suggests that it's true in a foundational way. Not to be confused forÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 26, 2018
The pretend socialists say they abandoned the word to try to "modernise" the party so it could better "resonate" with Canadians. Translation: Socialism is for old farts and losers. So, it's not surprising that Canada's pretend socialist party's policy towards Israel and Palestine remains, in effect, a facsimile ofÃâà...
