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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  The Socialist Vanguard and the New Democratic Party
This party has been characterized at various times as the primary expression of the politics of the working class, as expressing the present level of consciousness of the workers, or as being in advance of the level of consciousness of the working class as a whole.
They joined the social democratic party as a body, in order to work within it as a fraction to come in contact with its left wing, to influence it, and to fuse with it, and thereby broaden the basis for the subsequent construction of a new revolutionary party- a Trotskyist party- in France.
The Socialist Educational League was launched publicly in December, 1955 with new elements who had been won in the course of the anti-expulsion fight who constituted an effective fraction in the CCF with a no-split perspective.
www.rossdowson.com /ndp.html   (9423 words)

  
 New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The group is a socialist faction and advocates economic democracy and workers' control, full employment, the nationalization of large industries and the eradication of poverty and homelessness.
Bev Meslo was the Socialist Caucus' candidate in the party's 2003 leadership election, winning 1.1% of the vote in the party's first One Member One Vote leadership election.
The Trotskyist group Socialist Action, led by Weisleder and the late Joe Flexer, has encouraged its members to join the NDP and the Socialist Caucus, in what may be characterized as entryism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Democratic_Party_Socialist_Caucus   (399 words)

  
 The founding and evolution of the New Democratic Party
Ideologically we're a party, but we support the NDP because we think that this is where the working class generally are at; this is the level of experience and consciousness of the broadest layers of the working class, and we identify ourselves with this party.
Brewin said he could not support the party's position, although the party's position was very clear and decisively established on a certain specific question, and he announced to the commission that he wouldn't support that position although it was within the framework of his responsibility as foreign affairs spokesman.
This party is a party that's dominated by the parliamentarists, by the reformist parliamentarists.
www.rossdowson.com /speeches/rdspeechLP4.html   (9511 words)

  
 Socialist Action/Canada
Since 1998, the Socialist Caucus of the New Democratic Party (the mass labour-based political party in English Canada) has campaigned for a Workers’ Agenda, for socialist solutions to the problems faced by humanity.
In addition to the SC, the New Politics Initiative (the NPI was a broad but amorphous movement for grassroots democracy inside and outside the NDP, led by a self-appointed intellectual elite) and other leftist groups sounded the alarm.
Socialists need to better organize ourselves, not just for convention debates, but inside the social movements and in the streets, to convince working people of our answers, and to win them to our banner.
www.geocities.com /socialist_action/ndpsc.html   (1041 words)

  
 League for Socialist Action, Revolutionary Workers League, Communist League of Canada and associated organizations
This organization originated in the 1920s as part of the Communist Party of Canada, from which its founders were expelled in 1928 because of their support for the political positions of Leon Trotsky.
A youth wing, the Young Socialists, was established in 1964; its branch in Quebec was known as the Ligue des Jeunes Socialistes.
Following a positive response from the New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus during 1967-1968, a section of the League emerged as the "Waffle" Caucus of the N.D.P. in 1969.
library.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/fonds/l/leagueso.htm   (459 words)

  
 CBC News - Indepth Backgrounder: NDP Leadership Race
Jack Layton became the new leader of the federal NDP on Jan. 25, 2003.
Born in Stoney Point, Ont. Joe Comartin is the MP for Windsor-St. Clair, one of a small, select group of New Democrats in the House of Commons.
Meslo serves as a member of the NDP Socialist Caucus Federal Coordinating Committee and she is the Socialist Caucus Candidate for federal NDP leader.
cbc.ca /news/features/ndp_leadership/index.html   (2200 words)

  
 New Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique in French) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels.
The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 45% of the total number of ballots cast.
However the party does not allow her to be part of the parliamentary caucus, as the NDP favours the abolition of the Canadian Senate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Democratic_Party   (3581 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Socialists urge support of Kerry
The Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee is officially urging its members to work for the election of John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
It was founded as a group determined to push the Democratic Party to the left and has worked closely with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39627   (774 words)

  
 More On Nancy Pelosi's Socialist Ties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He did not mention, however, that she represents the most extreme arm of the Democratic Party; this part of the party is the remnant of the old socialist and communist groups that decided, unlike their purist ancestral leaders, to try to achieve their goals by remaining under the Democratic Party blanket.
Indeed, Democratic campaign officials have noted that their candidates' poll numbers began to plummet in competitive districts last year once the party came to be defined as opposing the president on Iraq.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the likely [she is now] new minority leader in the House of Representatives, serves on the executive committee of the socialist-leaning Progressive Caucus, a bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1140393/posts   (3548 words)

  
 October 2001: FILM REVIEW: Before Night Falls
The persistent myth, promulgated chiefly by right-wing Cuban Americans (most of whom are hyper-homophobes), that homosexuality is illegal in Cuba, that gays and lesbians are banned from the Communist Party, and that they are savaged and tossed in the slammer, is pure bunk.
In the early 1960s, a section of the Cuban Communist Party considered homosexuality to be a result of capitalist decay.
Socialist revolution has ensured measures of security and dignity for working people, and for women especially-goals for which North Americans still dream and battle.
www.socialistaction.org /news/200110/film.html   (2066 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: How Socialist Unions Rule the Democratic Party by Lowell Ponte
Democrats created the laws that have allowed unions to impose themselves on unwilling workers, get away with using violence and threats of violence to enforce their power, and extract involuntary “dues” from worker paychecks.
The bad news is that this dying, senile movement is still able to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from workers and use that money to elect leftwing Democrat politicians.
The IWW refused to forgo strikes during World War I, opposed the war, came to be widely perceived as unpatriotic and anti-American, and this led to the extinction of this early dinosaur version of the labor movement.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14219   (2950 words)

  
 Socialist International Debate
The Debs Caucus was anti-NATO and anti-Warsaw Pact.
And of course, the Debs Caucus which had a majority of "old timers" in the membership and still held on to many statewide affiliate and local branches renamed themselves as the Socialist Party USA in May 1973.
Even inside the British Labour Party itself, Tony Blair and his supporters were at odds with the majority of the party in the House of Commons, the various CLPs, and the grassroots socialists that are in reality the majority of Labour.
www.thesocialistparty.org /Melvin/si.html   (3367 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: The enemy within
The chronic cry of "partisanship" emanating from Democrats reminded one of "the pot calling the kettle fl." It was fascinating to note that whereas the majority seemed to focus on the facts and evidence offered by Judge Kenneth Starr, and unapologetic praise for the special prosecutor...
Perhaps one of the answers is that 58 Democrats in Congress are members of a policy group that is working with, and being promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America, the domestic branch of the Socialist International Party.
The Caucus also works with a coalition of organizations, called the Progressive Challenge, to bring new life to the progressive voice in U.S. politics.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19519   (800 words)

  
 Melvin Little to Join New Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Therefore, I feel compelled to officially join the New Democratic Party of Canada, eventhough I was born and currently live here in North Carolina.
And finally, one of the reasons I will be joining the NDP and the NDP Socialist Caucus is that I might be planning to move to Canada at some point.
New Democratic Party of Canada (soon to be a member by next week)
www.thesocialistparty.org /Melvin/Melvin_in_NDP.html   (309 words)

  
 Treason From Within   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is nurtured by at least 53 members of the 'Progressive Caucus' in Congress and has its roots, ideology and objectives grounded in socialism.
There are over 50 Democrats in Congress who are members of a policy group working with and being promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America, the domestic branch of the Socialist International Party.
According to the Democratic Socialists, the caucus they are heavily promoting includes among its membership significant liberal movers and shakers.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/6/23/121328.shtml   (859 words)

  
 My Blahg » -New Democratic Party
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, announced today that Canada’s New Government is providing the provinces and territories with an additional one-time federal funding of $3.3 billion to invest in post-secondary education, public transit and affordable housing.
Canada’s New Government is authorized to make payments to the provinces and territories not exceeding $4.5 billion from surpluses in excess of $2 billion in the two fiscal years 2005–06 and 2006–07.
The first is that they realize Canadians are weary of their incompetent, faux progressive party, sense imminent defeat and have begun to panic.
myblahg.com /?cat=5   (3297 words)

  
 Open letter for Quebec
This act denies the democratic right ofthe people of Quebec to decide their own future.
When democratic rights are violated for the people of Quebec, or for aboriginal peoples, all of our rights are under attack.
We remember the October 1970 imposition of the War Measures Act when hundreds of activists were rounded up in Quebec and across the rest of Canada by the army and police.
pages.infinit.net /mseymour/apage/ap_openletter.html   (1849 words)

  
 NDP Home Page/Page d'accueil du NPD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Canada's New Democratic Party/Nouveau Parti démocratique du Canada
New Democratic Youth of Canada/Jeunes Néo-démocrates du Canada
New Democratic Party of McGill University/Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Université McGill
home.ican.net /~alexng/ndp.html   (463 words)

  
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