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 Socialist Action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socialist Action (US) is a Trotskyist organization in the United States.
Socialist Action (Canada) is its counterpart in Canada
Socialist Action (UK) is a small socialist group in the United Kingdom which used to publish a magazine of the same name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Action   (118 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 518 Thursday March 4 2004
Socialist Action has recently achieved some prominence as a result of the role of its members, ex-members or supporters among Ken Livingstone’s salaried political advisers at the Greater London Authority, and the resulting central role of GLA official and SA leader Redmond O’Neill in organising the London European Social Forum.
Socialist Action has its origins in the Socialist League (formerly the International Marxist Group), between the late 1960s and mid-1980s the British section of (the Unified Secretariat of) the Fourth International, the major Trotskyist ‘international’.
Socialist Action, with its overt collapse into Stalinist politics, is merely an extreme example of political ideas adapting themselves to the leadership’s bureaucracy.
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/518/sa.html   (2605 words)

  
 Socialist History Project
The League for Socialist Action is committed to unconditional support of the New Democratic Party in its aim to place workers’ and farmers’ governments in Ottawa and the provinces.
It solidarizes itself with all actions which heighten the consciousness of the Canadian working class of the real situation confronting them; it supports any action which further cements their unity against capitalism and which would strengthen their capacity to struggle and project them towards the achievement of a workers’ and farmers’ government.
Despite the campaign of lies and distortions about the socialist viewpoint we are confident that developing realities, together with the conscious participation of all who consider themselves socialists, around such a program as we have outlined, will make the NDP a powerful leap forward on the march to a socialist Canada.
www.socialisthistory.ca /Docs/CCF-NDP/What-LSA-Is.htm   (2371 words)

  
 Socialist Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They were founded in 1983 as a split from the Socialist Workers Party loyal to the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, where they are members of the left minority.
Another Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political party in Canada.
The remainder of the party is now a small group that drew pessimistic conclusions from the fall of the Stalinist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/socialist_action   (479 words)

  
 Socialist League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socialist League in Canada was a Trotskyist group founded in 1974 by Ross Dowson and was better known by the name of its newpaper, Forward
Socialist League was a Trotskyist organization in Sweden.
The Socialist League of Palestine was founded in 1936 by Hashomer Hatzair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_League   (221 words)

  
 Socialist Action - OpenWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Socialist Action is a group that was formed by Nat and Sylvia Weinstein, Les Evans, and other Trotskyists in 1983 upon their expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party, which had replaced Trotskyist ideas with those of Fidel Castro.
Socialist Action began publishing a militant left newspaper and applied to join the Fourth International (USFI), the largest federation of Trotskyists in the world.
Current national secretary of Socialist Action is Jeff Mackler, one of the leaders of the The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php/Socialist_Action   (236 words)

  
 Socialist Action/Ligue pour L'Action socialiste   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Socialist Action is in political solidarity with the Fourth International, the global Trotskyist movement active on every continent and for over 65 years in the forefront of workers' struggles against imperialism and Stalinism.
Socialist Action is based on the democratic principle of full membership debate on programme and strategy, followed by unity in action.
Socialists strive for the broadest possible multi-ethnic, multi-racial, working class unity in action against war, militarism, discrimination and bigotry in all its forms � without seeking to curry favour with reactionary religious authorities or by complicity with their oppressive rule.
www.geocities.com /socialist_action   (2738 words)

  
 League for Socialist Action (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The International Left Opposition (Trotskyist) of Canada, the Workers Party of Canada, Socialist Policy Group, Socialist Workers League, Revolutionary Workers Party and the League for Socialist Action were names of successive Trotskyist organisations in Canada.
In 1955, the Toronto group reconstituted itself within the CCF as the Socialist Education League while the Vancouver branch which had lost contact with its Toronto cothinkers became the Socialist Information Centre.
In 1961 the SEL and SIC merged and became the League for Socialist Action with branches in Toronto and Vancouver.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/League_for_Socialist_Action_(Canada)   (825 words)

  
 Society Politics Socialism Organizations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Socialist Action (U.S.) - This group is in sympathy with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) and identifies with the minority tendency within the USFI.
Socialist Alternative (Australia) - Group split from the Australian International Socialist Organisation due to criticisms that the ISO is bureaucratic and undemocratic.
Socialist Alternative (U.S.) - Publishers of "Justice" a newspaper for "Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism," Socialist Alternative is a Marxist tendency active in the Labor Party and in the trade union and student movements among others.
www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Politics/Socialism/Organizations   (1679 words)

  
 Communism Research Wiki: Socialist Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Socialist Action was the 1984 product of two tendencies within the Socialist Workers Party, the Trotskyist Tendency and the Fourth Internationalist Tendency.
In 2001, Socialist Action went through a dramatic faction fight after the National Secretary attempted to divide the San Francisco branch in two, separating two groups of members with slightly differing political positions on the 1999 bombing of Kosovo and Palestinian solidarity work.
Socialist Action has never had a membership of more than two to three hundred and has shrunk steadily since its founding.
www.yardley.ca /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Socialist_Action   (631 words)

  
 replysoca
Socialist Action supporters were influential last year in the Campaign for Peace in the Balkans, the principal campaign in Britain against NATO’s war on Belgrade.
That would be to suggest that Yugoslavia had been a healthy socialist state free from the social, economic and political paralysis which brought down Stalinism is Eastern Europe and the USSR – which it was not.
The federation could only be held together by increased socialist democracy and a strengthening, not a weakening, of the 1974 constitution.
www.cascarino.homestead.com /replysoca.html   (2056 words)

  
 The Militant - July 15, 2002 -- What is independent working-class politics?
For revolutionists, education, propaganda, and agitation for working-class political action, for a labor party, for a socialist party, for a break with capitalist politics is part and parcel of the struggle against the Meanys and Reuthers, the Rustins and Kings, the Thomases, the Harringtons, the anonymous editorial writers of the Worker.
Their problem is not a rejection or an acceptance of an Old Left--again an imaginary, false, homogeneous concept--but understanding how to reject the reform-pressure-coalition perspective that the Communist and Socialist parties developed to a fine art from the thirties on, in place of a program of revolutionary opposition to the Democratic Party and its allies.
That is, the program that the revolutionary socialists fought for in the 1930s, in the 1940s, in the 1950s, and that we still fight for today.
www.themilitant.com /2002/6628/662849.html   (1146 words)

  
 Socialist Action - the greatest defeats?
These notes are an analysis of the magazine of the Socialist Action group over the period 1989-93 and deal with the collapse of Eastern European "Communism", the Stalinist coup attempt in Russia of August 1991 and the 1990-91 Gulf war.
Anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism have become identified with socialist struggle, no matter what the forces involved, no matter what positive policies they are fighting for, no matter what the consequences for the workers and their organisations.
Socialists in the USSR should be the most vigorous advocates of revolutionary measures against the old order, competing with the Yeltsinites for the leadership of the democratic revolution, while countering their pro-capitalist ideas and trying to organise the working class as an independent force.
archive.workersliberty.org /publications/readings/trots/socaction.html   (12085 words)

  
 May Day Message from Socialist Action, Canada
The socialist left which is outside the unions and the NDP is not a decisive force.
The Socialist Caucus is organizing a Conference on the Future of the NDP, to be held June 22—23 in Toronto.
The Socialist Caucus believes that the NDP belongs to the workers and farmers who launched the CCF in the 1930s and the NDP in the 60s as a political movement independent of the Liberals and Tories, independent of the banks, big business, and their media mongrels.
www.laborstandard.org /New_Postings/May_Day_Canada.htm   (2484 words)

  
 Marxism versus campism - a reply to Socialist Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The December edition of Socialist Action is devoted to the war and the political debates around it.
The central theme of the articles in Socialist Action (SA) is to present Milosevic as the protector of some kind of actually existing socialism, and Serbia as constituting "the chief obstacle to the capitalist break-up of Yugoslavia".
And it is worth reflecting that in nearly 5 years of warfare in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia not a single military action took place on the soil of Serbia.
www.labournet.org.uk /so/31balkanp14.html   (3085 words)

  
 Welcome To The Direct Action Tendency of the SP-USA
When the Socialist Party, USA was reconstituted in 1973, it successfully reestablished the organization as a voice for an independent and democratic socialism.
While the term "direct action" is often associated with anarchists, the DAT feels it has relevance, in its broadest definition, to socialists as well.
As advocates of direct action we choose to act with whatever resources and methods are within our power, either on our own or as part of a larger coalition, in order to solve the pressing problems with which capitalism and imperialism confront us.
www.actiontendency.net /dat.shtml   (1472 words)

  
 International Socialist Organisation (Australia)
Socialist Worker is the newspaper of the ISO.
The ISO is part of an alliance of socialist parties and socialist individuals who are active in their workplaces and communities and who support a common action platform for Australian federal and state elections.
The Socialist Alliance is an anti-capitalist party which stands for the democratic ownership and management of social wealth.
www.iso.org.au   (470 words)

  
 Socialist Party International Socialist Resistance
The CWI is an international socialist organisation with members in 40 countries around the world, including the International Socialists in Scotland and the Socialist Party in England and Wales.
THE THIRD conference of International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Students took place on 20 November against a background of the escalating conflict in Iraq, a growing anger against the occupation and further attacks on the public sector at home.
Socialist Students aims to both campaign on issues such as free education and to raise, discuss and spread the ideas of socialism amongst students.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /CampaignsYouth.htm   (1960 words)

  
 Socialist Viewpoint
The Socialist Workers Organization, which was in the majority of Socialist Action at the time of the U.S./NATO war on Yugoslavia in the Spring of 1999, unconditionally supported Kosovo self-determination.
The then-minority of Socialist Action insisted that self-determination be a central immediate demand on the Clinton administration—on a par with Stop the Bombing!—during its war on Yugoslavia.
Since this debate in SA took place, Socialist Action newspaper subsequently supported the anti-inaugural demonstration against George W. Bush, a demonstration in which most of the speakers and its participants saw Al Gore and the Democrats as a lesser-evil to George Bush and the Republicans.
www.socialistviewpoint.org /may_01/may_01_5.html   (1636 words)

  
 Young Socialist Action Anti-Capitalist protest
We are building a mass campaign of non-payment and mass action in order to defeat the fees and win the reinstatement of the grant.
Socialist Party youth and students are involved in the fight against racism and fascism through the YRE.
Only a socialist society run in the interests of the majority of society not the interests of big business can provide a decent education, job, home and environment for young people.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /AntiCapitalist.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Socialist Action - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Socialist Action (UK) was a socialist newspaper in the United Kingdom and the name by which the group publishing the newspaper was widely known.
Formally, however, the group was known as the Socialist League.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Socialist_Action   (152 words)

  
 Freedom Socialist Newspaper --Voice of International Revolutionary Feminism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Socialist Action’s position in favor of a movement organized around only one issue (or maybe two or three) is a reformist retreat.
Socialist Action obsesses over “the power of mass action,” a tendency no doubt inherited from the opportunistic example of its parent organization, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), during the Vietnam War.
Socialists in the movements are not just foot soldiers, and SA shouldn’t act like they are.
www.socialism.com /fsarticles/newspapr.html   (3432 words)

  
 Socialist Action
Socialist Action is a nation-wide group of revolutionary socialists dedicated to fighting for a world where people come before profits.
As socialists we seek to learn and understand the theory of Marxism, but as an activist group, we also seek to put those ideas into practice.
The apparent sudden reversal of Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader jailed for life by the Zionist rulers, who has now allowed his relatives and supporters to register him as a candidate for president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), is a new upset in the tumultuous search for a successor to Yasir Arafat.
www.geocities.com /mnsocialist   (516 words)

  
 Socialist Party Young Socialist Action May Day Newsletter
It was a blatantly political action against the protesters, planned in advance and sanctioned by the police’s political masters Jack Straw and Tony Blair.
YSA are launching a mass civil action against the police which should involve hundreds of those present in Oxford Circus.
Vanessa Fatton, from Socialist Alternative, the US section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) spoke about the growth of radical movements and anti-capitalism in the US in the last couple of years.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /YSAMayDay.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Socialist History Project
The merging of the forces of the Socialist Information Center of Vancouver and the Socialist Educational League of Toronto into a new national organization, The League for Socialist Action, marks a mighty stride forward in the struggle to win the New Party to a socialist policy and thus establish a socialist society here in Canada.
Such is the aim, the purpose, the intention of the League for Socialist Action.
It means that those socialists who seriously organize and fight for the correct policies are in a position to make great gains towards the objective of making the New Party really a “new party”.
www.socialisthistory.ca /Docs/CCF-NDP/Found-LSA.htm   (681 words)

  
 Welcome to the Socialist Alliance website
Socialist Alliance national executive member Tim Gooden was declared elected unopposed to the Geelong Trades Hall Council’s secretary position on June 21.
Socialist Alliance today welcomed one of its most prominent members, former Victorian AMWU state secretary Craig Johnston, back to freedom and to the looming struggle against the Howard government’s industrial relations laws.
Socialist Alliance is standing two candidates in the November 26 election.
www.socialist-alliance.org   (520 words)

  
 Solidarity - OpenWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Solidarity was formed in 1986 from the fusion of the International Socialists, Socialist Unity, and Workers' Power.
During the 1990's, Solidarity has had two organizations merge with it — the Fourth Internationalist Tendency (a group expelled from the Socialist Workers Party) in September 1992 and Activists for Independent Socialist Politics (a Socialist Action split that had previously worked in Committees of Correspondence).
In 2000, Solidarity endorsed both the Green Party's Ralph Nader and the Socialist Party's David McReynolds for President.
www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php/Solidarity   (278 words)

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