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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Socialist International News online
The Socialist International is shocked and deeply dismayed at the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, the Lebanese Minister of Industry and one of the leaders of the 14 March movement.
The Socialist International (SI) held a meeting of its Committee for the CIS and the Caucasus in Moscow on 19-20 May 2006 for an in-depth discussion on the prospects for social democracy in Russia, in the countries of the CIS and the Caucasus, building on its previous gathering in Kiev last December.
Hosted by the Socialist Party of Uruguay, PSU, and the New Space party, NE, both of which are members of the SI and form part of the governing coalition of President Tabaré Vázquez, the meeting included the participation of leaders and representatives of 28 parties and organisations.
www.socialistinternational.org /8SINews/news-e.html   (8673 words)

  
  January 2002: Can Duhalde Restore the Prospects of Capitalism in Argentina?
In Argentina, all the bourgeois press and pundits are saying that Duhalde is the "last chance of the political class," that is, of the bourgeois political parties.
He has been an outspoken critic of the neoliberal program espoused by the majority of the Peronist party itself, to say nothing of the traditional bourgeois conservative party, the Radicals, who were forced to drop governmental power like a hot potato by the Dec. 20 uprising.
And a counteroffensive of the workers and impoverished masses in Argentina could set an example for the entire Third World, which is being ruined by the imperialist economic offensive.
www.socialistaction.org /news/200201/prospects.html   (789 words)

  
 Tensions remain high in Argentina
Despite the relative stabilization that followed the election of a populist demagogue, Nestor Kircher, as president of Argentina in May, social tensions and the mobilization of massive sections of the huge army of the unemployed are continuing.
In the province of Neuquen, in western Argentina, a Trotskyist party, the Partido de Trajadores Socialistas (PTS, Socialist Workers Party) is leading the occupation of the Zanon factory, a manufacturer of ceramics.
In all, the situation in Argentina remains explosive and it is important for defenders of human rights and workers’ rights to remain attentive to dangers of repression there and ready to offer their support to victims of it.
www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/argentina.html   (600 words)

  
 Argentina's Revolt
Argentina's budget deficit for 2001 has been forecast as $7.8 billion, but it may rise further, since tax receipts decreased by 17 percent during the first two weeks of December compared to the same period the previous year.
Argentina is the last and, with the exception of Indonesia, arguably the most ravaged victim of the "Asian flu," the world economic crisis that broke out in Thailand in 1997, subsequently wreaking havoc with developing economies all over the world, including Hong Kong, Russia, and Brazil.
Argentina's vice president had resigned earlier in the year, so power passed constitutionally to Senate leader Ramon Puerta, who is a member of the main opposition party, the Peronist PJ.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /South_America/Argentinas_Revolt.html   (5964 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Argentina's long tradition of political turmoil and authoritarian rule was halted by the establishment of an elected civilian government in 1982.
Given that the Congress, judiciary and regional governorships are all dominated by members of the Peronist party, and that de la Rua was the candidate of a compromise among the opposition Alliance coalition, the power of the executive branch has been reduced in recent years.
The severe economic crisis that consumed Argentina in 2001 and led to the collapse of the Alianza coalition government, the resignation of President de la Rua in December 2001, and a quick succession of interim presidents, finally resulted in the 1 January 2002, special election of Peronist Eduardo Duhalde as President.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Arg1.htm   (1219 words)

  
 The Socialist's Community's Journal
Socialists pretend to represent the working class (a majority), but they don't succeed in their goals because socialists really only represent the educated working class which is a very small minority.
Supposedly socialists could unionize and demonstrate their worthiness undeniably, but they do fail to do so and regardless of the true cause of the failure, it is easy for a capitalist to attribute the failure to the ideology.
She is the President of the Poitou-Charentes region, a member of the National Assembly, and a prominent member of the Socialist Party.
community.livejournal.com /socialists   (4326 words)

  
 ISR issue 22 | Argentina: The next step   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The social movements and left political parties are building crucial networks of solidarity and action between unemployed and employed workers, as well as among the more than 150 neighborhood assemblies.
Revolutionary party flags and banners, whose presence was regularly discouraged in an earlier phase of the movement, were also welcomed into the overall festivity.
Argentina now must give up much of its monetary, fiscal, regulatory and asset management sovereignty for an extended period, say five years....
www.isreview.org /issues/22/argentina.shtml   (2724 words)

  
 Socialist Party Election Bulletin (May) - In the run up to the General Election: Build the Socialist Alternative
Argentina was the 7th largest economy in the world, a capitalist country with a developed industrial base and the best living standards in Latin America.
The Socialist Party stands for the election of a socialist government, as a reflection and closely tied in with the struggles that are happening on the ground - where people are taking control of resources out of the hands of the privilidged few for the good of society as a whole.
The highest body of the party is the national conference, organised yearly, at which delegates of all branches decide on the priorities for the party over the coming year.
www.socialistparty.net /press/bulletingenelection.htm   (2742 words)

  
 2004 November - Socialist Party Australia
All Socialist Party members and supporters and voters are invited to Richmond Town Hall, Bridge Rd, Richmond this Thursday, 2nd December, at 7pm for the formal swearing in of the first socialist councillor for many years.
The Socialist Party is proud to announce that Stephen Jolly won a seat in Langridge Ward in the Yarra City Council elections on Saturday.
Scottish socialist Party (SSP) members were stunned to learn of the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as national convenor of the party on Wednesday 10 November.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /archives/2004/11   (516 words)

  
 Socialist Appeal - Trotsky and the Struggle Against Fascism
Though extreme right wing parties as the FPO in Austria are not able at all to organise those sections of society actively, they have been able to attract some electoral support from parts of the working class.
In the past twenty years we have seen the mass parties of the working class forming governments on their own (as in the case of the British Labour Party) or in a coalition (as in the case of the Italian PDS).
The offices of the Trade Unions, of the Communist and Socialist parties, the headquarters of the co-operative movement, the journals of the left, were all attacked, burnt down and destroyed by squads organised by the fascists.
www.socialistappeal.org /content/view/147/57   (4759 words)

  
 Argentina English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Today, Argentina is in its fourth year of recession; the real rate of unemployment is 40 to 50 percent; and the foreign debt stands at about $150 billion.
Argentina also has a strong history of Trotskyism – the movement that opposed Stalin and the bureaucratization of the former USSR and stands for democratic world socialism.
The exploiters and oppressors of Argentina are the foes of workers everywhere – a point not lost on the global justice movement as it denounces and disrupts "free trade" plotters throughout the world.
www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol23no1/ArgentinaEnglish.html   (1277 words)

  
 Socialist Party (Argentina)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Socialist Party is a member of the international group Socialist International alongside a lot of socialist and social-democrat political parties from around the world.
Even though the acronyms change in each party, the usual acronym of the flag used by all of them is PS as a kind of homage to the original party founded by Juan B. Justo.
The "Socialist Rose" has been widely used as symbol by several socialist parties in Argentina.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ar}ps.html   (498 words)

  
 Socialist Appeal - About the WIL
A revolutionary party, for a Marxist, is in the first place program, methods, ideas and traditions and only in the second place, an organization and an apparatus (important as these undoubtedly are) in order to carry these ideas to the broadest layers of the working people.
The Marxist party, from the very beginning, must base itself on theory and program, which is the summing up of the general historical experience of the proletariat.
Our newspaper, Socialist Appeal, which was the name of the first Trotskyist paper in the United States, fights to defend and re-establish the ideas of revolutionary Marxism and Trotskyism in the United States.
www.socialistappeal.org /content/view/12/52   (920 words)

  
 James Petras on Argentina
In this interview Petras correctly points to the absence of a revolutionary party having a mass base and capable of leading the working class and popular masses to a resolution of the crisis that would meet the needs and interests of the great majority, rather than the privileged few.
And certainly the degree of hostility to all the bourgeois parties and the degree of militancy of great masses of people would describe a pre-revolutionary situation.
Right as we’re speaking today, there are massive demonstrations in Argentina, and there are preparations for a big show of force when he announces his economic program late this afternoon.
www.laborstandard.org /New_Postings/petras_on_argentina.htm   (3677 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Socialist International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Split by the outbreak of World War I, it was re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and reconstituted again (in its present form) after World War II (during which many socialist parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe).
In the 1980s, most SI parties gave their backing to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (FSLN), whose leftwing government had incited enmity from the United States.
The Party of European Socialists, a party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Socialist_International   (565 words)

  
 Socialist Party (Argentina)
The socialist party has had several splits since around 1919 when Leninist socialists made their own party.
The Socialist Party is a member of the international group Socialist International alongside a lot of socialist and social-democrat political parties from around the world.
Even though the acronyms change in each party, the usual acronym of the flag used by all of them is PS as a kind of homage to the original party founded by Juan B. Justo.
flagspot.net /flags/ar}ps.html   (498 words)

  
 Argentina's economy dives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The goal was to intimidate protesters into silence after months of roiling dissent and to isolate the piquetero movement, which has been in the forefront of the rebellion, from the rest of the angry people of Argentina.
Argentina has already paid off the principal of its initial loans.
Argentina's Left can hasten this process by being the best fighters and organizers in the day-to-day struggles while continually promoting the need for workers and the oppressed to set a course completely independent of the capitalists and their parties — a course culminating in socialist revolution.
www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol23no3/Argentina.html   (997 words)

  
 another social dem blog: Fist and Rose Manifesto
FRT is a tendency of the Socialist Party USA which is rooted in the social democratic tradition of this party and democratic left movements around the world.
If you are or have been involved with the Socialist Party USA and find some agreement with the sentiments of the manifesto, contact us to have your name included in support of this statement for the up and coming SPUSA convention, this October.
The Socialist Party USA Fist-and-Rose Tendency is a coalition of pro "Second (Socialist) Internationalists" within the Party which seek to establish friendly ties with all of the democratic-left throughout the world.
fistandrose.blogspot.com /2005/08/fist-and-rose-manifesto.html   (2043 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: the Revolutionary Party
It is the lack of a revolutionary party, or the failure of that revolutionary party, that has led to the survival of capitalism.
Marx and Engels made clear that their revolutionary party was not to act independently of the working class, but on the contrary to be its most concentrated expression at all times.
This means campaigning for the establishment of a new mass party of the working class, based on the unions and such campaigning bodies, where one does not exist.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /manifesto/party.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Venezuelanalysis.com - Venezuela News, Views and Analysis
Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela Holds First Meetings
President Chavez Announces “Socialist Cities” and Constitutional Reforms
United Socialist Party of Venezuela Enters New Phase
www.venezuelanalysis.com   (1096 words)

  
 WheretodoResearch.com - Major Democratic Leftist of Center Parties in Democracies
The CDI consists of leftist, centrist, and conservative parties in democracies, non-democracies and semi-democracies.
The ELDR consists of mostly centrist parties in democracies and semi-democracies in Europe.
Mostly the ELDR is a caucus of like-minded parties in the European Parliament.
www.wheretodoresearch.com /International/Socialist_Parties.htm   (327 words)

  
 "Enough of this hunger"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
SOME 10,000 people poured into the downtown Plazo de Mayo in Buenos Aires February 8 in the latest in a series of protests that have continued since an uprising ousted two presidents in December.
The struggle in Argentina has continued since the mass uprising that ousted President Fernando de la Rúa on December 20--and a second interim president a week later.
Now, the task is to lay the basis for a revolutionary challenge to the corrupt and illegitimate government that came after.
www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/394/394_12_Argentina.shtml   (720 words)

  
 Socialist History Project
The leaders of the Party began putting more and more pressure on its Ukrainian members, such as establishing quotas on the amount of money they were expected to raise for the Party organ, The Worker, and later for other Party projects and campaigns.
But for the Party members in the ULFTA this meant they were carrying what they called a "double burden," because they also had to support their own cultural organizations.
After 1931, however, when party members met as "Party fractions", or caucuses, in which they decided how they would carry through the Party line, more and more it was the Party members who were expected to "carry the ball," so to `speak, to serve on the committees and take on responsibilities.
www.socialisthistory.ca /Remember/Reminiscences/Boyd/B14.htm   (2314 words)

  
 U (2)
salta province branch of the uta labor union (argentina)
union for culture and democracy (political party, algeria)
fictional flags inspired by the flag of the union of socialist soviet republics
www.fotw.net /flags/k-u-2.htm   (698 words)

  
 History of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia
In relation to party building and alliances, he states that the problem is not of building a revolutionary party but of clearing obstacles from its path.
The Socialist Workers’ Party announced their withdrawal from the Fourth International and the cutting of ties with their U.S. counterparts and declared themselves to be a party of Lenin.
It was on this basis that the SWP proposed to the SPA that unity discussions should commence at a leadership level, progress to a state level and eventually lead to a merger of the two parties.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv8n2/dsp.htm   (1490 words)

  
 Chavez announces United Socialist Party of Venezuela
He made a direct appeal, over the heads of the party functionaries, to the rank and file of the revolutionary movement to build this new United Socialist Party, "and those existing parties that do not want to join in, they are free to continue on their path".
The bureaucracy of the main Bolivarian parties must have been absolutely terrified, and in the days that have followed the speech there has been a mad rush to see which party is the first to declare it is disbanding and joining the new United Socialist Party.
The new party should be build from the rank and file, "squads, platoons and battalions will be the basic structure of the new united socialist party of Venezuela".
www.marxist.com /political-instrument-revolution-socialism201206.htm   (2608 words)

  
 Argentina - The World of Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Argentina was one of the first Latin American countries to enact legislation regulating working conditions for women and children.
The Socialist Party passed the bill in 1907.
ERCOSUR, a South American free trade agreement signed by Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil, was formed in 1991 to encourage trade among the four countries and allow these countries to compete internationally.
www.cp-pc.ca /english/argentina/work.html   (391 words)

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