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Topic: Socialist Peoples Party (Brazil)


  
  Brazil (07/07)
Brazil is a federal republic with 26 states and a federal district.
Brazil is expected to become a net exporter of oil in 2007 as output from the Campos Basin continues to increase.
Brazil is lobbying for a permanent position on the Council.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35640.htm   (4374 words)

  
 Scottish Socialist Party
The SSP is proud to be a party rooted in the working class, with powerful and growing influence in the organised trade unions as well as in the communities where working people live.
The Scottish Socialist Party stands against the tide of right wing opinion that suggests that immigration is a problem to be solved.
The SSP is a broad, inclusive party encompassing all shades and hues of socialism in Scotland.
www.scottishsocialistparty.org /man2005/Manifesto.html   (20451 words)

  
  Socialism - DiscoverLudwigVonMises.COM - PRODOS Institute Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Socialistic writers, especially those who recommend Socialism for ethical reasons, like to say that in a socialistic society public welfare would be the foremost aim of the State, whereas Liberalism considers only the interests of a particular class.
Socialists admit that under non-socialist production not enough is produced to supply all in abundance, but argue that Socialism would so enormously increase the productivity of labour that it would be possible to create an earthly paradise for an unlimited number of persons.
As long as the majority of the Russian people or, better, of that part of the people which was politically mature and which had the opportunity to intervene in policy—as long as this majority stood behind tsardom, the empire did not suffer from the absence of a democratic form of constitution.
www.discoverludwigvonmises.com /Socialism/index.html   (20518 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance founding conference
We are the [Korea Youth Progress Party], one of the Korean progressive parties, which aims for the party of laborers and people and for the power that revolutionizes the world.
A mass socialist party would commit itself to direct action: to struggle in the workplaces and on the estates, to demonstrations and mass agitation, defiance of the police and the courts.
Recent people protests especially in Genoa verify that in spite of all suppression and violent attacks by capitalist forces WE workers are determined to fight till final victory.
www.socialist-alliance.org /conf/2001_8/greetings.shtml   (5039 words)

  
 2005 January - Socialist Party Australia
Last Sunday, 23rd January, the Socialist Party National Committee met to discuss the political situation in Australia and plans for building the party in 2005.
Workers and young people around the world rightly demonstrated their sympathy and solidarity for the 250,000 or more who were killed by the Asian Tsunami.
But it must not be forgotten that the Iraqi peoples have suffered their own military Tsunami since the invasion of Iraq was unleashed by US and British imperialism.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /archives/2005/01   (998 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Russia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russia has been an independent country since the dissolution of the union in December 1991.
Russia is fairly sparsely populated and has extremely low average population density due to its enormous size; population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-eastern part of Siberia.
The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples.
www.ipedia.com /russia.html   (2195 words)

  
 Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
Slaves were mostly for sugar plantations, diamond mines in Brazil, house servants, on tobacco farms in Virginia, in gold mines in Hispaniola and later the cotton industry in the Southern States of the USA.
He seized three hundred of his own people, and sent word he was ready to deliver them for the goods." He adds: "Some of the natives are always ready" (when well paid) "to surprise and carry off their own countrymen.
In the biblical account of the peopling of the world by the sons of Noah after the Flood, Canaan was condemned to be "a servant of servants unto his brethren," because his father Ham had seen "the nakedness of his father"; and Canaan was believed to have settled in Africa.
www.innercity.org /holt/slavechron.html   (17726 words)

  
 2003 October - Socialist Party Australia
Brazil: Lula fails the working class - Is it time for a new left party?
Those were the words of former PT (Workers’ Party) federal deputy from Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Gabeira, who has just announced his resignation from the PT in protest against the Lula government’s environmental policy.
Over the last weeks, a powerful movement of workers, peasants and the indigenous peoples – the poorest people in the poorest country of Latin America – has checked the neo-liberal plans of the Bolivian government and, on 17 October, forced President Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada to resign.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /archives/2003/10   (507 words)

  
 Latin America - IPS Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian Supreme Court decision that legislators cannot switch parties during their term in office -- a common practice in Brazil -- will pave the way for a newfound political stability, as well as a reduction in the number of parties, say analysts.
PINTADAS, Brazil - When the town of Pintadas dared elect a mayor from the leftist Workers Party (PT) in 1996, the retaliation was immediate: the conservative government of the state of Bahia closed the only bank in this small, impoverished town in northeastern Brazil.
SANTIAGO - A Chilean judge ordered the arrest of the widow of former dictator General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), his five children, and 17 of his closest civilian and military associates on corruption charges Thursday.
ipsnews.net /latin.asp   (771 words)

  
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The Australian Ogoni Freedom Campaign is an attempt to support the Ogoni peoples struggle against the crimes that shell, in collusion with the Nigerian military, continues to commit against the Ogoni people and environment.
Newsletter for supporters of the Ngarrindjeri people in their quest to stop the Hindmarsh Island Bridge being built on burial grounds and also affecting cultural beliefs.
The Kumarangk Legal Defence Fund has been formed to assist in the organisation of financial, moral and legal support for the people and organisations who are being sued in connection with the campaign to stop the building of the bridge to Hindmarsh Island
www.cat.org.au /links/index.html   (2441 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Legislative branch
Election results includes the percent of vote and/or number of seats held by each party in the last election.
unicameral People's Assembly or Kuvendi Popullor (140 seats; 100 are elected by direct popular vote and 40 by proportional vote for four-year terms)
note: the constitution stipulates that only parties that win six seats in the Federal Assembly (two from each island) are permitted to be in the opposition, but if no party accomplishes that, the second most successful party will be in the opposition; in the elections of December 1996 the FNJ appeared to qualify as opposition
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2101.html   (11200 words)

  
 IPS Inter Press Service
The current cycle -- that began with army chief Pervez Musharraf seizing power in 1999 -- has been no different.
LIMA - The Peruvian state will repay a longstanding debt to indigenous people in the country’s Amazon region by including them in a national census in a way that pays attention to their particular social, economic and cultural characteristics.
"I’d like to be a teacher to help educate our people," says Neeta Kantha, a 14-year-old student at the Gram Vikas (Village Development) high school here for adivasi (tribal) children.
ipsnews.net   (1071 words)

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