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  Socialist Party USA
The Socialist Party is also a member of United for Peace and Justice and active in their anti-war work.
The Socialist Party USA (SP-USA) stands with the WGA and calls upon the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to concede to the WGA’s demands for a just contract.
The Faith and Socialism Commission of the Socialist Party USA reaffirms its commitment to nonviolence and its abhorrence for violence and militarism.
www.sp-usa.org   (741 words)

  
  Communism Research Wiki: Socialist Workers Party   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Socialist Workers Party was the target of an FBI COINTELPRO operation from 1961 to 1970.
Each of the Socialist Workers Party's actions in the 1970s were intended to continue the success they'd experienced during their anti-Vietnam War organizing; their 1975 convention resolution, "Prospects for Socialism," predicted increased periods of class struggle just as much of America was conservatizing.
The Socialist Workers Party claimed he was the victim of a frame-up, instigated by the police in retaliation for his union activism at a local meat packing plant.
www.yardley.ca /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Socialist_Workers_Party   (3145 words)

  
 COINTELPRO -- Socialist Workers Party
One of the minor entries in the New York City municipal elections is the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party for Manhattan Borough President, Clarence Franklin.
It is further noted that a Party leader recently stated that the SWP must, under all circumstances, not "antagonize" any elements in the anti-war movement inasmuch as the Party "has always been accused of splitting", which accusation greatly upsets the Party.
Any demonstration planned by the young Socialist Alliance is bad enough, but when they are joined by their fellow finks in the Student Mobe and Socialist Workers, we develop a strong urge to vomit into the wind.
www.icdc.com /~paulwolf/cointelpro/swp.htm   (5913 words)

  
 Socialist Workers Party (USA) Encyklopedi   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Socialist Workers Party är ett litet revolutionärt kommunistiskt parti i USA.
De flesta medlemarna i SWP redan 1928 uteslutits ur Communist Party USA av det stalinistiska ledarna.
Socialist Workers Party är aktiva än idag och den nuvarande partiledaren heter Jack Barnes.
encyklopedi.net /topic/Socialist_Workers_Party_(USA).html   (225 words)

  
 Debs Tendency of the Socialist Party USA - Points of Unity
The mission of such a party would be the defeat of capitalism and capitalist rule, the establishment of a democratic workers' republic, the abolition of the old system, which rests on class antagonism and minority rule, and the foundation of a new society without classes and without the tyranny of capitalist private property.
A socialist party of the working class is organized primarily for political action, both in the streets and through the ballot box.
Socialists utilize concrete demands that correspond to the objective needs of the working class, and bridge the gap between demands that stem from the daily struggles of working people, on the one hand, and the concrete tasks necessary for establishing a democratic workers' republic and socialism, on the other.
www.debstendency.org /pointsofunity.html   (1729 words)

  
 American Red Groups
In the summer of 1965, the PLM was renamed the "Progressive Labor Party" (PLP), and in 1966 the PLP was given a highly centralized command structure and a mission to enter Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Socialist Party USA: The Socialist Party USA is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas.
Socialist Workers Party: Formed on January 1, 1938, from the Communist League of America after it was expelled from the Socialist Party by the SP's moderate leadership.
reds.linefeed.org /groups.html   (6783 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the 2004 Socialist Party Presidential Candidates
He is also the Ohio State Party Chair, a labor and peace activist, a PhD candidate in the field of cultural anthropology at a theological seminary, openly gay, a former Lutheran pastor and labor consultant, and has never before been a candidate for political office.
As the Socialist Party's Presidential nominee in 1996, she was on the ballot in five states, campaigned part-time, and captured just 4,300 votes.
The same activists who tried to draft Kubby for President later suggested that she be the party's nominee for VP in 2004, as that would presumably allow her to have enough time to also campaign for her husband.
www.politics1.com /socialist04a.htm   (1710 words)

  
 Socialist Party
The Socialist Party of France was led by Jules Guesde and Edouard Vaillant.
This party failed to make much progress and in 1905 it merged with the French Socialist Party under the leadership of Jean Jaurés.
Parties involved in the agreement included the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, and the Radical Party.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FRsocialist.htm   (685 words)

  
 Debs Tendency of the Socialist Party USA - About Us
Years of existence as a small political party, especially during the turbulent 1990s, has led sections of the Party to feel that there is little, if anything, we can do to influence events and build ourselves as a key force in the existing movements for social justice and change.
This impasse in the work and development of the Socialist Party has led to an inward-looking perspective, where internal divisions are endlessly debated in sterility, instead of being turned outward and subjected to the test of history and the class struggle.
The mission of the Debs Tendency is to build the Party as a revolutionary democratic socialist party of the working class, fighting to sweep away capitalism and its repressive state, which can help to build a democratic workers' republic that will open the path to socialism and the classless society.
debstendency.org /aboutus.html   (956 words)

  
 Socialist Party of New Jersey
The SOCIALIST PARTY OF NEW JERSEY strives to establish a radical democracy that places people’s lives under their own control — a non-racist, classless, feminist, socialist society in which people cooperate at work, at home, and in the community.
The Socialist Party of New Jersey sent six delegates to the SPUSA National Convnetion in St.
Socialist Party has initiated a national campaign for socialized healthcare and encourages Party locals, commissions and members to take part.
www.njsocialistparty.org   (441 words)

  
 Socialist Viewpoint ... news and analysis for working people
Although these concessions testify to the intrinsic power of organized workers to force their employers to come to terms, the big issues for which these workers struck—wages, hours, safer working conditions, and their longstanding demand for a union contract—have yet to be resolved.
But it is to the credit of fl workers that they could empathize with the victimization of another superexploited nationality and were among the first to walk out in support of a strike to reinstate the 75 fired workers—with many union-conscious white workers joining because of class, not nationalist solidarity.
That is exactly what United Mine Workers president and founding president of the CIO told the official leaders of the AFL and CIO when those bureaucrats failed to mobilize the 32 million members of the labor movement at the time for mass action against what all agreed at the time was the “slave-labor” Taft-Hartley Act.
www.socialistviewpoint.org /index.html   (2783 words)

  
 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, HEIL HITLER, NAZISM, SOCIALISM & NATIONAL SOCIALISTS EXPOSED IN THE USA Image ...
The USA’s pledge was created by Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed national socialist in the USA and an advocate of “military socialism.” At that time government schools in the U.S. imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy.
Francis Bellamy was a national socialist in the U.S. and created the pledge of allegiance to the flag using a straight-armed salute, the so-called "Roman" salute, in 1892.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party was inspired by the films, by the pledge of allegiance, and by the older national socialism movement in the USA.
rexcurry.net /pledgesalute.html   (5695 words)

  
 Socialism
In 1901 the SDP merged with Socialist Labor Party to form the Socialist Party of America.
However the party continued to do well in certain cities such as Milwaukee, where Daniel Hoan was mayor of the city between 1916 and 1940.
Lease somewhat unsexed herself by her indulgence in turbulent and inflammatory discourse at Cooper Union that all women are unfitted by Nature to participate in the excitement of political contests or to have a voice in the calm and deliberate discussions which ought always to attend upon the settlement of grave and serious governmental problems.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAsocialist.htm   (6201 words)

  
 Socialist Alternative
By The Socialist, Socialist Party England and Wales
In early August, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI, with which Socialist Alternative is in political solidarity) held its annual Summer School in Belgium.
While Bush’s handling of the Iraq War has faced increasing criticism from the Democratic Party, the leading Democratic presidential candidates’ positions on other foreign policy issues shows they are no friend of the antiwar movement or working people in the U.S. or internationally.
www.socialistalternative.org   (1514 words)

  
 Socialist Party of Michigan: News
The Socialist Party USA calls upon its members and allies to demand a decisive victory for striking UAW workers and upon the entire labor movement to mobilize in solidarity.
In particular, the Socialist Party condemns GM’s attempt to offload its responsibility for retiree health care to the UAW through a notoriously insecure Voluntary Employee Benefits Association (VEBA), while funding it at only 60-70% of the total cost.
As part of the Socialist Party's Fair Food/Immigrant Worker Solidarity Campaign, the Socialist Party of Michigan will be holding an informational picket in front of Burger King in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
www.spmichigan.org   (873 words)

  
 Socialist Party USA
Debs Tendency: "The Debs Tendency is a political tendency in the Socialist Party USA.
Fist and Rose Tendency: "Fist and Rose is a tendency in the Socialist Party USA which is rooted in the social democratic tradition of the party and in democratic left movements around the world.
We seek to expand the Socialist movement through reform of capitalism and the political rule it enjoys, by means of a bottom-up grass roots democracy that puts the needs of working families at the forefront of the economy and political system.
www.sp-usa.org /unoffgroups.html   (555 words)

  
 Socialist National Committee
The Socialist National Committee is the embodiment of the Socialist Party's legal status as a political party.
Socialists participate in the electoral process to present socialist alternatives.
Contributions and dues paid to the Socialist Party USA support our activist work, but due to election law cannot be used by candidates for electoral office.
vote-socialist.org   (690 words)

  
 The Twelfth National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party
The Twelfth National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party, the largest in the 18 years of American Trotskyism, held its sessions in Chicago, November 15 to 18, 1946.
The immediate task of this national gathering, the third since the assassination by Stalin’s GPU of Leon Trotsky who inspired, taught and led our movement, was to sum up the activities and lessons of the two years that elapsed since the last convention and to chart the course for the period immediately ahead.
This Convention of the Socialist Workers Party should be seen as an inergral part of the history of the Fourth International since the politics expressed here influenced, indeed, determined the shape of the politics for the entire world movement
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/swp-us/12thconvention/index.htm   (184 words)

  
 Socialist Party USA
Socialist Party has initiated a national campaign for socialized healthcare and encourages Party locals, commissions and members to take part.
The Socialist Party is active in struggle to defend the rights of immigrant workers.
The Socialist Party, our Youth Commission and the Young Peoples Socialist League are organizing anti/counter recruitment actions across the US and taking party in anti/counter recruitment campaigns.
sp-usa.org /campaigns   (245 words)

  
 USA/Canada | Workers' Liberty
The Workers Party was organised as a result of the factional struggle that broke out in the American Trotskyist movement (the Socialist Workers Party and its youth organisation) when the Second World War began, and ended in a split.
Those who founded the new party had reason to be confident.
The letter of Natalia Sedova Trotsky, in which she breaks off relations with the Fourth International and with the Socialist Workers Party, is a document of outstanding political importance.
www.workersliberty.org /taxonomy/term/94   (1116 words)

  
 Socialist Appeal - "Why I Am Joining the WIL"
I have been a revolutionary socialist for over 45 years, from the time that I joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the United States in 1961.
Such a society, a socialist society, is needed to ensure that all decisions affecting the environment are under the democratic control of humankind so that the production of goods will be done for the needs and survival of humanity instead of the production and the destruction of humanity and other species for profit.
Venezuela is the best example of how the masses, the workers, take their destiny into their own hands in order to transform society.
www.socialistappeal.org /content/view/80/66   (967 words)

  
 SD Website
SD, USA is the successor to the Socialist Party, USA, the party of Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas and Bayard Rustin and is a member of the Socialist International
The Socialist International is the worldwide organization of social democratic, socialist and labor parties.
This open letter to President Bush on helping the Iraqi people establish the foundations for democracy and human rights was circulated by a group of individuals and is not an offical document of SDUSA.
www.socialdemocrats.org   (412 words)

  
 Wie die Socialist Workers Party (USA) ihre Linie im Fall Elian Gonzalez änderte
Die Socialist Workers Party ist nicht über Nacht zu ihrer öffentlichen Stellungnahme gegen die Rettung von Elian Gonzalez gelangt.
Wir erklärten, weshalb es nicht im Interesse der arbeitenden Bevölkerung der USA liege, wenn die INS das Vorrecht auf administrative Entscheidungen erhalte, die gerichtlich nicht mehr anfechtbar sind...
Genau dies versuchen die Herrschenden in den USA gesetzlich festzuschreiben, seit Clinton 1996 die Reform des Einwanderungsrechts unterzeichnete...
www.wsws.org /de/2000/mai2000/swp2-m26.shtml   (1092 words)

  
 Workers World
In the biggest expression of anti-racist outrage since the Sept. 20 Jena 6 rally, nearly a thousand people from all over the country gathered in Charleston, W.Va., the state capital, on Nov. 3 to support Megan Williams, a 20-year-old Black woman who survived a vicious, racist gang raping, torture and week-long kidnapping....
Fred Goldstein, a member of the Workers World Party National Committee, speaks on “Imperialist globalization in the post-Soviet era and the future of the struggle for socialism in the U.S.” (Running time is 54:27.) Workers World Forum, NYC, Nov. 2
Julie Fry, from the New York Free the Five Committee and Workers World Party, and a main organizer of a youth travel challenge to Cuba this past summer.
www.workers.org   (377 words)

  
 CPUSA Online -
March for peace with the Communist Party and UFPJ on the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq.
Thirty years ago labor was about 25% of the cost and 90% of the assembly workers were in the union.
He was one of the truly heroic figures of the African American freedom movement, the progressive movement generally, and the Communist Party USA.
www.cpusa.org   (1192 words)

  
 Socialist Worker.org
That describes the status granted to the private security firm Blackwater USA when its mercenaries were hired to work for the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
A strike of Los Angeles-area garbage collectors against Waste Management went down to an unnecessary defeat when workers voted for a contract they had rejected two weeks before.
See a list of International Socialist Organization branches and upcoming meetings around the country.
www.socialistworker.org   (383 words)

  
 A Collection-level Description for the Papers of E. A. Whelan
(The Socialist Workers' Party International Information Bulletin has been de facto since 1963 and de jure since 1972 the Internal Discussion Bulletin of the Fourth International, United Sectariat); United Sectariat Fourth International report of the 1972 Fact Finding Commission on the International Marxist Group.
The papers have been kept in the order in which they were received.
The Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, holds the papers of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour Party.
www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/095col.htm   (404 words)

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