On VTDigger.org, Greg Guma takes a look at how people and groups ranging from outright independents to Vermont’s independent, democratic socialist, close-with-the-Progressive-Party Senator Bernie Sanders to a former Green Party candidate are playing a role in the race for Burlington mayor.  It’s the first time since 1991 that the Progressives haven’t fielded a candidate, yet [...]

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Posted at socialism.com: In response to a rigged political system, New York City FSP Organizer Stephen Durham and feminist immigrant rights advocate Christina López are running a national write-in campaign. Inroducing the FSP candidates: Stephen Durham for president Stephen Durham brings abundant experience and a generous heart to the electoral arena. Dedicated to changing conditions [...]

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Obama’s State of the Union – Too Little Too Late by Stewart Alexander, 2012 Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate The phrase that came to mind immediately upon hearing President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech is “too little, too late.” After spending the last few years coddling the banks and the richest 1%, Obama [...]

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An editorial from SocialistAlternative.org advocates leftist support of third party and independent candidates rather than Democrats.  Read the full thing here. Those who want to build the strongest electoral challenge to the two parties of the 1% need to act urgently. Socialists, left Greens, trade unionists, community groups, and other activists that want to fight [...]

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From an article on the Freedom Socialist Party website: Let’s provide socialist alternatives to the electoral farce in 2012 December 2011 Photo credits: ABC News (sign); Philly Workers Voice (protest); Joey Lawrence (homeless) Everywhere you look people are marching in the streets, conducting general strikes, defying cops, occupying banks, joining each other’s protests. One thing [...]

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We recently posted here at IPR that the incumbent Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a member of the Progressive Party, was not running for re-election. In the aftermath, plenty of challengers have announced, but the Progressive Party has yet to announce a challenger. After the caucuses, Vermont Progressive Party Chairwoman Martha Abbott explained why her party [...]

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While most American, western and world observers called North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a dictator and said that mourning for his death was coerced in NK, and most US Socialist parties did not comment on it at all as far as I can tell, the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Liberation News had a [...]

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Steven Higgs, the editor of the Bloomington Alternative, takes a critical look at the media’s lack of coverage of third party candidates, in light of a panel on Al Jazeera.  Here is the video on Al Jazeera and here is the full article.  One of the more interesting aspects of the panel, which Higgs focuses [...]

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An article in Al Jazeera takes a look at several US alternative party presidential candidates: Rocky Anderson, who recently compared Obama’s lack of prosecution of the Bush administration for war crimes to Ford’s pardon of Nixon in announcing his acceptance of the nomination of the newly formed Justice Party. In the Al-Jazeera article, Anderson says [...]

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The Justice Party is a new alternative party formed by former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. The former Democrat formed the party in late 2011 and is the first Presidential candidate of the party. Now, efforts have begun to get on the ballot in Utah. Back at the Anderson campaign kickoff, they’re collecting the [...]

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Statement by Party for Socialism and Liberation presidential candidate Peta Lindsay: Recently the Pew Center for research published a poll in which they found that 49 percent of young people in the U.S. have a favorable view of socialism, while only 43 percent reported viewing it unfavorably. The report also revealed that African Americans have [...]

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According to Ballot Access News, the primary ballot for the Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) in California will list four candidates for the party’s presidential nomination: Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) presidential nominee Peta Lindsay, Socialist Party USA (SPUSA) presidential nominee Stewart Alexander, and Stephen [...]

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Rocky Anderson, the newly formed Justice Party‘s presidential candidate and former mayor of Salt Lake City, is currently answering questions on Reddit.com.  So far he has talked about foreign policy, social spending, and ballot access, including the possibility of the Justice Party suing the state of California in order to obtain ballot access for 2012.  [...]

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The Michael Cavlan for US Senate campaign has just released their first campaign commercial. The commercial is available on youtube. No plans for broadcast TV ad buys were mentioned. Cavlan is running for US Senate 2012 in Minnesota on the Minnesota Open Progressive ticket. His opponent will be Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat. The Minnesota GOP [...]

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From the Socialist Party Socialism 2010 Conference: Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan speaking about the co-option of the early 21st century US peace movement by the Democratic Party. Sheehan ran for Congress as an independent in 2008 against Nancy Pelosi (In a seven-way race, Sheehan came in second with 46,118 votes (16.14%) to Pelosi’s 71.56%), and [...]

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Ralph Nader, the former Green Party and Independent presidential candidate writes in the Register Citizen concerning higher education spending cuts in California and how students should feel about them. Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial [...]

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Resident blogger Ross Levin has penned an article over at Polizeros. His article, which is about the Occupy Wall Street Protests generally, nevertheless manages to touch on a few personalities and parties that are of interest to IPR readers. Barack Obama’s rhetoric certainly has a populist tone to it these days, but words are cheap.  [...]

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Jill Stein is a Presidential candidate for the Green Party’s nomination. In a recent interview she expressed some interest in working together or beside Rocky Anderson and his newly former Justice Party. In an interview she stated: “We have been talking with Rocky for months, and exploring how we could potentially work together, in the [...]

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The Justice Party is the new party formed by former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Today Rocky Anderson and other prominent members held a press conference to announce the formation of the party. It was, as the linked article states, sparsely attended by around 30 people and little to no media. The party also [...]

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