The Party for Socialism and Liberation has completed its petitiong in Iowa, collecting over 1,900 signatures in a state that requires 1,500. According to the latest release on the matter, petitioners recieved generally positive response during their drive:
Members of the Chicago branch of the PSL made weekend trips to Iowa City, Des Moines, Waterloo [...]

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In an article published earlier this month in Workers Vanguard, the newsletter of the International Communist League, a who’s who of the American Left is chastised for it’s role in the 2008 presidential campaign. The article can be read in its entirety here, and includes blanket renunciations of “all capitalist parties,” appeals to fundamental [...]

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Party for Socialism and Liberation presidential nominee and PFP presidential hopeful Gloria La Riva will be appearing in Fresno, California this Sunday to meet with and listen to locals concerning the rights of immigrants.
According to the event announcement, which is apparently only available in Spanish, La Riva has “participated for over 25 years [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation has annouced that its national ticket has achieved ballot status in three states — Arkansas, Colorado, and Vermont. The party is “in the final stages for ballot status” in Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, and Utah, and is working on ballot access for the Gloria LaRiva/Eugene Puryear ticket in [...]

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Yesterday, IPR pointed readers to a statement and list of demands made by the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s presidential ticket on behalf of victims of the recent wide-scale flooding in Iowa.
Backing words with action, presidential candidate Gloria La Riva, Illionois Assembly candidate John Beacham and Chicago organizer Stefanie Fisher have traveled to Iowa to [...]

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In light of the recent flooding in Iowa, the Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear campaign has issued a statement calling for generous government financing for disaster relief and condemning DC’s current spending priorities:
When big investment banks were in trouble because of the housing crisis, the government gave them $200 billion literally overnight. That is 200 times [...]

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A hot topic among the country’s Marxist political parties in recent weeks has been “The Cuban Five.” Cuban nationals Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, and Ramón Labañino were arrested in 1998 on 26 charges, including espionage and conspiracy, for their intelligence gathering activities focused on anti-Castro groups based in Miami. [...]

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An article by Eugene Puryear, the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s nominee for the Vice Presidency, was published today criticizing Barack Obama as a supporter of “the basic tenets of the capitalist establishment,” and taking the Democratic presumptive to task for his stance on issues dear to the Left (and others):
He has gone out of [...]

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Gloria La Riva and Eugene Puryear are the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s nominees for president and vice president, respectively. The ticket’s take on neoliberal “free trade” agreements is something most members of the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian parties can agree with: They’re against them. However, the La Riva/Puryear position paper on free trade is [...]

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Marylou Cabral, the Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate for Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 4, came in second to incumbent Don Knabe 69.66% to 17.78%, with Dr. Jay Shah coming in third with the remainder.
Stephen Hinze, PSL candidate for Supervisor in District 5, and the only challenger, received 21.03% of the vote against Supervisor [...]

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