Posted at the website of the Party for Socialism and Liberation: Watch the television interview withBrian Becker, National Coordinatorof the ANSWER Coalition, on the troop “withdrawal” from Iraq. It is necessary to separate fact from fiction regarding the announcement by the Obama administration that it is removing “combat brigades” from Iraq. This is not the [...]

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Statement from the Party for Socialism and Liberation The Bilderberg Group is an annual meeting of corporate executives and government officials from around the world. Until recently, most people probably did not know it existed. In the past week, the group and theories about its real purpose have been featured prominently in the news. The [...]

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Party for Socialism and Liberation: By: Eugene Puryear Lessons from the 1963 March on Washington and the movement we need today  In addition to civil rights, marchers in 1963 demanded jobs, quality education and housing. On Aug. 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands participated in the massive March on Washington, which many call the high point [...]

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Bob Morris in Politics in the Zeros: Why is the antiwar movement stalled? In two words: the left So says Raimondo at Antiwar.com. He is scathing against leftie ideologues who don’t want a right-left coalition to fight against the insane wars of the US because that might cut into their already absurdly small power bases. [...]

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Marylou Cabral at PSLweb.org: Racism must be defeated in the streets Arizona’s odious law SB 1070, has served as a catalyst for anti-immigrant racism all over the country. The law requires police officers to question a person’s immigration status during a stop, detention or arrest if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is an [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a socialist party based mainly in urban population centers in the United States. In the past couple of years they have run candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles and New York City. It is probably the most active nationally organized socialist party in the United States. A new [...]

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Charles Barron is a current New York City Councilman who is dissatisfied with the state of the city’s affairs and with the Democratic Party in general. He says he will run for Governor as a member of a new party, which will be called the New York Freedom Democratic Party. This is an allusion to [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation had a hand in organizing last week’s protest against an Arizona law which they believe to be racially discriminatory. Over 50,000 people marched through the streets of Phoenix, Ariz., May 29 to demand an end to SB 1070 and all other racist attacks on immigrants. The national protest marched [...]

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This article was posted at the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s website. It is an article in which a member of the party, in Chicago, explains why she joined. Through time I eventually learned how terrible this capitalistic government truly is. Through reading, viewing documentaries, witnessing and learning from my grandmother and my boyfriend, I [...]

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Posted at The Party for Socialism and Liberation website: By: Seize BP Campaign Long Beach, Calif. This is a report from SeizeBP.org. Photo:Jessica Bardales  In Long Beach, Calif., activists from the Seize BP campaign held a giant, 50-foot-long banner that read “Seize BP!” from an overpass over Interstate 405 during rush-hour traffic. The May 20 [...]

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The cultural side of apartheid in Arizona PSL Editorial Apartheid is not just about physical domination over a particular ethnic group. It has a cultural component as well. Now that the Arizona state government has passed its apartheid-like SB1070, which encourages racial profiling and turns the entire Latino population into potential “criminals” to be monitored [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org Transcript from April 10 conference presentation On Saturday, April 10, over 100 people attended a Socialism Conference sponsored by the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Washington, D.C. Participants traveled to D.C. from Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina, Kentucky and elsewhere to participate in a day of panels and [...]

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PSLweb.org: As the war effort in Afghanistan intensifies, momentum for the March 20 National March on Washington is growing. Iraq Veterans Against the War is now the latest to join hundreds of organizations and individuals who have endorsed the March 20 mobilization. “A permanent presence in Iraq, escalation in Afghanistan, and incursions into Pakistan while [...]

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2008 Socialist Party USA vice-presidential nominee and California state party chair Stewart Alexander has received the endorsement of his national party in seeking the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for governor of California. From Alexander’s press release: Alexander’s political career spans over three decades; working for the Florida Consumer Action Network in the mid 80s [...]

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A candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the Long Beach, California mayoral race could very well be the only challenger the incumbent mayor faces.  Not only that, but the socialist is only 21 years old. Merino, 21, would not formally be considered a candidate unless she returns her paperwork and 20 signatures [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: By: PSL Chicago Branch Chicago In Chicago, the Party for Socialism and Liberation is waging a legal struggle to defend the right for progressives to distribute political literature. The branch in Chicago is fighting an unconstitutional ordinance that the city has used for decades to prohibit and fine political speech. In April, [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org by Ian Thompson: Far from the “change” promised by President Obama and his new administration, 2009 reinforced capitalism’s status quo. It was a year of suffering for workers and poor people. The greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression rocked the working class, as banks and corporations fell. But the banks had [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org by Natividad Carrera Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the new Bull Connor Thousands of undocumented treated like criminals On Dec. 15, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) introduced HR 4321, the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009,” into the House with 89 cosponsors. The Obama administration has stated that it [...]

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By: Corazon Esguerra pslweb.org Racist and discriminatory toys for children requirement dropped On Dec. 3, the Houston, Texas, branch of the Salvation Army announced they would stop their discriminatory policy of asking parents to provide a Social Security number or some other form of legal documentation to receive Christmas toys for their children. If documentation [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: By: Anne Gamboni Only the defeat of ‘great nation’ imperialism will end war In a seemingly surprising move this past October, the Nobel Prize Committee named U.S. President Barack Obama as the recipient of its prestigious peace prize for 2009. Alfred Nobel, ‘merchant of death’ The nomination is ironic for at least [...]

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