via email from Brian Moore:
Will the ‘Socialist’ Slam Swell Socialist Ranks?
by Berry Craig
http://www.laprogressive.com/
http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/socialist-slam-swell-socialist-ranks/#more-25856
I’m not sure what to make of the recent Esquire magazine poll that showed 78 percent of “Republican leaders” think President Barack Obama is a socialist.
My guess is the GOP brass is posturing for political gain. Brian P. Moore agrees.
“The Republicans really [...]

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Socialist Webzine:
Dan La Botz, a 64-year old Cincinnati school teacher, has filed petitions with the Ohio Secretary of State to become the candidate of the Socialist Party for the U.S. Senate. La Botz, who needed 500 signatures to get on the Socialist Party primary ballot, filed petitions with approximately 1,200 signatures on Thursday, Feb. [...]

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Socialist Webzine
by Nicholas Paul Nix
My name is Nicholas Paul Nix and I am running as an Independent Candidate for Congress in Texas’ 4th District of the United States House of Representatives. Texas’ 4th District is located in the northeast corner of Texas. My district, and Texas as a whole, is known as one of [...]

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Socialist Webzine:
by David McReynoldsfrom Edge Left
I was at a meeting of the New York War Resisters League tonight when, mid-way through the meeting, Frida Berrigan broke into the agenda to say that she hated to relay the news, but she had just gotten text message that Howard Zinn, that great historian of the struggles of [...]

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Socialist Webzine:
by Socialist Party USA POCC
February is Black History Month. It’s a time when our public institutions, and corporations give a little extra attention to the accomplishments and contributions to the story of the Americas made by Black Americans. Established by Carter G Woodson in 1926, it’s purpose was to promote the contributions made [...]

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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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Posted at Socialist webzine:
Justice versus Juxtaposition
The Socialist WebZine was recently headed with a multiple choice question:What deserves more political attention the right to marry or the right to adopt children?• Right to Marry• Right to Adopt• Neither, the bourgeois family unit is an outdated relicIn [...]

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via Socialist Webzine:
by Josh Hatala, Faith & Socialism Commission memberfrom Socialist Party USAThe Holidays are a time filled with stark contradictions. While most religions offer inspiring messages of peace and love, commercial enterprises attempt to put a price tag on every human emotion and social relation. But the shiniest presents in the [...]

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http://socialistparty-usa.org/statements/no3962.html
Socialist Party USA Statement
While citizens in most other industrialized nations enjoyed the benefits of publicly administered healthcare from the aftermath of WW II forward, Americans have suffered under a healthcare system dominated by private corporations. For-profit healthcare has produced negative health outcomes at all levels of the system. More than 48 million people have no [...]

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Posted at The Socialist WebZine
by Matthew Andrews
Since October 2007, the Socialist Party of Boston has been using meetup.com to schedule meetings and events http://www.meetup.com/bostonsocialists. It’s a convenient way to post events and receive RSVPs to anticipate attendance. Meetup is also open to the public and new people regularly find us and “join” [...]

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By way of Poli-Tea, a letter published in Hernando Today by 2008 Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate Brian Moore:
Blaise Ingoglia’s guest column last week in Hernando Today, which was critical of third parties for undermining the two major parties’ future existence, was laughable.
The only threat to his Republican Party, and to the Democratic Party [...]

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Socialist Webzine reports:
Two dozen people braved the cold and rain last week in Memphis to protest against Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Memphis Socialist Party members participated in the demo and joined thousands of others across the country in demanding an end to the war and occupation of Afghanistan.

For news coverage of [...]

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Socialist Webzine:
Statement on Obama’s Surge
by National Action Committee of the Socialist Party USAToday Obama has announced that he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The justification is paper thin. Far from creating security, the occupation itself has created a state of lawlessness in Afghanistan. The fraud ridden reelection of the puppet Karzai regime [...]

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Reported in Ballot Access News:
Because Ohio has no valid law in place on how a group becomes a qualified party, and because no bill to create a valid law is close to passing, the Ohio Secretary of State will leave the Constitution, Green, Libertarian, and Socialist Parties on the ballot for the 2010 election. Those [...]

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A paper in New Jersey write an extensive article about what it calls “another nine” candidates running for New Jersey Governor. The list includes independents, a Libertarian, and a candidate with Socialist Party USA.

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