The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a running a mayoral candidate in Los Angeles this coming year, 22 year old Carlos Alvarez:
Carlos is an anti-war activist and leader of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). He has helped bring tens of thousands of people to the streets to stop [...]

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On December 13, California released its official vote tally from the November 2008 election. The most suspense concerned the write-in candidates for president. Ron Paul’s slate of presidential elector candidates received 17,006 write-ins. Chuck Baldwin received 3,145. James Harris for the Socialist Workers Party received 49, and Frank Moore (independent who [...]

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Two Socialist Workers Party members are launching mayoral campaigns in major cities in preparation for looming 2009 municipal elections:
NEW YORK—The Socialist Workers Party here has nominated Dan Fein, a sewing machine operator, as its candidate in the 2009 mayoral race. James Harris, a union meat packer, is the SWP candidate for mayor in Los Angeles. [...]

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Kat Murti reports in the Daily Californian:
Big-name liberal activists-including Ralph Nader and Cindy Sheehan-celebrated the lifelong activism of late UC Berkeley alumnus Peter Camejo Sunday at the International House.
Camejo, who ran as Nader’s vice president in 2004 and was seen by many to be a major figure of the American left, died of lymphoma, [...]

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The Socialist Workers Party has had an exemption from reporting its campaign contributors, and its campaign expenditures, ever since 1979. But, whenever the Federal Election Commission grants the party this exemption, it always provides that the exemption will expire at a specified point in the future. The current exemption expires December [...]

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The Recorder, the newspaper of Central Connecticut State University, interviewed Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Roger Calero, who said of his candidacy, “I’m a worker — a worker who has been active in different struggles and in support for organizing unions. For example, when I was a meatpacker in the Midwest in Iowa and [...]

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Ballot Access News reports

This year, 23 presidential candidates are on the ballot in at least one state. That is the highest in U.S. history except for 1992, when there were also 23. Generally there are more such candidates in periods of great public unhappiness.
Here is a list, with the predominant party label for each, and [...]

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The Democratic, Republican, Green, Reform, and Socialist Parties have fewer state legislative nominees on the ballot this year than they did in 2006. However, the Libertarian and Constitution Parties have more legislative nominees on the ballot this year, compared to 2006. Also, the Socialist Workers Party has the same number (one) [...]

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The Militant reports on the recent activities of Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Roger Calero and vice presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy. Calero campaigned in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley October 14-15, “speaking to more than 130 students at college meetings in two Valley cities.” Meanwhile, Kennedy “talked with immigrant workers in jail awaiting deportation, [...]

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International Viewpoint runs an obituary of Bill Banta, “a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life,” who died August 20. Banta was twice expelled from the Socialist Workers Party.

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The November 2008 Colorado ballot will list 16 presidential candidates. This is the most crowded ballot in U.S. history for president at a general election. The previous record was 14, set in 1992 in three states (Iowa, Tennessee, and Wisconsin).
This year, it appeared that 18 candidates would be on in Colorado. [...]

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IPR previously reported that Ralph Nader would be an option on the ballot for 85.2% of voters and Cynthia McKinney will be on the ballot before 70.5% of voters. Now, because of a series of updates at Ballot Access News, we can bring you a more complete picture of national ballot access. These [...]

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy “is in Seattle this week talking to striking Boeing workers and campaigning in a long-shot race for the White House.” Kennedy told the newspaper, “We’re fighting to win this election. It’s time that the working class is represented in the [...]

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The Vermont Cynic has a lengthy interview with Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy, who said of herself and presidential candidate Roger Calero, “I have been a coal miner most of my life and Roger Colero has been a meat packer, so we’re workers and we’ve both been a part of union struggles, [...]

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In its newspaper The Militant, the Socialist Workers Party says it has “succeeded in putting the presidential ticket of Roger Calero and his running mate Alyson Kennedy on the ballot in 10 states” with its recent certification in New York and Vermont. The article is not entirely accurate, however, since in some states a [...]

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