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L.A. Times - Politics

Sarah Palin introduced as McCain's choice for VP
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:55:00 -0700
'We can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all,' Alaska's governor says at a rally with McCain. Palin, 44, is anti-abortion, but has bucked her party at times and could appeal to Clinton fans. DAYTON, Ohio -- Republican John McCain today introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate -- a move that could shake up the presidential race with a social conservative who will appeal to the party's base and a woman who may attract disaffected Democrats who backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton instead of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama sharply attacks John McCain, GOP while accepting historic nomination
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
'We are a better country than this,' Obama tells an exuberant crowd of more than 84,000 at Denver's football stadium. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a scathing assessment of John McCain and a blunt indictment of the Bush administration, promising to repair "the broken politics of Washington" and preside over a more prosperous and equitable America.
Texas delegate waited a lifetime for Obama's moment
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Bertha Means, 88, has long stood up for civil rights. This week in Denver she sat down and cried. Who can say for certain where the tears came from? There were the days picking cotton as a girl, her legs scratched and bleeding from the plants' sharp spurs. There were the restaurants that wouldn't take her order, the credit union that wouldn't accept her application and, later, the swimming hole where her kids weren't allowed to swim with the white children.

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Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The week before the week before this week’s scheduled gathering of the delegates and their media camp followers in Denver, the nominee-presumptive of the Democratic Party did something that is strongly recommended, and ought to be mandatory, for anyone who has just logged a year and a half’s worth . . .
David Remnick: What Putin is doing in Georgia.
David Remnick Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
On a bright September day in 1993, not long before he ended his two decades in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered a rare public address in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. Although Solzhenitsyn was energetic at the lectern, he was all but finished with his epic work as the chronicler of . . .
Strokes of Genius?
The New Yorker Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Steve Brodner draws Obama the pragmatist and an idealistic supporter.

washingtonpost.com - Politics

McCain Chooses Ala. Governor Palin as Running Mate
Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:56:57 -0400
DAYTON, Ohio -- Republican presumptive presidential nominee John

washingtonpost.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:52 -0400
Obama, Accepting Nomination, Draws Sharp Contrast With McCain
Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400
DENVER, Aug. 28 -- Sen. Barack Obama, the first African American to lead a major-party ticket, accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night, sharply criticizing Republican John McCain and casting the election as "our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise ali...

 

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Leftist Parties of the World - Comprehensive directory of leftist parties and organisations around the world which is updated every two months.

Australia's Socialist Alliance - Electoral coalition of several Australian socialist groups.

Democratic Socialist Movement (Nigeria) - Socialist news, policies and Marxist analysis of the DSM, with socialist campaigns, anti-war campaigns and support for workers, students, trade uinionists and women's struggles in Nigeria and internationally.
Meta Description: [ Socialist news, policies and Marxist analysis, socialist campaigns, anti-war campaigns, support for workers’ and student struggles in Nigeria ]

Freedom Socialist Party - Split from (US) SWP in 1960s over issues of feminism and civil rights work and strongly identified with feminism, anti-racism and gay and lesbian liberation, the FSP participates in the Peace and Freedom Party in California and the Labor Party (US). The FSP also has branches in Canada and Australia.
Meta Description: [ The Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women are activist revolutionary feminist organizations that mobilize in defense of labor, people of color, women, immigrants, gays, lesbians, Mumia Abu-Jamal, affirmative action, and abortion, and are leaders in anti-fascist and anti-war struggles. ]

Peace and Freedom Party (U.S.) - A multi-tendency socialist and feminist party which has been on the ballot in California since 1968
Meta Description: [ The Peace and Freedom Party is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed... ]

Resistance Centre Hobart - Site of the Democratic Socialist Party (Australia), Hobart. Site features current news, event calendar, an overview of the centre, and membership information.

Socialist Alternative - US section in solidarity with the Committee for a Workers International (CWI). The site contains the current copy of Socialist Alternative's newspaper, Justice, an archive of past editions and documents and information of general interest for socialist, workers and youth.
Meta Description: [ Features socialist news and socialist policies, with Marxist analysis, socialist campaigns, anti-war campaigns, support for workers' struggles, Socialist Books and more. ]

Socialist Equality Party (Britain) - Site includes the party's aims and objectives and current affairs topics. Rival of Workers' Revolutionary Party from which it split in the 1980s. Both claim to be the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (itself a result of a 1950s split in Trotsky's Fourth International).
Meta Description: [ The Socialist Equality Party is the British Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. This site presents information about the perspective and activities of the SEP. It also features links to the World Socialist Web Site, which is updated daily. ]

Socialist Labor Party of America - Daniel DeLeon founded the SLP in 1890. This site includes facts about the SLP's history, its revolutionary principles and program, a definition of socialism, an SLP local directory and a short biography of Daniel De Leon.

Socialist Labour Party (Britain) - Union leader Arthur Scargill led this left-wing split from the Labour Party after its abandonment of Clause 4 which committed Labour to the nationalisation of industry.

Socialist Party (Ireland) - Campaigns in the interests of ordinary workers, the unemployed and young people, standing in the best traditions of James Larkin and James Connolly. Represented in the Irish Dail by Joe Higgins. Affiliated with the Committee for a Workers International.

Socialist Party (England and Wales) - Campaigns against attacks on the welfare state and for the rights of workers, youth and oppressed groups. Formerly known as Militant Labour and Militant tendency which led the anti-Poll Tax movement. The SP is a section of the Committee for a Workers' International.
Meta Description: [ Features socialist news and socialist policies, with Marxist analysis, socialist campaigns, anti-war campaigns, support for workers' struggles, Socialist Books and more. ]

Socialist Party (Northern Ireland) - Centred in Belfast the group is affilated with the Committee for a Workers' International.
Meta Description: [ The Official Website for the Socialist Party in Northern Ireland, incorporating Socialist Youth pages, news and information. ]

Socialist Party of Canada - Affiliated to the World Socialist Movement. Listing their history, principles, perspectives on current events and publications.
Meta Description: [ Socialist Party of Canada - World Socialism ]

Socialist Party of Great Britain - Party made up of people who have joined together because they want to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism.

Socialist Party of Great Britain (Reconstituted) - Formed in 1991 after its members were expelled from the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Publishes Socialist Studies. Site includes online literature and meeting information. Criticises the original SPGB for being anarchist oriented and reformist.
Meta Description: [ The Website of the Socialist Party of Great Britain ]

Socialist Workers Party (Britain) - Possibly the largest far-left group in Britain. Until recently the SWP had not run candidates in elections since the 1970s. Part of the International Socialist Tendency which is a loose grouping of organizations espousing the general line of the SWP and the theories of Tony Cliff.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of the Socialist Workers Party, an anti-capitalist revolutionary Marxist organisation based in Britain. ]

Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) - Irish revolutionary socialist party standing for a workers' republic and international socialism and linked with Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
Meta Description: [ Socialist Workers Party Ireland, revolutionary socialist party. For a workers Republic and International Socialism. ]

500 The New Union Party - Seeks to bring the entire economy under the ownership and control of all the people. Marxist-DeLeonist.

Workers' Revolutionary Party (Britain) - General Secretary is Sheila Torrence. Descended from the tendency led by Gerry Healy who was expelled in the 1980s. Ran one candidate in the last election. Rival of Socialist Equality Party both of which claim to be the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.