In legislative elections held over the past two years, French Socialist Party, German Social Democratic Party and Dutch Labor Party three other left-of-center parties recorded their worst-ever results in the era. ..…
There was far more agreement over the importance of the selection 83% of U.S adults said the choice of Supreme Court justice is important to them personally, including 63%. ..…
The educators’ coalition, strongly supported by labor, is working all-out to defeat it. . ... Two Congresswomen, Democrat Kirsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, are in a race to become Arizona’s first woman senator. ..…
In his address to the convention, Brown enumerated the accomplishments of labor, U.S history and here Ohio, especially the successful fight against Ohio Senate Bill 5. Secretary of State Kathleen Clyde, Democrat, decried Republican practice of purging voter rolls and Republican Secretary..…
We are given a close look at the many stages of Debs, and his political development; from a Democratic craft union leader to a union fighter who built the first mass industrial labor union to a five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate who was jailed multiple times for his beliefs,..…
In 23 states--including New York, where I New Jersey, California, --public-sector workers. ..…
This situation poses immense challenges for a labor movement that may not be strong enough to take on the Democratic establishment, let alone inclined to do so. . ..…
Like his colleague currently in the White House, Sanders campaigns on progressive and populist themes. ... Obama, however, Sanders usually sticks to his positions on issues relating to labor, veterans, children, corporate cheats, and certain social issues (marriage equality, for example.) ..…
Hence revolutionaries must reject a factitious unity between the revolutionary proletarian and the opportunist philistine trend within the labor movement. In brief, the international movement had to be split, so that a Communist labor movement could replace a Social Democratic one...…
The absence of this helps explain why our pension and heath care system is so much worse than most advanced capitalist countries where there were powerful social democratic and labor parties. ..…
And Solid Liberals are much more likely than other Democratic-oriented groups to have positive views of labor unions (74%). . ..…
Russian Revolution, and also against the horrors of slaughter. ..…
Democrats and Democratic leaners are far more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say labor unions have a positive impact on the country, and these differences have widened since 2010. . ..…
Libby made him White House official convicted of crime since Iran-contra years ago and marks the latest fallout from Bush administration's handling of the run-up to Iraq.. ..…
While labor unions and their Democratic allies also will benefit from the ruling, Republicans and business interests led the challenge to McCain-Feingold Act and its restrictions on pre-election broadcast ads.. ..…
The CIA’s contribution, according to the U.S. ambassador, included “covert support for pro-democracy street rallies and encouragement [of] democratic and anti-communist sentiment in Congress, armed forces, friendly labor and student groups, church, and business.” . ..…
Romney cited Bureau of Labor Statistics report, and even some of Romney's supporters in the crowd had not heard that statistic.. Democratic State Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo said Romney campaign had been slow to respond to question from Wednesday about Lily Ledbetter Act. ..…
The Negroes Struggle for Democratic Rights and Socialism The party makes powerful and insistent propaganda to the Negroes that the leadership of organized labor is necessary and indispensable to their successful struggle for democratic rights. ... It stresses the national..…
His efforts on behalf of labor reform began while he was pro tempore of New York State Senate and Tammany Hall Democrat that work culminated, with the advice of young liberal counselors such as Leon Keyserling, in National Labor Relations Act in 1935 that bears Wagner's name.. ..…
The public continues to express negative views of Congress, and Republican and Democratic congressional leaders. The public's overall views of labor unions have changed little through the stalemate between Wisconsin's and the state's employee unions over collective bargaining rights. ..…
On the latest international test, the Program for International Student Assessment, American schools in. ..…
The story of a growing rift within the Republican Party — between Tea Party extremists, and moderates who are driven more by fiscal policies than by bedroom politics — is playing out all over the country, and especially here in Minnesota, where we have a three-way race for the governor’s mansion,..…
Ken Martin, who served announced today that he will run for Democratic-Farm-Labor chairmanship. ..…
., on behalf of Democratic-Farm-Labor Mark Dayton. But watch him here as he travels to participate in hall meeting with young people that is televised on BET, MTV and CMT.. ..…
The system of “Reeducation through Labor” must be abolished. . Election of Public Officials. There should be a comprehensive system of democratic elections based on “one person, one vote.” ..…
In the episode of TV series peep show that passes for politics in this country, the news-channel chyrons and 24 7 talking-head panel buzzing with yet another belated allegation of sexual harassment assault against would-be Justice of Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh. ..…
The Coalition and Labor parties have no legitimate authority to deprive the population of the democratic rights that have been achieved through decades, and even centuries, of struggle against tyranny and despotism. . ..…
Among the Labor government’s first acts following its election in September 1914 was to introduce a raft of anti-democratic legislation, including the War Precautions Act. ..…