Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The Socialist Workers Party will appear on the Delaware ballot this year, for the first time ever. This Militant article says it is the first time in 30 years, but actually it is the first time ever. It is also the first time a Marxist party has appeared on the ballot in Delaware [...]
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Galway Branch of the Socialist Workers Party have strongly condemned a poem by Kevin Higgins.
Mystical Politics (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
I thought it would be interesting to highlight two recent examples of anti-semitism, one from the left and one from the right. The first example comes from Harry's Place and is a quote from the International Socialist, published by the (British) Socialist Workers Party: Where would a socialist be who decided their political attitude to Malcolm X on the basis of his reactionary religious beliefs as...
Christian Hate? (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
I've just seen a poster advertising the Socialist Workers Party's annual jamboree. Guess who one of the star turns is. Yes, him again , the German neo-Nazis' blue-eyed boy. It's trite but so true: if you travel far enough towards one political extreme you'll eventually meet up with the opposite one. And it underscores my point about the strange company some people keep in the name of Christianity....
principiadialectica.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Socialist Workers’ Party Ian ‘Not-A-Nice-Bloke’ Birchall recently reviewed a book by his comrade Ben ‘Winker’ Watson. Regrettably, their party organ won’t publish the review, on the grounds that the book is ‘incomprehensible.’ It always used to be a running sore that party members couldn’t even bring themselves to purchase their own ‘theoretical’ organ, but it’s hardly [...]
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Richard Coolidge of the Colorado Secretary of State’s office just sent an addendum on Presidential filings. In addition to the list below, these candidates also filed: Charles Jay – The Boston Tea Party James Harris – Socialist Workers Party William R. Koenig Thomas Robert Stevens – Objectivist Party Alan Keyes These are added to the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitution parties,...
principiadialectica.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Socialist Workers’ Party art theoretician and critic John Molyneux claims that BritArt celebrity Tracy Emin is ‘a serious and important artist.’ Molyneux got himself a job as academic pontificator at some poly-university as an ‘art expert’ a while ago. God help his students. As one of the leading members of the SWP sighed in despair [...]
Dave's Part (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Is Britain moving to the right? That’s the question Lindsey German – the Socialist Workers’ Party/Left List contender for mayor of London last month, pictured left – poses in the current edition of Socialist Review. I have pondered this issue...
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
The Socialist Workers Party is running Roger Calero for president. The party has already submitted its petition for president in New Jersey. The New Jersey deadline is not until July 28, and no other minor party or independent presidential petitions have been submitted yet in New Jersey. The SWP also expects to be on [...]
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Filing has closed in New Jersey for minor party and independent candidates (for all office except president). The U.S. Senate race has a Libertarian, a Socialist Workers Party nominee, and three independents. For the U.S. House, there are Greens in five districts (1,2,4,5,7). All the other minor parties have only a single nominee. [...]
3arabawy (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
The police attacked our comrades ya shabab in Zimbabwe… The Harare offices of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) – The Socialist Workers Party’s sister organisation in Zimbabwe – were raided yesterday morning by the police. ISO member Tafadzwa Sando said, “The police wanted to search our offices and said that they had been told the last issue [...]
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
SO enlightened are the Democrats that the party's two stars - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - have managed to the campaign into a vote based on race. It's more like the Socialist Workers’ Party over there, albeit with less women: As the NYT says: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided victory on Tuesday over Senator [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Dirceu Travesso spoke in San Francisco on April 17. Travesso is a leader of the Unified Socialist Workers Party (PTSU) and opposition trade unionist in the banking sector. He begins with an overview of current labor struggles with General Motors US-Brazil. He then goes into depth on the broader social and political fights that have unfolded in the Lula government, including the need for international...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Tony Zirkle, Republican candidate for Indiana’s 2nd congressional district, was “soundly defeated” in yesterday's primary election, coming in a distant last. Zirkle recently delivered a speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP) on the 119th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birth, flanked by a large flag with a swastika, a giant photo of [...]
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
On Sunday, Tony Zirkle — who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional district — delivered a speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP) on the 119th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birth. At the event, Zirkle “stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and [...]
