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Press Release: Boston Activists to Debate Bernie Sanders’ Candidacy

August 12, 2015 By BostonISO

Originally posted at BostonSocialism.org Contact: Chris Morale                                                                                                    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel.: (339) 203-9157 Email: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016, bernie-sanders, boston-iso, election 2016, iso, senator-bernie-sanders, socialism

Facts vs. Fiction: The Big Lie About the Government “Takeover” of Health Care

December 18, 2010 By steven-j-gulitti

Back on December 9th, in a post entitled "Fox Fair and Balanced" on Health Care Debate.....NOT!" I pointed out how the Fox News Network had deliberately tried to skew the national discussion on health care reform in such a way as to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: glenn-beck, michele-bachmann, politifacts.com, rush-limbaugh, socialism, theodore-roosevelt

Like Dragons wallowing on their hoards – with poll!

November 17, 2010 By AmberPaw

I remember my father telling me about laying his body down in the street to prevent scrap shipments to Japan and Germany in 1936, because all the sellers thought about was profit.  He told me he stated to the press and anyone who would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitolism, compassion, detoit, dragon, greed, hoard, neobaron, profit, sit-down-strike, socialism

End Poverty in California

September 28, 2010 By gmoke

End Poverty in California [EPIC] was the platform of Upton Sinclair's campaign for the Governorship of California in 1934.  Sinclair had won the nomination of the Democratic Party although he had been a member of the Socialist Party … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 1934, barter-clubs, california, cooperatives, democratic-party, depression, fdr, national, poverty, socialism, upton-sinclair

A 21st Century Ghost Dance: Rush Limbaugh, The Radical Right and the Politics of Obstruction

March 6, 2009 By steven-j-gulitti

In the closing days of the 1880s, beset by far reaching societal change, the Indians of the American West embraced a messianic practice called the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance religion, put forth by a Paiute medicine man named Wovoka, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, conservative-media, rush-limbaugh, socialism

We Got Your Socialism Right Here, Chump

September 21, 2008 By massmarrier

Cross-posting: This appears at Marry in Massachusetts.  In particular, Republican Presidents and legislators rode this swaybacked workhorse round and round the public ring. America was great because we believed in the free market and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: caldwell, financial-crisis, financial-times, health-care, nationalization, socialism

Freddie and Fannie were NOT bailed out – they were nationalized – isn’t that socialist?

September 8, 2008 By AmberPaw

Reuters:  http://www.reuters.com/article... [no dividends] Housing Note:  http://www.housingwire.com/200... This is no longer the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, this is the worst housing crisis, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bank-collapse, banks, bush, depression, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, seizing-corporations, socialism, socialist

Thoughts on Fidel

February 20, 2008 By lanugo

Now that ole Fidel Castro, arch-nemesis and scourge of 9 presidents and one of the last of the breed of Cold War revolutionaries (but of course you all knew that) is leaving the scene,  I was just wondering if people had any thoughts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fidel-castro, socialism

Who is John Galt?

February 26, 2007 By jk

According to the Globe article, the members of the community recently voted to end the practice of shared ownership and wages.  This was being done because of..."the slow exodus of younger kibbutzniks. The Shapiros' son, who left … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: objectivism, socialism

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