Schlagwort: Democrats
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Labor Militant: Rising anger behind US election results
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 24-25] Last November’s US elections saw the Republicans win both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. Did this mark a big shift to the right in US politics? The following is an edited statement by supporters of US Labor Militant. The Republicans went…
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Phil Frampton: Jesse Jackson and the black struggle
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 22-27] Twenty years ago Martin Luther King, America’s foremost black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Two decades later the successes of Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 US Presidential elections has once again raised the question, which way forward for blacks in the…
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Kevin Fernandes: Black Sections – Constitutional substitute for socialist policies
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 16-17] At the 1985 Labour Party conference a resolution calling for the setting up of black sections in the Party was defeated with 1,169,000 votes in favour and 5,358,000 against. Prior to the conference the Labour Party NEC had set up a “Working Group on positive discrimination“…