The NDP are far from the ideal party of the left, but I do understand they work within certain constraints, and they are far better than the alternative. So, it is still nice to see then pull out a win in my beloved home province.
Troy
paul phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't give the
I didn't give the actual results. Here they are from the Globe and Mail
which headlined its article something like "NDP squeeze by in Saskatchewan"
If Bush had anything like this support ...
Paul Phillips
Economics,
University of Manitoba
(BA, MA, University of Saskatchewan!)
I suspect that the US government demanded the head of the German justice
minister on a plate. Bush refused to take a telephone call from Schroeder,
and extraordinarily, on the very day of voting, the justice minister was
forced to indicate that she would probably be resigning, for making a
Are there any European friends here to comment on this? Brits
don't count, Australians are OK.
Sabri
+
Schroeder's Party Wins 2nd Term
Sun Sep 22,10:26 PM ET
By TONY CZUCZKA, Associated Press Writer
BERLIN (AP) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats won
one of Germany's closest
Schroeder, whose outspoken defiance against war with Iraq was
credited with giving him a late-push in the tight campaign, said
he won't back down. He has insisted he would not commit troops
for a war even if the United Nations ( news - web sites) backs
military action.
(do they usually send
Here are the results of the Canadian Federal election yesterday:
Liberals 173
Alliance 66
Bloc Quebecois 37
Conservatives 12
New Democratic Party 13.
The Liberals gained 18 seats, the Alliance 8. The Bloc have 7 fewer seats.
The Conservatives have almost half as many as before, and the
Without implying any crass parliamentarism or tailism behind any political
party, what is good and what is problematic about these results?
(I mean in terms of things like shifting the terrain of struggle onto more
progressive issues, making it easier for the majority of working people to
: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 6:14 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5069] Re: Canadian Election Results..
Without implying any crass parliamentarism or tailism behind any political
party, what is good and what is problematic about these results?
(I mean in terms of things like shifting the terrain of struggle onto
In support of Lou's argument, and again analogizing to Nicaragua, where U.S.
imperialist mass murder and terror was also visited on the population, the Yugoslavian
people's vote was , by this U.S. mass terror, under extreme duress. Probably for
many Yugoslavs the main issue was not to get
I think Charles is a bit fuzzy about whom the Mafia candidate in Serbia was. We will
see about the new guys. But we _know_ about Slobo, a thug and murderer. --jks
In a message dated Fri, 6 Oct 2000 3:10:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Charles Brown"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In support of
I don't recall anyone posting the results of the Canadian Federal Election
on June 2, so here they are. They show gains both for the right and the
left, and a further regionalization of the country. The right-wing Reform party
now the official opposition has no representation east of Manitoba and
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS
Unofficial results suggest a record low participation in voting for
the U.S. presidential and congressional elections on Tuesday,
especially among the working class and national minorities. Even
commentators in the monopoly-media were dismayed at the continuing
A friend in Kingston ON quotes the Toronto Star that the
Conservatives' successful campaign was directed by a Mike
Murphy, a protege of Jesse Helms. It seems Murphy also
managed Ollie North's unsuccessful run at the US Senate.
My friend predicts the new Ontario government will adopt
a hard
Preliminary election results are in from Ontario, Canada's most populous
province. It appears that the Tories, led by a US-inspired right winger
named Harris, will form a majority government with 75 seats.
This marks the end of the NDP government, led by Bob Rae, whose reign was
marked
Bill, I see you are from NSW -- and in that the North
American papers don't view Australia worthy of reporting
on -- what happened in the recent NSW state elections?
Elaine Bernard
Harvard Trade Union Program
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For those who don't know, New South Wales is the largest state in
Jim -- was that small government before or after capitalism had withered
away?
--
From: pen-l
Subject: Re: Election results
Date: Saturday, November 12, 1994 3:15PM
At least according to Hal Draper's exhaustive survey of Marx's
political ideas (kARL MARX'S THEORY OF REVOLUTION
On Sat, 12 Nov 1994, Jim Devine wrote:
At least according to Hal Draper's exhaustive survey of Marx's
political ideas (kARL MARX'S THEORY OF REVOLUTION, Monthly
Review Press), old Karlos wanted a small govt with the
governmental delegates subordinate to civil society. Sounds
a bit like
On Sat, 12 Nov 1994 03:04:40 -0800 DJ said:
Peter Dornan says that the Christian Right is solid on a number of issues
while the movements are disparate on many issues. Having read much of the
literature put out by the Christian Right - and I am not quite sure who
is represented here except most
Jim Devine seemed to imply that Doug McCready had left the list. He has not.
At the time, Doug's posts were written in such a way that he was a minority of
one on the list
Some did argue that he should leave the list. He did not. Instead, he would
occassionallly post, b
but he did not push
I have been following the discussion on US election with great interest. I must
say, I really don't understand the result well, but I'm an outsider. Let me say
a few words in the form of a question. I think the American majority is
conservative. Conservative in the sense the term is defined by
At least according to Hal Draper's exhaustive survey of Marx's
political ideas (kARL MARX'S THEORY OF REVOLUTION, Monthly
Review Press), old Karlos wanted a small govt with the
governmental delegates subordinate to civil society. Sounds
a bit like what USA voters want, though I doubt that they
Comrades, do not exaggerate your despair. The share of the Congressional
popular vote was 52% Rep, 48% Dem. This hardly qualifies as the landslide
of reaction it's been portrayed as - especially given depressed turnout
on the left and energized turnout on the right.
Doug
Doug Henwood [[EMAIL
Whoa, Doug. The results DO mark a further shift right -- in the
direction oflaw and order, anti-immigrANt sentiment, etc,. -- from the
already reactionary positions being taken by the Dems.
Sid Shniad
Comrades, do not exaggerate your despair. The share of the Congressional
popular vote was
Trends in Oregon partially mirror what happened nationally, but there are
some hopeful differences. While both houses of our Legislature did go
Republican for the first time in 40 years, voters strongly rejected a hard
right Republican candidate for governor. Results of the vast menu of
ballot
I'd like to second Steve Hecker's call for more effective organizing. I don't
have the numbers handy, but, from what I've seen, the percentage of the
population that identifies with the hard, Christian right is about the same as
the percentage that generally supports the "movements"--labor,
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