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Friday, October 07, 2016
From Socialist Alternative -The Disastrous Failure of Lesser Evilism
The Disastrous Failure of Lesser Evilism
by Ty Moore and Patrick Ayers
Faced with the horrifying prospect of a Trump White House, it is understandable that millions of ordinary people who completely oppose Clinton’s Wall Street politics will nonetheless cast a vote for her on November 8. At the same time, using popular opposition to Trump as a veil, most union and progressive leaders are arguing for a dangerous and self-defeating “lesser-evil” strategy that endlessly reduces our movements into pressure campaigns on the corporate controlled Democratic Party. Read more...
Over 140,000 Women Demonstrate Against Total Ban on Abortion - Victory!
On Monday, October 3, a strike of Polish women was called, inspired by the example of Icelandic women, who held a nationwide strike in 1975. In Warsaw, over 50,000 demonstrated in the pouring rain, in Wrocław 30,000 and Kraków 25,000. Tens of thousands more demonstrated all across the country. In Poznań, there were clashes with the police, while in Kielce demonstrators demolished a controversial homophobic exhibition. Even the police’s conservative estimates talk about 98,000 people demonstrating in over 143 separate protests across the country. Read more...
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