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May Day around the world - pages 3-5,14 FEATURE: SATURDAY, MAY 6,1995 VOL.9, NO.48 Fighting for jobs, a living wage Jobs bill introduced page 4 Victory in Europe s 50 years later pages 5,14-15 Cinco de Mayo vive! pages 6,22 'Deadly Corn' films reviewed page 21 Safeway worker Gaif Zacarias and her son Travis, age 4, during last month's strike in California. 2 People's Weekly World Saturday, May 6.1995 May Day salute in die 'class \ . We, ourselves workers and unioii members, would return our nation to the "good old days" of salute our sisters and brothers in Decatur, Illinois no unions,low wages and no benefits, no to elect now engaged in life-and-death struggles with ed officials who side with capital against labor. three of the world's largest multinational corpo We honor these shock troops of the working rations. Seldom have the class lines been drawn class - auto workers on strike against CaterpiDar; more sharply, seldom have the stakes been high rubber workers on strike against Bridgestone/- er; seldom has the battle been waged with more Firestone, paper workers locked out by A.E. Sta- determination. ley - and are mindful of our responsibility as We,like our sisters and brothers in the heart of well. We pledge our best efforts to guarantee that the Illinois "Class War Zone," say no to scabs and the struggles in Decatur - as well as those of tmion busting, no to arrogant corporations who workers everywhere - will end in victory. Jeny Acosta, Utility Workers, more, Md• Kevin Doyle, Local Joseph Henderson, USWA Chicago, II • Loimie Nelson, -
The Spirit of Democratic Socialism
The Spirit of Democratic Socialism Paul Kengor PhD “Democratic socialism” is all the rage nowadays. It is framed as a new smiley-faced “socialism.” Those who support it hasten to add that they are “democratic socialists,” as if that sounds or feels better. And yet, groups like the Democratic Socialists of America, the home of democratic socialism in America today—whose members include the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—refer to itself on its website as “the largest socialist organization in the United States.” Even then, with the rise in the attractiveness of “democratic socialism” has come a subsequent rise in the appeal of socialism generally. For a solid decade now, younger Americans in particular have been telling pollsters they favor socialism over capitalism. The surge in interest has been steadily growing, particularly since the Obama era. In retrospect, a turning point came in 2011, when a major study by Pew Research Center found that 49% of Americans aged 18-29 have a positive view of socialism, exceeding the 46% with a positive view of capitalism.1 In 2014, a survey by Reason Magazine and the Rupe Foundation did a deeper dive. It found that 53% of those aged 18-29 view socialism favorably.2 Not long after that survey, Gallup turned up a gem, learning that 69% of Millennials said they would be 1 “Little change in public response to ‘capitalism, ‘socialism,’” Pew Research Center, December 28, 2011, posted at https://www.people-press.org/2011/12/28/little-change-in-publics-response-to-capitalism-socialism/. 2 See: Emily Ekins, -
People's World Photograph Collection
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pz5fz6 No online items Finding Aid to the People's World Photograph Collection Finding aid prepared by Labor Archives staff. Labor Archives and Research Center 2012, Revised 2017 San Francisco State University 1630 Holloway Ave San Francisco 94132-1722 [email protected] URL: http://www.library.sfsu.edu/larc Finding Aid to the People's World larc.pho.00091986/073, 1990/013, 1992/003, 1992/049, 1 Photograph Collection 1994/037, 2011/015 Title: People's World Photograph Collection Date (inclusive): 1856-1992 Date (bulk): 1930-1990 Creator: People's World. (San Francisco, Calif.). Extent: 22 cubic ft. (45 boxes) Call number: larc.pho.0009 Accession numbers: 1986/073, 1990/013, 1992/003, 1992/049, 1994/037, 2011/015 Contributing Institution: Labor Archives and Research Center J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460 San Francisco State University 1630 Holloway Ave San Francisco, CA 94132-1722 (415) 405-5571 [email protected] Abstract: The People's World Photograph Collection consists of approximately 6,000 photographs used in People's World, a grassroots publication affiliated with the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). The photographs, along with a small selection of cartoons and artwork, highlight social and political issues and events of the 20th century, with the views of the newspaper aligning with the CPUSA's policies on topics such as civil rights, labor, immigration, the peace movement, poverty, and unemployment. The photographs, the bulk of which span the years 1930 to 1990, comprise predominantly black and white prints gathered from a variety of sources including government agencies, photographic studios, individual photographers, stock image companies, and news agencies, while many of the cartoons and artwork were created by People's World editor and artist Pele deLappe. -
The Left and the Democratic Party
The Left and the Democratic Party What can socialists today learn from the experience of the left in the past as it grappled with the issue of electoral politics? Over the last 50 years, American leftists have in general adopted two alternative strategies for dealing with the question of electoral politics. On the one hand, some attempted to build a movement to reform or even to take over the Democratic Party, while others chose instead to work toward an independent political party to the left of the Democrats. Each of these strategic approaches has encountered tremendous difficulties in making headway in the American political system. Today, with Donald J. Trump as president, with the Republicans controlling Congress and most state governments, and after Bernie Sanders’ remarkable campaign for president and the astonishing growth of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), debate over political strategies is more intense than it has been for decades. So we turn here to look at the first of these strategic approaches, the attempt to reform the Democratic Party, to influence it, or simply to use its ballot line. The idea that the left should work to reform the Democratic Party in order to defend democratic rights and the standard of living and social benefits of the working class, as well as to prepare the ground for a struggle for socialism, actually has a long history that goes back to the 1930s. The Communist Party (CP), which had been founded in 1919 and been illegal and underground until 1921, finally emerged in the mid-1920s with a legal organization prepared to engage in political campaigns.