Word: internationalistic
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...first and foremost to those who are suffering and dying under the gun of General Pinochet, and also to those who sponsored and participated in this small but important demonstration: Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, Haitian Action Committee, Harvard-Radcliffe La Raza, Indochina Peace Campaign (Boston), MECHA, Revolutionary Communist League (Internationalist), Revolutionary Communist Youth, Spartacist League, and Youth Against War and Fascism. Keith Anderson The Spartacist League
...levels; during his vice-presidential confirmation hearings last year, the AFL-CIO totaled up his 25 years of voting and came to the conclusion that he voted against workers' interests 94 per cent of the time--the third best anti-labor record in Congress. And as a self-proclaimed "internationalist," Ford consistently supported the Indochina...
Walton calls himself "a revolutionary" and "an internationalist." He says that he cannot understand labels of nationality or why people in California are so much more affluent than those just across the border in Baja California. "My concept of revolution," he explains, "has nothing to do with violence. Instead, each person starts within himself questioning his own values, judgments and relationship to society. Ultimately, you wind up living as part of the problem or part of the solution...
Stone's sense of justice is internationalist. Though proudly Jewish and hopeful for Israel, Stone wrote in 1956, "The Arab refugees weigh upon my conscience, and I believe it the moral duty of Jews everywhere to contribute when peace is made towards their resettlement." In 1970, still deploring Israel's failure to deal justly with the Palestinians, Stone wrote that Golda Meir's "coldness was unworthy of a Jewish leader. . . Leadership like hers, in forty years of siege and war, will purge the Jews of the compassion acquired in exile...
Millions of Jews left for the United States, thousands of Jews became revolutionary activists, and thousands more, convinced as even a lifelong internationalist like Lev Trotsky was to become convinced that Jews could only find economic purposefulness and personal security in their own country, left for Israel...