Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political prisoners; the recognition of independent labor unions; the reestablishment of Basque and Catalan autonomy; elections to decide whether the nation would have a king; and most importantly, the legalization of all political parties. The common front unites almost every anti-Franco party, from the Communists to four non-socialist Christian Democratic groups--all of whom will fall into Lisbon-style infighting if they can first dispose of Spain's sportsman-king...
...last fourteen years of his life, Dostoevsky steadily grew more conservative. As a young man he had helped establish an underground socialist press, had been arrested by the Tsarist government and sentenced to death. At the very last moment before he was to face the firing squad, a messenger arrived with a commutation of his sentence to exile in Siberia. When he returned from Siberia, he espoused a mystical sort of slavophilism that stressed spiritual communion with "the Russian people...
...male chorus is on the whole stronger than the female chorus, with Mark Szpak and John Behn turning in some fine cameo performances. Szpak demonstrates great comic versatility in very funny bits as a socialist immigrant and an inept political orator spewing malapropisms...
Frelimo is a self-proclaimed Marxist party, and Machel's plans for Mozambique are similar to the policies followed by Tanzania's socialist president Julius Nyerere. The day before he took office, Machel announced to a cheering crowd that the new government's first actions would be to abolish rent, to take over all private medical and legal services, and to nationalize all private and missionary schools. Machel's first press release after independence called for a development strategy that relies on the party core to organize the rural population into "revolutionary societies--communal villages...where that population will have...
...economy, Mozambique's internal unity should help it deal with its neighbors on an equal footing. Frelimo is determined to formulate policies that will hasten economic development, without sacrificing its political cohesiveness. If Machel and his party can avoid the tribalism, opportunism and power struggles that have toppled other socialist governments in Africa, Mozambique seems destined to become a leading force in independent Africa...