Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have staged almost daily strikes for higher wages. Since none of the unions have funds for a prolonged strike, the stoppages usually last for no more than half a day. "The workers may strike for four hours in the morning and then work four hours in the afternoon," says Socialist Labor Leader Piero Boni. "We have found that form of strike the most effective for disrupting production, and we always try to organize things so that the workers get their meals." This week the huge (7.6 million members) National Trade Union Confederation will carry things a step further by calling...
...conservative as Tory Leader Edward Heath in talking about the need for national unity to solve Britain's economic problems. But last week, in the Queen's speech from the throne outlining the government's policy for the year ahead, Wilson seemed very much an orthodox socialist...
...candidacy for Parliament from Piraeus, which includes the red-light region that the kinetic star made famous in her 1960 film Never On Sunday. Though she may find the district's voters to be tough customers, thanks to the popularity of the local Communist Party, Mercouri, a Socialist, is confident that she will be taken seriously. "There is no pretending, no act," she says of her new campaign. "There's a bit of the actor in all Greeks, and they will be able to tell straightaway whether you're genuine...
Alan's father is a do-gooding socialist printer and a self-righteous authoritarian moralist who gets his after-hours kicks at skin flicks. At the stable where he works on weekends, Alan is sexually aroused by a pert, enticing co-employee (Roberta Maxwell). In a nude scene that precedes the play's climax, they try to make love but Alan falters. He feels that the eyes of his gods watch and condemn him. Then the horror begins...
...Harvard Faculty members and graduate students are among a group of radical economists who have started a magazine, Dollars and Sense, designed to present current economic events from a socialist perspective...