Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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International Women's Day originated in the United States on March 8, 1908, when thousands of women garment and textile workers participated in a march in New York City, organized by a group of socialist women to demand an end to sweatshop conditions, child labor, and for the right to vote. The action of these women was an inspiration to people all over the world, demonstrating the power of women joined in struggle for their rights. Around 1910, at the International Conference of Women Socialists, Clara Zetkin, German socialist leader, introduced a resolution to set aside March 8 as International...
...long wanted the job. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan instead chose a dark horse: Dr. David Owen, 38, an ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named to the post in 1935, Owen got the job partly by default: Healey apparently felt that the demanding Exchequer post, during Britain...
...American Nazi Party changed its name after the 1967 assassination of Founder George Lincoln Rockwell, but not its loathsome ideology. Now known as the National Socialist White People's Party, the group has a songbook that includes the following ditty (to the tune of Jingle Bells...
...Like its Socialist predecessor, the new coalition government of Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is fully committed to the welfare state. That means keeping unemployment at its present low rate of 1.5%, even if employers must pay workers who show up only sporadically. Volvo has pioneered new ideas to keep workers interested, including a novel assembly line that allows employees to set their own pace (TIME, Sept. 16, 1974). That has cut absenteeism in a new plant outside Kalmar to 15%-still high by almost any standards outside Sweden. Even shutting down is no answer; on each of the days that...
...devil of sorts, according to Greene, is General Omar Torrijos, Panama's strong-man president. (He overthrew a 60-year-old oligarchy in 1968, and has slowly begun to bring socialist reforms to the impoverished countryside...