Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIRST there was the Socialist Party, then the Communists, and finally the so-called "new left." Three times in this century the American left has tried and failed. But now there are those who say the conditions are finally right for acheiving the traditional goal of the left: a radically new society, based on the rationality of social need instead of profit...
Enlightened Peace. There were other ceremonies in honor of the event across Japan, but none were without political shadows. Socialist leaders boycotted the Tokyo ceremonies to protest the continuing Lockheed scandal; so did the Japanese Communists, who oppose the "Emperor system" itself. More than 30,000 police were on duty in Tokyo alone to control isolated leftist demonstrators, some of whom denounced Hirohito as a "war criminal...
...this year, when a small arsenal was discovered in the home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios to blast the "fascist NARC and the puppet Tanin" and call for "violent struggle...
...Socialist Workers Party: Like the Communists, the Socialist Workers Party gears its programs towards the working people, women and minority group members, but their platform is slightly more moderate than the C.P.'s, with less emphasis on reconciliation with countries following socialist policies. The platform their candidate Peter Camejo is running on is called "A Bill of Rights for working people," and emphasizes domestic policies. These include increased employment through a public works program and a shared-work system similar to that proposed by the Communists; support for the ERA; protection against inflation through cost-of-living escalators; free education...