Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...towering that a cynic looking back could not have contempt for it. To re-create the bustling, politically contentious '30s, when a young Orson Welles tried to stage the socialist musical The Cradle Will Rock with federal funding, Robbins has splashed a couple of dozen real people onto a garish movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray), a swank saleswoman...
West "may be the last remaining socialist in American life, so he doesn't bring a lot of comrades with him," Peretz said...
...than 1,000 delegates selected from all over the country and 450 journalists, it was immediately described in the media as the new "party of power," the government in waiting. Fatherland's politics are something of a hybrid, more nationalist in some ways than Yeltsin's but also more socialist in orientation...
Meaning what? The anarchist movement today is a sprawling welter of thousands of mostly young activists populating hundreds of mostly tiny splinter groups espousing dozens of mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth-culture present and ever Green future, is an anarchist hotbed. Add to that the hundreds of under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave...
...core of the anti-trade movement is the leftover left, Orwell's old gang. Having had little to do since the fall of the "socialist camp" a decade ago, the left finally found its voice in Seattle. "In the '60s, I marched for peace and justice," explained a Seattle demonstrator. "Now I'm back...