Word: socialist
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...October, Fenstermacher was running for the union’s executive board on the platform of the No Layoffs Campaign. He started attending regular meetings and participating in their demonstrations, but before long, he grew wary of the No Layoffs Campaign’s roots in the Harvard Socialist Alternative, which has ties to the Committee for Workers International. According to Fenstermacher, many of the campaign’s participants are also members of Socialist Alternative...
...Socialist Alternative has not always played such a central role in the labor movement on campus...
...Socialist Alternative builds its campus presence through its members’ involvement in the No Layoffs Campaign—holding over half a dozen public protests since the fall—it has crowded out the formerly ascendant Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
...haughtiness." But Modigliani sprang after all from a proud and unconventional family. He was born in the Tuscan port town of Livorno, a cosmopolitan city where Jews had lived freely since the Renaissance. Educated and progressive--his mother shocked her in-laws by starting a private school; his socialist brother was jailed for his political activities--his family had once been prosperous as well. But by the time of his birth, in 1884, they had been reduced to poverty by the failure of his father's businesses...
...predominantly (though only nominally) Catholic Belgium went almost as far as its northern neighbor, passing a law that gives all rights but adoption to homosexual couples. This summer the Belgian federal Parliament is expected to vote on a proposal to allow same-sex couples to adopt and, according to Socialist M.P. Karine Lalieux, it is likely to pass. "In Belgium we've been able to have a very serene discussion about this," she says. "There's been no need for someone to contravene the law of the land the way Mamère is doing in France." More surprising...