Word: socialistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese press on educational policy, which had been halted when Chou died, was resumed in full force. Peking's official People's Daily called in an editorial for a variety of educational reforms, arguing earnestly that if China's schools equipped the masses with "socialist consciousness," they would surely "rise up against revisionism...
Irving Howe is one of those writers for whom the designation "a gentleman and a scholar" was minted. Professor of English at New York's Hunter College, literary critic and editor of the democratic-socialist magazine Dissent, Howe belongs to an intellectual tradition in which literature and politics, aesthetics and morals are not mutually exclusive...
...Christian Democrats rejected the Socialist scenario immediately. They particularly objected to the demand that the Communists should formalize their tacit support of the government. Reason: it would fuel voter fears that the Christian Democrats were on the verge of accepting the compromesso stbrico-"the historic compromise" in which the Communists would come into government as partners of the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, Communist Party Boss Berlinguer thinks that a public embrace would be premature, and perhaps might invite a right-wing backlash...
Wage contracts affecting about 1.5 million workers expired at the end of the year, and in some major industries negotiations have been fruitless. Some of the biggest companies involved are strongholds of clandestine unions, which have been gaining strength and are sympathetic to Spain's equally illegal socialist and Communist parties. Last month the clandestine unions staged a general strike that idled more than 75,000 workers for two days...
...verdict on 1975, like the verdict on its Bordeaux, will have to wait a few years. Was it the year that saw Portugal firmly placed on the road to socialist democracy or simply a prelude to dictatorship by the extreme right or left? Was it the start of a new era of independence for Angola or the start of a long, destructive civil war? A watershed in Spain, the Mid-East, South Boston and Northern Ireland--or just the beginning of more of the same...