Word: socialists
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...like as it could be without becoming the Liberal Party. The only revolution he was about to start was an educational one, and it didn't mean overthrowing the teacher class. It meant upgrading trades training and providing senior students with computers and Internet access. "I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," said Rudd, who had previously described himself as "an old-fashioned Christian socialist." Is Labor still a party of the left? a TV interviewer asked Rudd. "The economy is basic to everything," he replied. Is Labor...
...different. Cartoonists drew Rudd as a mini-Howard. A satirical video on YouTube cast the Chinese-speaking Labor leader as Chairman Mao, with subtitles reading: "Rudd unnerve decrepit Howard with clever strategy of 'similar difference.'" Rather than attacking Howard's strengths, Rudd appropriated them. "I am not a socialist," Rudd insisted. "I am an economic conservative." On issue after issue, from federal intervention in dysfunctional Aboriginal communities, to national security, to the expansion of coal and uranium mining, Rudd adopted the government's line...
...house in Ho Chi Minh City and swarmed inside, arresting six people and confiscating documents connected to planned "democracy seminars", witnesses told a pro-democracy group. Such raids are far from unusual: This year at least a dozen Vietnamese activists have been arrested, most charged with "propaganda against the Socialist Republic," a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison...
...ABCs were pulled on the economic torture rack during the 20th century between socially negligent capitalism and fiscally profligate populism. But today they lead a potent common market, Mercosur. (Chile is an associate member.) And while each has a leftist President--Chile's Michelle Bachelet is also a socialist--the ABCs are spelling a model, "pragmatic socialism," says Jerry Haar, an international-business professor at Florida International University in Miami and a co-author of Can Latin America Compete? "They're managing the precarious balancing act between Milton Friedman and Santa Claus," says Haar, "drawing both to a more globally...
...contributed to the war effort by providing medical support and searching for active land mines. After the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which took place a week before national elections, public opinion swung even more strongly against the conservative, pro-U.S. Popular Party and in favor of the opposition Socialist Party. Voters thought that Iraq was not Spain’s war, and that their involvement in it was directly related to the jihadists’ attack on Madrid’s trains. Some predicted at the time of Spain’s pullout that the terrorists...