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...issue of the country's underfunded education system and allowed her cool reserve to crack. "As a mother," she said, her eyes glistening, "I want for all children born and reared in France what I've wanted for my own children." The crowd of more than 10,000 Socialist Party members loved it. It was the key moment in her exposition of a resolutely Socialist view of the world that went down like ice cream for the party faithful. "We cannot allow financial power alone to drive the world," she insisted. "The marketplace is not the only...
...Though Royal began with a highly non-Socialist reminder of the parlous state of France's finances (public debt amounts to 64% of gross national product, or 18,000 euros per citizen), she followed that up with a long list of new and expensive programs that will hardly give France the balanced budget it has lacked for decades. She vowed to increase the guaranteed minimum income from 1,254 euros a month to 1,500 euros; to increase the lowest state pensions by 5%; to have the state pay rental deposits for its poorest citizens, to offer all young people...
...site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. But the next Red Scare might come not from the PRC, but from our own hemisphere. So much for containment. A new leader, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, is taking a Fidel Castro/Che Guevara approach to government: one part faux-Socialist, one part seriously Communist, one part smokin’ hot. President Castro, fearless leader (or, you know, dictator) of Cuba for more than thirty years, transferred his governing powers to his brother in July 2006 due to illness. Despite having a foot and a half in the grave by all reports...
...Socialist Party leader Fran?ois Hollande and centrist presidential candidate Fran?ois Bayrou were both slated to give testimony for the defense on Wednesday. Pre-empting the appearance of his rivals, Interior Minister and presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy provided a letter that defense attorneys read "lending my support to your paper, which is rooted in the old French tradition of satire" - one, he noted, that "allows us in the name of liberty to laugh at anything...
...useless toys of the feudal emperors and the modern capitalist class and have no significance to us, the proletarian class. Our Great Leader Chairman Mao taught us, 'If we do not destroy, we cannot establish.' The old culture must be destroyed to make way for the new socialist culture.'' Pleading was not going to move the Red Guards. The time had come to try diplomacy. ''Please, Red Guards! Believe me, I'm not opposed to you. But remember, these things were not made by members of the capitalist class; they were made by the workers of a bygone...