#socialist party

[socialistbirb]

I wonder why he became a Democrat suddenly after he became rich?

[witchyfemmee]

can you guys recommend some good political blogs/community’s on here or other apps i unfortunately get most of my political updates and whatnot from tiktok, and i don’t want to lose touch with things once the app shuts down.

[godinvent]

The argument people use of “well who would want to clean the sewages and toilets if everyone is able to be whatever they want to be under socialism”

Literally for a period of time, hell even still, a power washing simulator game was one of the most popular games people played, and power washing videos are very popular. Same for videos about construction like building brick walls. Honestly asmr in general provides a way for people to see these menial jobs as something they actually enjoy, so yes there would actually be people that want to clean sewers and toilets.

[greatrunner]

I never felt one way or another about AOC. I never truly understood where she and the Squad stood for the public good and the working class. And that's mostly bc I didn't really engage with US politics on the pretense that our representatives were terrible.

What was she doing besides espousing about Black and non-Black representation in politics? It's weird seeing people class AOC as a socialist, because, even with the faintest grasp of what socialism stands for (at the time), that struck me as wrongheaded.

So, years later, now that she's basically towing the party line and honestly never stood for anything else but her own interests, it really sucks that Socialists are getting dragged through the dirt bc of her and Bernie Sanders.

But, I also understand there is a level of responsibility that Socialists need to take for this backlash. Because, unbeknownst to me, they basically surrendered their political power to allow Sanders and his apprentice to represent them, and rally around the Democrats in 2016. The impression was definitely, "We don't have the power, so we're going to work with the lesser evil to platform our policies."

Like, live and learn, but, goddamn. That's embarrassing.

[miizuchii]

"as a revolutionist, I can have no respect for capitalist property laws, nor the least scruple about violating them." -eugene debs

Eugene V. Debs was in an Atlanta penitentiary, serving a ten-year sentence, when he lost the 1920 presidential election. Two years earlier, Debs, a labor leader, had spoken out against America’s involvement in World War I. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, after the prosecution argued that his antiwar speech obstructed military enrollment. The 1920 loss didn’t come as a surprise to Debs, who had run four times before. His fifth and final run, promoted with a campaign button that read “For President Convict No. 9653,” brought him nearly one million votes, says Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the National Museum of American History. President Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921.

[oediex]

16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote for the European Parliament in Belgium for the first time this year.

Belgium knows a system of mandatory voting, in the sense that showing up to vote is compulsory - you don't have to vote for anyone if you don't want to, you can abstain from voting right then and there, but you do have to show up. For this reason, the Constitutional Court of Belgium ruled this would also need to be the case for 16- and 17-year-olds as well.

This would mean they would be susceptible to being sanctioned if they fail to turn out. However, yesterday, it was decided by the government that young people will not be given a fine if they don't turn out.

While those over 18 can still be fined and sued, in practice, people who don't turn out to vote aren't usually prosecuted.

Voter turnout in Belgium is one of the highest in the world, with 90% in the last federal elections (2019). Elections are always held on a Sunday. (I'm always so confuses when elections are held on weekdays in other countries, haha)

Mandatory voting was written into the Constitution in 1893, after a general strike organised by the then existing Belgian Labour Party (the first socialist party in Belgium). Voting was made mandatory so that bosses could not pressure their workers, who were usually from lower social classes, not to go vote (by making them work or threatening to fire them, for example).

If you live abroad, you can vote by mail. You can also vote by proxy.

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[socialistbirb]

We all must do it for our democracy!

[politics-sandandtears]

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[daughterofdessalines]

The Democrats are fake AF. If they were not so obsessed with their colonial agenda ( and ACTUALLY doing something positive for the country ) then the outcome would have been better. They need to STOP gaslighting Americans!

[wastedandbasted]

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We need to do what France did. Combine leftist forces.

[head-post]

Socialists-Greens alliance wins Dutch elections to European Parliament

An alliance of the Labour Party and the Green Left (PvdA/GroenLinks) claimed victory in the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands, according to exit polls on Thursday.

An alliance between the Labour Party and the Green Left (PvdA/GroenLinks) won the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands, according to exit polls on Thursday.

A total of 497 candidates, including eight of Turkish origin, from 20 different parties competed for 31 seats in the election. Voting started at 7:30 a.m. local time and ended at 9 p.m. However, final results are scheduled to be announced on the evening of 9 June, after the conclusion of voting in all EU member states.

The official results will be announced on 19 June.

According to an exit poll conducted by public broadcaster NOS and research firm Ipsos, turnout stood at around 47 per cent of the 13 million eligible voters. This marks a notable increase from the previous European Parliament elections in 2019, when turnout was around 42 per cent.

The Labour Party and the Green Left alliance won eight seats, whereas the Freedom Party (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, seemed to fall short of expectations. The PVV, which was leading in the last general election on 22 November, slipped to second place in the European Parliament elections. Exit polls suggest that the party will send seven MPs to the European Parliament.

The elections, which began in the Netherlands on Thursday, will continue on Friday in Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Estonia.

Meanwhile, Wilders expressed a desire to form a joint European faction with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni‘s Fratelli d’Italia, leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, and the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, according to Euractiv.

Read more HERE

[air--so--sweet]

This made me look into if anyone had run from prison before and I found about Eugene V. Debs, who ran as The Socialist Party candidate while in prison for sedition in 1920. He received 6% of the popular vote, which to this day is the highest percentage of the vote for a Socialist Party Candidate (which is particularly interesting when you consider that he ran four times previously).

Also he wrote an amazing statement the night of the election:

[mossadegh]

The Mossadegh Project