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Posts published in February 2014

Unions, Green Party to NY Leaders: Proposed Tax Breaks Won’t Help Poor, Working Class

By Teri Weaver

The group, called “Strong Communities Work,” protested outside the State Office Building on Washington Street for about 15 minutes. They railed against proposed changes to the state tax code, which they say would benefit wealthy New Yorkers and businesses and short-change lower income families.…

Massachusetts Independent to Challenge U.S. Senator Markey

By Bruce Skarin

In an improbable attempt to challenge the political establishment, Millbury, Massachusetts resident Bruce Skarin has announced his entry as an independent into the 2014 race for U.S.…

Communist Party USA: Taking Care of the Future, from Here to Socialism


CPUSA Chairman Sam Webb

“The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.”

Quinn Kelley: Third-Party Candidates Want In On Debates, With Mixed Results

Bruce Majors is used to being left out.

After all, the Libertarian mayoral hopeful knows that third parties are often excluded from mainstream politics. But Majors’ party has the guaranteed ballot access that comes with being deemed a “major party,” so when mayoral debates and forums are billed as just “mayoral,” rather than for Democratic mayoral candidates only, he wants in.…