June 30, 2026
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Posted at Ballot Access News
The Socialist Labor Party, the original party of socialism in the United States, stopped running candidates for partisan public office after 1981, but has continued to publish its newspaper, The People, on a bimonthly schedule.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a running a mayoral candidate in Los Angeles this coming year, 22 year old Carlos Alvarez:
Carlos is an anti-war activist and leader of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
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Two groups closely associated with the Workers World Party have issued statements of opposition to the Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
The “marxist youth organization” Fight Imperialism Stand Together, or FIST, sent its statement to the WWP’s press organ Workers World, lamenting conditions in Gaza it sees as deriving both from its recent enforced isolation as well long standing Israeli policy towards Palestine:
After having committed this atrocious, genocidal act, the government in Israel continues to posture, saying they are resolved to continue.
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The Communist Party USA has issued a statement regarding the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza strip:
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) emphatically condemns the continuing Israeli air strikes in Gaza, which have left hundreds dead and over a thousand wounded.
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Posted by Chris Hedges in TruthDig. Excerpt:
The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties.
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Socialist Action has issued a statement calling for an end to “all aid to Apartheid Israel” and slamming neighboring Arab states as complicit in the latest episode of violence in the Gaza strip:
Since it withdrew its occupation of Gaza, the Zionist rulers of Israel have maintained it as an open-air prison and most of the time as a shooting gallery.
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By Johnny Edwards in The City Core
Before marching through Cherry Tree Crossing with armed members of the New Black Panther Party – as an observing journalist, of course – I knew very little about the group.
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Found at Dandelion Salad
By Shamus Cooke
December 28, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse“
A strange trend is appearing in the political realm of the Left. Self-proclaimed political conservatives – many current or former members of the Republican Party – are being given considerable room in Left publications, for example in Counterpunch and BuzzFlash.…
Posted at Knappster by Tom Knapp. Tom Knapp is a declared candidate for the 2012 Libertarian and Boston Tea Party presidential nominations, was a 2008 Libertarian congressional candidate and Boston Tea Party VP candidate, and has been a Libertarian Party candidate on several other occasions.…