June 30, 2026
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The Socialist Equality Party held a public conference at Wayne State University in Detroit this past Saturday, presenting its analysis of the current course of the automotive industry and United Auto Workers union, as well as its implications for workers:
In the main report to the meeting, WSWS reporter and SEP member Jerry White began by describing the extreme concessions that will be demanded of autoworkers as a result of the recently announced Bush administration “bailout” of the industry.
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In a series of posts at Ballot Access News today, Richard Winger writes:
In 2004, Ralph Nader was on the ballot in jurisdictions containing 50.8% of the national presidential vote cast that year.…
Sunday’s Hartford Courant had a feature on Connecticut’s Working Families Party, writing that while the Green and Libertarian parties “portrayed themselves in federal court last week as victims of Connecticut’s campaign-finance law,” the WFP “refused to join the two other minor parties in claiming that qualifying for public financing is too difficult for their candidates.…
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On December 13, California released its official vote tally from the November 2008 election. The most suspense concerned the write-in candidates for president.
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The Revolutionary Communist Party USA has released correspondence from Chairman Bob Avakian regarding Barack Obama’s election to the presidency.
Avakian writes in part that “while tactically and in the short run, the election of Obama will create (and no doubt already is creating) some new difficulties for us — and this is likely to be especially so among Black people, many of whom are not surprisingly swallowing down the ‘Obama-aid’…in an overall and strategic sense there are important favorable factors in all this — provided that we continue to be grounded in and consistently apply our scientific communist outlook, method and approach.”…
Christina Tobin, one of the masterminds and organizers of the two debates put on by the organization Free and Equal had this to say in regards to what happened while she was organizing the debates.…
On its PaperTrail blog, the Center for Public Integrity summarizes the amounts raised by major and alternative presidential candidates in 2008. Independent Ralph Nader’s total receipts were $4,502,680; Libertarian Bob Barr $1,383,681; Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin $261,673; and Green Cynthia McKinney $198,658.…
Two Socialist Workers Party members are launching mayoral campaigns in major cities in preparation for looming 2009 municipal elections:
NEW YORK—The Socialist Workers Party here has nominated Dan Fein, a sewing machine operator, as its candidate in the 2009 mayoral race.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation will be holding a “Fight Back” conference at the University of California Los Angeles this weekend, apparently as both a primer for newcomers and an organizational session for stalwarts eager to move forward past the campaign season:
Food and gas prices are skyrocketing worldwide, the environment is being destroyed, and the sharp economic recession has thrown millions of workers out of their jobs and onto the streets.
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