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| | Social Democracy - The Way Ahead by Ed Broadbent |
 | | The Universal Declaration and its two companion covenants, one on civil and political rights and the other on economic, social and cultural rights, are deeply social democratic i nature. | | | Pierre Trudeau said to me privately, and subsequently publicly, that during this period and earlier during the minority government of 1972-74, he would not have been able to get through his cabinet and caucus certain measures had it not been for the pressure from the NDP in Parliament. | | | This combination first gained global prominence in 1948 with their incorporation in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first draft of which was written by John Humphrey, a Canadian social democrat who taught law here at McGill University. |
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http://www.misc-iecm.mcgill.ca/socdem/ebeng.htm
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| | The Nonpartisan League and Social Democracy |
| | In fact, social democrats argue that welfare reforms often negate social democratic policy-making (Esping-Anderson 1985:34-5). | | | Finally, they drew upon their Twin Cities financiers' social networks among Minnesota officials who (in severely flawed trials) charged Townley and other NPL leaders with sedition (Morlan 1985:398, 256-261). | | | It has long been recognized that class-biased capitalist policy can be embedded within the state (cf.- Zeitlin 1980; McGuire 1989; Domhoff 1990; Akard 1992) to re-structure state organizations and practices and to alter dynamics within the economy. |
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http://sasweb.utoledo.edu/sasw/NonPartLeag.htm
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| | Monetizing Envy and America’s Housing Bubble by Eric Englund |
| | Democracy endangers private property rights and therefore liberty itself. | | | If we must judge the Constitution our founding fathers so carefully crafted, to protect our liberties (thereby attempting to prevent the emergence of democracy that John Adams so forcefully described above), then the Constitution must be judged a failure. | | | As part of the New Deal, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was established in 1934. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund13.html
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| | Issue 3 - Beyond Social Democracy? |
| | Naomi Kline, ‘Election vs. Democracy in Argentina’, The Nation, May14, 2003. | | | Any country that attempts to do so (for instance Sweden), will lose its international competitiveness (p.86ff.). | | | … The questions raised are, on the social level: Are our laws good? |
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http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/is3/gare.htm
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| | WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Future Democracy |
| | Representative democracy lets citizens distance themselves from governmental actions (and in many cases, avoid thinking too deeply about the consequences of their actions on policy decisions). | | | One involved Madison, Franklin, Jefferson and others creating a remarkable system of checks and balances. | | | Posted by: Pace Arko at August 6, 2005 05:54 AM |
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003230.html
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| | Social democracy betrayed, by Ignacio Ramonet |
| | How could the social democrat leaders, heirs to Jean Jaurès and a long tradition of respect for international law, yield to pressure from Washington and embark on a military escapade that has not a shred of international legitimacy? | | | Mr Solana is supported in this decision principally by the French, German, Italian and UK heads of government, Lionel Jospin, Gerhard Schröder, Massimo d’Alema and Tony Blair - all four of them eminent proponents of social democracy in Europe. | | | The decision to go to war, announced on 23 March 1999, was described by NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana, one-time leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, as a "moral duty". |
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http://mondediplo.com/1999/04/01leader
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| | social democracy: new deal liberalism for today's america |
| | Social democrats affirm the progressive taxation of the upper 2 percent | | | This "new" definition of American socialism is really a reaffirmation of an "old" definition of liberalism, which sought well crafted reform programs as a means | | | Social democrats hope for a "New Deal" for the early and mid 21st century that will work |
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http://www.geocities.com/fineyoungsocialist/newdeal.html
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| | Social democracy in the unfinished global revolution |
| | (It was not until after 1945, indeed, that democracy became clearly established as the normal political form of Western capitalist states.) | | | In establishing social democracy as a legal and constitutional party, its leaders also embraced these characters of the states within which they existed. | | | Everywhere in Europe grave social needs were apparent in the aftermath of war: broadly social-democratic policies were pursued even by conservative and Christian-democratic governments, while social democrats became parties of government in most European states. |
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/hafa3/socdem.htm
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| | Bibliography on the CCF-NDP and Canadian Social Democracy |
| | Read, E. and A. Whitehorn, "Social Democracy Thwarted: A Case Study of the 1945 and 1988 Federal Elections"(xerox) | | | Levitt, J. Fighting Back for Jobs and Justice: Ed Broadbent in Parliament | | | It was prepared for a course which studied the development of social democracy in Canada and explored the history, philosophy and policies of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the New Democratic Party (NDP). |
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http://www.web.net/~ondp/biblio_whitehrn.html
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| | History of the Second International |
| | But whereas at Ghent the anarchists had also participated, they had nothing to do with the Chur Congress, but... | | | was editor of Justice and co-author with Bax of the New Catechism of Socialism, 1903/09. | | | Reichstag Deputy on and off from 1902; founded the Independent Social Democratic Party 1916, but returned to the Social Democractic Party after the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht in 1919. |
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http://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy
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| | Social Democratic Parties of the World |
| | Social Democratic Party of Switzerland / Socialist Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz / Parti Socialiste Suisse / Partito Socialista Svizzero, SP/PS), associated to PES | | | Alliance for Democracy in Mali/African Party of Solidarity and Justice | | | Let's Unite - National Union for Social Security Movement (Unámonos - Movimiento Unión Nacional por la Seguridad Social), Colombia |
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http://www.broadleft.org/socdem.htm
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| | IALHI News Service: German Social Democracy |
| | Wolfrum has taken the time to ask just what it was that the provincial government and Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg did during the Kaiserreich. | | | The organizational transformations of the Social Democratic Party set in motion through the imposition of the Anti-Socialist Laws in 1878 had effects which far outlasted the repeal of those laws in 1890. | | | Although Sachsen-Altenburg was one of the leading areas organized by the social democrats, Wolfrum mostly confirms that local social democratic organizations were preoccupied with the same issues as the national party. |
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http://www.ialhi.org/news/i0506_5.html
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| | Social Democracy Now Milosevic: murdered |
| | A petty criminal and longtime drug abuser, Christer Petterson, who died in 2004, confessed to the murder in 2001. | | | There can be no question but that former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosovic, who died in his prison cell in Scheveningen in the Netherlands on March 11, was murdered: | | | Today, February 28, 2006, social democrats all over the world mourn the assassination of Olof Palme, the last of the great Swedish social democrats and probably the last real social democrat ever to hold the top job in any country until the unexpected and still astonishing rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. |
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http://www.blogigo.co.uk/socialdemocracynow
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| | Social Democracy |
| | I chose to go to the heart of the continent: Bolivia, which happen stance had a Social Democratic government, a member in good standing in the Socialist International, which was governed by a party with the highly improbable name, 'The Revolutionary Left Movement' or MIR. | | | Social liberalism is the revolutionary idea of the 21st century." | | | For those of us who grew up and lived in a grimy industrial city, just north of Boston, it was an appealing set of beliefs though some of us were perplexed by some incongruous events. |
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http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/040129story.htm
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| | Extreme Democracy |
| | With a network-centric approach to advocacy (what I used to call nodal politics), members of the activist network connect as peers, and they all have authority to act and make decisions relevant to their context. | | | Extreme Democracy is a collection of writings, many written as the Howard Dean campaign was playing out. | | | Along with three Extreme Democracy authors (Aldon Hynes, Adam Greenfield, and Britt Blaser), I spoke about the book on a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City Monday. |
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http://www.extremedemocracy.com
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| | TomPaine.com - Social Democracy, Anyone? |
| | Favorable macroeconomic circumstances, the absence of foreign competition, a system of government support and regulation, and large-scale private provision of what in Europe would have been public social insurance all combined to give post-WWII America many of social democracy’s benefits without the costs. | | | Government policy back then began with a permanent military program of spending and RandD and continued through massive public works program and suburbanization, underpinned by the Federal Highway Program and subsidized home ownership loans from the Federal Housing Administration. | | | Whatever it has been in the past, the United States in the future will have to choose whether, and how much, it will be a social democracy. |
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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/social_democracy_anyone.php
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| | Network Democracy - Social Security |
| | See what national organizations said at the White House Conference on Social Security. | | | Select any of the major headings to begin exploring this subject, and join the National Dialogue on Social Security Reform. | | | Review background material on the Social Security system and arguments for its reform. |
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http://www.network-democracy.org/social-security
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| | XPDNC - Social Democracy Links |
| | Composed of activists from the working class movement, the union movement, progressive social movements and academic circles. | | | Promotes debate amongst people active in radical politics about the contemporary relevance of democratic socialism | | | For the creation of mass socialist parties and a workers' international, based upon solidarity in struggle and democratic debate. |
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http://www.xpdnc.com/links/polsoc.html
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