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Be Careful What You Wish For

By YDS • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

By David Duhalde
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Elders teach this saying to generations of children. My father taught me a story from his political activism to ingrain this concept into my mind. During Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity (UP) government in Chile, my dad told a fellow UP supporter […]



Weekend of Action Against the G20 in Washington DC

By Bhaskar Sunkara • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Alright, here’s the schedule of actions and educational events going on in the city this weekend. Everyone is highly encouraged to attend, DC YDS activists have been involved in planning and will be participating in solidarity with other groups.
Protest the G20 Summit! Nov 14th & 15th in DC
The G20 is holding a summit on […]



A Report From the Socialist International Conspiracy

By Guest Author • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Exogenous Views, Lead Story

This article originally was published on DSA member Barbara Ehrenreich’s blog.
Surely you have heard by now of the imminent socialist takeover of America, and if you find the prospect unlikely, ask yourself: How many socialists do you know who lost millions in the recent stock market crashes? Just as I thought—none—and that’s not only […]



McCain’s Compliment

By Guest Author • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Exogenous Views, Lead Story

“There is always a charge that socialism does not fit human nature. We’ve encountered that for a long time. Maybe that’s true. But can’t people be educated? Can’t people learn to cooperate with each other? Surely that must be our goal, because the alternative is redolent with war and poverty and all the ills of […]



The Guns Were Made Here

By Guest Author • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

The assassination this weekend of trade union leader Jose Omar Galeano in the Colombian city of Buga, brings to 38 the number of trade unionists affiliated to the CUT union federation who have been murdered in the country so far this year. Mr Galeano, the national leader of the lottery workers union FECOLOC, was shot […]