Sentences with phrase «socialist policies on»

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This is not capitalism, not the natural economy, but «manipulated socialist policy» designed to subsidize the banks with artificially low cost of funds (pay nothing to savers) to cover losses on Mortgage Defaults.

With the country now evenly divided between the candidates, the center - right Union for a Popular Movement, too, decides to back Ben Abbes, hoping to retain some political importance and promote the pro-EU, anti-nationalist policies on which they, the Socialists, and Ben Abbes all agree.

What is surprising is that the socialist in the race is being forced to move left on gun regulation and immigration policy.

Titled «The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question During Our Country's Socialist Period,» it reasserts the standard Marxist view of religion as a response to the human fear of the terrors of nature — a response manipulated by class societies to rationalize the power of the upper classes and justify the plight of workers and the poor.

seem to want to mold public policy based on the rantings of fictional characters created by a hypocrite who railed against socialist and collectivist principles and then collected her Medicare and Social Security benefits later in life, can we also consider alternatives?

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

During the Labour leadership campaign, he described himself as a socialist, and spoke out against some of the actions of the Blair ministry, including criticising its record on civil liberties and foreign policy.

From now on I will fight the Tories and fight for left wing democratic socialist policies and left wing democratic socialist candidates at all levels.

The counterintuitive solution being talked about most on the Scottish Labour left in the case of a Corbyn victory is to demand full autonomy from a Corbyn - run UK party, and to use a newly empowered conference (alongside new policy - making bodies soon to be established in Unite and potentially in other unions) to restate the socialist aims of the party.

Socialists may have won most of the Scottish seats on the National Policy Forum, but these roles have minimal influence over the Scottish party.

The main reason of collapse of USSR from our direct point of view was that socialist policies imposed on the society and foregoing economical inefficiencies as a result, created an environment in which you had money, but you couldn't buy anything for it.

Emma represents Labour's Socialist Societies on Labour's National Policy forum and blogs at scarletstandard.co.uk

She joined the Labour Party after a few pints of lager in the Student Union bar while at Lancaster University and went on to work for the Christian Socialist Movement, also working part - time for Corbyn and later as a policy officer for the British Association of Social Workers.

Fellow Tory MP Hugo Swire, who attended the same school in Sussex as Sir Nicholas before also going on to Eton, recently hit out at Jeremy Corbyn's failure to condemn Huge Chavez and Nicolas Maduro by noting that their «failed socialist policies have done for Venezuela what Mugabe has done to Zimbabwe».

Without delay I went to my local newsagent and found under the (admittedly some lurid) headlines all the attacks with the exception of The Telegraph were on Liberal (Socialist) Democrat policies and not Clegg himself.

did nt sing the national anthem etc hes done he will carry on for a few yrs but hes already been framed.My friends who are not really tory or labour do nt take him serious.in addition the U.k is not a socialist country anymore what we fight for is an acceptable form of capitalism... im sure the next labour leader will be in 2025 bcos Mrs May will win a second term she will modulate her policies and rid the tory party of the party for the rich tag..

Hardy has previously been elected as deputy general secretary for the Socialist Educational Society and served on The Labour Party's national policy forum for education.

And the apologists for the policies have been changing tack to «but it's a good thing anyway» to «redistribute» wealth (socialists) or stop «dependence on foreign oil» (warmongers) or «overpopulation» (Malthusians).

He blamed it on climate science, socialists and liberal policies.

There are so few thinkers on health policy who combine independence, perspective and a clear logical framework — be that neoliberal, Marxist, distributionist, socialist or whatever other political - economic framework is competing for our attention.