Showing posts with label Political issues and system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political issues and system. Show all posts

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Poverty Prevention and Alleviation in USA



http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/economic-inequality-in-america-developing-a-new-war-on-poverty/#more-141142



Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty 50 years ago.

To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations, and 46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Obama Victory Speech 2008 - Video on YouTube



Good to listen to victory speech of Obama. It is a historic speech.

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

The New Left Movement




In 1962, five dozen college students gathered at a lakeside camp near Port Huron, Michigan, and discussed for four days politics. This group of students known as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)  ended discussion at 5 a.m. on June 16 and agreed on a political manifesto that expressed their sentiments. This manifesto became known as the Port Huron Statement.

The Port Huron Statement called for the creation of a radically new democratic political movement in the United States. The document called for "participatory democracy"--direct individual involvement in the decisions that affected their lives. This movement came to be known as the New Left.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=376

But there is an interesting letter from C. Wright Mills addressed to New Left in 1960 itself.  The magazine in which it was filed has  the name,  New Left Review.
http://www.marxists.org/subject/humanism/mills-c-wright/letter-new-left.htm

Marxist Humanism web page explains the role of C.Wright Mills in New Left.
http://www.marxists.org/subject/humanism/index.htm

Sitaram Yechury of CPI-M, India said in an interview that New Left still does not any new theory and program to offer (26.6.2011)
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