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Lawrence Corbett Goodwyn (July 16, 1928 – September 29, 2013) was an American historian of democratic movements, journalist and political theorist known for his study of American populism. He served as a professor at Duke University from 1971 to 2003.
A political arm of the Solidarity movement, Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS), was founded in 1996 and would win the 1997 Polish parliamentary election, only to lose the subsequent 2001 Polish parliamentary election. Thereafter, Solidarity had little influence as a political party, though it became the largest trade union in Poland.
From the beginning, Solidarity was an avowedly pluralist radical organization that included several currents of Trotskyism, socialist-feminists who had been in the New American Movement, and veterans of earlier New Left groups such as Students for a Democratic Society. Solidarity sought to "regroup" with others to create a larger revolutionary ...
The American Solidarity Party (ASP) is a Christian democratic political party in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 8 ] It was founded in 2011 and officially incorporated in 2016. The party has a Solidarity National Committee (SNC) and has numerous active state and local chapters.
Kim Moody (born 1940) is an American socialist activist and writer on labor [1] who advocates social movement unionism, a revitalized labor movement of mobilized and militant rank-and-file workers, rather than business unionism, structured from the top down and compromised by coziness with corporations.
Organizations and individuals associated with the Central American Peace and Solidarity Movement which arose in the late 1970s and 1980s in opposition to US intervention in the region. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The administration came closest to entering the war with the Virginius Affair in which an American owned steamboat carrying supplies and weapons to Cuba was captured by the Spanish and the crew tried on land. The trial resulted in 53 executions of the Cuban, American, and British crewmen.
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, based in Washington, D.C., is a national activist organization with chapters in various cities in the United States. CISPES supports the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the progressive social movement in El Salvador .