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    Foner Labour Movement

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    The fourth source is a quote from historian Philip S. Foner’s book, The History of the Labour Movement in the United States, written between 1947 and 1994. The labour movement was a push for better working conditions, a reduction of child labour and a fair working wage. This specific quote was an 1870 poem that discusses the idea of fair working hours. The source uses phrases such as “tired of toil for naught” to describe the unrest among the working class. In 1870, the average worker spent 61…

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    Communism In Cuba

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    which gives people very little or nil authority) communist state with the political belief of “One state, One party” since 1959. Lead by General Raul Castro who heads the Cuban Communist Party, which is the only authorized party in the country. Cuba has seen a volatile political scenario with changing and rejection of constitutions, official lies and unofficial truths about political status quos, lack of diplomatic relations with political states like The U.S., Czech Republic, South Korea and…

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    Book KSHAMA Sawant has wrote a book called “ Kshama Sawant American Socialist, but this book is not issue yet. I could not found any other book that related to this topic, so I had searched the description of this book. In this book, Kshama Sawant present her story about how she won the election of the city council in 2013 and plan of raising of minimum wage of fifteen dollars an hour. She also wrote about political culture, economic and social justice in order to persuade more people…

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    first Marxist socialist chief of state ever elected in a democratic country via free vote three years earlier . Rather than surrender to a military coup, Allende commits suicide . Many reason exist as to why the Chilean military decided to overthrow a democratic government. Some attribute it to the United States involvement in covert operations along with national interests all over the world especially in the Western Hemisphere. Potentially this was another Vietnam for the United States who…

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    with them on a more personal basis,"6 but there was a deeper meaning and this wasn’t his only purpose. During the 1920's the working class was split into a Communist movement and a Socialist movement. The "organized working class was stronger and more influential than it had been,"7 even though the Communist and Socialist parties "appealed to the same social group—the working class—they were bitter rivals."8 These experiences in Paris and London made Orwell somewhat sympathetic to the fact that…

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    War, the US and its neoliberal capitalist agenda were out to eliminate any trace of socialism and communism, no matter the cost or consequences. In 1973, Chile was under the rule of Salvador Allende, a democratically elected socialist leader. In the hysteria of possible socialist/communist spread to the US, the American government executed a coup d’état leading to the death of Allende. To force Allende out of office, the CIA worked to destabilize Chile’s economy in order to force a neoliberal…

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    Weimar Political System

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    such as Glässner, stress the fact that ‘the ‘allied parties’ had little real input into political matters. They recognized and accepted the political leadership of the SED without reservation’. Thus the GDR was widely considered as a totalitarian state, with a political system controlled by the SED. Repression and obedience, conciliation and compromise are often cited as major factors in the stability of the SED regime. It was, after all, these factors that led to absence of threat towards the…

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    in office demonstrates how the state of Chile’s deteriorated, creating preconditions for a military overthrow. Lastly, the rule of Pinochet’s government endows the result of American foreign interest in Chile, that has left a legacy of division in the Latin American nation to this day. Long before Salvador Allende would become the leader of Chile through the 1970 federal election, the CIA was involved in covert operations attempting to impede the Marxist socialist efforts to achieve presidency…

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    Government Reforms In Cuba

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    The Republic of Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean that is home to over eleven million citizens. It is one of only enduring socialist states with a Communist government left in the world. The leadership regimes that dictate the island are a reflection of continuing efforts to strengthen its weak democratic system. Daily life is dependent on what the government allows, and what the government does not allow for its people. Throughout history, the dictating Cuban government shaped the…

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    rule in Cuba in 1934. He managed to get the influence of the United State of America. During his reign Batista acts as a dictator so that the natural wealth possessed by Cuba cannot be enjoyed by the people. This became the first cause of the Cuban revolution by some figures. Revolutions committed by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. This revolution made Cuba become a sosialism. Socialism is a notion related to the…

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