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unusual facts about democratic socialist



Opinion polling in the Brazilian presidential election, 2010

In the election, Brazilian citizens eligible to vote chose their successor to then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the democratic socialist/social democratic Workers' Party.

Red-baiting

In April 2009, U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus claimed that 17 of his Congressional colleagues were socialists, but would only name one, Bernie Sanders, who has been openly describing himself as a democratic socialist for years.

Social Democratic Alliance

The initial attempt failed however as a group of Alþingi representatives rejected the new party's platform – which was inspired by that of Tony Blair's New Labour – and broke away before the merger to found the Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin – grænt framboð), based on more traditional democratic socialist values as well as green politics and euroscepticism.

Socialism 2000

Socialism 2000 (Socialismo 2000) is a democratic socialist political association in Italy led by Cesare Salvi.


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Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Named after the Committees of Correspondence formed during the American Revolution, the group criticized the leadership of CPUSA president Gus Hall and argued that, in light of the dissolution of the Soviet Union since 1989, the party should reject Leninism and adopt a more moderate democratic socialist orientation.

George Grube

George Maximilian Antony Grube (3 August 1899 – 13 December 1982) was a classicist and translator of Plato, Aristotle, Demetrius of Phaleron, Longinus and Marcus Aurelius, as well as a Canadian democratic socialist political activist.

Jaime Lusinchi

In addition, he struck up friendships with prominent figures in local politics, such as the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva and democratic-socialist leaderSalvador Allende.

Max Romeo

It included a number of politically charged songs, most advocating the democratic socialist People's National Party (PNP) which chose his song, "Let the Power Fall", as their campaign theme for the 1972 Jamaican general election.

Ministry of Ports and Highways

Minister of Ports and Highways(Cabinet)— His Excellency the President of the Democratic Socialist republic of Sri Lanka, Hon.Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksha.

New class

In 1911 Robert Michels first proposed the Iron law of oligarchy, which described the development of bureaucratic hierarchies in supposedly egalitarian and democratic socialist parties.

Ontario general election, 1937

Meanwhile, the fledgling democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) lost its sole MLA, Sam Lawrence.

Red green

Red-green alliance, an alliance of "red" social democratic or democratic socialist parties with "green" environmentalist parties