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| Young People's Socialist League |
 For nearly a century, the Young People's Socialist League has been the home of radical youth who believe in a better world, based upon cooperation, not competition, where human life is respected and valued, where everyone's basic needs are met, and where people are free to live up to their fullest potential.
Membership in YPSL (pronounced 'Yipsel') is open to any comrade under the age of 30 who agrees with our principles. Our members are workers and students at all levels. We no more focus on college campus recruiting than do we try to colonize industrial union locals with newspaper subscriptions. We believe that all activists should organize where they are. As a D.I.Y. league, YPSL will help with any local campaign our members decide to carry out. Our organization is democratically run and open and accessible to all members.
YPSL's traditional symbol is the Three Arrows, which can mean many things. For us, the arrows symbolize the three ways in which we work for a better society. They are:
* Education - YPSL publishes pamphlets and magazines and holds educational forum meetings
* Direct Action - YPSL engages in protests, non-violent demonstrations and engages in strike support
* Elections - Through our parent organization, the Socialist Party USA, YPSL supports candidates for public office
Our primary goal for this website is to provide a tool for organization and a voice for the frequently silenced and ignored youth of the United States. We focus on providing an outlet for young people to write news articles about issues they care about, as well as stories, essays, and op-eds that are not censored or marginalized because of race, religion, sex, income, or age.
We welcome contributions from every young person, socialist or otherwise, but we do try to focus on issues of socialism, social and economic equality, political and religious oppression, and other areas that deal with the many failures of capitalism.
We also have a large group who participate in our online forums, which are primarily designed to encourage local and regional organization, and the discovery of other young socialists in your area. There are also areas to kick back and have some fun, and also to debate topics you find important with socialists and non-socialists alike.
We look forward to hearing what you have to say, and we hope you'll enjoy your visit to YPSL.org and continue to visit and contribute for many years to come. Welcome, to the Young People's Socialist League!
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| YPSLCON 2007 Minutes |
 They're finally here folks! The minutes from YPSLcon 2007! Read at your own risk...
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 jcassano on July 15 2007 17:26:27 ·
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| New Forum Section |
There is a new forum available now for members of the National Executive Committee. Members of the committee will have access to post new threads and reply to old ones, while everyone else will be able to view the forum but not post or start new threads. This is done to minimize the noise ratio while still making NEC activity visible and open to everyone.
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Admin on July 09 2007 18:12:27
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| Free Paris! And everybody else. |
 [From my political philosophy professor's blog]
Paris Hilton is out of jail after serving three (but technically five?) days of her 23 (or is it 40?) day sentence. Released for medical reasons–most likely caused by her refusal to eat or a nervous breakdown–Hilton will spend the next 40 days under house arrest. Rather than discuss the double standard that allows her to escape the incarceration while over two million other people do hard time, I want to argue that Hilton should be out. She shouldn’t be kept in a cage, and neither should anyone else. Our demand that she sit in that cell “like the rest of us,” and our collective sniggering at her “just desserts,” says much more about our acceptance of the logic of prison and our notions of who belongs inside and who out than about any resistance to celebrity culture or demand for equal justice.
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jcassano on June 08 2007 17:11:09
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| Hacked Again |
| Some of you may have noticed the forums not working correctly yesterday. It appears someone tried to upload a file as an image that actually contained code that would have given them access to the server itself. Unfortunately for their stupid asses, they would have only had the permissions of the web server, which I'm sure Steve has restricted as much as possible. In any case the image has been deleted and a patch applied that will scan all avatar uploads for this sort of thing from now on. |
Admin on May 30 2007 15:05:58
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| Fire Wolfowitz |
 The likely ouster of Paul Wolfowitz as World Bank president in the face of bitter European opposition poses an unprecedented challenge to the United States' global financial leadership.
Weakened by chaos in Iraq, low popularity and his lame-duck status, President George W. Bush appears unable to prevent Wolfowitz's departure -- the first ever of a World Bank president -- after weeks of resistance and public acrimony over his promotion of a companion.
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PeopleUnite on May 17 2007 16:30:46
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| Review of Jack London's "The Iron Heel" |
Book Reviews |
daschaich |
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06/27/2008 02:51 |
| It's been 100 years since this dystopian novel of plutocratic oppression was first published. Although often described as a socialist novel, London's conflicted work reveals more about its author than anything else. |
| Anatomy of a Successful Antiwar Movement |
Editorials |
PeopleUnite |
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06/23/2008 04:02 |
by Matthew Andrews
This summer there will be a National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation in Cleveland, Ohio (http://natassembly.org). One of the main goals of the assembly will be to lay the groundwork for mass action against the war. At first glance, 2008 seems like an unlikely year to jump start a sluggish antiwar movement. With the elections this fall, the political pressure to line up behind the Democratic Party’s slate of candidates is already peeling away our fair weather friends from those of us who are serious about building an independent antiwar movement. |
| Review of "The Enemy of Nature" by Joel Kovel |
Book Reviews |
daschaich |
56 |
06/17/2008 02:24 |
| Hopefully not the last word on ecosocialism |
| Review of "Build It Now" by Michael Lebowitz |
Book Reviews |
daschaich |
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06/17/2008 02:24 |
| "Build It Now" is a collection of seven short essays discussing some basic concepts of Marxism, democratic socialism, and recent events in Venezuela. While each essay is generally decent on its own -- well-written and often thought-provoking -- they are not well integrated into a coherent whole. |
| An engaging history of a seminal struggle |
Book Reviews |
daschaich |
53 |
06/17/2008 02:24 |
| A review of "Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream" by Bruce Watson. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti: The men, the case, and the legacy |
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daschaich |
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06/17/2008 02:24 |
| Review of "Sacco and Vanzetti: Rebel Lives", edited by John Davis. | |
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