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You can now apply for membership in YPSL online, and securely pay your dues electronically right here.

If you've been meaning to join YPSL or have fallen behind in your dues, here's your chance to rectify that situation quickly and easily!

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ypsl.org is now running happily on its new server -- thanks to BinaryFreedom.info for hosting!

There were some issues with DNS configuration that prevented some computers from finding the new server for a week or two during August, but those should now all be resolved.

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Issue #43 of The Torch, the journal of the Young People's Socialist League, is now available online.

The theme of this Spring 2008 issue is "Socialism in the 21st Century".

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They're finally here folks! The minutes from YPSLcon 2007! Read at your own risk...

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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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[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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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.

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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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More than 61,000 BBC News website users have written to the BBC to demand the release of Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
Mr Johnston disappeared on 12 March and is feared kidnapped, though there has been no confirmed word on his whereabouts or his condition.
There has been a worldwide response to the online petition, which was opened on Monday, 2 April and coincided with a full page appeal in the UK's Guardian newspaper.

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The period ending June 1975 to mid-March 1977 marks a critical period in India?s democratic polity. The ?state of internal emergency? declared by the Government of India did away with individual and collective rights of freedom of expression as guaranteed under the Constitution. Those twenty months saw the gagging of free press, forced family planning among minority communities, ban on several political organisations, raid on party offices, setting up of torture camps, unrecorded arrests, increased number of custodial deaths, fake encounters, and ?missing?. One among the many who were brutally tortured and killed in custody was 24-year-old Varkala Vijayan, political activist and theatre person of Kerala. Very little, however, was known about his death then. His body was never recovered. Given the adverse conditions, the press failed to report the incident. Unlike in certain others, in the case of Vijayan, no substantive inquiry has been conducted even to this date.