The Massachusetts Rainbow Coalition Party grew out of Mel King’s campaign for mayor of Boston and the Massachusetts Jesse Jackson campaigns in 1984 and 1988. The party has been established as an offical “political designation,” meaning that voters can register as Rainbow Coalition Party members. A mass registration drive in the summer and fall of 1997 will seek to sign up 35,000 voters by January 15, 1998. The Rainbow Coalition Party does not have a website, but can be telephoned c/o Mel King at 617-253-3287.
Here are some other links about socialism, Marxism, and radical politics:
Labour Left Briefing Links is a UK-centered compilation of links to libraries, campaigns, parties, and labor movement organizations.
The Political Information Exchange has as its mission statement “To do everything we can to help bring transparency to the left and to the world of political ideas.” They are just starting out; right now (as of November 8, 1998) they have a small searchable database of abstracts of leftist articles, along with some other articles relevant to the left’s concerns. They plan to add to this database, and to create an additional database on online articles, leaflets, etc. Text only.
Political Science
For more details, take a look at my vita. My book, Unequal Struggle: Class, Gender, Race, and Power in the U.S. Congress, analyzes Congress from a Marxist perspective. It was published by Westview Press in 1994. It is out of print, but ask for it at your local library.
1998 is the 150th anniversary of publication of the Communist Manifesto–a book which, in my opinion, remains highly relevant today. Take a look at the site 150 years of the Communist Manifesto for more discussion about the anniversary.
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Recreation
Aside from politics, I enjoy music, photography, and outdoor activities,
especially birds. I also like to drink wine (at least, if it’s good!)
These links show some sites I have found useful.
Something to think about–
Even where there is no prospect whatsoever of their being elected, the workers must put up their own candidates in order to preserve their independence, to count their forces and to bring before the public their revolutionary attitude and party standpoint. In this connection they must not allow themselves to be seduced by such arguments of the democrats as, for example, that by so doing they are splitting the democratic party and making it possible for the reactionaries to win. . . . The advance which the proletarian party is bound to make by such independent action is infinitely more important than the disadvantage that might be incurred by the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body.
Karl Marx
Science is politics by other means.
Bruno Latour, Sandra Harding, Kim Stanley Robinson, . . .?
(I first attributed this to Kim Stanley Robinson, one of my favorite science fiction writers; he uses the phrase in his 3-part series on the settlement and terraforming of Mars (and simultaneous revolutionary struggle), Red Mars (1993), Green Mars (1995), and Blue Mars (1997). However, I later learned that the phrase is used by Harding in Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives (1991), p. 10. Still, later, I was informed by Gisle Hannemyr that it was used even earlier by Bruno Latour in The Pasteurization of France (1988), p. 229 (a translation of Les Microbes: guerre et paix, suivi de Irréductions, published in Paris in 1984). I have had interesting conversations about this phrase–both about what it means, and whether it is correct. What do you think? Send me your reaction – click here to read others’ comments.
When you see an animal, it’s only natural to wonder what kind of flavor it has.
