SOCIALIST popularity and SOCIALIST trends

Socialist premier to ask Madrid for more time before putting austerity measures into effect

The socialist president has sought to rally support on the European and international stage for his calls for action to stimulate growth

The Chinese government is shocked - shocked, they say - to discover one of its own rising stars, Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party boss in the southwestern city of Chongqing, was deeply corrupt. Many ordinary Chinese were less surprised to read the lurid details of how much money Bo and his family allegedly embezzled. After all, while Bo was preaching socialist values in Chongqing, his playb...

Adrian Beecroft, pictured, who was brought in by Downing Street to reform employment law, says Nick Clegg throws tantrums to get his own way and Mr Cable should never been put in charge of British business.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is a socialist who "appears to do very little to support business", No 10 adviser Adrian Beecroft says.

Adrian Beecroft, a venture capitalist, calls business secretary 'a socialist who found a home in the Lib Dems'Vince Cable is a "socialist" who has blocked action to liberalise employment laws that could give a £50bn boost to the economy, according to a Tory donor who wrote a controversial report on cutting red tape.In a sign of some Tories' deep frustrations with the coalition, Adrian Beecroft ...

Socialist MEP Paul Murphy told the EU Parliament in Strasbourg today it was clear the significance of what had happened across Europe in the past weeks had been lost on leaders of the European Union.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) claimed Sunday that his prosed budget cuts will help avoid, not replicate, Europe’s painful economic hardship. The House Budget Committee chairman distanced himself from the cuts being made by governments across Europe on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The whole purpose of our budget is to preempt austerity,” he said. That the Senate has not done a budget has “put us on a path...

Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister appointed by former President Hosni Mubarak, and Hamdeed Sabahi, a socialist, appear to be gaining support days before the presidential election.

A real-life socialist comes to the Obama White House

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist....

Greece's conservative New Democracy party, which backs the country's international bailout, has retaken the lead from the anti-bailout radical leftist SYRIZA, a poll showed on Thursday, the first published since a new election was called for June 17.

France’s new president, François Hollande, unveiled a center-left cabinet on Wednesday, leaving out the head of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, who is considered on the left-wing of the party.

‘THE LEFT must warn the people responsibly. Not only by telling them that the road away from the bailout is also the road that leads to exiting the euro, but also that it will be particularly painful...” Veteran Greek socialist MP Alekos Alavanos, who led Syriza before Alexis Tsipras, has words for his comrades in Greece that are sensible, honourable advice and which No campaigners on the fisca...

France’s new president, François Hollande, unveiled a center-left cabinet on Wednesday, leaving out the head of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, who is considered on the left-wing of the party.

French president Francois Hollande named a government dominated by moderate left-wingers today after Socialist Party boss Martine Aubry, overlooked for the post of prime minister, said she no longer wanted to be part of the new cabinet.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande is to unveil his government on Wednesday, likely to opt for moderate social democrats in the key posts of finance and foreign affairs and put a more old school Socialist in charge of a new super ministry for youth and education.

France's new prime minister, a moderate Socialist with an affinity for Germany, took office on Wednesday.

PARIS (AP) -- Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis....

Michael Den Tandt: The renewed crisis in Europe, punctuated by the election of a socialist government in France and more chaos in Greece, is of course bad news for Canada — but politically, it's good news for the Conservatives

Just hours after he handed over power to Socialist rival Francois Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy slipped on a pair of running shoes and went jogging around his new Paris neighborhood.

Socialist leader Franois Hollande has been sworn in at a solemn ceremony overshadowed by the catastrophic debt crisis threatening the eurozone.

TEHRAN - Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Sunday that Tehran will not yield to pressure ahead of talks with the UN atomic watchdog and the world powers over its controversial nuclear drive. "The time for pressure strategy has come to an end," Jalili told former French socialist premier Michel Rocard, who is in Tehran on a private visit, local official news agencies ...

The future of the Eurozone (comprising 17 European countries using the euro as their currency) is in doubt after voters in Greece and France threw out incumbents struggling to save the euro through supposed austerity measures. Socialist leader Francois Hollande won in France by promising economic growth, not austerity. In Greece, the top two parties backing austerity to keep Greece within the...

Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos on Saturday becomes the last political leader to throw in the towel after failing to cobble together a government, leaving the country's president with one final chance to avoid new elections.

Socialist party's hopes of forming government dashed, as anti-austerity Left bloc, SYRIZA, refuses to join government.

Americans will be "f**ked" if Barack Obama gets re-elected ... this according to Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnston. Bruce was signing autographs for fans in New York yesterday when the conversation turned political. "Obama's an a**hole, "Johnston…

Greece's socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos is facing the daunting task of forming a viable government, a day after a bid by a radical Left-wing anti-austerity party ended in failure.

GREECE'S Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos faces the thankless task of forming a viable government after a bid by a radical left-wing anti-austerity party ended in failure.

TREATY OPPONENTS:POLITICAL PARTIES supporting the fiscal treaty referendum have been accused of “telling lies” by Socialist MEP Paul Murphy, who is calling for a No vote.

The 9th of May 1945 -- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had roared into Berlin, defeating the worst scourge the world had ever seen up until that time. Fascism was defeated.

After two rounds of voting in France, the socialist candidate Francois Hollande was voted in as president.

The election celebration of Socialist President Francois Hollande reflects the transformed concept of the Spirit of Liberty.It was no surprise, of course, whenFrance'snew Socialist president, Francois Hollande, celebrated his election over the weekend at the Place de la Bastille. Once the site of the nation's most notorious prison, the square has long been the place that French leftists proclai...

SIMON HEFFER: The real euro crisis began on Sunday evening, with the election of the socialist Francois Hollande in France and the heavy defeat of pro-austerity parties in Greece.

Though Zionism was long identified with socialist kibbutzim, even they have been bailed out by taxpayers, are now building shopping centers.

EUROPEAN VOTERS have delivered a powerful if not unsurprising rebuff to the austerity policies that have caused misery around the continent while failing to remedy its currency and debt crises. In France on Sunday, voters rejected President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bid for a second term, replacing him with Socialist Francois Hollande. In Greece, meanwhile, both centrist parties were punished in favor ...

Newly elected French President Francois Hollande has spent much of his career on the side stage of the Socialist Party bureaucracy.

Socialism? Unrest in Greece? Euro zone on the brink? Big whoop. Stocks initially fell on Monday as news out of Europe looked dire — in France, the election of Socialist Francois Hollande raised concerns that the basic consensus in the  Euro zone could crumble. And an election in Greece dealt a strong rebuke to political [...]

To many on the left, President Obama is a disappointment. To many on the right, President Obama is a socialist threat to American freedoms. Both of these reactions are based on projections -- the unconscious fantasies of each group projected onto the president.

If President Obama is truly a socialist, then he’s not a very good one: For the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration.Spending by the federal government, adjusted for inflation, has risen at a slow rate under President Obama. But that increase has been more than offset by a fall in spending ...

World markets tumbled into the red Monday after socialist Francois Hollande defeated president Nicolas Sarkozy, leaving investors worried about the future of austerity throughout Europe.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell after Greek voters trounced ruling parties in elections on Sunday, a result that put the country's future in the euro zone at risk, and as Socialist candidate Francois Hollande won the French presidency.

Socialist challenger François Hollande unseated Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election Sunday, making Sarkozy the first French pre…

FRANCOIS Hollande has been elected France's first Socialist president in decades, dealing a humiliating defeat to Nicolas Sarkozy.

Socialist Francois Hollande won the French presidential election with between 52 and 53% of the vote, ousting right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

 France is set to crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades marking a shift to the left at the heart of Europe and heralding a fight back against German-led austerity.

France's defending president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has promised supporters a "surprise" as Socialist rival Franois Hollande says he's certain of nothing.

Proposals of the Socialist poised to become France’s next prime minister less radical than they appear on the surface

A chilling election ghost story: How Dominique Strauss-Kahn haunts the Socialist Party he once was poised to take to the Élysée Palace.

Utl.: Starke Rolle der Sozialistischen Jugend Österreich im weltweiten sozialistischen Jugendverband - Priorität: Kampf gegen Neoliberalismus und Rechtsextremismus = Wien (OTS/SK) - Auf dem 29. Weltkongress der "International Union of Socialist Youth" (IUSY), der vergangenes …

European stock markets fall after President Nicolas Sarkozy narrowly lost the first round of France's presidential election to socialist rival Francois Hollande.

French socialist candidate Francois Hollande and incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy will face each other in the May 6 run-off, exit polls showed after the first round of voting ended on Sunday.

Socialist Francois Hollande and President Nicolas Sarkozy will advance to France's presidential runoff.

Julius Malema has been tipped for the vice-presidency of the International Union of Socialist Youth -- and possibly an office in Vienna.

 “I’m not the first President to call for this idea that everybody has got to do their fair share.  Some years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept.  He gave a speech where he talked about a letter he had received from a wealthy executive who paid lower tax rates than his secretary, and wanted to come to Washington and tell Congress why that ...

There was an unhappy time in America when ratting out your friends for entertaining socialist ideas was considered by some in the government to be patriotic.

Edward Bellamy is born. He's the American socialist and visionary author best known for penning the forward-looking utopian novel, Looking Backward.

Filippos Sachinidis, a 48-year-old, Canadian-born economist, will run the ministry temporarily after his boss resigned last week to lead the country’s Socialist party.

With President Nicolas Sarkozy closing the gap in the run up to elections, challenger Francois Hollande is falling back on the tired, old Socialist battle cry.

Glenn Beck still rails against his usual enemies, from the "hardcore socialist left" to "extreme Islam." Now there is a new target: mainstream television.

In a story at that socialist rag Financial Times, the radical environmental group General Electric explains why the Republican presidential candidates' refusal to accept the evidence on climate change is ridiculous. (Sadly, you have to register to read this piece.)

The socialist trade union in Belgium, ABVV, has filed a complaint with the legal authorities against Indian-origin Lakshmi Mittal's steel giant, ArcelorMittal.

Hot Air and the daily caller are excited to pronounce socialized medicine dead as the British NHS plans to introduce private insurance on top of socialized care. From The Caller: Joseph A. Morris, a former Reagan White House lawyer who now serves on the board of the American Conservative Union, told TheDC that socialized medicine has turned out to be a threat to Britons' health, and to their ...

Last month, François Hollande, the Socialist candidate for the French Presidency, launched his campaign in the Paris suburb of Le Bourget, vowing before fifteen thousand supporters that he would “change the destiny of our country.” Hollande has the reputation of being a sallow technocrat, so it . . . (Subscription required.)

The election of Socialist Francois Hollande in France could upset the euro zone’s applecart, but that might not be a bad thing, says Darrell Delamaide.

The CPI(M)'s looking at conditions within India to achieve socialist goals. Better late than never?

Headline Title:  South Korean activist charged over Kim Jong-il tweet 01 February 2012 The South Korean authorities should immediately release a social media activist accused of helping "the enemy" for re-tweeting messages from North Korea’s official government Twitter account...

A leading member of Senegal's opposition Socialist Party has been arrested on murder charges after a man was shot dead during recent political clashes, his lawyers say.

Israel, despite socialist roots, now has a huge income gap. Displays of riches, such as a $2-million wedding and a 'Real Housewives'-style show, draw awe and contempt.Israel, despite socialist roots, now has a huge income gap. Displays of riches, such as a $2-million wedding and a 'Real Housewives'-style show, draw awe and contempt.

BERLIN (Reuters) - French Socialist Francois Hollande said on Monday he wants the European Central Bank to step up its role in fighting the euro zone debt crisis if he wins presidential elections next year. Hollande, speaking at the German opposition Social Democrat (SPD) party conference in Berlin, also said… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Spain's departing Socialist government said it has granted a partial pardon to Santander CEO Alfredo Saenz, commuting a three-month prison sentence and a temporary working ban to the "maximum possible fine."

Look out budget wonks, Newt Gingrich is comin' for you.

About 75 people who participated in a neo-Nazi demonstration Saturday afternoon near Pomona City Hall exchanged jeers with a group of opponents before the protest ended, authorities said. Mark Gluba, a city spokesman, said the demonstration by the National Socialist...