Sentence examples for a socialist platform from inspiring English sources
Standing on a socialist platform, she was elected president for a four-year term in March 2006 and again in March 2014.
One of the most vocal campaigners for the $15 minimum wage has been Kshama Sawant, an Occupy Wall Street activist and social justice campaigner, who was elected to Seattle city council in 2013 on a socialist platform.
In between are men — they are all men — like William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate at the turn of the 20th century; Eugene V. Debs, the union leader who ran on a socialist platform five times, once from prison; Thomas E. Dewey, the New York governor who was the Republican nominee in 1944 and 1948; and George S. McGovern, the senator who was the Democratic nominee in 1972.
In Seattle, college professor Kshama Sawant was elected to City Council on a socialist platform.
Kshama Sawant won a seat on the Seattle city council last year running on a socialist platform.
Following the electoral defeat, Livingstone told Socialist Organiser that the blame lay solely with the "Labour government's policies" and the anti-democratic attitude of Callaghan and the Parliamentary Labour Party, calling for greater party democracy and a turn towards a socialist platform.
Two decades later, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had campaigned on a secular socialist platform, declared the Ahmadiyyas non-Muslim, in an awful attempt to outflank the religious right.
Just as François Mitterrand, elected president in 1981 on an intensely socialist platform, had to change tack to woo back business and save the economy, so François Hollande has begun to do the same.
On the other hand, a growing number Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) members were dissatisfied with the status of their party: the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the failure of the LCP to assume a more democratic socialist platform ushered in an era of political decline for the party.
He was elected promising change on an ill-defined socialist platform and will now have to manage the soaring expectations of Paraguayans in what by law is a single five-year term.
Isn't this what Hitler and other socialists promised the German people in his Nazi (national socialist) platform – a country in which government guarantees security and 'equality' in exchange for giving up individual freedom?
