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  Socialist Party (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Autumn 2003 the Socialist Party were all over the Irish media, as both Joe Higgins and Clare Daly had been sent to Mountjoy Prison for a month for refusing to abide by an Irish High Court injunction relating to the blockading of bin lorries.
In 2005 the Socialist Party and in particular Joe Higgins TD were instrumental in exposing the exploitation of immigrant Turkish construction workers working for the Turkish multinational GAMA on Irish state projects.
Socialist Youth is the youth wing of the Socialist Party, with branches in most of the cities and towns where the Socialist Party is organised.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Ireland   (1055 words)

  
 Parti national social chrétien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Parti national social chrétien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934.
In October 1934, the party merged with the Canadian Nationalist Party, which was based in the Prairie provinces.
On May 30, 1940, the party was banned under the War Measures Act, and Arcand and many of his followers were arrested and detained for the duration of the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_National_Socialist_Unity_Party   (350 words)

  
 Christian Democrat Party of Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Christian Democrat Party of Chile (Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile) is a political party in Chile and governs as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition.
The party supported in the 1999/2000 presidential elections Ricardo Lagos Escobar, who won 48.0 % in the first round and was elected with 51.3 % in the second round.
At the last legislative elections, 16 december 2001, the party won as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy 23 out of 117 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 12 out of 38 elected seats in the Senate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Democratic_Party_of_Chile   (407 words)

  
 Expatriate Online - Your Bookmark to Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Christian Socialist party, founded in 1945, distanced itself from its forerunner, the Catholic party; it termed itself secular and unitarian, and based itself on individual support as opposed to church affiliation.
The Socialist party also broadened its political base, turning away from its practice of recruiting members collectively through the trade unions and cooperatives, and began instead to enlist support on a direct basis among individual voters.
The Christian Socialists supported the return of the king, the Socialists and Communists demanded that he abdicate, while the Liberals were in favour of abolishing the monarchy altogether.
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 MSN Encarta - Socialism
The socialist doctrine demands state ownership and control of the fundamental means of production and distribution of wealth, to be achieved by reconstruction of the existing capitalist or other political system of a country through peaceful, democratic, and parliamentary means.
These are the tenets of the Socialist party of the U.S., the Labour party of Britain, and labor or social democratic parties of various other countries.
In 1901 a moderate faction of the party under Morris Hillquit joined with the Social Democratic party of Eugene V. Debs and the Christian Socialists of George D. Herron to form the Socialist party.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577990/Socialism.html   (960 words)

  
 Staendestaat
For the next decade a bourgeois government comprised of Christian Socialists, aristocrats and the rural population was in charge.
The Christian Socialist provincial governments, the bourgeois national government, the industry and banks bankrolled the militias with the goal of establishing an extra-parliamentary power force that would help to enforce their interests.
All Social Democratic mandates were annulled, all party members deposed of their positions in federal, provincial and municipal governments, unions dissolved and all property of the party seized.
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Christian "socialism" or Christian "democracy" as an ideology had its early beginning in Europe in a period early enough for Marx to be able to classify it as a reactionary feudal socialism in his Communist Manifesto.
The Christian democratic and Christian socialist parties and the papal encyclicals came in the backwash of the advance of scientific socialism advocated by Marx and Engels.
While Christian "democrats" cover up their essentially anti- communist role by making pretended denunciations of liberal capitalism, they cannot deny that it is their constant practice and goal to serve as a reactionary neutralizing force or road block to the advance of a truly progressive and revolutionary movement.
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 The Spanish Socialist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The leaders of the Communist Party (PCE) were correct in believing that the PSOE was quite incapable of guaranteeing the transition from the Franco dictatorship to a parliamentary regime.
Suárez legalised political parties and called elections in June 1977 which he won as leader of a party, the UCD, cobbled together from a collection of right-wing liberals, Christian Democrats and bureaucrats like himself who realised that Francoism without Franco was not an option.
It has been claimed that the PSOE is no longer a Social-Democratic party because of its abandonment of working class interests, its submission to imperialism, its co-operation with military and right-wing elements in murdering political opponents, its absence of internal democracy, its restriction of democratic rights and the enrichment of its leaders through corruption.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext2/Spain.html   (2256 words)

  
 Christian Socialists
Christian Socialists promoted the cooperative ideas of Robert Owen and suggested profit sharing as a way of improving the status of the working classes and as a means of producing a just, Christian society.
Socialist Quaker Society, the Roman Catholic Socialist Society, the Guild of St. Matthew, and the Christian Social Union.
Surely that man or woman is no Christian at all, except in name, in so far as he or she remains indifferent to the awful abyss that yarns between rich and poor; to the insufficiency of the share in our immense wealth which falls to the lot of those who produce it.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REsocialism.htm   (1358 words)

  
 Christian Social Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From 1907 to 1911 it was the strongest party in the Lower House of the (additional info and facts about Reichsrat) Reichsrat, but it then lost this position to the (additional info and facts about Social Democratic Workers' Party) Social Democratic Workers' Party.
All (additional info and facts about Chancellors of Austria) Chancellors of Austria from 1920 were members of the Christian Social Party, and so was the (The chief executive of a republic) president from 1928 to 1938.
However, this coalition turned not to be stable, which is why the party leadership decide to coalize with the Landbund and the Greater German Party again.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christian_social_party.htm   (342 words)

  
 National Socialist Life in Christian Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He also writes that Adolf Stocker, founder of the Christian Socialist Party in 1878, was "one of the first spokesmen for anti-Semitism in Germany." Not only is this a lie but it proves that Fischer is not a historian at all, but is a Jew seeking to cloud the truth.
True Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, and our way of life does not come from antichrist Jews, including their false, lying, and blasphemous translations of our Scriptures, but come from God.
National Socialist Germany was a government of the Government of God, an Aryan nation of Christians acting in accordance with the Mentality of Separation, God's Word.
www.christianseparatist.org /briefs/sb3.05.html   (5096 words)

  
 Socialist Party USA - Celebrating Over 100 Years As America's Voice For Democratic Socialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
THE SOCIALIST PARTY of the United States of America was formally organized at a unity convention in Indianapolis in 1901.
Weakened by the loss of the Bolsheviks, the Socialist Party did not run a Presidential candidate in 1924, but joined the AFL and the railroad brotherhoods in support of the independent campaign of the progressive Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin, hoping to build a permanent Farmer-Labor Party.
In 1928, the Socialist Party revived as an independent electoral entity under the leadership of Norman Thomas, an opponent of World War I and a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
sp-usa.org /about/history/early-years.html   (698 words)

  
 Socialist Party, Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1920 the party split in two groups: some of them formed the Communist Party of Uruguay, but Emilio Frugoni along other socialists did not accept Leninist ideas, and continued the Socialist Party in other group since 1921.
In 1971 the Socialist Party was one of the political parties (alongside the Communist Party, the Christian Democratic Party and other small political parties) that founded the Frente Amplio coalition.
The Socialist Party of Uruguay is a member of the international group Socialist International alongside Nuevo Espacio and a lot of socialist and social-democrat political parties from around the world.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/uy}ps.html   (472 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Karl Lueger
In municipal, state, and national politics he was now the leader of the Anti-Semitic and Anti-Liberal party, the back-bone of which was the union of Christians called variously the Christian Socialist Union and, in Vienna especially, the United Christians, This union developed later into the present (1910) dominant party in Austria, the Christian Socialists.
Lueger's subsequent activity was devoted to moulding and guiding the policy of the Christian Socialist party and to the re-creation of Vienna, of which he remained burgomaster until his death, his re-election occurring in 1903 and 1909.
The political ideal of the Christian Socialists is a German-Slav-Magyar state under the Habsburg dynasty, federal in plan, Catholic in religion but justly tolerant of other beliefs, with the industrial and economic advancement of all the people as an enduring political basis.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09417a.htm   (1071 words)

  
 Encounter: IDEA OF GOD IN THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM OF SANDOR GIESSWEIN, THE
Giesswein felt that it was his Christian responsibility to reach out to and stand in solidarity with (in a non-paternalistic way) the urban working class and their labor unions.
Disagreeing with its Marxist materialistic philosophical underpinnings, he was supportive of the program of the Social Democratic Party, which represented much of the urban working class (this was in sharp contrast to the mutual antagonism between much of the hierarchy of the church, the Christian parties, and most of the Social Democrats).
It was the nation's first such Christian Socialist Worker's Association.2 he participated in a school (or "course") on Christian Socialism in Vienna, and was instrumental in starting a similar school in Budapest, giving the keynote addresses in 1901 and 1903.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4044/is_200401/ai_n9397028   (1357 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | French EU vote: Yes and No camps
Both the main parties - the government centre-right UMP and the opposition Socialists - were officially in favour of the constitution, but there were also prominent dissidents in each party.
The parties' traditional supporters were also split, particularly in the case of the Socialist Party.
The Communist Party, and the communist newspaper l'Humanite, joined forces with Socialist opponents of the constitution, to argue that the text was too economically liberal.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4559361.stm   (985 words)

  
 Socialist Unity Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Socialist Unity Party can refer to at several different organizations, most of them defunct.
There was also a small group in the United Kingdom known simply as Socialist Unity, and a group in Costa Rica known as the Christian Socialist Unity Party (sometimes rendered as the Social Christian Unity Party).
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party   (124 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Paul Hanebrink on Und es gab sie doch! Die Geschichte der christlichen Arbeiterbewegung in Österreich in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Christian politicians, including union leaders, certainly viewed socialism as a grave menace to society and moral order, but Wodrazka reminds us that the Christian labor movement as a whole shrank from drawing the most violent consequences of these convictions.
He also points out that antisemitic rhetoric was, for Christian Socialist politicians, a tool to be used in certain instances and at certain times, typically within the context of Christian Socialist party politics, and not during the meetings and congresses of the Christian workers.
However, "Christian labor" could also simultaneously serve a politics of exclusion, sharpening the differences between an "organic" and "natural" view of social relations and an "alien" ideology of "un-Christian" conflict that was to be resisted at all costs.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=223671097172056   (1815 words)

  
 Italian PDS founds new party
The ceremony was presided over by the ex-Stalinists of the PDS (Partito Democratico della Sinistra–Democratic Party of the Left) together with the remains of the former Christian Democrats and the Socialist Party, and a few other left-wing groups.
The DS party logo will be the social democratic rose at the foot of an oak tree, with a blue background encircled by a ring of 15 stars—the symbol of the European Union.
D'Alema presented British Labour Party leader Tony Blair as his model, and declared his aim to be the creation of a two-party system which would provide the stable conditions necessary for Italian capitalism to develop a global strategy.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/feb1998/italf27.shtml   (1213 words)

  
 Christian Socialist Movement - bringing religious commitment to political activism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
We publish The Common Good (previously Christian Socialist), our members’ magazine, and occasional pamphlets and organise events to help the churches and politicians work together for the common good.
MPs, peers and members of the three main parties will come together to worship the Christ-child in the traditional way and all CSM members and friends are warmly invited.
The site is a non-denominational and official all-party body with a focus for prayer, including the latest prayer needs for those with the responsibility of governing the country.
www.christiansocialist.org.uk   (663 words)

  
 Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Encyclopedia: History of Austria
Charles (February 24, 1500 – September 21, 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles V) from 1519-1558; he was also King of Spain from 1516-1556, officially as Charles I of Spain, although often referred to as Charles V (Carlos Quinto or Carlos V) in Spain and Latin America.
Suffrage to the Reichstag's lower house was gradually expanded until 1907, when equal suffrage for all male citizens was introduced.
However, the effectiveness of parliamentarism was hampered by conflicts between parties representing different ethnic groups, and meetings of the parliament were ceased altogether during World War I.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Austria   (11256 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Party, Uruguay
In 1971 the PDC was one of the political parties (alongside the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and other small political parties) that founded the Frente Amplio coalition.
Nowadays the Christian Democratic Party is inside another group of the coalition: the Alianza Progresista.
The Flag of the Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay is a red flag (with a very slightly "orangeish" shade of red).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/uy}pdc.html   (294 words)

  
 B&H / C18 - National Socialism in Christian Germany
We do not get our "religion" from a bunch of antichrist, mongrel Jews, who not only killed our Saviour in the flesh but still seek to kill God's racially pure children through mongrelisation and other various means by the promotion of their antichrist agenda.
Socialist party had promised since the very beginning.
The truth is that most of the labour camps were, at least initially, to prove to be the salvation of a vast element of the population of Europe.
www.skrewdriver.net /nschrist.html   (5194 words)

  
 Luxembourg Government Information
The prime minister is the leader of the political party or coalition of parties having the most seats in parliament.
The LSAP (Socialist Party) regained its standing as junior coalition partner to the CSV in national elections held in June 2004.
The Socialist Party (LSAP) is a center-left party similar to most social-democratic parties in Europe.
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 Juno Beach Centre - The Rise of Fascism
In a climate of social turmoil and high unemployment, marxist and socialist parties rise against right-wing industrialists often supported by the Church.
The National Socialist Party of German Workers (National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) strikes an alliance with extreme-right industrialists to counter the rise of communism.
The NSDAP, or Nazi Party, is ruled by a charismatic leader, Adolph Hitler, who inflames the crowds by promising a strong Germany, freed from the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and reconciled with its past military grandeur.
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