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  Communist Party (Alberta) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Communist Party of Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada.
The Communist Party was less successful than other left wing parties in the province, such as the Labour Party and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.
In the 1975 provincial election, the Communist Party split the far left wing vote with the Constitutional Socialist Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_(Alberta)   (344 words)

  
 Progressive Labour Party of Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Progressive Labour Party of Alberta was a short lived provincial political party in Alberta, Canada.
The party had marginal success in a couple of by-elections before and after the 1935 Alberta provincial election, but did not contest that election.
This party is not to be confused with the communist front, the Labour Progressive Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Labour_Party_of_Alberta   (171 words)

  
 Communist Party - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Communist Party
The communist parties which dominated Eastern Europe and Asia for much of the 20th century were the heirs of the left wing of the Social Democratic parties which grew up in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
In Germany, in the four Reichstag (parliament) elections of 1930–32, the Communist Party polled between 5 and 6 million votes; but after these successes they were gradually overtaken by the Nazis; their leader, Thaelmann, was imprisoned and repressive measures were taken against the party as a whole.
With the end of World War II in 1945, communist parties made their influence felt in many countries in Europe, largely owing to the rise in the cost of living and to the installation of communist regimes in the East European countries by the Soviet army in 1944–45.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Communist+Party   (790 words)

  
 CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Parties
The CCF grew from a coalition of farm, labour and socialist associations and became a party in 1932.
In 1961, it was reborn as the New Democratic Party, and was led by Grant Notley from 1968 to 1984.
The Alberta Alliance was formed a year after the 2001 election, in response to what its founders saw as a move away from the right by the governing Conservatives.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/parties   (1406 words)

  
 Conservative Party of Canada - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-wing political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003.
The party is still referred to as "Tory" by the media and retains the tie to the historical Conservative Party of Canada founded in 1854 by Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Étienne Cartier by virtue of the fact that the merged entity assumed all assets and liabilities of the Progressive Conservative Party.
The party is often considered to be Canada's version of the United States Republican Party and the United Kingdom's Conservative Party due to their conservative positions.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada   (2621 words)

  
 List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
The below political parties are believed to possess an extant national organization of some extent and have indicated they plan to gather signatures for the purposes of registration.
From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_political_parties_in_Canada   (886 words)

  
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The Communist Party of Canada takes this opportunity to reaffirm its full commitment to a united struggle for equality and justice regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Alberta's Tory government may invoke the "notwithstanding" clause which allows Canadian politicians to override sections of the Charter of Rights, and right-wing "family values" groups have condemned the Supreme Court ruling as a "social experiment."
The Communist Party dedicates itself to fighting all such manifestations of hatred.
www.communist-party.ca /english/pv/july99_pride.html   (720 words)

  
 cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Alberta also enjoyed the highest personal income growth and lowest unemployment rate in Canada, as well as very low inflation.
In 2005, Alberta's economic growth is expected to moderate to a still-robust 3.7%, as energy prices recede from their recent highs.
Alberta will remain a full-employment economy, with the province's unemployment rate expected to average 4.3% from 2005 through 2008.
www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/provinc_elections/alberta_elec.html   (428 words)

  
 THE CCF THE ORIGINAL REFORM MOVEMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In Alberta the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) were a farmer based reform party that came to provincial power the same year as Irvine and Woodsworth were sent to Ottawa.
In 1929 representatives of the ACCL, the Socialist Party of Canada, the Social Democratic Party of Canada, the remnants of the Canadian Labour Party, the Fabian League for Social Reconstruction, members of the UFA as well as other farmers organizations formed the Western Conference of Labour Political Parties, to build a socialist, worker-farmer alliance.
The CCF was a provincial and Federal political party to be recond with.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5202/ccf.htm   (1170 words)

  
 Alberta Health workers defeat right-wing government
In Alberta all industrial action in healthcare is illegal with penalties of fines, union decertification, and even imprisonment.
This was a betrayal by the NDP, Canada’s Labour party, and a setback for all public sector workers.
The CUPE leadership is right to call on workers to take back their party but when it mattered most they also let down the movement.
www.newyouth.com /archives/canada/alberta_health_strike_20000527.asp   (529 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Conservative Party of Canada
A majority of Canadians in the west (in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, and the Northwest Territories), and in Quebec, rejected the Charlottetown Accord, and the Accord was defeated.
After controversial votes were held within each party, the agreement was ratified in mid-December of 2003, and the parties were merged later that month into a single party called the Conservative Party of Canada.
The party came into being without a constitution or a set of policies: the merger was ratified with each party's members hoping that, after the merger, they would have enough power to determine the direction of the party.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/conservative.htm   (1887 words)

  
 CPC Candidates 2006
A Communist from the age of 17, George is the BC provincial leader of the CPC.
As leader of the Communist Party of Canada since 1992, Miguel led the CPC's decade-long legal and political fight against rules which infringed on free speech and threatened the existence of all small parties.
A former School Trustee, Elizabeth Rowley is the Ontario leader of the Communist Party.
pcc-cpc-2006.communist-party.ca /can.htm   (978 words)

  
 hungarians in alberta
Hungarian immigration to Alberta during the 1920s and 1930s is characterized -- in addition to the immigrants working in mining -- by farming settlements: in 1931, 69% of the Hungarian immigrants to Alberta lived in rural areas (Palmer and Palmer 306).
In Alberta generally, in the period between the 1930s to the late-1940s, the Canadian-Hungarian population actually declined (Palmer and Palmer 319) and as there is evidence that many Canadian Hungarians moved from rural areas to Edmonton, this influx resulted in the formation of the Canadian-Hungarian community of Edmonton.
However, while the Palmers contend that in Alberta, generally, "by the end of the war, Hungarian left wing political activity and commitment ebbed" (319), in the case of Edmonton's Canadian Hungarians, interestingly, it appears that by the end of the war it was exactly their leftist orientation that initiated the will to organise community life.
clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu /library/albertahungarians.html   (8633 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Web -- Alberta Party Leaders
Running against prominent Alberta PC members such as Nancy Betkowski (now MacBeth), the current leader of the Alberta Liberal party, he won the party leadership and was sworn in as Premier of Alberta on December 14, 1992.
The leader of the Alberta New Democrats was born in Punjab, India in 1934.
In 1981 she joined the Communist Party and became the provincial leader in 1992.
www.mapleleafweb.com /election/alberta/Albertaleaders.shtml   (879 words)

  
 The Ultimate Left-wing politics Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Many Greens deny that green politics is "on the left"; nonetheless, their economic policies can generally be considered left-wing, and when they have formed political coalitions (most notably in Germany, but also in local governments elsewhere), it has almost always been with groups that would generally be classified as being on the left.
For example, the Democratic Leadership Council (in which Bill Clinton was active) is generally considered to form the right wing of the U.S. Democratic Party (which outside the US is considered to be right of center), but in terms of the whole country he was generally perceived as being on the moderate left.
In Hong Kong, the term "left-wing" is usually used to describe the political parties that mostly support the policies of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Central Government in Beijing.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Left-wing   (2900 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Bloc Québécois
Its members and supporters come from a broad spectrum of political orientations by the party's central purpose: to promote the secession of Quebec from Canada or, when the desire of Quebecers for secession is weak, to promote the "interests" of Quebec.
The party's current leader, Gilles Duceppe, assumed the leadership of the party on March 15, 1997.
Thus, until another party takes considerable root in the provinces, BQ candidates can be expected to continue filling the vacuum left when voters decide not to re-elect Liberal MPs in that province.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/bq.htm   (919 words)

  
 Oklahoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oklahoma Socialist Party achieved a small degree of success in this era (the small party had its highest per-capita membership in Oklahoma at this time with 12,000 dues paying members in 1914), including the publication of dozens of party newspapers and the election of several hundred local elected officials.
The party was later crushed into virtual non-existence during the "white terror" that followed the ultra-repressive environment following the Green Corn Rebellion and the World War I era paranoia against anyone who spoke against the war or capitalism.
There are also organizers from the Communist Party USA working in the state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oklahoma   (5672 words)

  
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CLAC seems to be growing rapidly in the Alberta oil patch, where its conservative outlook fits in with the right-wing ideology of that industry.
The Communist Party's BC Committee, for example, called for a system combining the election of 50 MLAs in single-member constituencies, with another 50 to be elected by proportional representation, with a 2% threshold.
Many prominent Greens and NDPers are calling for a "NO" vote, and the BC Committee of the Communist Party voted at its March 12-13 meeting to campaign against STV and in favour of a renewed push for MMP as a far more advanced and democratic electoral reform.
pvoice.communist-party.ca /aprilcurrent.htm   (6591 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A good number of feminists have solid communist backgrounds, such as Betty Friedan, who was (perhaps still is) for many years a functionary of the Communist Party of the USA.
The communists are not inventing the influence of society on education, they are only changing its character, they tear education away from the influence of the ruling class.
The communist revolution is the most radical break with the traditional circumstances of property; no wonder that in its evolution the most radical break is made with traditional ideas.
www.fathersforlife.org /communist_manifesto.htm   (5036 words)

  
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The Communist Party of Canada believes that the entire working class movement must step up the struggle to defend and expand women's rights.
The Liberal Party's official policy of non-participation in that war was a major reason why it won re-election as a minority government in 2004.
Chile is currently dominated by an agreement of parties called the Concertacion, which is headed by the Christian Democrats and includes various social democratic parties.
pvoice.communist-party.ca /marchcurrent.htm   (5862 words)

  
 eG - News - AlbertaÕs lesser known politicians - A voice for true socialists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jason Devine, Communist candidate in Calgary East, is an ambitious 20-year-old socialist who ran for federal office in November, also in the riding of Calgary East, and managed to pick off 152 out of 33,552 votes.
Calgary East is the only riding in Calgary where a Communist candidate is running, so not everyone will be able to throw their support behind the party.
In his mind, the key is to bring together different movement such as the Communists, the Marxist-Leninists and the New Democrats.
www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/news/stories/20010308/news04.html   (634 words)

  
 LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Alberta's next CEO
Dinning the ideal icon of Corporate Calgary is the fair haired lad being groomed to become the next CEO of the Party of Calgary and thus the CEO of Alberta.
And after all since it is the Party of Calgary it will be the Calgary Gang that decides who will be crowned and they are backing Dinning.
Alberta's former treasurer has built a power base in the private sector but ties to the business elite may not be a plus in returning to politics
plawiuk.blogspot.com /2005/05/albertas-next-ceo.html   (1122 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Left-wing
Socialist Party of America (in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century) and the Communist Party of the United States of America (in the 1930s) made some inroads.
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA takes the opposite view and continues to praise the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Chinese Communist Party of Mao Zedong, who, over the next quarter of a century attempted the radical transformation of society through the
www.bambooweb.com /articles/l/e/Left-wing.html   (3013 words)

  
 Canadian Political Parties/Les Partis politiques du Canada
Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves And Be Their Own Politicians, POC
Parti municipal Rive-Sud - Équipe Gladu, PMRS (Longueuil)
Parti Municipal Énergie avec Sylvie Surpenant, PME-Surpenant (Ste-Thérèse)
home.ican.net /~alexng/can.html   (779 words)

  
 Freedom Party International - Consent 34 - January 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
One part of those democratic principles is that if a politician or party lies to me, cheats me, steals from me, or otherwise angers me I am permitted within five years to throw them out.
Unfortunately, political parties don’t see this same problem and instead keep on harping on the ‘ticket price’ rather than the substance of their parties. 
This is a product of the whole system, and until we change the system we are going to be left with a problematic turn of events.  Like a sport focused on ticket prices rather than the game, so is our political system focused on dollar signs rather than on principles.
www.freedomparty.org /consent/cons34_2.htm   (460 words)

  
 Chinese Communist party - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Chinese Communist Party faces greatest challenges with 50th anniversary near.
Caders and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party.
MIAMI BEACH: Protesters decry China's Communist Party: A small group of Chinese dissidents gathered in Miami Beach to denounce the Chinese government.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-chinescp.asp   (261 words)

  
 Party Politics in Canada, 7/e
Thorburn
This collection of thirty-seven essays from experts across the country offers an analysis of the party system in Canada.
Party and State in the Liberal Era, Reginald Whitaker.
Alberta Politics: Debt, Populism and Cutbacks in the 1990s, Allan Tupper.
www.prenticehall.ca /canbooks/phc_0134392175.html   (350 words)

  
 Left-wing politics - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
While many American "liberals" would be "social democrats" in European terms, very few of them openly embrace the term "left"; in America, the term is mainly embraced by New Left activists, certain portions of the labor movement, and people who see their intellectual or political heritage as descending from 19th-century socialist movements.
For example, most Trotskyists adhere to some variant of Leon Trotsky's view of the post-Lenin Soviet Union as a "degenerated workers' state" and denounce Stalin as a traitor, while the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA takes the opposite view and continues to praise the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Aurélie Filipetti, a spokeswoman of the Green Party in Paris, criticized some of her fellow French left-wingers for creating an anti-Israeli atmosphere which encourages antisemitism.
www.free-definition.com /Left-wing-politics.html   (2559 words)

  
 Martin Luther King Jr. - A Historical Examination: The King Holiday and Its Meaning
Throughout this period, but especially toward the beginning and end of his career, King associated with identified members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), with persons who were former members of or close to the CPUSA, and with CPUSA front organizations.
The FBI was not aware of their relationship until very late 1961 or early 1962, and it was the discovery of their relationship that led to the protracted and intensive FBI-DOJ surveillance of King for the remainder of his life.
The FBI believed that Levison was still a Communist and that King's relationship with him represented an opportunity for the Communist Party to infiltrate and manipulate King and the civil rights movement.
www.martinlutherking.org /helms.html   (1547 words)

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