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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  02 Socialist Labour Party Congress
Apart from Party delegates, the Conference Hall was graced by the presence of fraternal delegates from the DPRK, Cuba, France, Ireland and Sweden.
Party President, Frank Cave, opened the proceedings with a short address, in which he pleaded with the delegates to take the Emergency Motion on Rail, Safety and Public Ownership, submitted by Morley and Rothwell CSLP, as the first item of the agenda.
Alain Simon, a member of the Communist Party of France and Secretary General of the International Energy and Miners’ Organisation conveyed greetings from the French trade unions, praised the SLP for its opposition to the imperialist war against Yugoslavia, its opposition to anti-trade union legislation and for its support for the Cuban Revolution.
www.lalkar.org /issues/contents/jan2000/congress.html   (2230 words)

  
 Trotskyism in India (1935-1945) 1 - RH
Congress took office, while the Congress Socialists, Stalinists, and their hangers on preached unity with the bourgeoisie in the name of the ‘National United Front’ (replay of Stalin’s script for the Kuomintang).
Polarisation in Congress came to a head at the 1939 Congress Session, where Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the ‘Congress Left’, was elected president with the support of the CSP and Stalinists.
Purdy denied that Congress was a bourgeois party or organisation, calling it instead a “united front of the nation” – the same formulation used by the Congress Socialists, Stalinists, Royists, et al as a rationale for all sorts of opportunism.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /marxists/history/etol/document/india/india01.htm   (6526 words)

  
 French Socialist Party congress backs government repression   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The congress saw the three main factions—the majority, led by First Secretary François Hollande; the New Socialist Party (NSP) faction, led by Arnaud Montebourg, Vincent Peillon and Henri Emmanuelli; and the faction led by ex-prime minister Laurent Fabius—unite on a common programme seeking to project a left face to the electorate.
The congress, attended by 4,500 people, of which 614 were delegates, was called in the wake of the devastating defeat of the Socialist Party’s joint campaign with Chirac and then-Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin in support of the European Union constitution.
The Socialist Party refused to call for the paramilitary CRS and the police to be withdrawn from the immigrant suburbs.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/nov2005/spfr-n28.shtml   (1510 words)

  
 Yemen Socialist Party: fourth general congress
The Congress members also accomplished the major task for which the Second Session of the Fourth General Congress was convened --the election of a new party leadership embodying, in internal party life, the fundamentals of democratic practice.
The Congress urges all party primary organisations at the level of districts and governorates to make the concerns and problems of citizens in the geographical areas for which they are responsible of paramount importance.
The Congress notes that the Higher Co-ordination Council of the opposition parties and its branches in the governorates and districts constitute the genuine nucleus for a broader political and social alliance.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/pol/ysp2000.htm   (4826 words)

  
 Sharp conflicts at the French Socialist Party congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The party congress, held on the eve of the European Union (EU) conference in Nice and in the run-up to a long campaign for the 2002 parliamentary and presidential elections, should have demonstrated agreement and unanimity.
The Gauche Socialiste resolution was in the form of a letter from a young party member to the party chief, culminating with the vague demand that the Socialist Party "propose radical reforms, which break with the logic of the system".
On the one hand, the inner-party "opposition" speaks for trade union and socialist party officials at all levels, and on the other hand for those radicalised layers of the middle class, who express their interests in different protest initiatives against the globalisation from Seattle to Millau.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/dec2000/frps-d13.shtml   (1437 words)

  
 Socialist Party congress 2006
Socialist Party branches are getting a good response from visiting workplaces, stewards and convenors and using the local press to publicise local launch meetings.
THE FINAL session of the Socialist party's 2006 Conference was an inspirational report from Tony Saunois on the progress of the work of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI - the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated).
This is the case in Brazil with the new P-SOL party, the WASG in Germany, and a new workers' party initiative in Belgium.
www.marxist.net /events/conferences/spconf2006/intro.htm   (4232 words)

  
 Socialist Party (India) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socialist Party has been the name of several political parties in India, all of which have their roots in the Congress Socialist Party formed during the freedom struggle.
The original Socialist Party had its roots in the Congress Socialist Party (CSP), the socialist caucus of the Indian National Congress, which fused in 1948 with the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (BLPI).
A third Socialist Party was formed in 1972 through the reunion of the Praja Socialist Party with the Samyukta Socialist Party led by George Fernandes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party_(India)   (340 words)

  
 Socialist Party congress 2006
In the case of the RMT and PCS, this is a direct result of the combative militant policies of the union leadership, with the left and the Socialist Party playing a crucial role in the PCS in particular.
Nevertheless, the fact that they are implacable socialists has not detracted but enhanced their suitability for leadership in the eyes of workers.
In these circumstances it was an ultra-left gesture to call the deal ‘shabby’, as the SWP did in their weekly paper, Socialist Worker, and to instruct their few members on national executives of public sector unions to vote against the deal.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /events/conferences/spconf2006/4.htm   (4821 words)

  
 Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
There was no doubt that CSP was not a homogeneous party of unified elements but they certainly united so far as the immediate goal of freedom was concerned.
As JP was both a socialist and a nationalist, he tried his best to win over the communists and the Congress men for creating a broad Socialist front to fight imperialism.
With the formation of the CSP, JP’s life was devoted to encouraging groups of like-minded radicals throughout the country to set up branches and at the same time organizing and strengthening urban worker’s and peasant’s organizations.
www.mkgandhi.org /jpnarayan/bparty.htm   (400 words)

  
 South Asian Media Net
Until recently, the Congress Party was the main opposition party at the Center (i.e., the central or federal government) and has also formed the government in a majority of Indian states.
Congress (I) withdrew their support in less than a year, hoping to gain power with the support of various United Front constituent groups, and Inder Kumar Gujral became the next Janata Dal Prime Minister.
The NCP advertises itself a progressive, secular party that stands for "democracy, Gandhian secularism, equity, social justice, and federalism." It positions itself as a moderate, left-leaning alternative to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.
www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm   (2451 words)

  
 India - Communist Parties
The Communist Party of India (CPI) was founded on December 26, 1925, at an all-India conference held at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in late December 1925 and early January 1926.
They were expelled from the Congress Socialist Party in March 1940, after allegations that the communists had disrupted party activities and were intent on coopting party organizations.
Communists remained members of the Indian National Congress although their support of the British war effort after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and their nationalist policy supporting the right of religious minorities to secede from India were diametrically opposed to Congress policies.
countrystudies.us /india/114.htm   (719 words)

  
 Communist Party of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1948, at the 4th Party Congress in Palghat, B.T. Ranadive (BTR) was elected General Secretary of the party.
The internal division was sealed in 1964 when two different party conferences were held, one of CPI and one of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and thus the party was split.
The party is part of a coalition of leftist and communist parties known in the national media as the Left Front.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_India   (997 words)

  
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A second important consideration is the extreme dependence of the party on the princes and the landed gentry for the bulk of its parliamentary strength.
The party doctrine is by no means “feudal,” “reactionary” or “fascist,” but quite apart from the party’s faith in trusteeship and individual initiative as sufficiently potent forces to create a liberal, democratic India, there are disturbing signs.
They have made the party “a seat or jagir for their relatives and caste-brothers” and this “may prove to be fatal to the party in the long run.” Chetana (U.P. Hindi weekly), April 17, 1962.
www.sabhlokcity.com /party/swatantra-erdman.doc   (5887 words)

  
 Ajit Roy: Congress Socialism (August 1939)
Unwillingness to support the “Forward Bloc” – a bloc of left groupings inside the Indian National Congress initiated by the radical ex-President Subhas Bose – and the domination of the Stalinist Party are among the reasons cited in the statement issued to the press by the four stalwarts of the Congress Socialist Party.
By the fact that even up to this day the CSP leaders refuse to recognise the disastrous character of their policy shows that the policy was not due to mistake but flowed from the inherent rottenness of the Party.
With the adhesion of the CSP, the Stalinists and Mr.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/win/vol02/no08/roy.htm   (2095 words)

  
 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
The CSP had adopted Marxism in 1936 and their third conference in Faizpur they had formulated a thesis that directed the party to work to transform the Indian National Congress into an anti-imperialist front.
RSP meant that the socialist Soviet Union had to be defended, but that the best way for Indian revolutionaries to do that was to overthrow the colonial rule in their own country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revolutionary_Socialist_Party_(India)   (1960 words)

  
 About Nepali Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Since its inception in January 1947 Nepali Congress has occupied a pivotal position in the annals of contemporary politics of Nepal.
The Nepali Congress (NC) was formed in the exile in India as a result of the merger of Nepali National Congress and Nepali Democratic Congress.
The Nepali Congress adopted democratic socialism in 1956 as a principle for social transformation.
www.nepalicongress.org.np /contents/general/about_nc/index.html   (454 words)

  
 Sri Lanka: USP holds successful congress - Socialist Party Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence - the brother of the president, Mahinda Rajapakse.
Nevertheless, nearly seventy party members were in attendance when the ninth congress of the United Socialist Party went ahead on 4 and 5 of December.
A letter was read at the beginning of the congress from the secretary of the Jaffna branch in the North, wishing the party well and regretting the impossibility, because of the virtual blockade of the North, of travelling south to participate.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /archives/2006/12/09/sri-lanka-usp-holds-successful-congress   (1629 words)

  
 Seventeenth Party Congress
Unity and acclamation for the wise decisions of comrade Stalin were on full display at the Seventeenth Party Congress which met in the Great Hall of the Kremlin from January 26 to February 10, 1934.
This was the first such gathering since 1930, and in the intervening three-and-a-half years the country had been buffeted by the storms of collectivization, force-paced industrialization, upheaval in the professions, a purge of the party's own ranks, and the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany.
The Seventeenth Congress, then, was the last at which those with pre-revolutionary and civil war experience in the party predominated.
www.soviethistory.org /index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1934congress&Year=1934   (343 words)

  
 The Congress Socialist Party
Just then, the younger members of the Congress Party began to feel that the elders were not moving fast enough.
Among the founders of this Party were such stalwarts as Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, Yusuf Meherally, Achut Patwardhan, Ashok Mehta, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya and Acharya Narendra Deva.
The Congress established a new branch for external affairs.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/greatpersonalities/rammanohar/page2.htm   (213 words)

  
 The Hindu : Socialists and the Congress
Narendra Deva was elected chairman of the Socialist Party in 1949.
At the Kanpur session held early in 1947 the Socialists decided to delete the word ``Congress'' from their party's name and agreed to admit even non- Congressmen into its fold with the specific understanding that the change would still make it possible for them to continue within the Congress fold.
The Congress leaders not only disregarded the understanding but were in a hurry to expel the Socialists within three weeks of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/04/17/stories/1317017c.htm   (555 words)

  
 Democratic socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By fully socialist, this refers either to the idea of public ownership by a government that is democratically accountable to its citizens, or the idea of communism where everyone has equal power in the decision-making about the means of production.
Democratic socialist parties appeared before World War I when no country could be described as democratic in the full modern use of the term, because of electoral discrimination on the basis of gender, race and wealth.
Democratic socialists have normally defended the role of the public sector, particularly as regards the provision of key services such as health care, education, utilities, mass transit, and sometimes banking, mining, and fuel extraction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_socialism   (1759 words)

  
 Lenin: Greetings to the Italian Socialist Party Congress
The Italian socialists held a joint conference with the Swiss socialists in Lugano (1914), took an active part in the international socialist conferences at Zimmerwald (1915) and Kienthal (1916).
Lenin’s message of greetings was addressed to the party Congress held in Zurich on October 15–16, 1916, and was read at its opening session, on October 15.
In compliance with Party policy, they refused to vote for war credits, exposed the imperialist and anti-popular nature of the war, brought the true facts to the knowledge of the workers and roused them to struggle against tsarism, the bourgeoisie and the landlords.
www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/15.htm   (1600 words)

  
 The Socialist Party
The Congress Socialist Party was not happy with the way in which the Congress leaders dealt with the situation.
The Socialist Party decided to bring together the peasants, the factory workers and the workers in the middle class.
In his inimitable style he argued in favor of the stand and the policies of the Socialist Party.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/greatpersonalities/rammanohar/page4.htm   (123 words)

  
 News | Stoke Socialist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Though we are not explicitly running the NHS SOS as a Socialist Party campaign first, a goal of our comrades is to get over the point that these constant attacks on workers will remain while we live under a capitalist party.
Also discussed was the ISR and Socialist Students conference on 4th March and the 'Stoke Bands Against Racism' gig that the branches' youth are going to organise.
The congress was a very eventufl weekend and was only constrained by time with many speakers having to be cancelled from the vibrant, well attended discussions.
www.stokesocialistparty.org.uk   (1077 words)

  
 Socialist Party congress 2006
A vital part of the programme of such a party will be full defence of the NHS, no more privatisation and an ideological offensive against ‘profit’, that is the unpaid labour of the working class, in all its forms, where it touches on the vital basic concerns of working class people such as in healthcare.
In modern ‘de-industrialised Britain’ the work of our party in sectors like this is crucial for raising consciousness and winning the most energetic and combative elements to effective trade unionism and to the idea of the socialist change in society.
The task of the labour movement and socialists, in fact almost its first principle, is to seek to overcome all divisions in the working class, racial, gender, religious and ethnic ones.
www.marxist.net /events/conferences/spconf2006/5.htm   (5593 words)

  
 Socialist Party congress 2006
The text is accompanied by a response from Socialist Party General Secretary Peter Taaffe.
These texts were not voted on at the congress, nor were they key issues for debate during the session on British perspectives, as there were many issues that had priority.
These workers are absolutely essential and "useful" from the point of view of society as a whole but the majority do not add value, produce a commodity which produces capital or surplus value.
www.marxist.net /events/conferences/spconf2006/7.htm   (5850 words)

  
 Chicago Socialist Party (CSP)
Bush has nothing to lose - a new war is not likely to boost his ratings (I think the con game has failed, finally, and the admission that he was the leaker involved in the infamous leak has shot whatever credibility he once had).
His own Party is moving away from him to avoid a landslide defeat in November.
Now is the time to write or call members of Congress and the Senate, to write local papers, to make our voices heard.
www.chicagosocialistparty.com   (440 words)

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