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  Italian Communist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista d'Italia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that body's congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno.
In 1926 the party was outlawed by the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini.
In 1998 the PDS, with several smaller parties, the Laburisti (liberal socialists), the Cristiano Sociali (christian socialists), the Comunisti Unitari (right-wing split of the PRC), the Sinistra Repubblicana (left republicans) and the Riformatori per l'Europa (social democratic trade unionists), co-founded the "Democratici di Sinistra" (DS) or Democrats of the Left party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Communist_Party   (948 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Australia
The current Liberal Party of Australia was founded on 31 August, 1945, after Robert Menzies called a conference in 1944 of conservative parties and other groups opposed to the ruling Australian Labor Party.
The Liberal Party's organisation is dominated by the six state divisions, reflecting the party's commitment to a federalised system of government (perhaps their most strongly held policy and certainly one of the few that has remained since the party's creation).
Party policy is made almost entirely by the parliamentary parties, not by the party's rank-and-file members.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/liberal_party_of_australia.html   (776 words)

  
 Italian Republican Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano) is an old left liberal party in Italy, with roots to Giuseppe Mazzini.
The party is a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
The Italian Republican party is the only surviving party of those in the government coalition (pentapartito) the pre-Mani Pulite times; it had however left the government coalition shortly before.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Republican_Party   (296 words)

  
 Labour Party of Canada
These were not national parties but local or provincial groups using the Labour Party or Independent Labour Party name and usually backed by local Labour Councils (made up of all the union locals in a city) or individual trade unions.
In 1924, the Canadian Labour Party was formed by a coalition of the Federated Labour Party, Workers Party of Canada (the legal face of the Communist Party of Canada, and local labour councils.
In the 1943 Ontario provincial eleciton the Communist Party of Canada decided to run several candidates jointly with the Liberal Party of Canada in an attempt to marginalise the CCF.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/la/labour_party_of_canada.html   (616 words)

  
 Italy - Political Flags (Part 3)
PLI ("Partito Liberale Italiano" = Italian Liberal Party ) - Founded back in 1922, the PLI was one of the smaller parties in the old party system until 1992.
After 1992 the party, struck by many scandals, almost disappeared, especially as many of the prominent members either directly became member of the "Forza Italia" or founded small parties supporting the FI in the center-right coalitions (for instance the "Unione di Centro" led by Costa and Biondi).
Lista Dini ) - "Rinnovamento Italiano" is one of the "one-man band" parties emerging in Italy in the 1990ies.
www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/it-poli3.html   (1770 words)

  
 Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
The society of status gave way, at least partially, to the “society of contract”; the military society gave way partially to the “industrial society.” The mass of the population now achieved a mobility of labor and place, and accelerating expansion of their living standards, for which they had scarcely dared to hope.
In England, the classical liberals began their shift from radicalism to quasi-conservatism in the early nineteenth century; a touchstone of this shift was the general British liberal attitude toward the national liberation struggle in Ireland.
Having replaced radical liberalism as the party of the “left,” socialism, by the turn of the twentieth century, fell prey to this inner contradiction.
www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard33.html   (7789 words)

  
 Troppo Armadillo: The Party's Not Yet Begun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A party is something that’s in being, that people feel occupies a part of their ordinary life, not just a special occasion for emergencies but part of the work of life.
Parties do not provide a good way of doing this, as the role of the member is to reinforce the party line (or even just support the deification of the Leader) on every issue.
The Liberal Party is successful at a federal level, not because the party engages the public or its members in general have a bigger say.
troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com /archives/008147.html   (4340 words)

  
 Italy - 4 - 1881 - Conservative Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Newspaper of the Conservative Party of the Italian Empire - 25 Lira - Oct 1881.
It´s rumored that Italian troops could be deployed in Albania soon to reinforce our allies there, and to open a new front in the war against A-H. The budget being discussed at the parlament, high increased of taxes for next year.
The conservatives must be an example for the liberals and nationalists, and example for all the italian citizens", said the leader of the conservatives in a meeting at Rome.
www.cse.sc.edu /~girard/1881/Italy_4_1881_ConA.html   (447 words)

  
 Giovanni Malagodi, Italy (1904-1991) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberal International
He went on to serve as a government Minister and was elected President of the Italian Senate.
It was under the Presidency of Malagodi that Liberal International began to widen its political base and to expand its contacts in the Third World.
At the 1989 Paris Congress of Liberal International Malagodi was made a President of Honour.
www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=1031   (135 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
The Natural Law Party was a New Age entity founded and run by followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (the founder of the TM movement -- a movement that some have labeled as a cult).
The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%).
The Knights Party is headed by Pastor Thomas Robb, the leader of a prominent Klan faction (the Klan is fragmented in the modern era into lots of small, rival splinter groups).
www.politics1.com /parties.htm   (9731 words)

  
 Italy - Political Flags (Part 1)
In the PCI's (Italian Communist Party) symbol there was a national flag mostly hidden by a red sickle-and-hammer flag: I suppose it meant the communist ideology superimposed over the national identity.
The current system of political parties in Italy is complicated due to the great number of parties, their frequent fissions and fusions and name changes, and the electoral system urging the parties to form bigger coalitions and sub-coalitions for the elections.
The once-mighty Italian Christian Democrats - An Italian tricolori with the crossed shield symbol of the DC, with the word LIBERTAS in white on the horizontal arm of the red cross above the withe shield.
www.fotw.net /flags/it-poli1.html   (2186 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Last man at Liberal Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As a result, the Liberal Party is losing its official recognition and the distinction of being the longest-existing third party in the nation.
One is a historic party; the other is its chain-smoking leader who travels in a sleek chauffeured sedan and refers to himself in the third person.
Harding's devotion to the party and his stoicism in the face of its demise are rooted in Yugoslavia, where he and his family fled the Nazis because they were Jews.
www.nydailynews.com /news/politics/v-pfriendly/story/34231p-32386c.html   (634 words)

  
 Converted by FileMerlin
However, after 1972, when through restraints placed on the Marxist participants by their Party the dialogue was forced out of the public into the private sphere-though it also continued to some extent in print-it was the Christians who showed a greater willingness to continue the dialogue.
The motivations ­why these Catholics vote for these parties (instead of voting for the Christian Democratic Party-which vote in post-war Italy, had been held by the Church to be binding in conscience for Catholics) and why the hierarchy itself no longer makes appeals for a “Catholic” party vote spring from a series of interwoven factors.
For this reason we are not culturally attuned to understand the difficulty Italian Catholics have had in feeling equally free to express their political convictions which may differ from those held by the pope, the Vatican and the Italian bishops.
global-dialogue.com /swidlerbooks/CATHOLIC-COMMUNIST.htm   (10191 words)

  
 Documents 99-105
The Italian officer said that General de Lorenzo did not intend to exceed his authority, but that he intended to control the military force which would neutralize any attempt at leftist pressure on the piazza, and that he would act as "king maker" in the event of a political overthrow.
He described the Italian public as bewitched by the leftist influences in Italy, and particularly by the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) which he branded as worse than the PCI because it projected the party as being "social-democratic" and was in a position to mislead non-Communist elements.
In the place of his party's view, that the PCI should be isolated and its electorate captured by the democratic left, Lombardi apparently holds the view that PCI "dogmatists" should be isolated, but that truly "progressive" PCI elements could be absorbed by the democratic parties.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xii/2234.htm   (7697 words)

  
 NATO Speech: Keynote address by Minister Martino on the Italian contribution to NATO's future - NATO HQ, 13 April 2005
After the Second World War he became Secretary General of the Italian Liberal Party and held various governmental offices having also been one of my predecessors in 1945-46 in what was then called the War Ministry.
It was this new scenario, we saw the Soviet Union as the major threat to the values of liberal democracy, that convinced Brosio to devote to anti-Communism the same enthusiasm he had accorded to anti-Fascism.
I had the privilege of meeting him when he re-entered Italian politics and I was highly impressed by this man who had been a friend of my father's and about whom I heard so much.
www.nato.int /docu/speech/2005/s050413d.htm   (1277 words)

  
 NYCivic - Does the Liberal Party Have a Future?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Conservative Party is said to have vetoed such an endorsement, on the ground that a tent that big was just too much for a party founded in 1962 to drive the Republican Party to the right.
The Liberals could also have tried to recruit an independent candidate, preferably self-supporting, whose best attribute would have been integrity, since the major parties are hopelessly compromised by what politely may be called the requirements of politics, more rudely stated as honest graft.
His Liberal Party ties go back to 1951, when he was elected chair of the Young Liberals at City College, and participated in Rudolph Halley’s successful campaign on the Liberal line for City Council President.
www.nycivic.org /articles/021108.html   (747 words)

  
 Alberta Liberal Party :: Focus. Forward.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The house was packed on Nov. 9th as over 250 Alberta Liberals gathered in Calgary to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the election of the first government of this province – Alberta Liberal Alexander Rutherford.
Alberta Liberals from more than 30 constituencies, from across Alberta, met in St. Albert on Saturday, September 10th to participate in a working meeting to further develop the vision, mission, values and principles of the Alberta Liberal Party.
Over 500 Alberta Liberals gathered at the Italian Cultural Centre on September 9th to recognize volunteers and kick off the election readiness work for the next provincial election.
www.albertaliberal.com   (517 words)

  
 C552 Conte di Cavour / New Major Unit / Nuova Unit?aggiore
The official assignment of these ships is incrociatore portaeromobili (cruiser door-aircraft), and both are destined to operate it with aircraft STOVL (Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing), of short take-off (with the aid of a slope Ski Jump in the nose) and vertical landing.
The contract for construction of the new Italian NAe was signed between the Direzione Generale to per gli Armamenti Navali (NAVARM) and the state-owned company Fincantieri, in day 22 of November of 2000.
After the collapse of the party system in 1994, the conservative liberal Italian Liberal Party was continued by the Federation of Italian Liberals (Federazione dei Liberali Italiani), an observer at Liberal International, while the the right-wing formed the conservative Liberal Party (Partito Liberale).
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/num.htm   (1897 words)

  
 Italy - 1 - 1880 - Conservative Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Newspaper of the Conservative Party of the Italian Empire - 25 Lira - Janurary 1880.
The reduction in the production of MFG means a reduction in the per capita income, and a decrease in the quality of living of those that, in theory, the liberal party says to represent.
It´s not possible to judge the nationalist party as whole just because one of its members were found to be in pay of the Mafia (although it could be representative), but the dangerous precedent is to find how far the power of those criminals can reach.
www.cse.sc.edu /~girard/1880/Italy_1_1880_ConA.html   (722 words)

  
 Resource Investor - Blog - The Stench of Canada's Liberal Corruption
The Parti Quebecois was also a recipient of between $100,000 and $150,000 in cash at the request of a PQ official.
He said party officials repaid him by using their political contacts to ensure he grew rich from federal contracts in the 1990s.
The Liberal party insists it has no record of any cash being secretly funnelled to the party, but it has also called in the RCMP to determine whether Liberals were victims of fraud involving any former officials.
www.resourceinvestor.com /pebble.asp?relid=9069   (1682 words)

  
 The Wryno Party
That's why the SPAR contract is moving from Ehduhmonton to B.C. A close examination of the situation reveals that it would be unwise to continue a federal contract in hostile territory.
We shall close now, gentle readers, with the ever faithful belief in the power and joy that is the Liberal Party of Canada.
And, of course, it was this Liberal government that appointed Justice Gomery.
thewrynoparty.blogspot.com   (2376 words)

  
 The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Woe Canada
The discrediting and defeat of Canada's Liberal government would constitute a grand event in Canadian history: after all, the Liberals have ruled Canada almost without challenge for the past 12 years and for almost 80 of the past 109 years.
Some Liberals defend the scheme as a noble plan gone wrong, an attempt to beat back separatism that was unfortunately corrupted by a few bad apples.
They are instead what political scientists call a brokerage party, similar to the old Italian Christian Democrats or India's Congress Party: a political entity without fixed principles or policies that exploits the power of the central state to bribe or bully incompatible constituencies to join together to share the spoils of government.
www.nytimes.com /2005/04/19/opinion/19frum.html?ex=1271563200&en=b229d3f9ccc6df41&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (1016 words)

  
 Italy
The Ministry of Occupied Italy was responsible for the reconstruction of liberated northern Italy and for the relations with the different resistance movements.
Party abbreviations: DS = Democratici di Sinistra (Democrats of the Left, social-democratic, formerly Partito Democratico della Sinistra [Democratic Party of the Left]);
In 1944 the Committee of National Liberation of Upper Italy staged a revolt that resulted in the establishment of a number of "partisan republics." Within the same year, however, they were reconquered by the occupying Germans.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Italy.htm   (2632 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Federal sponsorship scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The former director-general of the Liberal Party of Canada's Quebec wing.
Pelletier, 69, ran for the Liberal party in 1993 but was defeated by the Bloc Québécois candidate.
On the municipal front, Pelletier was one of the founders of Quebec's Parti du Progrès civique in 1962.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/groupaction/whoswho.html   (3997 words)

  
 ilsta information,lista   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Italian Radicals or Radical Party (Radicali Italiani or Partito Radicale)is an Italian political group that describes itself as a liberal, liberist and libertarian political movement, affiliated to the Transnational Radical Party, founded on14 july 2001.
It has however to be remembered that this group is not related to the Italian Liberal Party,the House of Freedom or any other political movement that recalls in its name freedom, liberist economy or libertytout-court.
The members of theilsta Bonino in the European Parliament are members of the Alliance of Liberal and Democratsfor Europe.
www.pin-outs.com /ilsta.html   (226 words)

  
 Flags of the World: Italy
The flag, with the Savoy shield on the white strip is the flag of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Regno di Sardegna, meaning Piedmont and Sardinia), later (1861) Kingdom of Italy
We Italian are not much patriotic, consequently we do not use the flag or its colors in everyday's life.
One of the new parties, "Lega Nord", asserts the "federation" (someone says "separation") of Italy into three States.
gort.ucsd.edu /Graphics/Flags/descr/it.html   (511 words)

  
 Not the Country Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In other words, a kind of collusion and collaboration seems to be in the works between the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, with the aim of eliminating their “conscience” once and for all.
The mainstream liberal’s prescription is: “if you don’t want to be a part of the problem, be a part of the solution,” that is, recycle and so on.
The liberals, being liberals, see division as unfavourable, that is, as something that one should try to reduce, even at the cost of compromising one's own principles.
alse.blogspot.com   (14495 words)

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