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	Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Only one LPP Member of Parliament (MP) was elected under that banner, Fred Rose, who was elected in a 1943 by-election in Montreal and sat in the House of Commons.
		Dorise Nielson was elected to the House of Commons in the 1940 federal election from Saskatchewan as a "Progressive Unity" MP, but was defeated in the 1945 election when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate.
		The LPP had a youth wing, the National Federation of Labour Youth which had formerly been known as the Young Communist League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Progressive_Party (373 words)

	Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which enfranchised urban workers.
		In 1918, Labour withdrew completely from the coalition, and in 1922 it became the second largest party in the House of Commons and thus the official opposition.
		The reversal of the party’s position on Britain’s entry into the European Community (now the European Union), after having earlier supported it, and a renewed call for further nationalization of industry were indications of a greater left-wing militancy within the party.
	www.bartleby.com /65/la/Labourpa.html (1220 words)

	Labour
		New Labour's obsession with neo-liberal economics might seem like something of a new departure but the early Labour Party was tied to liberalism in a similar way.
		Labour was active in the national government, supporting the war, but not tainted being tainted with its results.
		Jim Mortimer (an ex-Labour Party general secretary) describes New Labour, in a recent pamphlet The Formation of the Labour Party - Lessons for Today (2000), as apologists for capitalism and the new Clause IV as "a symbolic change to mark the abandonment of Labour's traditional advocacy of a widening area of social [state] ownership".
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/aug03/labour.html (1249 words)

	Progressive Labour Party - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) is a minor political party in Australia.
		The party is a broad left-wing party started by -among others- dissident former members of the Australian Labor Party in 1996.
		The party is running Senate tickets in New South Wales and Western Australia and was contesting several House of Representatives seats at the 9 October 2004 election.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Progressive_Labour_Party (194 words)

	The Bermuda Progressive Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Party contested all twenty constituencies and regained eight seats to increase the number of PLP representatives to fifteen and an increase to 37% of the votes cast.
		The party had to deal with the loss of a dear colleague and friend and an integral component of the leadership with the death of David Henry Allen, first PLP Minister of Tourism, in October.
		Progressive Labour Party chairman Neville Tyrrell was sworn in as the ruling party’s newest Senator.
	www.plp.bm /ab5.php (5298 words)

	Labour Party
		Keir Hardie was elected leader of the party in the House of Commons, but was not very good with dealing with internal rivalries within the party, and in 1908 resigned from the post and was replaced by Arthur Henderson.
		The Labour Party is the expression of the revolt of men and women against a materialist system of society which condemns to a narrow and stinted life the majority of our citizens and gives rewards to the greedy and acquisitive.
		progress, with its emphasis on "brotherhood" and consequent disavowal of the class war, was allowed to stand as the keynote utterance of the conference.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Plabour.htm (8597 words)

	Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Labour-Progressive Party was a (A political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state) Communist party in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada.
		In 1947, he was charged and convicted for spying for the (A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia an others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991) Soviet Union, and was expelled from the House of Commons.
		The LPP had a youth wing, the National Federation of Labour Youth which had formerly been known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Young Communist League) Young Communist League.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/La/Labour-Progressive_Party_(Canada)2.htm (487 words)

	Tim Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not initially a leading member of the party, Buck came to prominence as a supporter of Joseph Stalin, and became General Secretary in 1929 after the old party leadership had been purged for supporting Trotsky and others had been removed for supporting Bukharin.
		There was controversy within the party when a posthumous version of his memoirs was published in 1977 by NC Press based on interviews conducted for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1965.
		In Yours in the Struggle: Reminiscences of Tim Buck, the former party leader criticized Nikita Khrushchev and was somewhat defensive of Stalin.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tim-Buck.htm (614 words)

	Progressive Party
		Robert La Follette became the candidate of the Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election.
		The Progressive party, believing that no people can justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of securing equal suffrage to men and women alike.
		The Progressive party demands such restriction of the power of the courts as shall leave to the people the ultimate authority to determine fundamental questions of social welfare and public policy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAprogressive.htm (1244 words)

	Progressive Labour Party brightens electoral scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One Nation Party, an anti-immigrant, anti-Aboriginal, anti-women's rights electoral vehicle, feeds on the desperation of the poorest white workers and the prejudices of small-business owners, farmers, and ranchers.
		The PLP is intent on building a socialist electoral party to defend the interests of workers, students, pensioners, and the poor.
		The party attacks the widespread closure of hospitals, schools, and parkland, expressing the demands of the majority for decent services and amenities.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol19no3/193Australia.html (823 words)

	Directory - Regional: Oceania: Australia: Society and Culture: Politics: Parties: Progressive Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The programs of the Progressive Labour Party reflect the aim of creating a socialist and democratic society, and recognise that this can be best achieved by the development of policies that are democratic, egalitarian and sustainable within party structures and practices that promote fairness and equality regarding gender, race, sexual preference religion, ethnicity and age.
		Progressive Labour Party · cached · Working class party aiming to bring together all those who oppose both economic rationalism and racism.
		Progressive Labour Party - Perth and Bunbury (WA) Branch
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=327295 (116 words)

	New Zealand's source for business, stock market & currency news on Stuff.co.nz: Struggle likely in search for carbon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The party and United Future oppose the tax and want a review of it as part of their support for the Government on confidence and supply.
		Labour, the Progressive Party (together the coalition Government) and the Greens support the tax but their 57 votes are not enough to carry it unless the Maori Party adds their votes.
		NZ First leader Winston Peters said yesterday the party had campaigned on meeting New Zealand's international obligations through a programme of tree planting "that would build a significant economic base and employment base while we were at it".
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3449130a13,00.html (788 words)

	Labour Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Irish Páirtí Lucht Oibre (“Irish Labour Party”) main party of the left in the Republic of Ireland.
		An outgrowth of the Nonpartisan League (q.v.), the Farmer–Labor Party began nominating candidates for the Minnesota legislature in 1918.
		The first significant political representation of labour was achieved during the 1890s; in 1891, for example, candidates endorsed by the Sydney Trades and Labor Council gained 86 out of 141 seats in the New South Wales legislature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9046720?tocId=9046720 (848 words)

	A response to Stephen Spence
		Mr Spence wants "an effective progressive political party to advance our work" and he wrote that "this is the time for action" as distinct from talking.
		The Progressive Labour Party has been going since November 1996 and is registered federally, in WA and in the ACT.
		The PLP have 14 branches thus far and we are also a member of the Progressive Parties Conference together with the Greens, the Australian Woman’s Party, the Indigenous Party and the Bill of Rights Group.
	www.search.org.au /forum/forum1g.html (345 words)

	Socialist Democracy, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fourth International is committed to the process of left wing regroupment and this ties in with our support for a united, democratic socialist labour party, truly representative of the working class in all of its diversity.
		The history of the Left in the 20th century is littered with the debris of various sects and splinter groups, each claiming to be the party.
		The working class is not monolithic, and any party claiming to be of and for the working class must necessarily be democratic, broad and pluralist.
	www.knowledgecollegetutors.com /sd.htm (1069 words)

	Labour party -> 1914 to 1945 on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blair axes 'honours for sale' watchdog; As Labour is revealed to reward three out of four party donors.
		Critics claim the governing Progressive Labour Party is committing political suicide.
		NZ National party leaps ahead after Labour's long-term lead in poll.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/labourpa_1914to1945.asp (946 words)

	Progressive Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Unlike the Progressive organizations of 1912 and 1924, Wallace's party campaigned on changes in foreign policy rather than domestic issues.
		In 1989 the Progressive Federal Party merged with two smaller parties to form the liberal Democratic Party (q.v.).
		This was especially true of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party in 1912.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061507?tocId=9061507 (835 words)

	A Brief History of the Progressive Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The new party will “actively seek to eventually be part of a broader electoral Alliance of progressive groups and parties that could act as a counter-balance to the economic rationalist policies of both major parties.
		The new party then decided to opt for “Progressive Labour Party” which was acceptable to the AEC and encountered little opposition.
		In April this year, at a meeting held in Lismore, the PLP became a member of the Progressive Parties Conference, a loose grouping of minor parties which is negotiating about closer co-operation, exchanging preferences in elections and a possible electoral alliance.
	www.netspace.com.au /~sibill/archive/025hist.htm (496 words)

	United Bermuda Party Online - The Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the course of the last year the Progressive Labour Party Government has found the time for travel, entertainment and for supporting initiatives that have not benefited the broader community in a tangible way.
		The time has come, as Jamaica’s Prime Minister P.J. Patterson warned the Progressive Labour Party just last week: "to recognise that government is a burden, not a ballgame." Nowhere is the need for action and decision-making greater than in the area of public safety.
		The Progressive Labour Party Government had promised a comprehensive Environmental Protection Act in their first year but failed to deliver.
	www.ubp.bm /news/speeches/speech-19991105001.asp (3328 words)

	Bermuda Sun: Party Platform: An optimistic vision (2003-01-31) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bermuda Progressive Labour Party (PLP) appreciates the opportunity provided by this publication to deliver news of interest and benefit to the population.
		The desperate political strategy by the former Government, now Opposition party and their supporters, was to indulge in personal attacks and scare tactics.
		The Bermuda Progressive Labour Party’s policies and programmes are meant to rekindle hope, to heal Bermuda’s present divisions and to replace apathy and alienation with a spirit of optimism and a feeling of oneness and unity.
	www.bermudasun.bm /archives/2003-01-31/02Opinion01 (646 words)

	Society Politics Socialism Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Socialist Labour Party (Britain) - Union leader Arthur Scargill led this left-wing split from the Labour Party after its abandonment of Clause 4 which committed Labour to the nationalisation of industry.
		Socialist Party (England and Wales) - Campaigns against attacks on the welfare state and for the rights of workers, youth and oppressed groups.
		Socialist Party (Northern Ireland) - Centred in Belfast the group is affilated with the Committee for a Workers' International.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Politics/Socialism/Parties (708 words)

	Bermuda Sun: PLP: WE’RE LISTENING (2004-03-05) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		FOR the past 30 years the ruling Progressive Labour Party has said the question of independence will be decided at a general election, but comments this week have suggested there’s a shift taking place and that the Party may now entertain the idea of a referendum.
		Party spokesman Scott Simmons told us yesterday that the party is keeping an “open mind” on the issue, but that doesn’t mean, at this stage, that it has changed its mind or is backing down in some way to appease the critics.
		He said: “The Party has always believed that that when you win the popular vote with a comfortable majority in the House then it should be enough, but, as the Premier has underlined, we must be absolutely inclusive.”
	www.bermudasun.org /archives/2004-03-05/01News01 (508 words)

	Royal Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 11 rebel Progressive Labour Party MPs said last night that all they wanted was the opportunity under the Bermuda Constitution to exercise their right as MPs to choose the Premier.
		Yesterday, the break-away group, who are calling themselves the Progressive Parliamentary Group of the Progressive Labour Party, were locked in talks again as the rift between them and the Premier widened and became very public.
		I think everybody in the Progressive Labour Party Parliamentary Group is mature enough to dialogue and to simply have a meeting together and determine who would be our leader, as it is set out in the national Constitution.
	www.theroyalgazette.com /apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73165949419226&Avis=RG&Dato=20030726&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=107260083&Ref=AR (918 words)

	The Labour Party - Home - Welcome - Current Campaigns - Latest News - People Profiles
		The Labour Party believes that the delivery of a high quality health service to all who need it should be a key priority for any government at the highest level.
		A year ago the Tanaiste was given the job as Minister for Health and great hopes were placed in her after years of broken promises and delays.
		Labour Dail motion to challenge Harney on first 12 months in health
	www.labour.ie (329 words)

	Taiwan Labor Party (Laodongdang) Taiwan Labour Party Workers' Party
		The Labor Party advocates socialism, upholds social justice, supports the oppressed and underprivileged and demands an equitable distribution of social resources in order to achieve the full development of both society and its individual members.
		The Labor Party is opposed to bourgeois democracy, which inevitably leads to oligopoly (rule by the rich) and a government which represents only business interests.
		The Labor Party calls for a peaceful resolution of the conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, ending the state of civil war and cross-Straits military crises, moving gradually towards reunification with a high degree of autonomy for Taiwan.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/6173/lp-en.htm (403 words)

	Scoop: Progressive Party Hints At Zimbabwe Solution
		Progressive Party Leader Jim Anderton ponders Zimbabwe at the Progressive National Executive meeting in Wellington.
		Progressive Party Leader Jim Anderton and Deputy Leader Matt Robson at the Progressive National Executive meeting in Wellington.
		Green Party On The Madness Of Transmission Gully - It would be crazy to build a new motorway through Transmission Gully if it results in just 4000 vehicles a day being removed from the congested Mana Esplanade, the Green Party says.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0507/S00033.htm (372 words)

	Co-operation Agreement between the Labour/Progressive Government and the Green Parliamentary Caucus - Green Party
		The Green Party Parliamentary caucus (Green Party) and the Labour/Progressive government are committed to having a constructive relationship based on good faith for this term of Parliament.
		In the event that government papers are provided to the Green Party in the course of consultation or briefings they shall be treated as confidential and shall not be released or the information used for any public purpose without the express agreement of the relevant Minister.
		Where the Green Party and government have agreed to work together on Category A policy areas and legislation it is expected that the parties will work in good faith towards an agreed outcome that advances the policies of both parties.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/other5555.html (965 words)

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