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	Labour Representation Committee (in Manitoba) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Labour Representation Committee was a reformist labour organization in Manitoba, Canada, and was the ideological successor to groups such as the Winnipeg Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Manitoba Labour Party.
		The LRC cooperated with the Social Democratic Party of Canada in the municipal elections of 1913, and the two parties did not compete against each other in the 1914 provincial election.
		For the provincial election of 1915, the LRC supported the two SDPC candidates in Winnipeg North (one of whom was successful), and also nominated William Bayley in Assiniboia.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Labour_Representation_Committee_%28in_Manitoba%29 (279 words)

	Labour Representation Committee \| Workers' Liberty
		The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is a movement formed by trade unionists and socialists to fight for the principle of labour representation within the Labour Party, the unions and parliament.
		The Labour Representation Committee conference in London on Saturday 16 July voted to support the new trade unions in Iraq and to recognise that: “the dominant military forces of the ‘resistance’ are Sunni-supremacist and Islamic-fundamentalist.
		The conference of the postal and telecoms workers’ union, the CWU, discussed the relationship of the union to the Labour Party in the context of the expulsion of the the RMT, and an expected disaffiliation of the FBU.
	www.workersliberty.org /lrc (1376 words)

	History of the Labour Party
		The 1945 Labour government is rightly remembered as one of the most radical and ambitious governments ever: taking into public ownership a number of industries, creating a national contributory insurance scheme and, under the leadership of fiery Welshman Nye Bevan, creating the National Health Service.
		With Labour heavily defeated in the 1979 election, the party began a new period of soul-searching.
		Labour's agenda was fully costed, to avoid the arguments over tax that had dogged them in 1992, and centred on five pledges: education; crime; health; jobs and economic stability.
	www.telfordlabourparty.org.uk /site/history.htm (2825 words)

	Labour Party - LoveToKnow 1911
		LABOUR PARTY, in Great Britain, the name given to the party in parliament composed of working-class representatives.
		Meanwhile in 1899 the Trade Union Congress instructed its parliamentary committee to call a conference on the question of labour representation; and in February 1900 this was attended by trade union delegates and also by representatives of the Independent Labour party, the Social Democratic Federation and the Fabian Society.
		In June of that year the Miners' Federation, returning 15 members, joined the Independent Labour party, now known for parliamentary purposes as the "Labour Party"; other Trades Unions, such as the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, took the same step.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Labour_Party (254 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.
		The Labour Party's commitment to nationalisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange dates from 1905 but was adopted most famously in Clause IV of its 1918 constitution.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/aug03/labour.html (1249 words)

	Labour Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Labour Party was establish by the capitalist Fabian Society at a Conference on "Labour Representation" Memorial Hall London on February 27 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee to act as the parliamentary arm the trade union movement.
		With the end of the war in in May 1945 Labour resolved not to repeat the error of 1918 and withdrew from the government to the subsequent general election (July 5) in to Churchill's Conservatives.
		The 1983 manifesto was arguably the in the coffin' to Labour's campaign and famously described by the senior Labour politician Gerald Kaufman as being 'the longest suicide note history'.
	www.freeglossary.com /The_Labour_Party_(UK) (2807 words)

	Labour Representation Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was formed on February 27, 1900, at a conference at which representatives of the main socialist groupings in the United Kingdom were present.
		The LRC is the direct predecessor of the modern British Labour Party.
		Organisations present at this conference were the Independent Labour Party (ILP), the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and the Fabian Society, as well as various trade union leaders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Representation_Committee (235 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.
		As Labour was a minority in Parliament and depended on Liberal support, the enactment of legislation proved difficult, and the government’s domestic program of unemployment relief and housing differed little from that of its Conservative predecessor.
	www.bartleby.com /65/la/Labourpa.html (1220 words)

	GENUKI: The Merthyr Election of 1906
		The Labour organizers responded with equal vigour to these attacks: walls were decorated with anti-Radcliffe slogans and pamphlets were issued in which a number of officials of the National Seamen's Union denounced Radcliffe as the employer of cheap foreign labour.
		The Labour committee rooms were a centre of attraction for passers-by who gathered in the street to read the Labour manifestos and to view the cartoon which depicted a battered Radcliffe being kicked out of Merthyr by three feet.
		Although the election seemed to reflect the extension and solidity of the Labour Movement in the area, this Labour victory was stultified by its dependence on Liberal goodwill and the ideal of independent Labour representation remained a chimera for the workmen of Merthyr Boroughs.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/MerthyrElection.html (1814 words)

	Labour movement Summary
		The labour movement (or labor movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations.
		Labour unions and trade unions are common names for the specific collective organizations within societies, organized for the purpose of representing the interests of workers and the working class.
		The Australian labour movement is an example of a labour movement that has grown and existed in a particular national context.
	www.bookrags.com /Labour_movement (1471 words)

	Labour Representation conference: Hope and desperation \| The Socialist 27 July - 9 August 2006
		THE LABOUR Representation Committee (LRC) held its annual conference on 22 July.
		It was dominated by Labour MP John McDonnell's announcement that he will be standing for the leadership of the Labour Party when Blair finally leaves within the next 12-18 months.
		Historically the Labour Party was saddled with a pro-capitalist leadership but its actions were constrained by a membership rooted in the unions and a mass electoral base in the working class.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2006/450/pp10.htm (677 words)

	Jim Mortimer - Formation of Labour Party
		The new LRC was not committed to a socialist objective, though the inclusion of socialist organisations implied that it was not anti-socialist.
		The emergence in 1906 of the Labour Party (the name adopted by the group of MPs elected with LRC support) was the culmination of approximately 40 years of effort to secure labour representation in Parliament.
		Thus independent labour representation was seen by socialists not as an end in itself but as an essential staging post on the road to an effective socialist movement with policies clearly distinguishable from the Liberals and the Tories.
	www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk /MORTIMER.HTM (11503 words)

	Ymgyrchu! - The Ballot Box - Elections - 1966 and the Labour Party
		The Labour Representation Committee was established in 1900 and in the same year two members were elected to Parliament to represent the Committee.
		The Labour Party's success was enhanced and strengthened in the 1966 General Election when 61% of the Welsh electorate voted for it.
		Labour managed to gain four extra seats, Conwy, Cardiff North and Monmouth, which were held by the Conservatives, and Ceredigion, which was taken from the Liberals.
	www.llgc.org.uk /ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/Etholiadau/1966/index-e.htm (373 words)

	Paul Foot: London, 27 February 1900 (1999)
		Its aim, which it achieved, was for the first time to break the umbilical cord which bound the leaders of organised labour to the Liberal Party; and to form a new political party to represent the interests of the working masses in parliament.
		The Labour Representation League, which was formed soon after the TUC came into being, was a talking shop in which the union leaders bowed and scraped to their Liberal heroes.
		When the SDF moved that the new Labour Party should be openly socialist ‘based upon the recognition of the class war’ their motion was overwhelmingly rejected.
	www.marxists.org /archive/foot-paul/1999/02/lrc.htm (890 words)

	Labour Party
		Ramsay MacDonald was chosen as the secretary of the LRC.
		The election of the Labour Government coincided with an economic depression and MacDonald was faced with the problem of growing unemployment.
		The Labour Party is, in fact, the one Party which most nearly reflects in its representation and composition all the main streams which flow into the great river of our national life.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Plabour.htm (8597 words)

	New Century
		When the Labour Party was founded it did not even claim to stand for Socialism, but only for the election of trade union and pro-trade union MPs to Parliament to press for reforms within capitalism.
		However, they felt that the LRC was turning out to be another front for obtaining trade union support for the Liberal Party and so was not genuinely independent Labour representation.
		In 1919 Labour adopted a new constitution allowing individuals to join directly instead of via a trade union or an affiliated political group and adopting the famous Clause IV as its ultimate aim, so committing itself to "socialism" (in reality, full-scale nationalisation or state capitalism).
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/feb00/lrc.html (1230 words)

	Labour Representation Committee \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a fringe meeting at Labour Party conference in Bournemouth on Wednesday 1 October, five big trade unions, CWU (post and telecom), GMB and TGWU (both general unions), Amicus (engineering, electrical, scientific-technical, financial), and Unison (public services) organised a joint meeting to announce a campaign to 'put Labour back into the party'.
		The election of new trade union leaders is beginning to impact on the Blair Labour Party, to which most of those unions with new leaders are affiliated, though the left-led civil service union PCS is a notable exception.
		The Labour Party was formed by trade unionists and socialists at the turn of the last century to give working people, their families and communities, political representation for the first time.
	www.workersliberty.org /lrc?from=40 (564 words)

	The Rise of Labour Politics (Chapter Two)
		This representation was sought as a way to promote certain legislation embodying socialist principles with an undisguised aim to improve conditions for working class people.
		In the general election of 1895 the ILP had run 29 candidates in Britain and not one was returned however their share of the vote was growing at the Liberals expense.
		The English based Labour Representation Committee was more successful and the WEC had little choice but to merge in 1909.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/modern_scottish_history/88319 (511 words)

	Why we are launching the Labour Representation Committee
		I wouldn't claim that the Labour Party was always a socialist party, but certainly it was, and is, a mass party of workers.
		Labour must stand out ideologically from the Tory and Liberal parties, which are capitalist parties.
		There are loads of trade unionists who are completely turned off by New Labour, and there are millions of workers, not in trade unions, who do not identity themselves with Labour because they do not believe there is any difference between the parties.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/362/29 (982 words)

	Labour Representation Committee rally in Brighton: Growing opposition to Blair in Labour Party
		The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) held its first rally last night at this year’s Labour Party Conference in Brighton attended by some 250 activists.
		The enthusiasm of the meeting demonstrated not only that the Labour left is alive and kicking, but the groundswell of opposition to the Iraq war has given it further impetus to carry its campaign into the ranks of the party and the trade unions.
		The rally was chaired by John McDonnell MP, the secretary of the LRC, and featured a host of speakers from the Labour and trade union movement.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/241/29 (982 words)

	Alan Woods’ speech at the Labour Representation Committee rally in Brighton
		Alan Woods’ speech at the Labour Representation Committee rally in Brighton
		In 30 years of membership of the Labour Party I have never found that people say: “Labour is too extreme” or “You are too left wing.” That is not what they say.
		The Labour Movement was founded on the basis of the struggle against injustice in Britain and internationally.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/AWspeech_LRCrally.htm (768 words)

	Red Pepper August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From that event the Labour Party was born.
		The launch of a new LRC at the TUC’s central London headquarters Congress House on 3 July was billed as ‘the most significant initiative on the Labour left for a generation’.
		The LRC’s July conference simply had nothing to say about the resignations, the expulsions, June’s election results, and the gains of Respect and other parties.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /Aug2004/x-Aug2004-Knight.html (380 words)

	LRC Press Releases
		At the TUC on Saturday delegates from the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), a grassroots membership organisation of over 500 Labour Party members, affiliates and supporters will be meeting in London to consider the response of the Labour Left to the recent bombings in London and the effect upon the political agenda.
		Labour is facing an election with the prospect of lowest turnout in the political history of the country.
		The Labour Representation Committee is today writing to a group of Labour MPs to ask them to sign an anti-war declaration in advance of the General Election so that the public can easily differentiate them from those MPs who supported and continue to support the war in Iraq...
	www.l-r-c.org.uk /news/pressreleases (1173 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The LRC is the direct predecessor of the modern British Labour Party.
		Keir Hardie was chosen to head up the LRC and Ramsay MacDonald was chosen as its secretary.
		The LRC put up fifteen candidates in the 1900 General Election and between them they won 62,698 votes.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Labour_Representation_Committee (213 words)

	Labour Representation Committee launched (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The conference included debates on home policy, international affairs, equal-ities and fighting fascism and ‘Rebuilding Labour’, with a discussion document issued to delegates to generate policy proposals for a third term Labour government.
		The 10 June election results were a severe warning for the Labour leadership — continuing with the pro-Bush international policy, and the pro-business domestic policy, will result in electoral setbacks.
		To be radical is not to be on the fringes, it is to be at the centre of things and that is the challenge that has to be engaged with by the Labour Representation Committee.’
	www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/0409/p5b.htm (642 words)

	Labour Representation Committee conference shows support for left leadership contender\|29Jul06\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The campaign for John McDonnell MP to stand for the Labour Party leadership got a ringing endorsement last Saturday at the Labour Representation Committee conference in London.
		He also welcomed the fact that McDonnell was speaking at the Organising for Fighting Unions conference on 11 November and encouraged all at the meeting to attend.
		While pledging the practical support of the RMT executive for the campaign, he reminded delegates that “we have no vote” because the RMT was expelled from the Labour Party.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=9310 (640 words)

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