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  Labour Youth - International - Index Page - International
It is for this purpose the Labour Youth is an active member of the European Community Organization of Socialist Youth (ECOSY) and the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).
Labour Youth's International Officer is in a position to communicate with ECOSY and IUSY through debates, and voice the collective opinion of Labour Youth on international issues.
He or she is also in a position to develop awareness of international affairs throughout Labour Youth, as well as inform other organizations in ECOSY or IUSY of Labour Youth movements like the campaign to boycott Coca-Cola.
www.labour.ie /youth/international   (465 words)

  
  Socialist International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Second International was split by the outbreak of World War I, then re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and finally reconstituted again, in its present form, after World War II (during which many social democratic and socialist parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe).
The Party of European Socialists, a European political party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
As of 2006, George Papandreou, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, is the president of the Socialist International.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_International   (549 words)

  
 Umrabulo - Number 22, February 2005
However, the Second International was to collapse with the outbreak of the First World War as the 'socialists' and those who later came to be known as 'communists' engaged in an ideological battle on the position that the organisation should take in the face of the impending war.
This shift is generally attributed in Socialist International literature to the presidency of the former German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who, with the support of the former Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, and his Austrian counterpart, Bruno Kreisky, steered the Socialist International, in the aftermath of the 13th congress of 1976, in a new direction.
It was thanks to this shift that the Socialist International came to be visibly active as a global player involved, for example, in the resolution of the Middle East conflict, as well as in the regional integration efforts in different parts of the world.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo22/socialist.html   (2792 words)

  
 Labour victory - Now fight for Socialist Policies!
A democratic socialist plan of production would transform the lives of the mass of the population, by introducing full employment, a national minimum wage, increased spending on schools, hospitals and the welfare state generally.
Labour seems to have understood that it cannot have low taxes and low deficits yet meet all public aspirations for health, education and welfare in traditional ways." (18/3/97).
As in 1924 and 1929, when Labour was elected in periods of deep economic crisis, the Labour government will be faced with stark choices: either capitulate to the pressures of big business or carry through a bold socialist programme in the interests of the working class.
www.socialist.net /content/view/864/29   (2777 words)

  
 Articles Vol. 135 (1996), No. 3-4 - International Labour Review - Publications
Likewise it sometimes happens that organisations of labour are conducted without just regard for the rights of the employer or the public." Emphasizing the need for labour to be organized he goes on to suggest institutional mechanisms to ensure workers' representation, and the content of an employee's bill of rights and an industrial creed.
International regulation can help to secure gains from growth for workers and prevent a depression of working conditions, he argues, but it can also lead to economic loss by restricting competition, raising prices to consumers, and hindering the advancement of the poorest countries relying on low cost labour.
He describes the purpose of international labour standards, the process of their adoption, and the means of giving them effect.
www.ilo.org /public/english/support/publ/revue/articles/int135-3.htm   (3802 words)

  
 From Internet to "International"
Global labour unity was not possible during the many long years of the Cold War -- a war which began not in 1945 but in 1917, and which split the labour movement everywhere for more than eight decades between those who supported the Soviet regime and those who opposed it.
The first international meeting to discuss labour's use of the new computer communications technology was held back in 1990, and large international conferences devoted exclusively to this topic followed in 1992 and 1993.
But the labour movement is compelled by its own values to allow people to speak their own languages, and as a result when it uses computer networks, it must find ways to translate material -- perhaps even in real time -- from one language to another.
www.labourstart.org /elgersburg.shtml   (3894 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Socialist International
Split by the outbreak of World War I, it was re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and reconstituted again (in its present form) after World War II (during which many socialist parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe).
Among the Second International's most famous actions were its (1889) declaration of 1st May as International Labour Day and its (1910) declaration of 8th March as International Women's Day.
The Party of European Socialists, a party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Socialist_International   (565 words)

  
 League of Nations Bibliography - I
International Conference for the Adoption of a Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, Geneva, 1929, and League of Nations.
International Economic Conference Organized by the International Federation of League of Nations Societies under the Distinguished Patronage of M.T.G. Masaryk, President of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, Prague, 4th-6th October 1928.
International Problems of Agriculture Discussions at the XIIth Meeting of the General Assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture, 22-27 October 1934.
www.indiana.edu /~league/bibi.htm   (1191 words)

  
 Labour: The Socialist International and Socialist International Women
The Socialist International is the worldwide organisation of social democratic, socialist and labour parties.
Labour Party Leader and Prime Minister Tony Blair is a Vice President and a member of the Presidium.
Socialist International Women is the International organisation of the women’s organisations of the Socialists, Social democrat and Labour parties affiliated to the Socialist International.
www.labour.org.uk /the_socialist_international_and_socialist_international_women   (184 words)

  
 Socialist International Conference
Israeli and Palestinian political leaders and delegates were equally present to address current developments and prospects for moving forward the peace process in the region.
The meeting, hosted by the Democrats of the Left, DS, whose delegation was headed by its General Secretary Piero Fassino and President Massimo D'Alema, and the Italian Democratic Socialists, SDI, led by Chair Enrico Boselli, was chaired by SI President António Guterres.
The first day of debates continued the dialogue undertaken by the Socialist International mission in Baghdad in mid-June and was organised into five different panels covering some of the essential elements for building democracy in Iraq.
www.socialistinternational.org /6Meetings/Conference/RomeJuly03/Conference-e.html   (392 words)

  
 The Fourth International
Socialist Action is a dynamic newspaper that has been arriving in workers’ mailboxes and finding its ways into the hands of countless activists at protests, street corners and plant gates every month since 1983.
The Fourth International, also known as the World Party of Socialist Revolution, was founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky.
While reactionary U.S. legislation bars Socialist Action from formal membership in the Fourth International, we stand in political solidarity with the FI, and consider its sections to be our sister organizations.
www.socialistaction.org /fi.htm   (410 words)

  
 A LEFT CRITIQUE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY
Regarded from this, the only correct, point of view, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act in the spirit of the bourgeoisie.
Labour's social base amongst the more affluent sections of the working class, and in certain sections of the middle class, would in itself be far too narrow an electoral base to enable it to become a significant parliamentary force in the post-war world.
Whereas in 1983 the Labour manifesto promised 'withdrawal from the European Economic Community, the 1997 manifesto promised 'leadership in Europe'.
www.oneparty.co.uk /html/slp2.html   (7712 words)

  
 Marxist Bulletin: A Marxist Programme for the Socialist Labour Party
The basis of the Socialist Labour Party is the need to break with the Labour Party and form an independent organisation to fight for the interests of the working class.
The victory of the socialist revolution is inconceivable without the existence of a party that unites the most militant and determined fighters into a single disciplined movement capable of providing effective leadership for all those who suffer under the existing capitalist state.
A healthy mass working class socialist party can only be created on the basis of a high degree of internal democracy, a lively culture of political discussion and the capacity to change its policy as a result of that discussion.
www.bolshevik.org /mb/prog.htm   (1417 words)

  
 Green Left - Philippines labour launches socialist centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Elected unanimously by the congress as the new chairperson of the BMP was Filemon "Ka Popoy" Lagman, the alleged head of the Manila-Rizal region of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which split away from the Stalinist-dominated CPP in 1993.
The program documents adopted by the congress describe the BMP as a socialist labour centre which unites the most class-conscious sections of the working class.
The socialist character of the BMP and its "multi-sectoral" character were a strong theme at the congress.
www.greenleft.org.au /1996/222/14910   (469 words)

  
 Socialist Party International Socialist Resistance
At last year's Labour Party Conference, 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang was violently expelled for shouting "Nonsense!" at Jack Straw, who was trying to defend New Labour's support for the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Socialist Students is a national student organisation with active members in over 70 universities and colleges in England and Wales.
THE THIRD conference of International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Students took place on 20 November against a background of the escalating conflict in Iraq, a growing anger against the occupation and further attacks on the public sector at home.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /CampaignsYouth.htm   (1259 words)

  
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The labour archive includes papers of prominent left-wing individuals and several national organisations: the Co-operative Women's Guild (NRA 20163) and International Women's Co-operative Guild (NRA 20164), the National Council for Civil Liberties (NRA 16198), the Socialist Medical Association (NRA 17257) and the Union of Democratic Control (NRA 13535).
Holds the archives of the Labour Party, of which a detailed listing is available as NRA 14863, and papers of national Labour figures; also materials relating to Chartism, the Labour and Socialist International etc.
Labour History Review (formerly the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History).
ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/courses/english/engl550/labour-h.txt   (1432 words)

  
 The Labour Party - International - International Solidarity
The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party and, through its membership of the Party of European Socialists and Socialist International, is part of the international socialist movement working for equality and to empower citizens, consumers and workers in a world increasingly dominated by big business, greed and selfishness.
The International Affairs Sub-Committee is a standing sub-committee of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
It is responsible for developing policies for the approval of the Party in relation to international affairs, including in particular policies relating to the State's participation in the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union.
www.labour.ie /international   (173 words)

  
 Chapter Nineteen, THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL
The First International was an excellent illustration of the method of work of the Marxist at a time when the working class was only beginning to articulate its interests and when proletarian revolution could not have been the order of the day.
The unification of the Socialists, coinciding with the tremendous industrial advance of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, rapidly increased their strength so that, two years later, they were able to poll a half million votes and to seat twelve members in the Reichstag.
Only in Russia was the socialist movement able to advance to approximate a communist position under the special conditions that existed in that country: on the one hand, the rapid growth of large-scale modern trustified industry, thoroughly controlled by the State; on the other hand, the terribly oppressive and anachronistic regime of Czarist absolutism.
www.weisbord.org /conquest19.htm   (6506 words)

  
 IFM-SEI - IFM-SEI joins the international day against Child Labour
The International Labour Organisation estimates that there are approximately 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 working full time.
In the context of child labour, working children are not the ultimate target, the root of the problem is the social and economic situation that forces these children to work.
Global peace and stability and climate change were at the centre of discussions of the Council of the Socialist International at its meeting in Geneva on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 June.
www.ifm-sei.org   (806 words)

  
 Africa Labor - Labour on the Internet
July 1996 conference, a directory of labour researchers which includes their research interests, tables of contents of recent labor journals; there are some Africa-related articles.
Has an International Child Labor Program, a 2002 report on child labor on West African cocoa farms, the full text of the publication, "By the Sweat and Toil of Children," Vol.
Chapter 4 discusses access to primary education, education laws and policies, education data, including data on educational attainment and government expenditures on education, factors limiting access to primary education, government initiatives to overcome limitations to access and increase primary school accessibility, enrollment, retention, and completion.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/labor.html   (1515 words)

  
 Marxist Bulletin: For Working Class Independence!
The primary task for the Socialist Labour Party in the coming general election is to use the heightened interest about politics to get across a clear message of the need for a working class party which stands for the independent interests of the working class.
In line with that overall position our tactics towards the Labour Party must be based on the perspective of winning workers away from their false understanding that the election of a Labour Party government is in any way in their interests.
This argument is one of the main props of labourism and is the worst kind of misleadership of the working class.
www.bolshevik.org /mb/2labour.htm   (1026 words)

  
 The Socialist Labour Party: a Historical Perspective
The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is an important development for the vanguard of the British working class, To my knowledge, there has never been a case of the left-wing of the trade union bureaucracy breaking from the rest of the Labour and trade union bureaucracy and forming a new party.
The antipathy of both the SLP and Militant Labour to beginning the task of building fractions in the Labour Party, which would be able to capitalise on the crisis of Labour after the elections, is an aspect of this which will lead to its continued marginalisation.
It is necessary to call for a vote for Labour now, as in the past, solely because the mass of workers, including a large percentage of its vanguard, continues to have illusions in the Labour Party.
home.igc.org /~itobr/idm1/idm1slp.html   (4334 words)

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