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	New Zealand: Alliance Party conference calls for âleft regroupmentâ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eighteen months after the left-wing Alliance Party in Aotearoa/New Zealand suffered a damaging split and the loss of all its remaining MPs in a snap general election, there are signs that the party is (somewhat belatedly) trying to reconnect with its working class support.
		At the recent Alliance National Conference held in Wellington over the weekend, November 29-30, Laila Harre formally stepped down as party leader to be replaced by Matt McCarten, secretary of the community union UNITE, which organises among beneficiaries and low-paid casual workers.
		In her speech to the conference, newly-elected party President, Jill Ovens, said that the Alliance was committed to becoming, “a broad inclusive party of the Left with policies based on socialist principles – democracy, equality and social ownership”.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2003/12/15newzealand.html (240 words)

	Auld Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Alliance made sense to the French for the reason being that if they were to help defend Scotland, then Scotsmen would be available to fight for the French Army, and as the Scots were renowned fighters, the French were getting a great bargain.
		Scotland 's soldiers were to play a huge part in French history over the years to come, up to and including the First and Second World Wars of the twentieth century.
		The “Auld Alliance” was officially declared closed in the year 1906, but it may well be on the verge of a grand reopening, who knows what the future will bring for these two old friends.
	www.royalhouseofstewart.org.uk /auld.htm (3969 words)

	CONSUL - Online Information article about CONSUL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The alliance between Francis I. and Suleiman the Magnificent gave her special advantages in the Levant, of which she was not slow to take advantage.
		In the absence of any of His Majesty's ships he is senior naval officer; he looks after men left behind as stragglers, or in hospital or prison, and sends them on in due course to the nearest ship.
		He is also em-powered by statute to advance for the erection or maintenance of Anglican churches, hospitals, and places of interment sums equal to the amount subscribed for the purpose by the resident British subjects.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/CONSUL.html (3741 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Scotland
		Scotland was an independent kingdom until James VI succeeded to the English Crown in 1603; and it continued constitutionally separate from England until the conclusion of the treaty of union a century later.
		The proposal was favourably received in Scotland; but while the eight-year-old queen was on her way from Orkney, and the realm was immediately divided by rival claimants to the throne, John de Baliol and Robert Bruce, both descended from a brother of William the Lion.
		Scotland was the last state in Christendom to adhere to the antipope, and only in 1418 declared her allegiance to the rightful pontiff, Martin V.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13613a.htm (9433 words)

	Left Alliance and NUS
		Left Alliance welcomes this dialogue on NUS and welcomes Resistance's decision to participate in the union after many years of hostile opposition on campuses to affiliation and effective abstention from debate.
		Left Alliance believes that it's not enough to criticise the structures and actions of a union if it's also possible to change that union.
		The influence the left holds in NUS depends on its ability to win support on the ground (and so delegates), to expose the right and to make arguments for its proposals to be adopted.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1996/257/257p14.htm (1054 words)

	SSP in Euro left-wing alliance bid for cash - [Sunday Herald]
		Scotland: the premier destination for tourists aiming to be king of the castle
		The party, which won six seats in the Scottish elections in May, have their eyes on a fund of £8 million, which is to be made available by the EU to political parties which operate on a pan-European basis.
		Helge Jensen, a member of the national executive of the Danish Red-Green Alliance, which has four members of parliament and is drafting the common manifesto with the SSP, said the party began tentative links with the SSP three years ago.
	www.sundayherald.com /36097 (926 words)

	Guardian \| 'Traffic light' alliance may govern Scotland
		Scotland could be governed by the UK's first "traffic light" alliance, with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green party joining forces at Holyrood.
		But Labour lost so many seats that the alliance would only have a majority of five in the new parliament, leaving policies open to attack from rebels in the two parties, and Holyrood's new force of socialists and independents.
		Mr Harper is meeting his new parliamentary colleagues today to discuss what they might want as a prize for their support, but they are thought likely to push for the ending of GM crop trials north of the border and an anti-pollution strategy to rival anything in the EU.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4661656-103685,00.html (694 words)

	Seamus Healy TD calls for Left Wing alliance - National Miscellaneous - Indymedia Ireland
		The hard left isn't ineffective because it refuses to "compromise its noble ideals".Sectarianism is the big problem but that's a different thing.While agreeing with the call for a serious left wing alliance I don't see why it should mean individuals or groups losing their principals.
		A Left of the Left spearheaded by SP/SWP (Yes, I known their flaws, but they are part of the reality we have to deal with)could begin to deal with the Labour fakirs as well.
		I believe that left forces who respond to this new development, this new force that emerged briefly in those few weeks, by simply recruiting to their own ranks and to building the occasional united front on a specific issue are acting in a way holds the movement back.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?id=49248&start=30 (13251 words)

	The Socialist Alliance: Through the looking class
		The Alliance project has always been surrounded with optimistic estimates of its potential growth, but a recent article in Socialist Worker referring to "the million or so people who are potentially open to a broader left project like Socialist Alliance," is the kind of over-statement that stifles any real analysis.
		In the early days of the Alliance the DSP leadership stated that they recognised that there was a problem with sectarianism towards to Labor among their rank and file and they were committed to dealing with it.
		The temptation is for the Alliance to differentiate from The Greens (and the Labor Party) on the basis of being an activist group – a response which pushes the Alliance to pose more as an activist revolutionary group than a bridge to those looking to the left of Labor.
	members.optushome.com.au /spainter/Lookingclass.html (6186 words)

	European Greens - European Free Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Greens–European Free Alliance (The Greens/European Free Alliance; Greens/EFA; French: Le Groupe Verts/Alliance libre européenne; Les Verts/ALE, German Fraktion der Grünen/Freie Europäische Allianz) is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament.
		This group consists of two distinct European political parties - the European Greens and the European Free Alliance.
		(Scotland): The Scottish Green Party has no representation in the European Parliament as of 2004
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greens/EFA (211 words)

	Prospects for the Left in Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I think what the elections in Scotland showed is that New Labour here will remain dominant, in the relative way described, for some time to come and, therefore, as we have always argued, any real challenge will have to be mounted from within the Labour Party.
		The Scottish left candidate Irene Graham’s vote was creditable and she managed to decisively see off the New Labour favourite, Mandy Telford, whose leadership of the NUS had given her hours of TV coverage.
		In Scotland the Campaign for Socialism has tried to move the alliance between CLP activists and the trade unions beyond rhetoric.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Latest/Vince.html (1229 words)

	Philippine left explores alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Several Philippine left groups are holding exploratory talks aimed at assessing the possibility of establishing an ongoing united front formation.
		However, the alliance character of BAYAN collapsed when the ND forces used their numbers to deliver themselves a majority on the governing councils.
		One reason is that the NDs, heavily influenced by the policies and ideas of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), have always seen alliances as mainly a tactical way of supporting the primary form of struggle, namely protracted guerilla warfare in the countryside.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1993/118/118p19.htm (970 words)

	List of political parties in Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Communist Party of Scotland - Scottish party formed after collapse of CPGB
		Free Scotland Party - favour Scottish independence outwith the European Union
		Left Alliance - have 2 councillors in Fife
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Scotland (227 words)

	December 2001: Socialist Alliance Conference
		On electoral activity, in fact, the early Labour Party had the approach that the affiliated organisations were to be "left free to select their own candidates without let or hindrance, the one condition being that, when returned to parliament, the candidate should agree to form one of the Labour Group there".
		It is able, for example, to "disaffiliate local Socialist Alliances and remove individual membership or refuse to ratify candidate selection." It is true that the SWP currently have only a small proportion of the members of the executive.
		Many on the left have capitulated to this, including some that have split from our own organisation, such as the current leadership of the SSP and some of the SWP's favoured 'independents' in the SA (The biggest single 'group' on the new SA executive are the four ex-SP members!).
	www.slp.at /cwi/infos_int/neu_0112_eng.html (7539 words)

	What sort of socialist alliance
		Despite occasional aberrations like this, the notion of building a class-struggle left wing in the Australian labour movement wasn’t a bad general strategy, and it had the distinct advantage of attempting to locate the DSP as a significant Marxist formation in the framework of the existing labour movement, in an oppositional way.
		As the Alliance of left parties in New Zealand, initiated by the NLP, developed in opposition to laborism, the DSP took up this New Zealand Alliance model with considerable enthusiasm, as applicable to Australia.
		The Left Alliance and Love and Rage groupings, substantial far-left student organisations, have recently moved some distance away from ultraleftism, towards the strategy of a united front with the Labor left in the student movement, and even in some circumstances, with the Labor right.
	members.optusnet.com.au /spainter/Socalliance.html (6730 words)

	CLPD - NEC Elections 2002
		The Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance - an inclusive body of democratic socialist groups and publications across the centre and left of the Labour Party - is, as in previous years, promoting candidates who will stand up for the rights of ordinary members and genuinely represent their views.
		I'm a Campaign for Socialism (Scotland) executive member, support the re-nationalisation of our railways; a £5.00 minimum wage regardless of age; re-distribution of wealth through progressive taxation; increased public sector funding; and a 50-50 gender balance in public life.
		Scotland: Pauline Bryan (Glasgow Kelvin); Simon McFarlane (Glasgow Maryhill) Yorkshire: Eddie Hart (Haltemprice and Howden); Ann Scarett (Barnsley East and Mexborough) East Midlands: Roy Mayhew (Kettering); Ann Syrett (Bolsover) Eastern: Russell Cartwright (Luton South) South East: Charmaine Morgan (East Surrey); Mick Moriarty (Esher and Walton) South West: Keith Evans (Bristol West); Julie Snelling (Kingswood)
	home.freeuk.net /clpd/campn1.htm (1154 words)

	Leeds Left Alliance Definition / Leeds Left Alliance Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Alliance for Green Socialism is a socialist grouping in LeedsLeeds is a city in the county of West Yorkshire, in the north of England.
		Origins The alliance grew out of local Socialist Alliances, many of which ran in elections as the United Socialists.
		The Welsh Socialist Alliance was closely allied to the SA but had separate origins....
	www.elresearch.com /Leeds_Left_Alliance (275 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Top Stories - Alliance offers boost to mortgage advisors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SCOTLAND’s estimated 3,000 independent mortgage advisors were offered a lifeline yesterday.
		In what could potentially allow one-man-band and small mortgage groups to take on the UK’s biggest mortgage brokers, Mortgage Intermediary Alliance Scotland was launched in Edinburgh with the promise of exclusive mortgage deals for Scottish brokers to offer to clients.
		Friend believes the new alliance has the power to allow smaller intermediaries to compete head-on with some of the UK’s largest mortgage brokers such as Charcol, which are regularly able to offer exclusive best-buy mortgage deals because of their superior bargaining power.
	business.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=481452004 (607 words)

	National Alliance Against Tolls - Scotland News
		This was only part of a presentation by FETA of how massive sums (£65 million on painting the suspended span) were needed in the future and that the proposed toll increase was essential to ensure the bridge's life for another 40 years.
		Scotland's remaining bridge tolls should be being scrapped and not used to finance road schemes that are essential for Scotland's economy.
		Scotland on Sunday today carried a profile of Shonaig Macpherson, who is a non executive director in the Scottish Executive.
	notolls.org.uk /scotlandnews.htm (9321 words)

	Magna Carta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This son of Duncan 1st of Scotland was sent down to King Edward's Norman court in England, probably as a hostage, by the Earl of Northumbria after the McBeth affair.
		It was most likely the fruition of a long term plan by the King of France (part of The Auld Alliance?) to invade England, using the conspiracy of the northern Barons, FitzWalter and his cliche in particular, and their apparently noble principles, as a distraction, a justification, and another popular crusade.
		The Gaels to the north and west of Scotland, and the Islands were the only race to remain relatively free of their powerful influence.
	www.genealogyweb.com /magna.htm (5284 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Unlikely alliance in Euro debate
		The launch of the campaign could be embarrassing for the pro-European SNP because Mr Sillars was the architect of its independence in Europe policy.
		He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: "Jim and I both agree that if you try to set a single interest rate for the whole of Europe, and that single interest rate is decided in Frankfurt, it is going to be determined on the basis of what is needed in France and Germany.
		Speaking on BBC Newsnight Scotland, Mr Sillars said: "I think the Liberals and the SNP are quite wrong.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_820000/820034.stm (567 words)

	Left Alliance challenge in Mexican elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Alliance is an electoral front, not a party.
		Cardenas made an important concession that the PRD would decide 50% of the candidates with the other 50% to be decided by the social forces involved in the Alliance.
		While the Alliance's vote will depend on the extent of the fraud, nevertheless the result will be a signpost of the strength of the new left in Latin America.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1994/155/155p13.htm (1244 words)

	Left Alliance (Scotland) Definition / Left Alliance (Scotland) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Left Alliance (Scotland) Definition / Left Alliance (Scotland) Research
		The Left Alliance are a small political party A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues.
		In party-list proportional representation, parties (and sometimes multi-party cartels) can play a functional role in the voting system.
	www.elresearch.com /Left_Alliance_%28Scotland%29 (138 words)

	Beauchamps Solicitors - European Legal Alliance - Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harper Macleod is one of Scotland's leading full service commercial law firms comprising some 27 partners, a total staff of 150 and offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness.
		It provides tailored legal services to clients ranging from UK and multi national companies and financial institutions to local and public authorities.
		Please click on the European Legal Alliance logo in the bottom left hand corner for further information.
	www.beauchamps.ie /european?id=6 (102 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Poland's ruling coalition collapses
		Prime Minister Leszek Miller has ejected the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) from his centre-left alliance and demanded the resignation of the party's two government ministers.
		Although the government will not automatically fall, Mr Miller's Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and its other ally, the Labour Union (UP), must replace the PSL's 42 deputies to keep a parliamentary majority.
		The row erupted after the PSL voted in parliament against a government measure to levy a tax to improve the country's roads.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/2811993.stm (338 words)

	Sinn Fein say no war but the Class War : Call for a left alliance - National Elections - Indymedia Ireland
		There is a window of opportunity at present and those on the broad left have an opportunity to sieze the moment.
		There is a long tradition on the Irish left of explicitly opposing - in principle, and in advance (no woffle about a special conference after the election to decide policy please) - any coalition with any right wing party - the main right wing party in the 26 County State is called Fianna Fáil.
		Such a left wing 'union' would never work, if there was such a will it would have found a way by now.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=61300 (3594 words)

	tony jeffs - citizenship, youth work and democratic renewal
		For Aristotle this meant education is too important to be left to the whims of parents or private enterprise.
		In 2000 the Consultative Council for the Curriculum (3-18) was instructed to prepare a national statement on education for citizenship and a Youth Summit was held comprising nine linked conferences where Scottish Executive Ministers and MSPs consulted with 1,000 young people on wide-ranging issues.
		Nor as writers from Aristotle onwards have warned can it be left to the mercies of those whose desired ends are profit or military aggrandisement.
	www.infed.org /association/citizenshp_youth_work_democratic_renewal.htm (7213 words)

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