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  List of organisations associated with the British Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This a list of organisations that are associated with the Labour Party.
Some are official party organisations, some (like the Co-operative Party) are independent organisations, and others are organisations made up of party members which are not officially recognised by the party.
Socialist societies are affiliated independent organisations, with which the Labour Party has some form of agreement to further their common aims.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_organisations_associated_with_the_British_Labour_Party   (146 words)

  
 Labour Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thus the Labour party returned to government with a wafer-thin majority under Harold Wilson in the 1964 election, was confirmed with a larger majority soonafter, and remained in power until the 1970 election.
Labour had previously suggested this idea in their 1970 election manifesto, but had never acted on it.
During this time the Labour Party emphasised the abandonment of its links to high taxation and old style nationalisation, which aimed to show that the party was moving away from the left wing of the political spectrum and towards the centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Labour_Party   (5974 words)

  
 What Choice for Workers? Labour, trade unions and reformist dead ends
Labour MP George Galloway, unlike his colleagues, seriously opposed the attack on Iraq, and for that he was expelled from the party in October 2003.
The construction of a mighty mass party, which stood clearly under the signboard of socialism in the first instance, the Workers Party (PT) in Brazil, began its life in a series of ‘assemblies’ where the idea of such a party was propagated by authoritative figures such as Lula, then a workers’ leader.
A genuinely socialist party would teach the working class to view the repressive apparatus of the capitalists as their enemy, and to recognise the simple fact that the bourgeois army and police force can never be fundamentally transformed – they must be dismantled and replaced with organs of working-class power.
www.bolshevik.org /Leaflets/Britishelection05.html   (5944 words)

  
 CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'L'
The party was established as a result of a merger between the Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI), the remnants of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), and the Newtownabbey Labour Party (a local branch of the NILP which had broken away in the 1970s).
At the British general election in May 1997 Labour was returned to power for the first time in eighteen years and immediately became involved in the ongoing multi-party talks in Northern Ireland.
The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI) was established in 1985 on the initiative of Paddy Devlin and Billy Blease.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/organ/lorgan.htm   (1687 words)

  
 Martin Upham: History of British Trotskyism (Chap.4)
No party leader was ever a Trotskyist, despite accusations from the CPGB But the party did publish and review Trotsky [7], and the imprint of his thought is apparent on Brockway and other leaders.
Matlow, now in the Labour Party, was quoted to the effect that the Marxist Group had become integrated in the ILP Don James observed that internal life had ceased within the group: no bulletin had appeared since before Keighley, when the group should have been preparing to split.
Associated with the RPC at this time was Dr C.A. Smith, who had met Trotsky, a pacifist who had fought Dulwich and the New Forest, the second as one of the last ILP candidates approved by the Labour Party.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/upham/04upham.html   (15180 words)

  
 Iraqi political groupings and individuals
For this purpose, presented a list of 4000 recruits to Pentagon officials, of whom 1000 were selected on 17Dec02 to be given military training in Hungary with the U.S. Army's European Command, to provide the basis of a new Iraqi national army.
With minor parties, it formed the Iraqi List (285) for the January 2005 elections: it won 1.17m votes and came in third place overall; it holds 40 seats in the assembly.
As communist parties were persecuted, a number of leftists joined the party; in response, Chadirchi urged the party to model itself on the British Labour Party, to distinguish itself from Marxists and radical nationalists.
middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqiopposition.html   (11453 words)

  
 The Menace of Fascism - What it is and how to fight it
The terror of the fascists was greater in the countryside of the backward South, where the landowners organised the murder of trade union organisers and attempted to terrorise the agricultural workers and peasants against joining the unions.
The new party is no different from the former BUF, the same Jew-baiting, the same promises of the destruction of the trade unions and labour organisations, the same demagogy to attract the disillusioned and despairing middle classes and backward elements.
With the re-emergence of the fascists, the main task of the labour movement is to educate and explain to the workers the class nature of fascism and its function as a combat force against the working-class organisations.
www.tedgrant.org /works/4/8/fascism.html   (18961 words)

  
 Raymond Postgate Papers
Star, a motorist for its Greater London Despatch Service; `Labour Leaflets' and circulars by organizations in Oxford; `G.J. Simmonds file' containing letters and circulars of (Joint) Strike Committees in the south, in which branches of the National Union of Railwaymen and of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen took part.
Strike bulletins in labour journals published by a number of trade unions throughout the British Isles concerning the General Strike of 1926.
Strike news bulletins published by The British Worker, the official strike news bulletin of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress.
www.iisg.nl /archives/nl/files/p/10766364full.php   (255 words)

  
 Glossary of Irish Terms and Acronyms
Labour Party: Small 26-County political party; left of centre on many issues.
SDLP: Social Democratic and Labour Party (A nationalist political party in the 6-Counties).
UDA: Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation in the 6-Counties, synonymous with the UFF; worked largely in co-operation with undercover British forces.
irlnet.com /rmlist/acros.html   (1176 words)

  
 International
Fifty-three per cent assessed the British government’s performance in the crisis was ‘poor, very poor’; 60 per cent gave the same answer for the White House.
But a text that was referred back to the British, Chinese, and French, German, Russian and US governments by the ambassadors had still not been fully agreed by late Wednesday, diplomats said.
The party backs region’s accession to Pakistan and support a peace process between Pakistan and India to settle the dispute over the scenic Himalayan region, two-thirds of which is controlled by India.
www.newagebd.com /inat.html   (6080 words)

  
 Political parties, interest groups, and other movements around the world
America's Open Debates Foundation is a national foundation committed to networking existing "free election" organizations, every legitimate national party, ballot access and election reform movements into one cooperative, unified and powerful voice.
Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
Labour Left Briefing - an unofficial voice of the left of the British Labour Party
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1186 words)

  
 United Kingdom - SourceWatch
This is a list of articles that relate to the United Kingdom.
All Party Groups in the House of Commons
All Party Groups in the House of Commons: Subject Groups
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=United_Kingdom   (183 words)

  
 Graham Evans - Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand election candidate
Previous employment: Labour and manual work British State Sector industries, Co-operative retail disposal, the Post Office (1977/79).
Networking Anti Nuclear protest organisation and action groups (1978/86) British Labour Party (1982 -1988).
I realised that they carry the future, so I choose to help spread debate and awareness of how those choices may impact in the future.
www.greens.org.nz /people/GrahamEvans.htm   (315 words)

  
 Open World Conference of Workers
Not only were the two supported by their union, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, but the union's general secretary warned Wednesday that those actions would multiply in the event of war.
He added that the bylaws of the British Trade Union Congress call for an immediate meeting in the event of war, a provision dating from 1918, when many unions sought to prevent the entry of European countries into World War One.
It is just one sign of the growing gulf that now divides British unions, not just from the prime minister, but from the party they created decades ago.
www.owcinfo.org /ILC/NEWS/ILC_15.html   (2372 words)

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