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  New Zealand Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is currently the dominant party in the country's ruling coalition, holding 50 of the 121 seats in the New Zealand Parliament.
The Labour Party was an amalgamation of a number of early groups, the oldest of which was founded in 1901.
Labour was defeated again in the next two elections, but in the 1972 election, the party gained a significant victory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party   (2336 words)

  
 1983 Labour Party Manifesto -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Labour believes that the countryside should be preserved and enhanced as a source of recreation for town and country dwellers alike and as a habitat for wild creatures and plants.
Labour's aim is to ensure that all sections of the community are safe on the street and at home, free from the fear that crime generates.
Labour will plan an expansion of trade with the developing world and will work to bring about changes in the international trading system that will be of benefit to poor countries, allowing them to receive stable prices for their commodity exports and to diversify their production.
www.labour-party.org.uk /manifestos/1983/1983-labour-manifesto.shtml   (20933 words)

  
 Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Labour Party or Labor Party is used by several political parties around the world.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Unity Labour Party
Senegal – defunct: Labour Party of Sine Saloum
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Party   (185 words)

  
 Zimbabwe Perspectives 1986
With the MNK's "declaration of war" against Zimbabwe, it is South Africa that is engaged in a proxy war with the Mugabe regime.
Africa and its peoples were split up by the colonial powers on purely arbitrary lines, leaving a terrible legacy of "balkanisation" (the creation of small conflicting states).
Capitalist development in South Africa had to be based on a remorseless cheap labour policy of national oppression and migrant labour, sustained by dictatorship viciously hostile to the rights of the majority, seeking to sustain and reinforce tribal division.
www.newyouth.com /archives/africa/zimbabwe/zimbabwe_persps_1986.asp?format=print   (21728 words)

  
 Backing Blair :: Campaign Weblog: Out with the old, in with the New Labour
Under Labour party rules, this means the Labour executive are able to shoehorn their Blairite stooges in, bypassing the local selection process.
Under Labour rules local parties are not entitled to draw up a shortlist in such cases - local parties have to select through a one member, one vote ballot from a shortlist drawn up by a national executive panel.
The late selection process, used in previous general elections, is often criticised as a device to promote the favourite sons and daughters of the party elite and to exclude run-of-the-mill local figures.
www.backingblair.co.uk /2005/03/out-with-old-in-with-new-labour.html   (607 words)

  
 SIERRA LEONE  AND NEW LABOUR MILITARISM
For the Labour Party was once the guardian of the country's liberal and pacifistic conscience (as indeed was the currently war-mongering Guardian).
Labour was always reluctant to engage in colonial wars and gunboat diplomacy, and for years in opposition had been the patient advocate of peaceful diplomacy and collective security.
New Labour's foreign wars have become a spectator sport that can be turned off the screen when people have had enough.
www.zmag.org /CrisesCurEvts/sierra_leone.htm   (2596 words)

  
 Africa
On June 2nd the ANC won, as was expected, a landslide victory in South Africa's second democratic election.
This article analyses the record of the first ANC government, the debates within the labour movement and the South African Communist Party, the perspectives for the new ANC government and argues the case for genuine socialist policies.
New revelations on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba
www.newyouth.com /archives/africa.asp   (1309 words)

  
 Hilary Wainwright: First New Labour, now new unions
From South Africa, Zweneli Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, describes being part of a tense alliance with the ANC while linking with community, church and anti-privatisation groups to campaign for alternative policy proposals.
In New Zealand, the unions have stuck with Labour, despite its evangelical monetarism in the 1980s, but have forced change; Labour now governs on a programme of which Roy Hattersley, Tony Benn and the Greens could be proud.
Whether the outcome will be a refounding of the Labour party or the emergence of a new party is open to question, but the growth of social unionism is laying the foundations for a new labour politics.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/4-10-2002-16335.asp   (910 words)

  
 Anarchism, revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa.
From an early stage, the ISL was committed to IWW-style revolutionary syndicalism, and saw the abolition of racial oppression in South Africa as a central revolutionary task.
It was South Africa's first serious anarchist publication since the 1920s, and marked by its solid commitment to a politics of class struggle and fl liberation.
South African anarchists explain the theories and ideas that underlie anarchism, in their own words.
www.struggle.ws /africa/safrica.html   (1025 words)

  
 Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The prevalent balance between the largest parties means that the smaller parties can have disproportionately strong influence to their size, Due to their ability to act as tie breakers; they often use this status to block popular legislation or promote their own even contrary to the manifesto of the larger party in office.
Parties of the Left dominated Israel's Elections until 1974, when Following the Yom Kippur War, the ruling Labour party began to lose popularity.
The influx of Jewish immigrants from the former USSR topped 750,000 during the period 1989-1999, bringing the population of Israel from the former Soviet Union to 1 million, one-sixth of the total population, and adding scientific and professional expertise of substantial value for the economy's future.
israel.iqnaut.net   (5016 words)

  
 ONE BIG UNION! South Africa's New Giants of Labour
Whether this move could be an indicator of the future formation of a communist-labour political party to the left of the ANC remains to be seen.
Remember that political parties, even left-wing ones, continue to exploit the working class because they don't abolish the exploitation of the working majority by a small elite, even if it is an elite of "comrades".
South Africa's major labour federations (COSATU, NACTU and FEDUSA) come together for meetings with the bosses in NEDLAC, but it is time that they join forces as workers and as unionists, to weld themselves into one giant federation.
www.struggle.ws /africa/wsfws/99/ws9_obunew.html   (1139 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Election 2005 | Blair secures historic third term
Earlier, Mr Blair told party activists in his Sedgefield constituency that Labour, which looks set to have won 36% of the vote on a 61% turnout, had to "focus on the things that matter" such as the NHS, jobs and law and order.
Mr Blair is the only Labour leader to have won three elections in a row but his margin of victory is less than half what it was in the Labour landslides of 1997 and 2001 - and he has the lowest share of the vote for a ruling party in modern times.
In Scotland, Labour lost seats to the SNP, which reached their target of six seats, the Lib Dems and the Conservatives, who still have one MP in the country after winning Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweedale.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4519863.stm   (1177 words)

  
 South African Newspapers on the Internet
See Breaking News for continent-wide news from sources outside of South Africa.
Had "news and analysis about shares and investments, and the entrepeneurs behind some of the most popular shares on the JSE." From the publishers of Woza and the Cape Town based E-data Ltd.
For those with sounds cards/speakers/RealPlayer you can listen to the news from Johannesburg, see SABC TV news such as the opening of the South African Parliament (transmission may not be very good), or listen to music.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsanews.html   (926 words)

  
 New Zealand Labour Party announces 'early election' list - Wikinews
The New Zealand Labour Party announced its party list admidst speculations it may call an early election.
Steven Ching is placed at 42, and represents Labour's interest in courting the Asian vote.
New Zealand changed its electoral system to MMP in 1996, before then it used FPP.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party_announces_'early_election'_list   (383 words)

  
 Category:Political parties in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are 2 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
[+] Youth wings of political parties in South Africa
Pages in category "Political parties in South Africa"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Political_parties_in_South_Africa   (82 words)

  
 Flagrancy to Reason
It's an invention of the New York Times, among other papers, and in no uncertain terms a clear and outright and unilateral rejection of the "road map", nevermind every other peace proposal on record, and it clearly was when Kadima announced the plan.
This acceleration coincides with new land expropriations and plans for the development of new Jewish settlements in the heart of Palestinian neighbourhoods such as in Ras-al-amud or the Mount of Olives.
Built amid 10,000 Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem village Jabel Mukhaber, the 395 new housing units of Nof Zion will comprise a Jewish settlement in the heart of the area that every internationally recognized peace plan considers the future capital of a Palestinian state.
www.flagrancy.net   (3497 words)

  
 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, Africa and Australasia, and is the second longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King Rama IX of Thailand.
She also receives reports from the new Welsh Assembly, and is continually kept abreast of goings on with her other governments.
This reference came at a time When the Labour Government was attempting to introduce a controversial devolution scheme to Scotland and Wales, and was interpreted as opposition to devolution.
elizabeth-ii-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net   (4345 words)

  
 BRITAIN: `New Labour represents the rich' says union leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
More members understand that the Labour Party no longer represents workers and unionists — it acts in the interests of the rich and privileged in society.
“After Bob Crow was elected RMT general secretary he wrote to Labour MPs, including those sponsored by the RMT, to ask where they stood on the re-nationalisation of the rail system and other questions of RMT policy.
In the past I involved myself actively in the Labour Party in pursuit of this goal.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/567/567p23.htm   (825 words)

  
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