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	New Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a left wing political party in Canada that advocates varying forms of social democracy and democratic socialism.
		In Quebec, the Quebec New Democratic Party and the federal NDP agreed in 1989 to sever their structural ties after the Quebec party adopted a sovereignist platform.
		Since then, the federal NDP is not integrated with a provincial party in that province; instead, it has a section, the Nouveau Parti démocratique-Section Québec, whose activities in the province are limited to the federal level, whereas on the provincial level its members are individually free to support or adhere to any party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Democratic_Party_of_Canada (1981 words)

	Socialism Today - ‘New Politics’ in Canada
		LAST NOVEMBER leaders of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) received a shock when 37% of delegates at the party’s national convention voted in favour of the New Politics Initiative (NPI), a current of NDP lefts and social activists outside the party who are proposing to replace the NDP with a new left-wing formation.
		While the NPI initially described itself as socialist and insisted that the new party would be formed regardless of what happened at Winnipeg, the months leading up to the convention saw a process of moderation and accommodation to the party establishment.
		We agree that a new party of the left is needed and that the NDP is not capable of filling that role.
	www.socialismtoday.org /65/Canada.html (1155 words)

	New Politics Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Politics Initiative (or NPI) was a faction of Canada's New Democratic Party.
		It was generally viewed to be further left then Alexa McDonough's leadership, but not as far left as the Socialist Caucus or Fightback (then known as L'Humanite).
		At the NDP convention held in Winnipeg in November 2001, opponents of the initiative used this lack of detail to defeat the proposal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Politics_Initiative (399 words)

	Briarpatch Magazine: The New Politics Initiative tests the Water: A report and reflections on the Federal NDP ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The expression of "new politics" energized the convention and came from several sources.
		The process of presentation and discussion at this forum was an expression of "new politics" as the moderator, Judy Rebick, alternated between speakers from floor mikes and the quieter voices speaking from their seats.
		The challenge will be to practice "new politics" at the community level and breathe life into federal riding associations which are otherwise dormant between elections.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQV/is_1_31/ai_82781569 (1460 words)

	NEW POLITICS INITIATIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the often static world of the Canadian left, the New Politics Initiative, to be launched at a press conference in Ottawa today by social movement activist Judy Rebick and NDP MP Svend Robinson, is an important development.
		The fundamental goal of the NPI is to bring a new generation of social movement activists into a radically redefined version of party politics, a highly laudable goal.
		The NPI is strongest in its advocacy of a style of politics which is participatory at all levels, to replace the top-down decision making that is as much a part of the NDP as it is of other parties.
	www.jameslaxer.com /newpolitcs.htm (976 words)

	A sense of the masses - a manifesto for the new revolution
		The political decisions of the state become so important a part of the business transactions of the corporations that it is a law of their survival that most decisions should suit the needs of profit-making.
		The new breed of politicians see elections as a means of putting the community in charge of the instruments of state, not as a route to power for themselves and their party.
		The new breed is exemplified by the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), based in the struggle against fascist dictatorship of the 1980s and with strong links to civil society and the landless movement MST.
	www.heureka.clara.net /gaia/democracy.htm (7266 words)

	Meet the New Politics - Same as The Old Politics? - By Tim Doucette
		Robinson defined 'new politics' as bridging the gap between grassroots activists - 'the movement' - and electoral parties.
		Singh replied that the buzzword 'new politics' is a public relations tactic to co-opt competing activist tendencies under a diplomatic umbrella.
		He said this is true whether 'new politics' means a new political party or, on the contrary, a clear rejection of electoral politics for strategic reasons.
	webhome.idirect.com /~occpehr/articles/v18_2_npi.htm (1071 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Pop Idol 'no substitute for politics'
		Politics on TV will never be like Big Brother or Pop Idol, but that does not mean the BBC should stop serious political coverage, a Labour peer has argued.
		Figures show news viewing has been declining since 1993, with the numbers of viewers under the age of 44 dropping by a quarter.
		The BBC New Politics Initiative, led by Sian Kevill, wants to bring new programme ideas to TV screens by the end of the year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1869080.stm (609 words)

	[DW] Council of Europe - Media role in information-age democracy -
		New technical possibilities allow the media to collect the views of the public in a much more direct way than before.
		For the sake of fairness and transparency, the media might, for example, provide information on the composition of the sample which would allow the audience to judge to what extent it is representative.(2) Furthermore, it might be interesting to know if the media present the results of such votes to decision-makers, requesting a reaction.
		The initial aim is to foster communities which connect people who are interested in the same issues.
	www.mail-archive.com /do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00591.html (2523 words)

	Comment on the New Politics Initiative
		Everywhere in the vision statement this definition is contrasted with "new policies", which is asserted to be the standard means of decision-making, and is characterised as top-down, hierarchical, old and outdated, in opposition to the left-wing purpose, and not able to obtain the kind of decisions that we want to be able to make.
		When political scientists turned their attention towards corporations, they found that the structure of power strongly resembled a feudal aristocracy-- large numbers on the bottom had no power and no means to remedy grievances, and small numbers at the top had all the power and no accountability for it.
		Leaders should arise from self-selected initiative, and have their leadership affirmed on the basis of their wisdom, erudition, charisma, and vision, not on the basis of their occupancy of an office or their possession of a title from which the person herself is theoretically separated.
	www.wildideas.net /cathbad/npi.html (5206 words)

	NPI: Can we build a new left?
		And while the party brass, like Alexa McDonough, are stiffly welcoming the new initiative as part of the NDP ‘renewal’ process, there is no doubt that the New Politics Initiative has shaken the Party’s old guard.
		McDonough was more explicit when she said that while many young people have been drawn into the new movement against global trade deals, many more youth are altogether disenfranchised from the political process and that the party should be cautious about appealing to the young radicals at the expense of the rest.
		The key to forging a new left in this country will not be determined by the November convention, not by a series of resolutions, but by the activity and campaigns of the NPI in the days and weeks ahead.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/360-08-NPI.html (952 words)

	ZNet Commentary: It Really Is About New Politics
		The New Politics Initiative (www.newpolitics.ca), which made its debut at the convention of the New Democratic Party (Canada’s social democratic party) in Winnipeg last weekend, could be one of the most innovative and significant developments on the left in Canada in a long time.
		NPI argued that the NDP had to open itself to the new forces of the anti-globalization movement by initiating the formation of a new party.
		As someone who has given up on the NDP more than once in my long political career, I feel a greater sense of optimism today that a new kind of political party that brings together most of the forces fighting for social justice is a real possibility.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2001-12/01rebick.cfm (905 words)

	Politics \| BBC's plans for youth politics run aground
		In a further sign of problems with the youth politics initiative, a topical satire programme on BBC Choice, fronted by the news presenter Dermot Murnaghan, has failed to make an impact and has received strong internal criticism at the BBC.
		A BBC spokesman said neither of the two pilots for a youth-oriented politics programme, which would have been shown on BBC2 on Saturday mornings, would be commissioned in their current guise.
		The idea for a youth politics show was first raised more than a year ago after concerns were raised about the difficulty in getting under-45s interested in political programmes.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4552932-103690,00.html (604 words)

	New Socialist Magazine, Layton's NDP: A New Opportunity, By Corvin Russel
		Central to the NPI’s political project was the inchoate notion of a left political party "working with" the social movements.
		At the level of the state, this was reflected in the third key piece of the NPI’s political agenda: participatory democracy, which served as a strategy for transforming the state towards economic as well as political democracy.
		This absence of a coherent new theoretical framework or frameworks for left activism, encompassing long-term goals and critiques of traditional political theories, remains a key weakness.
	www.newsocialist.org /magazine/46/article16.html (810 words)

	e.Peak (22/10/2001) features: A new life for the left?
		The New Politics Initiative (NPI) is the latest hope to have sprung from the loins of leftist intellectuals.
		Their arguably new policies include ending environmental catastrophe, for as Robinson says, "nowhere is capitalism's failure more obvious," as well as reforming NAFTA and the WTO, making equality a priority again, reinvesting in public services, and inviting citizens to take control of the economy.
		Most political thinkers believe that a party with civil disobedience and street protest as a pillar of its platform will be unlikely to attract a large middle-class or swing vote.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2001-3/issue8/fe-npi.html (1831 words)

	'We need a party that challenges capitalism'
		The New Democrats are undergoing a process of renewal in the wake of last year’s federal election in which they garnered less than 10 per cent of the vote nationally.
		Not surprisingly, some see this as a maneuver to recruit new members to the NDP without a strategy for building on the ground, or outside the NDP if the resolution should fail to pass at convention.
		The NPI should state clearly that it will break from the NDP and form a new party if the NDP is unwilling to embrace the anti-capitalist movement and build an activist party based upon the day-to-day struggles of working people and the oppressed.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/358-09-NPI.html (1210 words)

	Politics \| The new face of politics
		It had become generally accepted that "young people" weren't much interested in politics, but the definition of "young people" was assumed to be anyone who wears oversized trainers; by about 25, when people start wearing sensible shoes, it was assumed that Jonathan Dimbleby became required viewing.
		Greg Dyke launched a "new politics initiative" in a blaze of publicity, with a conference - chaired by Andrew Neil - which brought together broadcasters, politicians and opinion-formers to discuss the options.
		If they aren't interested, then sticking a new kind of TV programme isn't going to change their attitudes even if it is called News Is My Bitch.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4568072-110779,00.html (1503 words)

	BBC - Press Office - New Politics Solutions
		The research, conducted by agency TRBI to support the BBC New Politics Initiative, suggests that many people, particularly aged under 45, are disillusioned with conventional politics and political coverage and feel disconnected from the political process.
		For many, says the research, political coverage is seen as white, middle-class, middle-aged men arguing with other white, middle-class, middle-aged men in a secret shared language and the media is seen as part of this establishment.
		Many people questioned for the BBC research found it difficult to relate politics to their everyday lives, and felt there was no dialogue between themselves and parliament.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/02_february/28/politicssolutions.shtml (1077 words)

	The Resurrection of Che Guevara
		This was remarkably consistent with his inability to recognize specific political textures and historical conjunctures, evident early on in Cuba during the period of armed struggle against the Batista dictatorship.
		Guevara was not partial to the Popular Front strategy and the devious political maneuvering it entailed and given his independent personality, he was not the type to be reduced to a cog in a bureaucratic party apparatus.
		These initial efforts were carried out during the early months of 1959 with the participation of Raul Castro, Che Guevara, the head of the PSP's Party Military Committee and a number of Spanish Communist agents of the Soviet KGB.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue25/farber25.htm (3361 words)

	The New Party Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's a political idea about what a new party could and should be: more internally democratic, committed to electoral reform, tied to grassroots movements (www.newpolitics.ca.).
		Genuinely new politics would mean bringing together communities that have nothing to do with the Canadian left as it looks today - either with the NDP, or the mass street protests like those that took place in Quebec City.
		To overcome these divisions, what is needed is not a new political party - not yet -- but a new political process, one with enough faith in democracy to let a political mandate emerge.
	www.creativeresistance.ca /awareness01/2001-july08-the-new-party-initiative-naomi-klein.htm (778 words)

	The New Unity Partnership
		He was elected AFL-CIO president to head a new leadership; he beat the drums for organizing; he called upon affiliates to put forces in the field; he recruited hundreds of eager students for demonstrative summers of organizing.
		Extensive resistance is unavoidable: on the one hand, from grassroots local leaders and rank-and-file activists who would welcome an effective program to organize the unorganized but want a voice in running their own unions; on the other hand, from complacent, entrenched office holders who simply distrust any program of action, good or bad.
		That is, not politics in the narrow sense of electing Democrats instead of Republicans, or maneuvering cleverly between them, or beefing up labor's standard political action program, but politics as broad social policy.
	www.wpunj.edu /newpol/issue37/Benson37.htm (2458 words)

	NOW : Newsfront : Party Invitation : Jun 7 - 13, 2001
		The new party that would come out of the New Politics Initiative (NPI) would be a federation of the more radical points of view present on the ground in Quebec City at April's anti-summit protest, with the slightly more mainstream people in sensible shoes one sees at many NDP gatherings.
		Overall, the reaction was positive, even from the Socialist Caucus of the NDP, which stands to be overtaken by this new initiative of party insiders and outsiders.
		But the discussants also note that the program of the New Politics Initiative (outlined at www.newpolitics.ca), which includes reform of the party to make it more responsive to the wishes of the grassroots as well as changing the election finance system to ban corporate donations, is one that they, too, could support.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-06-07/news_story4_p.html (852 words)

	Alternatives : Rooted in Social Movements
		The NPI said that we need a new kind of political party on the left, one that is rooted in social movements and practices a new kind of participatory democracy.
		With neo-liberalism unable to deliver the benefits it had promised, the NPI believed a new party with a bold alternative platform that campaigned with social movements inside and outside Parliament and focused on involving ordinary citizens in politics could have an enormous impact.
		Yet the most successful left-wing political party in the world at the moment, the Workers Party in Brazil shows us a different model of a party rooted in social movements that are at the same time independent from the party.
	www.alternatives.ca /article118.html (952 words)

	TNI New Politics
		The New Politics project was launched in November 2000 at an international seminar in Córdoba, Spain, co-hosted by TNI and the Instituto de Estudios Transnacionales (INET), in association with a number of local Spanish organisations.
		The session on parties focused on the principles of new kinds of parties that do not follow orthodox left models and go beyond ormal social democratic models, and on relationships with organised citizen groups.
		The lack of ideological engagement, internal democratisation and transparency of their organisations is resulting in a loss of faith in political parties as a satisfactory vehicle for citizens' representation.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tni/acts/cordoba.htm (928 words)

	Straight Goods - Canada's leading independent online newsmagazine
		Their initiative has sparked much needed debate within the Party and by challenging social activists to take electoral politics and the NDP seriously they have done us all a great service.
		A new constitution would have to create mechanisms through which the elected caucus of the new party would be committed to party policy as decided by conventions.
		But if the new party and others pushing for proportional representation are ultimately successful, we can easily imagine the party having a share real power in a system that would normally produce minority governments.
	www.straightgoods.ca /Thread.cfm?ThreadId=37 (5407 words)

	New Democratic Party Article, NewDemocraticParty Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a federal and provincial political party in Canada.
		New Democrats are also active municipally, and have been elected mayors, councillors and school and service board members -- Toronto mayor David Miller is a leading example.
		Under the leadership of Audrey McLaughlin -- the first womanto be leader of a national political party in Parliament -- and AlexaMcDonough, the party underwent a decline.
	www.anoca.org /ndp/election/new_democratic_party.html (1371 words)

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