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	Progressive Federal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Progressive Federal Party (PFP) was a South African political party formed in 1977.
		The PFP was derided by right-wing whites, who claimed its initials stood for 'Packing for Perth', on account of the many white liberal supporters of the 'Progs', who were emigrating to Australia.
		It was ousted as the official opposition by the far-right Conservative Party in the whites-only parliamentary elections held on May 6, 1987.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party (241 words)

	Progressive Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Progressive Party achieved its greatest success between 1921 and 1925 when it was the second-largest party in the House of Commons.
		It was primarily a farmers' party and was strongest on the prairies and in Ontario.
		In 1942, when the Progressive premier of Manitoba, John Bracken, became leader of the federal Conservative Party, he insisted that the party be called the Progressive Conservative Party, which has remained its name ever since.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0006514 (282 words)

	Progressive Federal Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Progressive Federal Party (PFP) was the successor of the Progressive Party (PP), which was formed after a group of Liberal members of the United Party (UP), broke away to form a party that would lead a parliamentary opposition against apartheid.
		The PFP had lost a number of Parliamentary seats in the 1987 election and in 1988 Zach de Beer became the PFP leader.
		The National Party government immediately called a general election for September of that year, in which the DP improved its position while the NP lost seats both to the DP and to the right-wing Conservative Party.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/thisday/pfp.htm (417 words)

	Conservative Party of Canada - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fullowing the latest federal election (June 2004), the CPC is the official opposition to the governing populistic Liberal Party of Canada.
		At both the federal and provincial level, it became known for a political phenomenon known as Red Toryism, a combination of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism, that some incorrectly describe as uniquely Canadian (it is a very common phenomenon e.g.
		Federally, from 1993 to 2003 the center-right was "split" between Clark's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and Manning's Reform Party of Canada, the latter party later became the Canadian Alliance under Stephen Harper, the currect leader of the CPC.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Conservative_Party_of_Canada (731 words)

	ipedia.com: Progressive Party of Canada Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba.
		Moderates like Forke and returned to the Liberal party and the Progressives reconstituted themselves as parliamentary representatives of the UFA and some of them continued to sit in parliament until they were routed by Social Credit in the election of 1935.
		In 1942, Progressive and Manitoba Premier John Bracken was persuaded to become the leader of the Conservative party.
	www.ipedia.com /progressive_party_of_canada.html (1408 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Progressive Party
		U.S. political party: one of three related U.S. political parties that favored social reform and were active in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948
		Canadian political party: a Canadian political party formed in 1920 from members of farmers' movements and dissident Liberals that was dissolved in 1942
		S African political party: a South African national political party that was formed in 1959 by members of the United Party and merged again with part of the United Party in 1977 to form the Progressive Federal Party
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861736644/Progressive_Party.html (117 words)

	Progressive Labour Party
		Progressive Labour Party policy aims to cooperate with workers to ensure that any changes to Australia's and production with respect to the environment, will not be at the expense of jobs.
		To do this, the Progressive Labour Party proposes a mix of direct regulation (for example, controlling monopolies) with the creation of a market in which coal, oil, and natural gas cost more than the alternatives, and in which unfair barriers to the use of those alternatives are removed.
		The Progressive Labour Party aims to develop information and training in all aspects of forestry: Propagation, care and maintenance of healthy forests; regional training and research programs to develop skills in forestry management; integrating experiences of landowners, educational institutions and conservationists to improve the knowledge base of forestry for local communities.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jgowland/plp/environment.htm (2923 words)

	Progressive Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Progressive Party was a liberal South African party that opposed the ruling National Party's policies of apartheid.
		It was later renamed the Progressive Federal Party.
		This political party- and liberalism-related article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Party_(South_Africa) (90 words)

	Progressive Federal Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Afrikaans Progressiewe Federale Party (PFP) former South African political party established in 1977 in the merger of the Progressive Reform Party (founded 1975) and defectors from the United Party (founded 1934; see New Republic Party).
		South African political party established in 1989 by the merger of the Progressive Federal Party with two smaller liberal parties, the National Democratic Movement and the Independent Party.
		The party was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061505?tocId=9061505 (745 words)

	Directory - Regional: North America: Canada: Society and Culture: Politics: Parties
		Communist Party of Canada · Canada's "party of socialism" dedicated to the creation of a new economic arrangement in Canada where the economy works for the needs of the people rather than the other way around.
		Progressive Canadian Party · A new progressive conservative party formed by former Tories who opposed the merger with the Canadian Alliance.
		United Party of Canada · Federal party urges unifying political views and policies from all sides to create a comprehensive platform.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=21129 (314 words)

	Progressive Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Progressive Party was formed in 1920 when Ontario and prairie farmers on the Canadian Council of Agriculture united with dissident Liberals led by Thomas CRERAR, who resigned from the federal Cabinet in 1919 opposing high tariffs.
		Under Crerar the Progressive Party permanently broke the 2-party pattern of federal politics in the 1921 election: it won 65 seats in the West, Ontario and New Brunswick, and was the second-largest party in Parliament.
		Many party members were former Liberals who wanted only to shift their old party to free trade.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0006514 (176 words)

	Progressive Party
		Robert La Follette became the candidate of the Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election.
		The Progressive party, believing that no people can justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of securing equal suffrage to men and women alike.
		The Progressive party demands such restriction of the power of the courts as shall leave to the people the ultimate authority to determine fundamental questions of social welfare and public policy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAprogressive.htm (1244 words)

	Canada's Official Opposition to found new right-wing party
		The Reform Party, the Official Opposition in Canada's Parliament, is seeking to create a new right-wing political vehicle to unseat the Chretien Liberal government at the next federal election.
		This initiative, which amounts to an admission that Reform as presently constituted has little likelihood of coming to power, is born of Reformers' frustration at the Liberals' appropriation of much of their right-wing economic agenda, on the one hand, and the strong popular opposition to Reform's social conservatism and Anglo-chauvinism, on the other.
		Canada's oldest political party the Tories are, by contrast, the quintessential establishment party, the party most closely identified with the interests of the Bay Street banking and financial houses.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/mar1999/can1-m03.shtml (1445 words)

	Social Security Online
		The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
		They represent the allied Reactionaries of the country, and they are against the new party because to their unerring vision it is evident that the real danger to privilege comes from the new party, and from the new party alone.
		We pledge the Federal Government to an investigation of industries along the lines pursued by the Bureau of Alines with the view to establishing standards of sanitation and safety; we call for the standardization of mine and factory inspection by interstate agreement or the establishment of a Federal standard.
	www.ssa.gov /history/trplatform.html (11489 words)

	South Africa's political parties - SouthAfrica.info
		The ACDP was the only party in the National Assembly that voted against the adoption of the Constitution in 1994, citing moral and Biblical objections to some of the document's clauses.
		The party's membership overlaps with those of the ANC and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), its partners in what is known as the tripartite alliance.
		The party believes in the establishment of a socialist society, which it says should be characterised by democracy, equality, freedom, and the socialisation of the predominant part of the economy.
	www.safrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/constitution/polparties.htm (2932 words)

	Reform Party -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 1850s the party split between a moderate group, which allied with John Macdonald's Progressive Conservative Party, and a radical faction, the Clear Grits, from which the Liberal Party emerged.
		The Reform Party first acted as a united group in 1905, but it was not formally constituted and organized along party lines until after the 1911 election.
		Unlike parties in Western democracies, it is a tightly organized movement that controls and leads society at all levels.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9376657?tocId=9376657 (911 words)

	Conservative Party Of Canada - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		OTTAWA - Stephen Harper, Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada today called on Prime Minister Paul Martin to cancel his planned November 14 fundraising reception for high-end donors at a private residence in Toronto.
		Liberal incompetence has surfaced again with revelations that 60 per cent of the residents of the First Nations community of Kashechwan, Ontario are suffering from a variety of illnesses attributed to the presence of E Coli in their drinking water.
		This website is the property of the Conservative Party of Canada and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission.
	www.conservative.ca (292 words)

	South African Elections 1999
		The origins of the Democratic Party are to be found in the decision by 12 United Party (of Field Marshal Jan Smuts) Members of Parliament (MPs) to form the Progressive Party in 1959.
		In 1977 the United Party dissolved, and a group led by Japie Basson joined the Progressive Party, which became the Progressive Federal Party.
		The New National Party is essentially the same party which brought about the disastrous 1983 Constitution, and which gave up its hold on power in 1994 -- the new name hides many of the same old faces.
	www.geocities.com /legal15/elections.htm (1256 words)

	List of political parties in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Political parties in South Africa lists political parties in South Africa.
		South Africa is a democratic but one party dominant state with the African National Congress in power.
		Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_South_Africa (129 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In February 1984 Trudeau resigned and was succeeded as head of the Liberal Party and as prime minister by John Turner.
		In federal elections held in September, the Progressive Conservative Party won a landslide victory, and its leader, Brian Mulroney, a prominent labour lawyer from Quebec, became prime minister.
		The Liberal Party has been the governing party at the federal level for most of the period since the late 1890s, bringing together pragmatic social policy reformers and advocates of free enterprise, the balance between them shifting as...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061502 (876 words)

	rediff.com: 10 legislators quit Congress in Manipur
		The legislators, who formed the Manipur Regional Congress Party under the leadership of state legislature party leader Radhabinod Koijam, informed Speaker S Dhananjoy Singh about the split and requested him to recognise them as a separate group.
		On the eve of his departure, Radhabinod said that as the north-eastern state's interests were bigger than the party's, he, along with nine colleagues, quit the party.
		The party-wise break-up: MRCP: 10; BJP: 6; NCP: 2; Progressive Federal Party of Manipur: 2; JD-S: 1; MPP: 1 and Samata Party: 1.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/dec/28mani.htm (264 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		Party vice-president, K. Jena Krishnamurthy said there was a change in the material situation and the instability aspect had cropped up in view of the “non-cooperative” mood between two sections of the government.
		Though the Opposition parties were silenced by the effective replies given by the government during the debate, the party has decided to take up the issue during the meet,” Mr Krishnamurthy said.
		Parliamentarians were very unhappy with the progress and did not hesitate in pointing out that by the time such defence equipment rolled out 50 per cent of it would have become obsolete and not only critical years of research but crores of rupees would have gone down the drain.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20001230/nation.htm (5777 words)

	Focus 26 - IFP alliances printer version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was for this reason that in the dark days of apartheid, Prince M.G. Buthelezi and Inkatha sought to build bridges across the racial divide with like-minded political parties such as the then Progressive Federal Party (PFP), the predecessor to the Democratic Party.
		At this crucial stage in the political transition, the IFP believes that all viewpoints should be accommodated and expressed in the party-political-system.
		The litmus test for co-operation with other parties for the IFP is the advancement of reconciliation and the integration of all our disparate peoples into one nation.
	www.hsf.org.za /focus26/focus26zondi_print.html (598 words)

	Vive le Canada - Meeting tonight to create a New Progressive Federal Political Party
		Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward, not backwards.
		The Green Party, CAP, the new Progressive Canadian Party and NDP are currently the only parties that such progressive Canadians can support, yet none of these parties currently stands a chance of beating the two neoconservative parties.
		A new federal mainstream Progressive Party could help to break the grip of neoconservative politics in Canada and usher in a new era of real and meaningful progress for Canada.
	www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php?story=20040315103414167 (1281 words)

	Chapter Seventeen
		The dominant political party in the RSA (Republic of South Africa) is named "The National Party," and this name was intended to identify it as a nationalist political entity.
		Treurnicht left the National Party and founded a new political coalition of his own, the Conservative Party, which is carrying on the historic but forsaken policies of the National Party.
		The Conservative Party is now the fastest growing political party in the history of South Africa since 1910, according to evidence which emerged at this week's Transvaal CP Congress in Pretoria.
	www.mindspring.com /~dennisw/articles/nations/17.htm (1999 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: North America: Canada: Society and Culture: Politics: Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Communist Party of Canada - Canada's "party of socialism" dedicated to the creation of a new economic arrangement in Canada where the economy works for the needs of the people rather than the other way around.
		Progressive Canadian Party - A new progressive conservative party formed by former Tories who opposed the merger with the Canadian Alliance.
		United Party of Canada - Federal party urges unifying political views and policies from all sides to create a comprehensive platform.
	dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/Canada/Society_and_Culture/Politics/Parties (429 words)

	South African Political Parties
		The party emblem is in the centre - the globe and cross- with stripes of equal size and dimensions as in the Haiti flag.
		Having its origins as a breakaway group from the National Party in 1969, the HNP as with the Conservative Party, wished to stay as close to the traditional NP colours of orange, white and blue.
		The National Party (NP) was the ruling party in South Africa from 1948 until 26 April 1994 when the ANC came to power.
	flagspot.net /flags/za}.html (4306 words)

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