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	Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The party contested a succession of elections: to the brief Sunningdale Assembly, the February 1974 General Election, the October 1974 General Election and the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention.
		The latter three were fought as part of the United Ulster Unionist Council with the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionists, where the anti-Sunningdale wing of the party was now in control.
		As a result the party was bitterly split, with many breaking away to form the United Ulster Unionist Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanguard_Progressive_Unionist_Party (561 words)

	Democratic Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley.
		The party withdrew in protest when Sinn Féin, a republican party with ties to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was allowed to participate after the IRA ceasefire.
		In August 1997, David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (which is linked to the UVF), maintained in an interview that the DUP had tried to persuade unionist paramilitaries not to call ceasefires in 1994.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Democratic_Unionist_Party (588 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		The Progressive Unionist Party has been, and continues to be, active in pursuing initiatives that will assist in the development of safe and secure communities and is committed to rigorous opposition to organised crime, the illicit drugs trade, the vice trade, anti-social behaviour, racketeering and sectarian conflict.
		Party members have reported instances of criminal activity to the leadership of the UVF/RHC and are aware that sanctions have been imposed by these groups on their own membership.
		Party members in Ballymena organised an anti-racist conference last September, inviting church and civic leaders, key politicians and members of the loyalist community to debate the issue of racism and break down the myths and perceptions being peddled by some far right groups in the area.
	lark.phoblacht.net /pupimcsub.html (2825 words)

	ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a unionist political party in Northern_Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home_rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish_Parliamentary_Party under leaders Isaac_Butt, William Shaw, Charles_Stewart_Parnell and John_Redmond.
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
	velocipay.com /Ulster_Unionist_Party (1315 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations.
		The party's economic reputation was however dealt a fatal blow by the 1992 Black Wednesday debacle, in which billions of pounds were wasted trying to keep the pound within the European ERM system of exchange rates at an overvalued rate.
		Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single fl MP in what is essentially a safe seat doesn't count for much against the anti-immigration campaign fought by the Conservatives in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) (3237 words)

	Irish American Post
		Progressive Unionist Party Assembly member Billy Hutchinson, who was the negotiator for the loyalist group, said they were withdrawing because of the handling of the peace process.
		Party leader David Ervine also announced that the PUP was breaking off all contact with Sinn Féin until he knew exactly what Republican intentions were towards the unionist community.
		PUP leader David Ervine claimed the continuing targeting of unionists by the IRA was causing disquiet within He said there would be further evidence of the extent of the IRA's targeting in the coming days.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/02jan-feb/news/news06.html (5553 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Tagammu Party \| Realism on the left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Party sources agree that Tagammu lost some of its credibility, and was forced to reconsider its policies, following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which, they say, signified the "collapse of socialism".
		Another factor that contributed to the shift in the party's position was the American-shepherded Middle East peace process, leading to the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.
		Within party ranks, he said, members were divided on the approach they should take towards the government, with some expressing fears that closer ties with the regime could undermine the party's position.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /archives/parties/tagammu/realism.htm (1264 words)

	Progressive Unionist Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) are a small (An organization to gain political power) political party from (A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland) Northern Ireland.
		They were formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the (Click link for more info and facts about Shankill) Shankill area of (Capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland) Belfast becoming the PUP in 1979.
		In 1994 PUP leader Hugh Smyth became Lord Mayor of Belfast, and in the 1996 elections to the Northern Ireland Forum they secured two seats, with Billy Hutchinson and (Click link for more info and facts about David Ervine) David Ervine both being elected.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pr/Progressive_Unionist_Party.htm (140 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Unionist party in Northern Ireland, cofounded and led by Ian Paisley.
		The party's leader from 1979 to 2001 was John Hume, the corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace with Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader David Trimble...
		In 1980, the Democratic Party was a house that was divided among the Kennedy and Carter camps.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9126243?tocId=9126243 (871 words)

	Arab Decision
		The National Progressive Unionist Party, more known as Al Tagammu, was born as a result of a coalition between Nasserists, Communists and Arab Nationalists.
		The party embraced the principles of the 1952 Revolution that defended national identity and independence from Imperialism and Zionism.
		The party advocated the foundation of a society free of exploitation, oppression, corruption and injustice.
	www.arabdecision.org /show_func_3_14_8_1_3_330.htm (588 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| PUP 'unhappy' over talks process
		The loyalist Progressive Unionist Party may withdraw from the current phase of the political process because it is unhappy about the talks direction.
		The PUP executive is to meet on Tuesday, after it and the other smaller pro-Agreement parties were invited to attend the opening session only of political talks being held by the British and Irish governments in Staffordshire.
		PUP East Belfast assembly member David Ervine said he is to recommend that his party, which is linked to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, bows out of the political process.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1431716.stm (500 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| PARTIES \| Progressive Unionist Party
		The Progressive Unionist Party is a small loyalist party which draws votes mainly from members of the Protestant community.
		The PUP supports the Good Friday Agreement and called for a "yes" vote in the referendum to measure support for the peace deal.
		Party leader Hugh Smyth is a Belfast councillor and was its first Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1994.
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/parties/newsid_1179000/1179167.stm (322 words)

	Irish American Post
		Unionists have demanded some form of sanction against Sinn Fein since the alleged attempted abduction of dissident republican Bobby Tohill from a Belfast city center bar in February.
		As the British government revealed plans to impose tough financial sanctions on Sinn Féin and the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), a dossier on paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland alleged there was the crossover between politics and paramilitarism.
		The Ulster Unionist Party leader, David Trimble, suggested action on prisoner releases would be better than proposed financial penalties directed at the political parties.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2004/04apr-may/news/news03.html (2406 words)

	Progressive Unionist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Theywere formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast becoming the PUP in 1979.Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) they are theleft-wing party of unionism in Northern Ireland, withtheir main support base in the Protestant working class communities of Belfast.
		The PUP supported the Belfast Agreement and in the 1998 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly they also won twoseats, with represenatives elected from the Belfast North and East constituencies.
		Their position on the left of the political spectrum differentiates them from the other unionist parties (such as the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party) as they tend to beconservative in outlook.
	www.therfcc.org /progressive-unionist-party-91604.html (182 words)

	BBC - History - War and Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Progressive Unionist Party started life as the Independent Unionist Group in the Shankill district of Belfast in 1978 and became the PUP in 1979.
		In October 1994 PUP leaders met loyalist paramilitaries at the Maze Prison and successfully persuaded the prisoners that it made political sense for loyalists to call a cease-fire.
		By early November 1994 the PUP was engaging in exploratory dialogue with the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/troubles/factfiles/pup.shtml (459 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The party was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party.
		The idea for a merger of Canada's main conservative parties arose in the 1990s when national support for the Progressive Conservatives dwindled and the Reform Party (later the Canadian Alliance) was unable to expand its...
		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 (925 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Progressive Unionist leader David Ervine issued the challenge after Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain gave the party a week to argue for the resumption of its Assembly allowances after he said he was thinking of withholding them for another year.
		The leader of the cross community Alliance Party, David Ford, said it was right that the British government was challenging the PUP to choose between democracy and terror.
		More double standards from the Unionist parties, silence from the DUP and UUP who have not come out to demand the PUP be thrown out of Stormont for the UVF activities including 2 murders in the last few weeks.
	www.u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=62820 (1601 words)

	Ireland/NI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Progressive Unionist Party - This is a working class Loyalist Party that is aligned wtih UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force).
		Party committed to a 32 county Socialist Republic.
		Democratic Unionist Party - This Party claims, in Ian Paisley's words, to speak for "the Majority of the Majority," a phrase many find insulting.
	www.tnovosel.org /ireland (628 words)

	RTÉ News Interactive :. Northern Irish parties
		Founded in 1977, the PUP has a working class support base in the Loyalist community and has close links with the Loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		Party leader, David Ervine is contesting the East Belfast constituency, while Dawn Purvis is seeking election in South Belfast.
		In 1998, the party won two seats in the new Northern Ireland Assembly when David Ervine won in East Belfast and Billy Hutchinson was elected on the final count in North Belfast.
	www.rte.ie /news/features/westminster_election/parties/pup.html (205 words)

	Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It has its roots in the Vanguard wing of the Ulster Unionist Party who were opposed to the moderate policies of the party's leader and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner.
		The party joined in the contested a succession of elections to the brief Sunningdale Assembley, the February 1974 General Election, the October 1974 General Election and the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention.
		Several prominent current Ulster Unionist politicians were member of Vanguard, including David Trimble (who briefly served as Deputy Leader), David Burnside (who was Vanguard's press officer) and Reg Empey.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/vanguard_progressive_unionist_party (486 words)

	The Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Progressive Unionist Party is committed to working for the establishment of a just, equitable and pluralist society in Northern Ireland.
		To this end the party is endeavouring to facilitate the social, economic and cultural transformation of the Province.
		The party also calls for a local office in Belfast where Human Rights issues could be discussed with some urgency, with a view to local conciliation, in much the same way that the Labour Relations Agency is able to conciliate in a reasonable time on matters of importance in the commercial and industrial areas.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/e01/man/progunion/manefesto/human.htm (214 words)

	ireland.com - The Irish Times - BREAKING NEWS
		The Progressive Unionist party do not see decommissioning as a pre-condition to access to the structures envisaged in the GFA, whilst we recognise that it is an issue that must be dealt with.
		It has always been our Party's view that devolution should occur and the institutions envisaged within the GFA should be implemented regardless of the decommissioning issue.
		The Progressive Unionist Party wholeheartedly believe that the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, as negotiated on the 10th April 1998, and supported by referendum on 22nd May 1998, is our best option for achieving a non sectarian, pluralist and equitable society for Northern Ireland."
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/breaking/1999/1116/br11.htm (449 words)

	Ireland and Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Other parts of the article may be "Pollyannish," but the PUP and the UDP have shown themselves to be very committed to the Peace Process and finding a new way in Northern Ireland.
		This was "The" IRA until the split in 1970 which led to the "Official" and "Provisional" wings of the IRA.
		Constitutional Nationalist Party in the North dedicated to reunification of Ireland through constitutional, non-violent means.
	www.pitt.edu /~pugachev/ireland/ireland.htm (835 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Unionists threaten peace talks walk-out
		The Progressive Unionist Party is threatening to withdraw from the Northern Ireland peace talks because of the latest round of IRA prisoner releases.
		The Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam will hold crisis talks with the PUP leaders on Monday after the party said it was "very unlikely" to be at the Stormont talks when they resume in January.
		Unionist discontent with the talks was further highlighted this week when a senior Ulster Unionist called on his party to reassess its involvement in the process.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/41383.stm (379 words)

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