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  Irish_Labour_Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland.
However the party is not known to have contested an election in the province since Gerry Fitt, then the party's sole Stormont MP, left the party to form the Republican Labour Party in 1964, though the Democratic Left and its forbearer parties have contested elections in the north more recently.
Pat Rabbitte - Leader of the Labour Party and Spokesperson on Northern Ireland and TD for Dublin South West.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Irish_Labour_Party   (1281 words)

  
 Republican Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republican Labour Party was a political party in Northern Ireland.
Fitt left the party and took most of its support with it in August 1970 to found the Social Democratic and Labour Party.
The rump party, led by Diamond struggled on for a time but the party was wiped out in the 1973 elections to the Sunningdale assembly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republican_Labour_Party   (179 words)

  
 Social Democratic and Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was formed by former members of the Republican Labour Party - a fragment of the Irish Labour Party, the National Democrats, a small social democratic nationalist party, individual nationalists and members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
Founder and first leader Gerry Fitt - a former leader of the explicitly republican Republican Labour Party - would later claim that it was the party's decision to demand a Council of Ireland as part of the Sunningdale Agreement that signified the point at which the party adopted a clear nationalist agenda.
He would later leave the party in 1980, claiming that it was no longer the party it was intended to be.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party   (1208 words)

  
 Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which enfranchised urban workers.
The reversal of the party’s position on Britain’s entry into the European Community (now the European Union), after having earlier supported it, and a renewed call for further nationalization of industry were indications of a greater left-wing militancy within the party.
The party lost power to the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 elections and remained in the opposition until the late 1990s.
www.bartleby.com /65/la/Labourpa.html   (1220 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: United States Republican Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Republican National Committee (RNC) of the United States is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican A political platform is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said partys candidates voted into office.
Republican nomination The Republican Convention was held in Cleveland from 10 June to 12...
Thomas Dewey represented the Northeastern wing of the party that was closer to Democratic liberalism and internationalism.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-States-Republican-Party   (11584 words)

  
 Republican
Republican City, Nebraska Republican City is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 209...
Republican Labour Party The Republican Labour Party was a political party in 1970 election.
Republican Party (Germany) The Republican Party of Germany is a right-wing party, which concerns itself mostly with the...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/republican.html   (1183 words)

  
 SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: ''Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre'') is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern_Ireland.
There is a debate over the intentions of the party's founders, with some now claiming that the aim was to provide a political movement to unite constitutional nationalists who opposed the paramilitary campaign of the Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army and wished to campaign for civil_rights for Catholics and a united_Ireland by peaceful, constitutional means.
Founder and first leader Gerry_Fitt - a former leader of the explicitly republican Republican Labour Party - would later claim that it was the party's decision to demand a Council_of_Ireland as part of the Sunningdale_Agreement that signified the point at which the party adopted a clear nationalist agenda.
www.isnewyork.com /Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party   (1236 words)

  
 REPUBLICAN PARTY - Online Information article about REPUBLICAN PARTY
This revolution within the Republican party between the years 1865 and 1867 was fostered by a marked recrudescence of sectional feeling in the North, and by the character of the successor of President Lincoln and of the party leaders in Congress.
The service of the Liberal Republicans consisted mainly in the aid they gave to the reform of the Republican party and in the influence they exerted to induce the Democratic party to accept the results of the war.
The Republicans, at the cost of a formidable party defection, endorsed the gold standard and a highly protective tariff, and nominated William McKinley, whose record and character made him an exceptionally strong candidate.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RAY_RHU/REPUBLICAN_PARTY.html   (5415 words)

  
 Sinn Fein.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sinn Fein is the fastest-growing political party in Ireland.
It is a republican and labour party, taking its inspiration from the politics of Wolfe Tone, James Connolly and the 1916 Easter Rising.
Sinn Fein, the only all-Ireland party, is committed to achieving a 32-County democratic socialist republic and the end of British rule in Ireland.
www.sinnfein.info   (292 words)

  
 The Observer | International | Labour leader Quinn won't be dragged to the altar
They are not a socialist party and a vote for men like Ferris is like a vote for Le Pen or the Republican Party in Germany or the Vlaams Blok in Belgium.
At one stage on the road, the bus was overtaken by a symbol of the conspicuous consumption associated with the Celtic Tiger.
However the Labour leader accepted that in his party's strongholds there was genuine concern about increas ing immigration, given housing shortages and fears about an economic downturn.
observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,714108,00.html   (1381 words)

  
 US Labor Party Convention
The Labour Party will not endorse any other candidates." This served to allay fears that the party would be simply used to exert pressure on the Democrats, and not fight independently for the interests of the working class.
Their fear was that the party would damage itself if it ran candidates prematurely, and it could risk destroying the party if it flopped miserably before it had time to consolidate its base.
The party was determined to move beyond "politics as usual" and bring millions of ordinary people into the fight for a new political agenda.
www.marxist.com /usa/lpconvention98.html   (2478 words)

  
 Labour Party conference - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 2004 Labour Party conference was held at the Brighton Centre, Brighton from 26-30 September 2004 [2] (http://www.labour.org.uk/events/).
Manchester Central constituency Labour party has submitted a proposed rule change for discussion at this year's conference to ensure that in future a party chair is elected by the membership." [5] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1302024,00.html) The Labour Party 'chair' at the time of the conference was Ian McCartney [6] (http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page3527.asp).
Brownswood Branch Labour Party, acting in association with the Save the Labour Party campaign, passed a resolution "to seek support for instructing the NEC through Conference to draw up measures to...
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Labour_Party_conference   (3024 words)

  
 CAIN: Issues: Politics: Political Parties in Northern Ireland
The parties are mainly Nationalist or Republican in outlook.
The parties are mainly Unionist or Loyalist in outlook.
Some parties actively seek to attract support from both the main communities and these are listed in the 'yellow' column.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/parties.htm   (325 words)

  
 Why a Labour Party?
It was natural, then, that as a member of that party I should attempt to present the general attitude of that party towards the Labour Party to show that the claim made for it, that it was marxian, could hardly be upheld.
I endeavoured to give a general sketch of the Labour Party from its inception, the part played by the ILP in it, and the varying attitudes of certain SDPers towards it, to show that it would be inaccurate to describe it as marxian.
Mr Johnston holds that as the Labour Party is composed of workers, is maintained by workers, and fights for workers, it is all right, and is marxian.
www.marxists.org /archive/maclean/works/1910-wlp.htm   (772 words)

  
 The Nationalism Project: Competing National Ideologies Chapter VII
The inadequacy of the Nationalist Party (NP), Northern Irish Labour Party (NILP) and Socialist Republican Party (SRP) in assessing the shifting ideological and social needs of the population was to lead to their decline as representatives of contemporary Catholic interests (Lee 1995: 436).
Central to this nationalist reawakening was the Republican community’s realisation that the very nature of their marginalisation was steeped in the core values of Protestant ascendancy and the protection of the Union which would automatically seek to negate state alternatives that were more inclusive.
It was the Bodenstown Wolfe Tone commemoration meeting in June 1968 that was to prove to be the watershed in the strategic shift towards the readoption of VDA as a major tactic in the Nationalists’ protest repertoire (Rooney 1984: 81).
www.nationalismproject.org /articles/Pero/ch7.html   (15785 words)

  
 Labour party -> 1914 to 1945 on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Blair axes 'honours for sale' watchdog; As Labour is revealed to reward three out of four party donors.
Critics claim the governing Progressive Labour Party is committing political suicide.
NZ National party leaps ahead after Labour's long-term lead in poll.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/labourpa_1914to1945.asp   (946 words)

  
 Sinn Fein information pack ( on line version)
Sinn Fein, the only 32 county all-Ireland party, is committed to achieving a 32-county democratic, socialist Republic and the end of British rule in Ireland.
Party president, Gerry Adams at a press conference explaining Sinn Feins policy and promise, "To build an Ireland of Equals"
Organised throughout the 32 counties, it is a radical, campaigning, activist party.
www.geocities.com /sinnfeinonline   (348 words)

  
 Sinn Féin: Introduction to Sinn Féin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sinn Féin, the only all-Ireland party, is committed to achieving a 32-County democratic socialist republic and the end of British rule in Ireland.
The Sinn Féin party, inspired by the Proclamation in 1916, reorganised in 1917 based on the demand for an Irish republic.
One section of Sinn Féin was in the process of abandoning the republican demand for British withdrawal from Ireland and went through various transformations such as the Workers' Party and Democratic Left before eventually merging with the 26-County Labour Party.
www.sinnfein.ie /introduction   (1109 words)

  
 OJPCR 3.3: The Corrymeela Community: 'The Hill of Hope', or an Illusion?
We have connections and build relationships with political parties and government and seek to influence their opinions and their work by sharing with them who we are and the work we are doing.
It is the party that speaks for the majority of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
After the Maze prison hunger strikes by republican inmates in the early 1980s, Sinn Féin was rising to challenge this position, and at one period in the following years Sinn Féin got 43% of the Catholic vote.
www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/3_3cichon.htm   (17183 words)

  
 An Phoblacht: Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sinn Féin is a republican and labour party, taking its inspiration from the politics of Wolfe Tone, James Connolly and the 1916 Easter Rising.
The only all-Ireland party, it is committed to achieving a 32-County democratic socialist republic and the end of British rule in Ireland.
An Irish republican support group based in London which campaigns for British withdrawal from the six occupied counties of the north of Ireland.
www.anphoblacht.com /links   (290 words)

  
 Barbados Labour Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the past, whenever Barbadians had to question the failures of the DLP government with the challenges facing the country, it is worthy to note the approaches taken by the Democratic Labour Party.
The Barbados Labour Party, throughout its long and distinguished history, always had a tremendous amount of respect for the workers of this country.
The Barbados Labour Party continues to keep the promises it made to the people of Barbados over the years.
www.blp.org.bb   (936 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 Social Democratic And Labour Party Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Find social democratic and labour party - Your relevant result is a click away!
While the SDLP tended to describe itself as "post-nationalist after the Good Friday Agreement, Mark Durkan has recently described the party as republican.
Durkan often emphasises to unionists that the protections and constitutional mechanisms of the GFA would remain in place even if Northern Ireland became part of a sovereign Irish republic.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party   (1398 words)

  
 Government (from Northern Ireland) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Its cumbersome title is an indication of the hybrid nature of the party, whose founders included members of the Republican Labour Party, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, and the Nationalist Party, as well as three independent members of Parliament from Northern Ireland.
The Alliance Party was launched in April 1970 in an attempt to break the sectarian mold of politics in Northern Ireland through the pursuit of moderate policies.
The principal nationalist paramilitary organization in Ireland, the Irish Republican Army, or IRA, was founded in 1919.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-225044?tocId=225044   (930 words)

  
 The future of Northern Ireland: a paper for discussion , 1972: Britain and Northern Ireland from BritainUSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The partition of Ireland was deeply resented, and the new institutions of Northern Ireland were opposed; militant elements of the republican tradition launched violent attacks upon the Province and its institutions both from within Northern Ireland and across the border.
Proposals of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (The Social Democratic and Labour Party's publication 'Towards a New Ireland' is reproduced with their permission in full in Annex 7: it was not submitted to the Darlington conference) (Six Members in the Northern Ireland House of Commons before prorogation Leader, Mr.
The Labour Party have made their own specific proposals for consideration in that context, based on the 15-point plan put forward by the Leader of the Opposition in his House of Commons speech on 25 November 1971 (House of Commons Official Report Vol.
www.britainusa.com /nireland/ni_paper.asp   (9017 words)

  
 US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India
US Republican party threatens to sue the INQUIRER and US Republican Party denies it's outsourcing to India Both of these stories have links.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush.
India is the biggest democracy in the world, and has stayed that way since it threw off the yoke of the British Raj in 1947, courtesy of the Labour Party.
www.theinquirer.net /?article=11219   (293 words)

  
 Political parties in the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I'm fairly sure that the rose, as a symbol of the Labour Party, is a fairly recent phenomenon, say, 1980s.
I haven't been able to find anything that links daffodils with the Liberal Party, unless the connection is David Lloyd George, who was Prime Minister during the First World War.
Lloyd George was prominent in a campaign at the start of the 20th century to have the daffodil replace the leek as the Welsh national emblem (why the daffodil was chosen remains unclear, unless it is the almost-rhyme between daff and taffy.
flagspot.net /flags/gb}.html   (274 words)

  
 Socialist Labour Party - Liverpool
Having seen the lot of the working classes through working as a labourer at the Liverpool Docks, Larkin became an active socialist and was subsequently elected General Organiser for the National Union of Dock Labourers.
The web site for the Socialist Labour Party in Wales, information on the forthcoming Welsh Assembly election and a list of candidates.
This website is the internet contact for a video documentary that was produced by an Irish TV team about the attempted Coup in Venezuela in April 2002, which attempted to remove the legally and democratically elected and President Hugo Chavez.
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