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Topic: Social Democratic Party (New Zealand)

	Socialism - MSN Encarta
		Socialism, economic and social doctrine, political movement inspired by this doctrine, and system or order established when this doctrine is organized in a society.
		In 1901 a moderate faction of the party under Morris Hillquit joined with the Social Democratic party of Eugene V. Debs and the Christian Socialists of George D. Herron to form the Socialist party.
		In Scandinavia, candidates of the Social Democratic parties of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were elected to high positions early in the 1920s; these parties subsequently became dominant in Scandinavia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577990/Socialism.html (990 words)

	Europe's "New" Third Way
		Socialism became "scientific"--a construct of ideas according to which the end is already known, and in which any endeavors to change the course of events would be frustrated.
		On the contrary, the new middle is described as the "active middle" or the "radical center," which implies it is not the same as the "moderate left." The man on the street might have difficulties with this hair-splitting distinction; perhaps this is one of the more hidden aims of this terminology.
		In the social democratic world, there are only acting high-minded men and women who work in the public interest and who, of course, know what is in the interest of their fellow citizens.
	www.socialdemocrats.org /europenewway-heritage-5-11-99.html (3374 words)

	New Zealand Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Democratic Party members also held seats when the party was part of the Alliance.
		The party was formerly known as the Social Credit Party, and was for many years the largest minor party in New Zealand politics.
		By the 1999 Election the Democrats were one of only two remaining parties in the Alliance as the Greens left the grouping and the Liberals and NewLabour components formally dissolved, their members becoming members of the Alliance as a whole rather than of any specific constituent party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party (829 words)

	New Zealand (09/06)
		New Zealand has a parliamentary system of government closely patterned on that of the United Kingdom and is a fully independent member of the Commonwealth.
		New Zealand was a direct beneficiary of many of the reforms achieved under the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, with agriculture in general and the dairy sector in particular enjoying many new trade opportunities.
		New Zealand is an active member of the global coalition in the War against Terrorism, and deployed SAS troops to Afghanistan, and naval and air assets to the Persian Gulf.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35852.htm (4209 words)

	The Truth About Labour - The Phoney Left
		The social legislation of the government such as the Arbitration Act, old-age pensions and land reform was aimed at dampening down the sharpening class struggle between workers and capitalists typified by the great maritime strike of 1890.
		New Zealand’s Labour Party in 1916 had embodied in its constitution the objective "the socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange." They claimed that workers could transform capitalism into socialism by parliamentary reforms.
		New Zealand under Labour is certainly not a trend-setter in progressive legislation on gay marriage.
	www.workersparty.org.nz /other/thetruthaboutlabour.htm (13049 words)

	Rise and fall of the New Zealand Alliance Party
		The clear hostility to the establishment parties, however, means that no party has a solid base, with all having experienced sharp fluctuations in support.
		A post-election multi-party conference took place in 1991 and later that year the Alliance Party was established, with five constituent parties: the Democrats, Manu Motuhake, New Labour, the Green Party, and the Liberals, a splinter from the Nationals.
		For new left formations to succeed they must first and foremost put forward a socialist programme attractive to the poor, to those in work, to women, to youth and to the most oppressed, and also to the small business people and farmers who face ruin under capitalism.
	www.socialismtoday.org /68/NewZealand.html (1656 words)

	Commanding Heights : New Zealand Overview \| on PBS
		New Zealand is a founding member of the United Nations.
		New Zealand expands its international contacts in Southeast Asia and enters a limited free-trade agreement with Australia.
		Labor Party leader Helen Clark is elected prime minister of a center-left coalition government in 1999.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/nz/nz_overview.html (1250 words)

	One Hundred Years of Socialism
		Socialism appeared to be better adapted than its rivals to the mode of organization of the working class into ever larger units of production and the forms of combination of workers, such as trade unions.
		Socialism distinguished itself from potential rivals (such as utopian movements) by looking frankly to the future and not harking back to an idealized past; though as regards the future nothing more definite than vague generalities was ever said about the end of class society and the withering away of the state.
		It was in fact a party of agrarian socialism: at the first general election (1907) it obtained a higher percentage of the rural vote (38 per cent) than of the urban (34 per cent).
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/sassoon-socialism.html (4830 words)

	Umrabulo - Number 22, February 2005
		The social democrats invested their efforts in trying to revive the Second International, which was reconstituted in the 1920s as the Labour and Socialist International, and after the Second World War, in 1951, as the Socialist International.
		Social democracy, in that context, came to be associated with the "evolutionary" socialism based on pursuit of a peaceful and parliamentary transition to socialism, as opposed to the revolutionary and insurrectionary model which had brought about the Russian Revolution.
		This new tendency, as a response to the political dominance of conservatives among the Western electorate, argues for the reform of the post-Second World War social democratic agenda, particularly the notions of the welfare state and nationalisation.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo22/socialist.html (2792 words)

	The Militant - 10/14/96 -- Instability Marks New Zealand Vote
		Parties must garner 5 percent of the vote nationally or have a candidate win in an electorate to gain representation in Parliament.
		The other major party in the election is the Alliance, a coalition of five parties dominated by the New Labour Party of James Anderton.
		Two right-wing parties that are expected to gain representation in Parliament are ACT New Zealand and the Christian Coalition.
	www.themilitant.com /1996/6036/6036_7.html (1185 words)

	History of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New Zealand was declared a dominion by a royal proclamation in 1907.
		In 1947, New Zealand joined Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States to form the South Pacific Commission, a regional body to promote the welfare of the Pacific region.
		New Zealand was featured as the setting for "Middle Earth" in the renowned early 21st century trilogy of films based on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/newzealand.html (911 words)

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		It is one of the United Kingdom's three main political parties and is currently the party of government in the United Kingdom.
		But Clark's New Zealand has put the brakes on the neo-liberal economic revolution, and while it has not rolled it back significantly, it has counteracted the worst effects of the neo-liberal core.
		The Labour party won a third term in government at the 2005 general election for the first time in its history, although its majority in the House of Commons was reduced to 66.
	www.lycos.com /info/british-labour-party.html (612 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology - Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview
		The Social Democratic Party in Germany, the Labor Party in Britain, the New Democratic Party in Canada, the Socialist Party in France, and others, despite their original emancipatory visions, barely qualify today as even liberal parties in which a Franklin D. Roosevelt or a Harry Truman would have found a comfortable home.
		Democratic to its core and nonhierarchical in its structure, it is a kind of human destiny, not merely one of an assortment of political tools or strategies that can be adopted and discarded with the aim of achieving power.
		Civic banks to fund municipal enterprises and land purchases; the fostering of new ecologically oriented enterprises that are owned by the community; and the creation of grassroots networks in many fields of endeavor and the public weal--all these can be developed at a pace appropriate to changes that are being made in political life.
	www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031117110637888 (5842 words)

	A short history of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This state is defeated by Britian in 1840 and New Zealand becomes part of New South Wales.
		The conservative National Party, a merger of the Reform Party and the United Party, and the social democratic Labour Party dominate New Zealand political life since a Labour government comes to power in 1935.
		New Zealand achieves full internal and external autonomy by the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act in 1947, although this merely formalizes a situation that has existed since 1931.
	www.electionworld.org /history/newzealand.htm (643 words)

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		In New Zealand the NewLabour Party emerged from a left split from the Labour Party.
		The purpose was to explore the possibility of all the parties becoming involved in a new round of inter-party negotiations.
		In left-wing circles, the name "New Labour" or Neo Labour is used pejoratively to refer to the perceived domination of the Labour Party by its right-wing.
	www.lycos.com /info/british-labour-party--new-labour.html (377 words)

	Topic Guide - Employment Relations in NZ - BEIS - LEARN - The Univeristy of Auckland Library
		New Zealand labour and employment research, 1859-1990 : a bibliography of research and research materials.
		Labour legislation in New Zealand : a bibliography.
		Contributors included the New Zealand Federation of Labour (1910-1913), the United Federation of Labor, the Social Democratic Party (New Zealand) and the New Zealand Labour Party.
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/bus/topicguides/mer_nz_guide.htm (3366 words)

	Bruce Beetham Information
		A brilliant organizer and an electrifying speaker, Beetham succeeded in rebuilding the party, and by the late 1970s it was challenging the stranglehold on the two-party system of the long-dominant National and Labour parties.
		His frustrations caused by political gridlock, as well as the difficulty of simultaneously leading a national political party while serving as a Mayor (a post generally expected to be apolitical in New Zealand), were factors in his decision not to seek a second term as Mayor in 1977.
		The new leader, on the night he was elected, implied in a TV interview that the Social Credit national dividend policy was out of date and would be dropped.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Bruce_Beetham (673 words)

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		In this paper I set out some of the background in relation to the New Zealand experiment, the particular policies that were implemented in the post 1984 period, the legacy of those policies, and the efforts by the current government to re establish a balanced set of social democratic policies.
		New Zealand at then end of this process was weaker economically, had high levels of debt, large income disparities, and massive infrastructural deficiencies.
		New Zealanders like to think of their country as one that has avoided the excesses of poverty and inequality that characterise some comparable countries elsewhere in the world.
	www.gpn.org /research/nze/the_new_zealand_experiment.doc (9846 words)

	Socialism Today - A left government in New Zealand?
		Indeed, one of the aims of the new administration is to bring the union leaders back into the fold, to help the them sell future 'hard decisions' - spending cuts and the like - rather than by-passing them as previous governments had.
		New Zealand went from having probably the best social security safety net amongst the OECD countries to the worst during the lifespan of that Labour government, which held office for most of the 1980s.
		In the wake of the collapse of the Stalinist bloc and the strong recovery from the recession of the early 1990s, there was a strong ideological backlash against socialism by the capitalist class and their media.
	www.socialismtoday.org /46/new_zealand.html (858 words)

	New Zealand
		New Zealand is a parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 4.1 million.
		No new confirmed cases of internationally trafficked persons have been brought to the attention of the authorities since 2001, although there was evidence that some women from Asia, and more recently the Czech Republic and Brazil, were working illegally in the country as prostitutes.
		Both the New Zealand First and the Green parties concluded agreements with the government to continue annual increases in the minimum wage with a target of $8.40 (NZ$12.00) by the end of 2008, economic conditions permitting.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61621.htm (4904 words)

	Still the Exceptional Nation?
		It gave birth to all the major successful modern movements for egalitarian social change and for improving the quality of life--feminism, environmentalism, civil rights for minorities, and gay rights--just as it did the democratic revolutions of the 19th century.
		In 1983, the Australian party entered into an accord with the trade unions that resulted, as then-prime minister Robert Hawke emphasized, in a reduction in workers' real wages of at least one percent in each of the eight years that he was head of the government.
		In a "social pact" comparable to the Australian accord, the unions, then led by Kok, agreed to limit wage increases to two percent per year, in part on the premise that more jobs would be created.
	www.wilsoncenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=4693 (4955 words)

	WSPNZ - Object
		The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of the whole community.
		That as in the order of social revolution the working class is the last class to achieve its freedom, the emancipation of the working class will involve the emancipation of all mankind, without distinction of race or sex.
		That as all political parties are but the expression of class interests and as the interests of the working class is diametrically opposed to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party seeking working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party.
	www.worldsocialism.org /nz/nz-object.htm (257 words)

	About the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The four principles of the Green Party are Ecological Wisdom, Social Responsibility, Appropriate Decision-making and Non-Violence.
		The Green Party are the most democratic decision-making Political Party in New Zealand - our Party List is decided by a vote of all members.
		Greens in Time and Space is an article outlining the History of Green Parties in New Zealand and around the world from the early 1970's to 1999 when 7 Green MPs were elected.
	www.greens.org.nz /about (368 words)

	Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - New Democratic Party (NDP)
		Until a few days into the election, the party also had an "Issues" page that set's out the party's (much more frankly-worded) stance on issues ranging from taxation to gays and lesbians (some text remains, but the page is incomplete or in the process of being removed as of May 25, 2004).
		The New Democratic Party holds firm to the belief that the dignity and freedom of the individual is a basic right that must be maintained and extended; and
		The New Democratic Party is proud to be associated with the democratic socialist parties of the world and to share the struggle for peace, international co-operation and the abolition of poverty."
	www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/ndp.htm (521 words)

	ABOUT THE SAM RAINSY PARTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Consistent with the Cambodian authority’s relentless effort to deprive the Party a formal registration as a political party, a small breakaway group was induced by the ruling party to counter-claim the name of the Khmer Nation Party.
		It was nothing new that the CPP used its network to encourage a small break-away group from any formidable party; the two groups would then squabble for the same name.
		The ruling party who controlled the whole election process from voters registration to declaring election results was forced to concede a minimum of 15 out of the 122 seats in the National Assembly to the Party of less than three years old.
	www.samrainsyparty.org /about/about_the_sam_rainsy_party.htm (1211 words)

	Socialism in the United States
		During the past century, the socialist movement throughout the world has grown from a few thousand social pioneers, many of them exiles from their native lands, to a movement which embraces tens of millions of men and women and is molding the economic and political systems of many of our most important countries.
		Parties with a democratic socialist viewpoint are today in control of the governments of Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Israel; have important representatives in the coalition cabinets of Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Finland; and are supported by strong delegations in the parliaments of Belgium, France, Western Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
		The majority of the party, however, declared that they saw no evidence of a revolutionary crisis in the United States, and that the job of Socialists here, as in other democratic countries, was to use the ballot and other peaceful instruments of change to bring about a cooperative system of industrial society.
	www.nathanielturner.com /socialismintheunitedstates.htm (3225 words)

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