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	Finland The Social Democratic Party - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		They formed the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Small Farmers (Työvaen ja Pienviljelijain Sosialidemokraattinen Liitto--TPSL), a splinter group that contested elections and was included in several governments until the 1970s, when it expired and most of its remaining members returned to the SDP.
		The election of Rafael Paasio to the party chairmanship in 1963 ended the reign of the old leadership and brought a gradual improvement in SDP relations with the Soviet Union; another result was a gradual healing of rifts within the labor movement.
		The party could be seen as a victim of its own success in that it had participated in implementing policies that brought unprecedented prosperity to Finland, which served to transform Finnish society and dissolve old voting blocs.
	www.photius.com /countries/finland/government/finland_government_the_social_democrati~42.html (1179 words)

	According to popular opinion in Sweden, some bad will actually do good \| jakob's web studio
		Traditionally, the social democrats have based their rhetorics and arguments on the value base if their opposition, who would according to them, and not entirely falsely, work for social injustice and lower wages, making the rich richer and poor poorer.
		However the party has failed to renew itself and restore itself to its former glory when they represented a sense of the future and had a vision, or at least their leaders had the charisma and visions to induce a spark in the hearts and minds of the voters.
		Disillusioned by the social democrats and their seemingly concrete-like indisposition to change, voters have deserted them in favor of what they seem to believe is the better option, a "social democratic option" that isn't the social democrats.
	www.jakob-persson.com /node/513 (1003 words)

	Swedish in Finland — Virtual Finland
		The area of Finland settled by Swedish speakers was geographically dispersed and limited to coastal areas.
		In 1863, Finnish was given an equal position with Swedish as the official language of Finland, and a legislative reform in 1906 gave Finnish a position in practice which corresponded to the dominant numbers of Finnish speakers in the country’s population.
		They are (with the number of Swedish-language MPs in brackets): the Social Democratic Party of Finland (1), the Left Alliance (1), the Christian Democrats (1), the Green League of Finland (1), the True Finns (1) and the National Coalition Party (2).
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/finnswedes.html (2822 words)

	Finland History
		Finland's new ruler, Tsar Alexander I, convinced of the strategic need to control Finland for the protection of his capital at St. Petersburg, decided it was more expedient to woo his Finnish subjects to allegiance than to subjugate them by force.
		Finland's economy had always been predominantly agricultural, and with the exception of a small merchant class along the coast, nearly all Finns were engaged in farming, mostly on small family farms.
		Finland's official foreign policy of neutrality in the interwar period could not offset the strategic importance of the country's territory to Nazi Germany and to the Soviet Union.
	www.country-studies.com /finland/history.html (4310 words)

	Finland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It borders on the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden in the west, on Norway in the north, on Russia in the east, and on the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in the south.
		The Communist party, suppressed in 1923, remained active until it was effectively removed from the scene by discriminatory laws in 1930, and the rightist Lapua movement, originating in anti-Communist disturbances in 1929, was itself suppressed after an unsuccessful coup in 1932.
		Finland was active in the League of Nations, which it joined in 1920, and it was the only European country to continue to honor its World War I debts to the United States after the advent of the economic depression at the start of the 1930s.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fi/Finland.html (2295 words)

	social-democracy - Anarchopedia
		Social democracy, also vaguely identified as centre leftism, moderate socialism, democratic socialism is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means.
		Social democratic parties are among the largest parties in most countries in Europe, as well as in the majority of European-influenced parts of the world (with the notable exception of the United States).
		Social democrats usually retort by arguing that their policies are in fact enhancing individual rights, by raising the standard of living of the vast majority of the population and eliminating the threat of extreme poverty.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/social-democracy (2719 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Scandinavian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The social democratic parties of Finland and Iceland are less easy to fit into a general Scandinavian model of social democracy, although it should be noted that both of these parties negotiated agreements with agrarian parties* during the 1930s and entered red-green coalitions very similar to their counterparts in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
		Social democratic parties were in government for most of this period, and presided over an era of high rates of economic growth, low unemployment and rising living standards.
		If the Scandinavian social democratic parties have lost much of their distinctiveness in terms of ideology, then most scholars would agree that this is probably the case as far as the organisation of the parties is concerned as well.
	www.routledge-ny.com /enc/scandinavian/social.html (2246 words)

	Finland - The Social Democratic Party
		After the defeat of the left in the civil war and the departure of radical elements from its ranks, however, the SDP was reconstituted in the same year under the leadership of the moderate Vainö Tanner, an opponent of the use of violence for political ends.
		The election of Rafael Paasio to the party chairmanship in 1963 ended the reign of the old leadership and brought a gradual improvement in SDP relations with the Soviet Union; another result was a gradual healing of rifts within the labor movement.
		The party could be seen as a victim of its own success in that it had participated in implementing policies that brought unprecedented prosperity to Finland, which served to transform Finnish society and dissolve old voting blocs.
	countrystudies.us /finland/124.htm (1068 words)

	Document 21
		SOLOVIEVA R. During the verification of Soviet [party] cells in 1924, she was expelled as ballast from the party by the ver[ification] com[mittee] for her political illiteracy and separation from party life.
		She was readmitted to the party by the Party Collegium of the M[oscow] C[ontrol] C[ommission] in October 1924, with a recommendation to take an active part in party work.
		-- Belonged to the Internation[al] Socialist Party of Switzerland from 1904 to 1912, and to the S[ocial] D[emocratic] Party of Switzerland from 1912 to 1920.
	www.yale.edu /annals/Chase/Documents/doc21chapt4.htm (5799 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Finland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Finland is a presidential system; presidential elections are open, competitive, and transparent, with candidates from several leading parties.
		Finland's political parties and groups compete for political influence in a free and open manner, without coercion or restrictions on political liberties.
		Under the proportional representation system, the largest party in the legislature is seldom able to gain more than about 25% of the seats, and so a parliamentary majority generally depends upon the formation of party coalitions.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Fin1.htm (376 words)

	The Political and Economic History of Finland
		Finland was caught up in the political/dynastic/religious struggles for control in the region of the eastern Baltic Sea area.
		Finland was made into an autonomous state ruled by Tsar Alexander I and called the Grand Duchy of Finland.
		Finland began to export timber and lumber to Germany and later to Britain.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/finland.htm (1836 words)

	FINLAND IN BRIEF
		In 1809, Finland was annexed by Russia as an autonomous Grand Duchy with the Czar as Grand Duke.
		The prime Minister is Mr Paavo Lipponen of the Social Democratic party.
		Finland’s free trade agreement with the EEC entered into force in 1974 and agreements for the removal of trade barriers were concluded with several eastern European countries as well.
	www.iccim.org /persian/Foreign/Finland/04.html (1321 words)

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		The party's name can be misleading: although its first official ideology, after its foundation, was centre-left, it is nowdays a party of the centre-right and does not advocate social democracy in any usual sense of the term.
		The party left the Liberal International in 1996 and their delegates to the European Parliament have, since the late 1990s, sat with the European People's Party, along with the Conservative and Christian Democratic parties of many European countries.
		The Democratic Alliance was dissolved in 1983, and in parliamentary elections that year, the Social Democrats lost to the Socialist Party.
	www.alphasearch.org /Social-Democratic-Party-Portugal.html (959 words)

	general strikes in finland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		on november 13, a workers' general strike was proclaimed by the social democratic party and the central trade union.
		the night between november 18 and 19, the "revolutionary central council," formed by the social democratic party and the central trade union, decided not to be revolutionary and to end strike.
		the social democrats became biggest party in first general election 1907.
	www.sonic.net /~figgins/generalstrike/europe/finland.html (522 words)

	Finland (10/06)
		Finland's 1995 accession to the European Union (EU) has blurred the line between foreign and domestic policy; the respective roles of the president and prime minister are evolving, and plans are under consideration to rewrite the constitution to clarify these and other issues.
		Finland and the U.S.S.R. signed a peace treaty at Paris in February 1947 limiting the size of Finland's defense forces and providing for the cession to the Soviet Union of the Petsamo area on the Arctic coast, the Karelian Isthmus in southeastern Finland, and other territory along the former eastern border.
		Finland is well represented in the UN civil service in proportion to its population and belongs to several of its specialized and related agencies.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3238.htm (3567 words)

	Finnish Center Party wins narrow election victory - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The left-leaning Social Democrats, currently the Center Party's main coalition partner, were the big losers in Sunday's vote and could end up in opposition for the first time since 1995.
		The Social Democrats dropped eight seats to 45, the results showed, while the the third partner in the current coalition, the small Swedish People's Party, gained one seat for a total of nine.
		The Center Party won 23.1 percent of the vote while the Conservatives had 22.3 percent and the Social Democrats 21.4, according to the provisional results.
	www.cnn.com /2007/POLITICS/03/18/finland.election.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest (636 words)

	Finland History \| iExplore.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1917, Finland was an autonomous region within the Russian Empire but, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Finland declared independence, which the new Soviet government accepted after brief efforts to re-assert control.
		Finland’s appreciation of Moscow’s sensitivity remains acute, nonetheless, typified by its refusal to countenance future membership of NATO, which also remains deeply unpopular among the electorate.
		He was succeeded in turn by another Social Democrat, Tarja Halonen – the first woman to hold the post – at the beginning of 2000.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Finland/History (1161 words)

	Paavo Lipponen resigns as Social Democratic Party Leader, London Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
		Finland’s Speaker of Parliament Paavo Lipponen has announced that he would withdraw from the leadership of the Social Democratic Party after holding the post as SDP chairman for 12 years.
		Lipponen made his announcement at a meeting of the Social Democratic Party Council in Helsinki on Wednesday 9th of March in the morning saying that he would stay as party leader until the SDP Congress in Jyväskylä in June.
		He reiterated his view that Finland should hold on to the common line, according to which Finland has a so-called option to decide on this matter according to national interests." We remain militarily non-allied, but there is no reason to make noise about non-allied status.
	www.kas.de /proj/home/home/28/2/webseite_id-2210/index.html (344 words)

	Car Rental Finland - Compare the prices of car rental in Finland
		From 1200 to 1809, Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden.
		At the moment, the National Coalition Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Centre Party are the three dominant parties in Finnish politics.
		Finland borders on the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland and the Botnian Gulf.
	www.easyterra.com /car-rental-finland.html (2054 words)

	Finland - The Communist Party
		The Communist Party of Finland (Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue-- SKP) was founded in August 1918 in Moscow by exiled leftists after their defeat in the civil war.
		After this date, the party was in most governments until December 1982, when Prime Minister Sorsa forced it to resign for refusing to support a part of the government's program.
		The 1984 election of Aalto to the party chairmanship marked the end of the attempted reconciliation, and in 1985 the revisionists began to purge the Stalinists, who late in the year named their faction the Committee of SKP Organizations.
	countrystudies.us /finland/127.htm (1110 words)

	The Reaction -- by Michael J.W. Stickings
		Vanhanen has governed in coalition with the Social Democratic Party and the Swedish People's Party (representing one of the country's key minority groups) since 2004, but, as the BBC is reporting, the "strong showing" of the National Coalition Party, or the "Conservatives," "could force [him] to realign his coalition".
		The parties that finished fourth and fifth, with 17 and 15 seats respectively, are the leftist Left Alliance and the center-left Green League.
		The nominee of the opposition Republican Party, largely a party-in-exile, was not approved to run in the election.
	the-reaction.blogspot.com /search/label/elections (1281 words)

	Kalevi Sorsa Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was also longtime leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
		Before a meteoric rise to the top of Finnish politics Kalevi Sorsa worked as a publishing editor, with his greatest "claim to fame" being to turn down the first novel of Kalle Päätalo, which turned out to be one of the greatest Finnish bestsellers of all time.
		During the 1970s Finland started an experiment of state capitalism called Valco which was to have utilized Finnish high-tech know-how to mass produce television screens.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Kalevi_Sorsa (445 words)

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	www.socintwomen.org.uk /MEMBERS/ENGLISH/members.html (604 words)

	The Democratic Party (Harpers.org)
		The Democratic Party demonstrated its seriousness of purpose by failing to mount a filibuster to block the confirmation of former senator John Ashcroft, who was defeated by a dead man in the last election; Ashcroft was sworn in as Attorney General by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a private ceremony.
		Democrats were said to be confused by the contradiction between President Bush's sweet-talking, inclusive rhetoric and his hardline, right-wing deeds.
		Democratic leaders called for a closed session on the Senate floor, which they used to force the creation of a bipartisan committee; the committee will report on the ongoing Congressional investigation (which the Democratic leadership believes is being purposefully delayed) into the Bush Administration's misuse of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
	www.harpers.org /DemocraticParty.html (2184 words)

	European Database: Women in Decision-making \| News and Activities
		The male candidate - Esko Aho from the Center Party of Finland - got 48% of the votes and the winner - Tarja Halonen from the Social Democratic Party of Finland - got the majority (52%) of the votes.
		Riitta Uosukainen, the speaker of the Finnish Parliament ran as the female candidate of the conservative National Coalition Party, Ms.Elisabeth Rehn from the Swedish People's Party, who is the former Minister of Defense and has recently served as the UN Under Secretary-General and as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		This was noticed in the largest political parties in Finland - the Social Democratic Party and the National Coalition Party - which chose a woman to stand for the candidacy while the Center Party decided to put a man (the leader of the party) - Esko Aho - to run for the Presidency.
	www.fczb.de /projekte/wid_db/wid/News/Jaana_E.htm (878 words)

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