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  Encyclopedia: Labour Party (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Labour Party's origins lie in the late 19th century, when it became apparent that there was an increasing need for a third party in Britain to represent the interests and needs of the large working-class population (for instance, the 1899 Lyons vs. Wilkins judgement that limited certain types of picketing).
The ILP under James Maxton disaffiliated from the Labour Party in 1932, removing a substantial proportion of the left of the party from membership.
The 1960s Labour government, though claiming to be far less radical on economic policy than its 1940s predecessor, introduced several social changes, such as the partial legalisation of homosexuality and the abolition of the death penalty.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Labour-Party-(UK)   (11510 words)

  
 Northern Ireland Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later in the 1950s the party began to gain ground amongst unionist voters, and after the break up of the Irish Labour Party's new attempts to organise in the North, amongst some nationalists, and saw its greatest period of success between 1958 and 1965.
In 1971 the new Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner appointed the Northern Ireland Labour Party Stormont MP David Bleakley to his Cabinet as Minister of Community Relations, in an attempt to bring reforms to the province.
In the 1973 referendum on the province's future, the Northern Ireland Labour Party campaigned for the province to remain in the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland_Labour_Party   (513 words)

  
 Socialist
Socialist Party (Portugal) The Socialist Party (Portuguese: Acção Socialista Portuguesa).
Socialist Party of England and Wales The Socialist Party is a social democratic line of the leadership.
Socialist Party of Ukraine The Socialist Party of Ukraine (1999 presidential elections, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz,...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/socialist.html   (2384 words)

  
 Socialist Labour Party (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Labour Party was a political party in Ireland in the mid 1970s to early 1980s formed under the leadership of the late Matt Merrigan (General Secretary, A.T.G.W.U.) and Noel Browne (TD).
In the absence of Party unity, the Executive Committee took the decision to dissolve the SLP.
Only in recent years have the various factions, parties and movements of the Left in Ireland begun to learn from the experience of the SLP and realise the original goals and visions of Matt Merrigan and Noel Browne.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party_(Ireland)   (215 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
In Autumn 2003 the Socialist Party were all over the Irish media, as both Joe Higgins and Clare Daly had been sent to Mountjoy Prison for a month for refusing to abide by an Irish High Court injunction relating to the blockading of bin lorries.
The Socialist Party is organised in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Not to be confused with the Irish Republican Socialist Party or the Socialist Workers Party.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Socialist_Party_of_Ireland   (323 words)

  
 Socialism Today - How the Labour Party was formed
The Liberal Party, an alliance of industrial capitalists and the urban middle classes, claimed to represent the concerns of the better-off male workers newly enfranchised by the 1867 Reform Act.
The Labour Party was from its inception a bourgeois workers party.
Socialists paved the way for an independent workers' party through their propaganda and involvement in the day to day struggles of the working class.
www.socialismtoday.org /45/labour.html   (4457 words)

  
 Socialist Solidarity Network - Articles
The Militant/Socialist Party is important to analyse because in the late 1970s and 1980s it became the biggest far left group in Britain, during its period of entrism in the Labour Party.
Socialist revolution was not seen primarily as the activity of the working class itself; and the nature of the bourgeois state apparatus, and the need to smash it, was downplayed.
Even in the campaign against the witch hunt in the Labour Party, Militant was very reluctant to engage in joint activities with other socialists, despite the fact it was often their own comrades who were being defended.
www.socialistsolidarity.com /docs_mil_ph.htm   (6728 words)

  
 The Connolly-Walker Controversy: On Socialist Unity in Ireland
The Socialist Party of Ireland considers itself the only International Party in Ireland, since its conception of Internationalism is that of a free federation of free peoples, whereas that of the Belfast branches of the I.L.P. seems scarcely distinguishable from Imperialsim, the merging of subjugated peoples in the political system of their conquerors.
We, of the Socialist Party of Ireland, now, as in the past, hold it to be our duty to assist and foster every tendency of organised Labour in Ireland to found a Labour Party capable of fighting the capitalist parties of Ireland upon their own soil.
The whole Socialist Press of the world cheered on the Cubans in their rebellion against Spain, and the Filipinos in their insurrection against the United States; in fact, in all the world there is not to be found such an extraordinarily perverted conception of Socialism as that fathered by Comrade William Walker.
www.irsm.org /history/connollywalker.html   (7617 words)

  
 Government and Political Parties in Ireland
The Island of Ireland is comprised of 32 counties, from which 26 counties in the Republic are governed by Dail Eireann which is situated in Dublin.
The remaining 6 counties in the North of Ireland is governed by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The Republic of Ireland Government is led by a two-party coalition consisting of Fianna Fail and Progressive Democrats.
www.dirl.com /government.htm   (202 words)

  
 James Connolly: Socialist Party of Ireland (1910)
The Socialist Party of Ireland may, as the occasion seems to warrant, either enter the political battlefield with candidates of our own or else assist in furthering every honest attempt on the part of Organised Labour to obtain representation through independent working-class candidates pledged to a progressive policy of social reform.
Old political organisations will die out and new ones must arise to take their place; old party rallying cries and watchwords are destined to become obsolete and meaningless, and the fires of old feuds and hatreds will pale and expire before the newer conceptions born of a consciousness of our common destiny.
And on its part that Party, conscious of its high mission, pledges itself to pursue, unfalteringly and undeviatingly, its great object – common ownership of the means of producing and distributing all wealth.
www.marxists.org /archive/connolly/1910/spi/spi.htm   (448 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Northern Ireland Labour Party Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It maintained relations with the British Labour Party who at the time did not allow membership or organisation in the province.
In 1949, after the Irish Free State had become the Republic of Ireland, the Northern Ireland Labour Party's conference voted in favour of the Union with Great Britain.
The party gained ground amongst Protestant voters, though not amongst Catholics, and saw its greatest period of success between 1958 and 1965.
www.ipedia.com /northern_ireland_labour_party.html   (350 words)

  
 The emergence of the Socialist Labour Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
What made the Labour Party for him indistinguishable from the Tories and the Liberal Democrats was not the practice but the pretence of the Labour Party, whose constitutional acceptance of the social ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange mattered more to him than the observance of this constitution in its flagrant breach.
Since the SLP is likely to adversely affect the Labour Party, especially in electoral terms, it is not surprising that it has been attacked by most Trotskyist and revisionist organisations, the 'left' appendages of social democracy whose main concern continues to be the electoral interests of the Labour Party.
Socialist Outlook issued blood-curdling threats and promised to fight to the death against Blair's attempt allegedly to cause "a profound shift in the politics of the Labour Party" by reversing "the working-class nature of the Labour Party" and thus "change its identity".
www.wpb.be /icm/98en/98en19.htm   (7126 words)

  
 Socialist Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Socialist Labour Party may refer to one of several political parties around the world, including:
Republic of Ireland - Socialist Labour Party (Ireland)
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party   (128 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | SCOTLAND | Socialist Labour Party fights capitalism
The Socialist Labour Party is fielding 12 candidates in a fight against capitalism.
The party was formed by life president of the National Union Of Mine Workers, Arthur Scargill, in 1996 when he says Labour "abandoned any pretence of being a socialist party...
The SLP is treading similar ground to the Scottish Socialist Party.
news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/scotland/newsid_1353000/1353539.stm   (279 words)

  
 Famous Irish Lives - James Connolly
He founded and became secretary of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, and in 1898 launched the weekly Workers' Republic, exploiting the 1798 centenary to argue that only in a socialist republic could the ideals of Wolfe Tone be realised.
He later worked for the new Socialist Labour Party in Scotland, and helped to found the International Workers of the World (the 'Wobblies') in America.
He soon published Labour, Nationality and Religion, defending a Catholic's right to be a socialist, and Labour in Irish History, describing the working class as 'the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland'.
www.irelandseye.com /irish/people/famous/connolly.shtm   (343 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.
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.
Unfortunately this film which would inspire socialists and the working class of Britain has not been shown on our mainstream terrestrial TV in the UK.
groups.msn.com /SocialistLabourPartyLiverpool/links.msnw   (536 words)

  
 The Labour Party - Home - Welcome - Current Campaigns - Latest News - People Profiles
The Labour Party has ‘upped the ante’ in our continuing campaign against wanton waste of taxpayers’ hard-earned money by an incompetent Government.
The party has taken to the streets of Dublin and surrounding counties with a ‘Wasters’ Admobile’ supported by the distribution of thousands of ‘Wasters’ leaflets to commuters.
Ireland has a world class prosperous economy but there has been no similar investment in the quality of our society, in many areas there is real deterioration.
www.labour.ie   (263 words)

  
 Socialist Party Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
She was elected to this position in 1994 when the party she headed — the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) - was the major force in the People’s Alliance (PA) government.
Speakers will be from the ETU; Stephen Jolly Socialist Party Councillor; Joan Doyle, the State Secretary of the posties division of the Communication Workers Union; and Lyn Dixon, the Chairperson of the residents association at the largest public housing estate in Victoria, the North Richmond estate.
The Socialist Party is organising a free open air gig against the occupation of Iraq this Friday the 4th of November.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org   (1816 words)

  
 The Labour Party - Northern Ireland - NI Labour Forum Home - Northern Ireland Labour Forum
The Labour Party - Northern Ireland - NI Labour Forum Home - Northern Ireland Labour Forum
We aim to create a space for political debate from a social democratic, socialist or broad left perspective.
Analysis of the Malaise in Protestant Heartlands, by Mark Langhammer
www.labour.ie /northernireland   (79 words)

  
 ~militant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An end to the rule of profit for a socialist society to meet the needs of all.
For more details of what The Socialist Party stands for on international issues go to Commitee for a Workers International, which is the international organisation, that The Socialist Party in Britain is affiliated to.
We also support other local campaigns, such as the campaigns against Low Pay, The Save Free Education Campaign the campaign against domestic violence, And and we'll be campaigning at this years Reading (Rock) Festival.
www.i-way.co.uk /~militant   (487 words)

  
 European Parliamentary Labour Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Labour MEPs are part of the Socialist Group in the Eurpoean Parliament, the second largest group in the European Parliament.
Labour Euro MPs are Britain’s campaigners, ambassadors, regional representatives and watchdogs in Europe.
Each Labour MEP is a full member of at least one European Parliament committee and a substitute member on another.
www.eplp.org.uk   (278 words)

  
 James Connolly Internet Archive
The Socialist Labour Party of America and the London SDF (The Socialist, June)
Socialist Party of Ireland, (1910 or early 1911)
Labour and the Proposed Partition of Ireland (Irish Worker, 14 March)
www.marxists.org /archive/connolly   (1667 words)

  
 Bernard Shaw - Free Online Library
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he grew up in something close to genteel poverty.
The middle-class socialist group also attracted H.G. Wells - both writers sent each other copies of their new books as they appeared.
In 1893 Shaw collaborated with Keir Hardie in writing the party program for the new Independent Labour party.
shaw.thefreelibrary.com   (1756 words)

  
 The Early Days of a Better Nation
Daniel Coysh has an interview/profile of me up at the Morning Star, Britain's only socialist daily (in fact, the only English-language socialist daily paper).
The World Socialist Web Site are not my kind of socialists, but their daily analyses and reports have been sharp.
Some commentary on the libertarian side can also make you think.
kenmacleod.blogspot.com   (3753 words)

  
 Committee for a Workers' International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Brief Description: The international formation around Britain’s Labour Militant.
They have sections in over a dozen countries around the world, including the UK, US, France, Ireland, France, Portugal, Pakistan and Italy.
Originated in Britain’s Militant Labour, which recently left the UK Labour Party after several decades as an entryist formation.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/entries/cwi.htm   (58 words)

  
 Useful Multimedia Links Page
The Labour Movement and the Internet run by Eric Lee, author of the book of the same name
Labour Party URLs compiled by Labour Left Briefing
SDLP - Social and Democratic Labour Party - Northern Ireland
www.btinternet.com /~donald.macdonald/multi.htm   (2403 words)

  
 The SDLP Political Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Check out recent Press Release Archive from 1997 to 2005
There are a number of SDLP youth branches throughout Ireland, North & South.
If you would like more information on joining SDLP youth...
www.sdlp.ie   (171 words)

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