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  World Socialist Party - History
It is a sad proof of the socialist contention that the Russian revolution put the clock back as far as the growth of the socialist movement is concerned that the Association ceased in 1922, and that it was not for another eight years that socialists in New Zealand organised themselves again.
As part of a world socialist movement, the new party was able to use journals and pamphlets from Britain and Canada to spread socialist understanding.
On the political field, the Party exposed the claims of Labour to be able to govern in the workers' interests, and of the Communist Party that socialism was being built in Russia, both of which were popular views at that time, but are now discredited.
www.worldsocialism.org /nz/auckland/hist.htm   (1180 words)

  
  Socialist Unity Party (New Zealand) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Unity Party was one of the better-known communist parties in New Zealand.
The Socialist Unity Party was founded in 1966 as a splinter group of the Communist Party.
The Socialist Unity Party, unlike some of the more radical groups, participated in New Zealand elections, and was not wholely antagonistic to mainstream parties — it was prepared, for example, to occasionally support the Labour Party as "the lesser of two evils".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_(New_Zealand)   (343 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand general election of 1919 was held December 17 to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 20h session of the New Zealand Parliament.
The New Zealand general election of 1922 was held December 7 to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 21st session of the New Zealand Parliament.
The New Zealand general election of 1925 was held November 14 to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 23rd session of the New Zealand Parliament.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Zealand-Labour-Party   (5360 words)

  
 AxisofLogic/ Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Some left parties allied with Chavez and therefore the objects of unification complained that a sector of the greedy bourgeoisie, a sector of the useless and repulsive middle class, and a sector of opportunist proletariat belong to Chavez party.
Parties exist for waging electoral, legislative and executive struggle, not just babbling at the "table." Legislative and executive struggles decide whether power is exercised in accordance with certain preferred public policies and with the rule of law.
Of all the parties allied with the Revolution, the PPT was the first to voice its support for unity after the December 18 call for it.
www.axisoflogic.com /artman/publish/article_23591.shtml   (3185 words)

  
 Socialist Republic of Vietnam - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Socialist Republic of Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Under the 1992 constitution, the supremacy of the Communist Party is declared and the highest state authority and sole legislative chamber is the National Assembly, the Quoc Hoi, composed of a maximum of 400 members directly elected every five years by universal suffrage.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed in July 1976, and a programme to integrate the south was launched.
Nguyen Van Linh resigned his leadership of the Communist Party at the congress held in June 1991 and Do Muoi, a supporter of Linh's policies, was elected the party's new general secretary.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Socialist+Republic+of+Vietnam   (1709 words)

  
 socialist unity party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The name Socialist Unity Party can refer to at least two different organizations.
There was also a small group in the United Kingdom known simply as Socialist Unity.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Socialist_Unity_Party.html   (134 words)

  
 New Zealand: Socialism and the Struggle for Maori Liberation
Tim Bowron, cwi NZ In June 2003 the New Zealand Court of Appeal upheld in a landmark decision the right of 8 Marlborough tribes or iwi to have their claim to customary title over the local foreshore and seabed heard in the Maori Land Court.
In addition, the fact that control over marine resources such as natural gas is vested in “the people of New Zealand” does not mean that ordinary members of the community have any power to make decisions over their use or allocation.
Opposition to the government’s foreshore and seabed proposals does not mean however that socialists should give unqualified support to the demands of some Maori radicals who in the Paeroa Declaration of July 2003 call for the seabed and foreshore to be placed under the sole ownership of tribal iwi.
www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/02/24nz.html   (973 words)

  
 Cold War and New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
New Zealand's alignment and participation in the Cold War was determined by the decision of the 1940s Labour government to back the United States and Great Britain (that concord was crucial) in their disagreements with the Soviet Union.
New Zealand was involved in Cold War-related combat operations only between 1950 and 1953 (Korean War), 1949 and 1960 (Malayan Emergency) and 1965 and 1971 (Vietnam War).
New Zealand provided crews for the Berlin airlift of 1948—49 and in its Middle Eastern commitment pledged in advance to send forces to that region in the event of open war with the Soviet Union.
www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/se-asia/cold-war.html   (1268 words)

  
 New Zealand Labour Party reassures big business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Labour Party leaders in New Zealand used their annual conference last weekend to reassure big business that there would be no change in economic policy direction if Labour took office after the next national elections.
The Labour Party is well ahead in all the most recent opinion polls, and based on these figures, would be in a position to govern in its own right without having to rely on support from its foreshadowed coalition partner, the Alliance, led by Jim Anderton, a former Labour Party president and MP.
The Labour Party, which held office between 1984 and 1990, was responsible for opening up the New Zealand economy to international capital, privatising state-owned enterprises and slashing social services.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/nov1998/nz-n27.shtml   (1059 words)

  
 National Party of New Zealand
Let’s not forget we have won the Party vote in that area, the electorate is changing its complexion (especially in the Tasman area where incomes are rising and people have every reason to vote for a Party of aspiration), and the Government has made decisions which have alienated good West Coast folk.
Well, New Zealand’s youth has plenty of brains and they’d like the choice of staying in their own country, not be forced abroad to earn enough to pay off their student loans.
New Zealanders know that Don Brash is not a career politician, and that he is interested in more than merely playing politics.
www.national.org.nz /speech_article.aspx?ArticleID=2384   (1966 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of Communist Parties Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The formation of Communist Parties in various countries was instigated by the formation of the Communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks.
Britain - Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Scotland, New Communist Party of Britain
Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark, Communist Party in Denmark
www.ipedia.com /list_of_communist_parties.html   (649 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties signed a peace agreement that brought to a halt the three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand.
Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections.
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html   (15472 words)

  
 The Socialist Unity Blog: The Radical Left in Western Europe
Some of the new parties are clearly anti-capitalist, not revolutionary in the traditional (far-left) definition, but they are parties that are rooted in today’s struggles and have a perspective that goes beyond capitalism, towards socialism.
The exact nature of these new parties, their degree of political clarity, depends on a number of factors – the history and traditions of the workers movement in their country, the level of class struggle and the political landscape, the nature of the political forces involved.
They are parties which have succeeded in rooting themselves in the social and political combats of their countries by projecting an image and a vision of socialism that breaks from Stalinism and social democracy.
socialistunity.blogspot.com /2007/04/radical-left-in-western-europe.html   (10895 words)

  
 Dealing with Wayward New Zealand
New Zealand's antinuclear policies lend credibility to a wider South Pacific antinuclear movement that seeks to deny alternative military bases to the U.S. This movement is supported by pro-Soviet trade unions in Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand's small naval defense force of four aging Leander-class frigates and 6 P-3 O@ion antisubmarine aircraft would not be able to defeat the most modern Soviet attack submarines.
New Zealand has not been able to compensate for the loss of access to U.S. intelligence, U.S. spare parts, ammunition stocks, and the knowledge of new developments in military doctrine that had been available in its ANZUS relationship.24 New Zealand military officers have strongly opposed Ubor's antinuclear policies.
www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/asb90.cfm   (4599 words)

  
 Socialist Unity
I was unhappy with the response by Len Richards and Victor Billot to the interviews we carried with New Zealand Activists, as I thought they sailed very close to crossing our submission guidelines, by placing less emphasis on the political issues of the debate and by indulging in ping-pong point scoring.
Both Mike Treen and the Socialist Worker (New Zealand) were given the opportunity to reply to Richards and Billot, but did not feel it would be constructive to do so.
Socialists and other radicals have an important role to play in this process-as we have seen in RAM, in the organising of the Unite union, in the foreshore and seabed hikois and in the Maori Party.
www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/nzreply.htm   (2100 words)

  
 THE SMALLEST MASS PARTY IN THE WORLD
At the Scarborough Labour Party Conference in 1960 a resolution for unilateral disarmament was carried against the resistance of the Party leader, Gaitskell, and the right-wing platform.
The Party was not prepared to defend shop-floor organisation to the extent of offending its friends in the bureaucracy.
Secondly, the Party was committed to a strategy of strengthening the left wing in the Labour Party and thus pushing Labour to the left.
www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /otherdox/SMP/Smp1.html   (9651 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties initialed a peace agreement that brought to a halt three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
In October 2002, the new president was successful in negotiating the withdraw of occupying Rwandan forces from eastern Congo; two months later, the Pretoria Accord was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a government of national unity.
A new currency, the euro, was launched in world money markets on 1 January 1999; it become the unit of exchange for all of the EU states except the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark.
www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (16146 words)

  
 The Socialist Unity Blog
Leader of the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe, Munyaradzi Gwisai, a former MP for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for the Highfield constituency in Harare, was recently interviewed on New Zealand radio.
As Colin Fox said at the time, Tommy Sheridan starting a rival socialist party in Scotland was like two bald men fighting over a comb, but it is clear that the SSP took all the talent, cheek and style, and Solidarity were left with the ego of a bright orange balloon.
New Labour are on their lonesome with this Bill as even that bastion of radical ideas, The Royal College of Psychiatrists oppose much of this draconian Bill along with over 80 organisations/individuals (though the voices of the service users has been drowned out by the of professionals and the carers.
socialistunity.blogspot.com   (15241 words)

  
 The New Zealand Edge : Media / NEWZEDGE : www.nzedge.com
New Zealand country music star Kylie Harris from Edendale Southland (pop 507), Timaru, Hamilton and Rotorua broadcasts to 34 million US homes daily on leading Nashville cable program On The Edge of Country, featuring performances and videos by Americana, bluegrass and alt country artists.
In their enthusiasm for the project, New Zealand officials miscalculated carbon dioxide inputs and outputs, claiming there would be a net profit in carbon credits from the treaty.
The Versareef, developed by New Zealand company ASR from Raglan and the USA’s Surf Pools, will generate four types of wave, named after the places in which they are typically found: Hawaii, Indonesia, California and Australia.
www.nzedge.com /media   (7863 words)

  
 POLITICAL PARTIES - SOCIALIST - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
The first socialist groups in New Zealand were formed in the late eighteen-nineties – Fabian Societies in Dunedin and Christchurch, a Socialist Church in Christchurch, and a Clarion Club and, later, a Socialist League in Wellington.
Socialists were among the leaders of the new “Red” Federation of Labour and the two organisations, after 1911, shared their national organ, the Maoriland Worker.
Socialists were invited to join the new party and the great majority of them heeded the call.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/P/PoliticalParties/SocialistnzParty/en   (722 words)

  
 POLITICAL PARTIES - LABOUR PARTY - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
The new party represented a compromise between moderates and militants, on the initiative of the latter.
The party conceded that the collapse of export prices overseas was the principal cause of New Zealand's predicament, but contended that the policy of the Coalition Government had seriously and unnecessarily aggravated the situation.
The new Government showed energy and initiative in dealing with the problems of the day and in establishing a pattern of governmental participation in and regulation of New Zealand society which, in all essentials, remains to the present day.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/P/PoliticalParties/LabourParty/en   (4194 words)

  
 Nick McKerrell
I can't really comment on whether this is the case with the Oz socialist alliance but if you look at the developments in Germany with Oscar Lafontaine launching a counter weight to the SPD socialists would need to organise in some form there if it becomes a full blown party.
However there are a number who have never really engaged with the SSP and what it represents - in the recent period particularly since the anti-war movement in 2003 this number probably wouldn't even see the SSP as the main focal point for their political activity.
They feel this is threatened in an explicit way by tiny groups (literally one or two SSP members) who promote a British Socialist Party and in a more subtle way by groups like the SW and CWI who have international leaderships in London.
www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/mckerrell.htm   (2831 words)

  
 It's time to retire, move on, and join the real anti-capitalist movement.
This is done by denying our roots and proclaiming that the Socialist Party USA is no more a successor of the Socialist Party of America than the Communist Party USA, Social Democrats USA, or the Socialist Worker's Party.
This is a pretend party that fancies themselves as so-called radical misfits from 1912 and the years before.
Although you will not find ideological perfection with the French Socialist Party, the New Democratic Party of Canada, the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the Brazilian Worker's Party, or the New Zealand Labour Party, those societies are way better off than ours due to the record of good government delivered by those parties.
www.thesocialistparty.org /Melvin/retire.html   (804 words)

  
 socialist worker new zealand
SOCIALIST WORKER supports every struggle, every strike by working people,every campaign against racism, injustice and war.
This site is an introduction to Socialist Worker and is designed for people who are serious about changing the world.
It will give you a brief insight into the ideas and politics of our organisation, together with details of current campaigns and issues with which we are involved.
www.socialist-worker.org   (198 words)

  
 John Leslie Marston (Jack) - A Memography, Part II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Jack was a member of the Communist Party of NZ before going off to WWII and on his return became an integral member of the Dunedin Branch of the CPNZ.
This was of course quite a split and quite a few other members of the CPNZ (initially 6) meet in Auckland and formed the Socialist Unity Party of New Zealand (SUPNZ).
Jack went onto the Mangament Committee of that party and stayed there until he retired from politics in his mid 70's.
www.ak.planet.gen.nz /people/alan/dad2.html   (568 words)

  
 Party Vote ACT 2005 // A C T - Waitangi Day - New Zealand's Birthday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
But new New Zealanders – and some not so new ones – may be puzzled by how we celebrate our national day.
Helen Clark’s approach is to pigeon-hole New Zealanders racially… and then to “close the gaps” by applying money and preferences according to race.
Every New Zealander must be treated the same in the eyes of the law – whether you just stepped off the plane, your great great grandparents come via a sailing ship, or on a waka over a thousand years ago, we are all New Zealanders.
www.act.org.nz /item.jsp?id=26578   (1553 words)

  
 1980: New Zealand - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
1980: New Zealand - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
On January 24, the New Zealand government announced that Vsevolod Sofinsky, the Soviet ambassador to New Zealand, had been observed passing money to members of New Zealand's Marxist, Moscow-aligned Socialist Unity Party.
Sofinsky was declared persona non grata and asked to leave the country.
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741583974/1980_New_Zealand.html   (144 words)

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