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PES GROUP - Committee of the Regions - Home The 1st Vice-President of the PES Group in the Committee of the regions, State Secretary of Rheinland-Palatinate Karl-Heinz Klär, participated as the official representative of the German Länder in the opening of the Intergovernmental Conference on the reform of the EU Constitutional Treaty on July 23rd 2007. The President of the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions Mercedes BRESSO stressed the need to acknowledge in the new Treaty the importance of the local and regional levels of governance for the democratic life of the Union, the legitimacy of the European project and the successful implementation of EU policies. Michael COHEN (Malta), Mayor of Kalkara and PES Group coordinator in the commission for Sustainable Development (DEVE), took part in a conference organised by the Socialist Group in the European Parliament on the "Future EU maritime policy" which took place in Brussels, on the 14th of June 2007. www.cor.europa.eu /pesweb   (931 words)

RED GROUPS OF THE UK Socialist Alliance: Formed in London in early 1999 by the Socialist Workers Party, International Socialist Group, Socialist Party, and other left organizations to promote a united electoral front against the neo-liberals of the Labour Party. Socialist Campaign Group: The SCG is the chief organizational base of the democratic socialist wing of the Labour Party. Socialist Party: The SP was originally founded by a former member of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant, in the 1970’s around the publication Militant. reds.linefeed.org /ukgroups.html   (3213 words)

Global Internet Liberty Campaign Home Page This Germany-based group is dedicated to supporting "informational self determination, data protection and freedom of speech." Towards that end, it has engaged in web-based initiatives to increase public awareness of various cyberliberties issues. Elena Paciotti, Shadow rapporteur of the Party of European Socialists ("PES"), answered to the open letter that GILC sent on May 22 to all European Parliament Members and other important officials of the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European Union Council of Ministers. Seven cyberliberties groups have issued a joint letter urging the European Council "to refrain from new and extended communications interception and lawful access powers for police forces and intelligences services." The organizations also urged leaders not to implement legislation mandating that internet and telecommunication service providers retain traffic data for law enforcement purposes. www.gilc.org   (2822 words)

Labour Left Briefing Links: Favourites Secretary of the Campaign Group of Labour MPs, Jeremy is a tireless campaigner for the rights of the oppressed wherever they may be. Socialist Campaign Group News is published monthly under the auspices of its own independent Editorial Board. The Socialist Health Association promotes health and well-being and the eradication of inequalities, in the UK and worldwide, through the application of socialist principles to society and government. www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk /links.html   (1380 words)

Socialist Campaign Group - Definition, explanation She was a socialist and was active in the Fabian Society and in 1907 founded the Fabian Women's Group which campaigned for equal rights for women and... SERA is the environment campaign affiliated to the British Labour Party, yet is an independent think tank and green pressure group. A history provided by the Trotskyite group, the Socialist Party, detailing the anti-Poll Tax campaign in which their forerunner "The Millitant Tendency" was prominent. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/so/socialist_campaign_group.php   (397 words)

Socialist Campaign Group News Socialist Campaign Group News is the journal of the Campaign Group of Labour M.P.s. Members of the Campaign Group are on the left of the Labour Party and have unashamedly socialist convictions. At the time of writing, Campaign are, unsurprisingly, strongly backing Ken Livingstone M.P. long time member of the Campaign Group to become the Lord Mayor of London. www.netlondon.com /Politics/Organisations/Organisations.223050.html   (92 words)

Marxist Bulletin: A letter to Arthur Scargill Socialist Labour should not give support to elements in the Labour left unless they have done something real to deserve it. Before the Party was actually founded, he even moved for your expulsion from the Socialist Campaign group, for the ‘crime’ of seeking to found a new, socialist, party. If you and other public figures in Socialist Labour were to emphasise this point strongly in and around the election campaign, we would be much better placed to set ourselves up as a real alternative to the Labour Party. www.bolshevik.org /mb/1redken.htm   (629 words)

Labour Left Briefing - LP 9 - October 96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) If the Socialist Campaign Group and their supporters don't speak out now, argues Mike Phipps, they may find themselves sidelined when an alternative is demanded. By making the Campaign Group of MPs and the local Labour lefts the focus of organisation, we had at last moved towards a more inclusive approach, centred on the parliamentary and constituency left rather than the concerns of left groupings. The Socialist Campaign Group Network is limiting itself to a call not to vote for Blair's manifesto. www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1996/october/lp9.html   (610 words)

Lynne Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia She has worked in both science and housing, and was a member of Birmingham City Council before being elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election. She is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and has taken part in almost all of the backbench rebellions against the Labour government. She is also Chair of the Parliamentary Forum on Transsexualism, and is a patron of Press for Change. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lynne_Jones   (176 words)

Step forward for 'Hands Off Venezuela' visit to British trade unions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) He said that in his opinion this is the biggest task of the campaign in Britain over the next period, to explain the real situation in Venezuela and convince the British labor movement to back the UNT instead of the CTV. Jeremy Dear has been an active supporter of the campaign from its inception and has promised to take it forward among the trade union leaderships with the aim of organizing a delegation of trade union leaders who could see the revolutionary process at first hand. RMT General Secretary Bob Crow promised support for the campaign; he was keen to look at organizing an RMT delegation to Venezuela and expressed a strong interest in getting Venezuelan transport workers to speak at the union's AGM. www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=23987   (1160 words)

New Socialist Group A socialist activist in the radical UNT union federation writes about how the Chavez loyalists of the FTB current in the UNT are "laying the groundwork to generate a huge crisis in the heart of the Bolivarian workers' movement." more... Becky Ellis asks, "is feminism being stripped of its challenging and confrontational aspects in favour of a new, de-politicized feminist identity that is incapable of addressing ongoing inequalities?"more... The fight for gender equality demands that as feminists and socialists, we have a global outlook that is in solidarity with women wherever they may live or work. www.newsocialist.org   (2986 words)

Home Page - The Socialist Group in The European Parliament The European Parliament Socialist Group today published a 13-page paper on the fight against terrorism, setting out detailed recommendations for action at EU level. A meeting of European Parliament political group leaders was disrupted today, 12 July 2007, when Socialists and Greens walked out in protest at failure to honour a "gentleman's agreement" Socialist Euro MPs today, 10 July 2007, called on EU member states to harness the current economic upswing to invest in education, vocational training, infrastructure, research www.socialistgroup.eu /gpes/index.do?lg=en   (504 words)

Articles - Tribune (magazine)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) It campaigned vigorously for the opening of a second front against Hitler's Germany, was consistently critical of the Churchill government's failings and argued that only a democratic socialist post-war settlement in Britain (and Europe as a whole) was viable. George Orwell was hired in 1943 as literary editor, and for the next three years he wrote a series of columns, under the title "As I Please", that remain some of the greatest examples of their genre in the English language. The Tribune Group of Labour MPs was formed as a support group for the newspaper in 1964. www.gaple.com /articles/Tribune_Group   (1585 words)

Red Pepper December 2002 The group’s spokesman, Michael Wainwright, was keen to stress that it is not an official group, but part of the Labour party, committed to reclaiming the party for a socialist agenda. The group currently has around 50 members, but is as enthusiastic to recruit for the Labour party as it is for itself. To the group’s suggestion that Young Labour had failed to make a strong stand on matters such as the situation with Iraq, he said he hoped Young Labour could create a system that allows greater debate and the ability to make a strong stand on issues that its members believe in. www.redpepper.org.uk /x-labouryouth.html   (473 words)

Socialist Campaign Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Socialist Campaign Group is a left wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the UK. John Austin MP, a backbencher and member of the Socialist Campiagn Group, has stated that he might stand as a stalking horse in the Labour Party leadership election that will happen after the resignation of Tony Blair, before the next election. This page was last modified 01:33, 15 October 2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Campaign_Group   (93 words)

Hands Off Venezuela - Oscar Negrin speaking tour a step forward for Hands Off Venezuela in the British trade unions He said that in his opinion this is the biggest task of the campaign in Britain over the next period, to explain the real situation in Venezuela and convince the British labour movement to back the UNT instead of the CTV. Jeremy Dear has been an active supporter of the campaign from its inception and has promised to take it forward among the trade union leaderships with the aim of organising a delegation of trade union leaders who could see the revolutionary process at first hand. RMT General Secretary Bob Crow promised support for the campaign; he was keen to look at organising an RMT delegation to Venezuela and expressed a strong interest in getting Venezuelan transport workers to speak at the union's AGM. www.handsoffvenezuela.org /oscar_negrin_british_unions.htm   (1289 words)

The Citizen / Campaign for Socialism The Socialist Campaign Group's Summer conference "After New Labour" widely reported as a wind-changing event for the Party. And this Autumn, as well as going down to the Battle of Blackpool, the Scottish Labour Left are busy whipping up winds of change here with a Scottish After New Labour conference and some serious reflection on why we are in the Labour Party. Socialists in the Labour Party are no new minority, many of us are life-long Party members carrying on a tradition of those who came before us in the interest of those who come after us. www.thecitizen.org.uk /articles/vol3/article21a.htm   (561 words)

Political Affairs Magazine - Condition and Struggle of the Iraqi Labor Movement The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) hosted a fringe meeting at the British Labour Party Conference in Brighton on 29 September 2004, chaired by Harry Barnes Labour MP who is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs and who opposed the war on Iraq. The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) hosted a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton on 29 September 2004, chaired by Harry Barnes Labour MP who is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs and who opposed the war on Iraq. * IFTU campaigns for an increase in the role of women at all levels within the unions and in wider civil society. www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/326?PrintableVersion=enabled   (1431 words)

All.info: Society and Social Sciences / Government and Law / Interest Groups /   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) The Christian Socialist Movement - which includes among its members Tony Blair and Archbishop Rowan Williams - is Britains most influential left of centre religious body. We provide our members with campaign profiles of selected candidates, and each member decides which candidates they want to support. Group for Members of the UK Conservative Party, which promotes the values and principles of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. allinfo.com /directory/Society_and_Social_Sciences/Government_and_Law/Interest_Groups   (436 words)

ZNet |Politics | Who Will Speak For Us? In the UK, we have the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), working in alliiance with the Scottish Greens and what is left of the Labour left, showing how movements and elected political representatives can create a more effective instrument than either could on their own. In England, however, for Respect, the Socialist Party, the Greens and the Labour left, it has been too much a case of ‘you in your small corner, and me in mine (which of course is bigger)’. Another notable feature was that of John MacDonnell, a leading member of the Labour left (he is chair of both the Labour Representation Committee and of the Socialist Campaign Group), speaking not to bury the initiative but rather to report on developments on the Labour left as if part of a common movement. www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=76&ItemID=9979   (1852 words)

Mike Wood ::: Member of Parliament for batley and Spen He is a member of the Parliamentary groups on homelessness, transport, Indo-British affairs, AIDS, animal welfare, MS, ME, disablement, human rights, Kashmir and alcohol misuse. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs. Mike is an executive member of the Penal Affairs Group, a patron of the National Association of Market Authorities, a member of the Campaign for State Education and the Working Class Movement Library and a friend of Birzeit University. www.mikewood.org.uk /yourmp.htm   (335 words)

Campaign Group: what next? - LLB July '97 European socialists were surprised to find themselves subject to a Thatcherite lecture from the newly elected Blair after he had sought an audience with the high priestess of Euro-scepticism - Thatcher herself. In addition to promoting a viable policy we need to be visible - to date the Socialist Campaign Group has not developed a convincing strategy to raise its profile. But the SCG must be constantly alive to the possibility of working with labour movement campaigns in and outside of the Party. www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1997/july/lp7.html   (749 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) It notes the re-emergence of the Socialist Campaign Group as a visible force with its series of After New Labour conferences and growing working relationship with the sectors of the trade union movement. As the attacks on public service workers escalate and the threat of war becomes more imminent, this leadership from the Socialist Campaign Group will become more important and LLB supporters must continue to play their role in building this visible left within the Party and in promoting Labour Against the War. We recognise that unless the Labour Party becomes visible and central to the struggles against New Labour, making the distinction between the two completely clear, there is every threat that New Labour’s historic task of destroying the Labour Party as a party of labour will succeed. www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk /docs/agm_resolution_rtp.doc   (701 words)

Labour left gets new confidence|27Jul02|Socialist Worker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) It was organised by the left wing Socialist Campaign Group of MPs. The national publicity for the conference and the renewed confidence of those who attended are a sign of what is changing in politics. We can, for example, march together against the war, organise to push back the BNP Nazis, campaign for the left in future union elections, push for more action against low pay and privatisation, demand an end to anti-union laws, and oppose sell-offs of council housing. www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=5197   (712 words)

BBC NEWS | Politics | Ministers lose religious bill bid He branded the bill a "foolish manifesto commitment" introduced to "appease" some minority groups, and which had "threatened freedom of speech". Mr Grieve said in multicultural Britain people had to accept that freedom of speech may mean people could be offensive to them, as well as vice versa. Labour's John McDonnell, chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, said the vote showed that "democracy has broken out". news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4664398.stm   (714 words)

Britain: Labour, New Leader, New Direction – Socialist Candidate Needed A socialist candidate who opposes the war in Iraq, who opposes privatisation and calls for the railways, water and all utilities to be brought back into public ownership, would find a ready echo amongst the rank and file of the party and the unions. The forthcoming National Conference of the Labour Representation Committee would be an ideal springboard for a campaign in the unions and amongst Labour’s rank and file for a candidate committed to socialist policies. The chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, John McDonnell, would represent a far bolder opposition to Blairism. www.marxist.com /labour-leader-socialist-candidate040706.htm   (1068 words)

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