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  Australian Labor Party
Party mythology says it was founded at a meeting of agricultural workers under a tree (the "Tree of Knowledge") in Barcaldine, Queensland, in 1891.
Indeed, during the 1980s the party was responsible for the introduction of many economic policies such as privatization of government enterprises, and deregulation of many previously tightly-controlled industries, which are normally the province of conservative governments.
In both of those instances, the Labor Party was splintered by the warring factions, and kept out of power for decades by infighting, but the most devestating split was the 1954 split on communism.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/au/australian_labor_party.html   (673 words)

  
 Labor Party (US) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The United States Labor Party is a (A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going) progressive (An organization to gain political power) political party advocating workers' interests.
This organization allied itself with the (An environmentalist political party) Green Party of (A state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east) Wyoming in 1998 to field its first candidates for local and federal offices.
All of the founding unions continue to actively support (The older of two major political parties in the United States) Democratic Party candidates.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/labor_party_(us)2.htm   (198 words)

  
 Articles - Australian Labor Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Like other social democratic parties, Labor tends to believe that government is generally a positive force in the community and that it is the responsibility of governments to intervene in the operation of the economy (and society in general) to improve outcomes.
Labor is the primary supporter of issues that affect indigenous Australians such as land rights and supports a formal apology on the issue of the stolen generation.
The national Leader of the Labor Party is elected by the Labor members of the national Parliament (the Caucus), not by the conference.
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 Encyclopedia: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the US state of Minnesota.
Other important party members include US Senator Eugene McCarthy, who ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 1968 as the anti-Vietnam War candidate, and US Senator Paul Wellstone, known during his years in the Senate (1991-2002) as that body's chief voice of populist progressivism[1].
The Independence Party of Minnesota (often abbreviated IP or IPM), formerly the Reform Party of Minnesota, is the third largest political party in Minnesota, behind the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and Republican Party.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Minnesota-Democratic_Farmer_Labor-Party   (1231 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Socialist Labor party (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Socialist Labor party, in the United States, begun in 1877 by New York City socialists.
During the 1880s a national organization was established and the party concentrated, unsuccessfully, on electoral politics.
The depression conditions of the 1890s brought it renewed strength, and, under the leadership of Daniel De Leon, a Marxist revolutionary, it emphasized militant labor activities and organized (1896) its own union.
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 Farmer-Labor party on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Formed in 1919 as the National Labor party, it changed its name at its 1920 presidential nominating convention in order to appeal to farmers.
The party's platform called for the public ownership of railroads, utilities, and natural resources; an end to private banking; and the nationalization of unused land.
The party made a poor showing in the 1920 election; its main strength lay in the states of Washington, Montana, and South Dakota.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FarmerL1a.asp   (479 words)

  
 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago August 31 in History
John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago August 31 in History
John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.
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