• His role within the trade union network saw him rise to prominence during the 1926 general strike, and he quickly became one of the most influential and prominent figures in the South Wales workers' movement. (humanists.uk)
  • Thus the rise of the Nazis in Germany from 1929 to 1933 was accompanied by a heavy increase in the number voting. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Following their rise to power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazi Party started to infiltrate almost all aspects of everyday life in Germany. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • To the left of the Labour Party stood the Communist Party of Great Britain, founded in 1920 under the inspiration of the Russian Revolution. (libcom.org)
  • It stated that the normalisation of British-Soviet relations under a Labour Party government would radicalise the British working class and put the CPGB in a favourable position to pursue a Bolshevik -style revolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] A. J. P. Taylor argued that the letter's most important impact was on the mindset of Labourites, who for years afterwards blamed foul play for their defeat, thereby misunderstanding the political forces at work and postponing what Taylor regarded as necessary reforms in the Labour Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 22 January 1924, the Labour Party formed a government in the United Kingdom for the first time. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to some, Blair has single-handedly diverted the Labour Party and Britain from the path of substantial, ideological politics. (spiked-online.com)
  • This dissatisfaction with the political mainstream saw him briefly flirt with Oswald Mosley's movement in 1931, yet Bevan chose ultimately not to abandon the Labour party for Mosley's New Party, and washed his hands of the association as Mosley's movement veered to the far right. (humanists.uk)
  • The letter purported to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev , the head of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), ordering it to engage in seditious activities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Citizens elect their leaders, usually through the agency of a political party, and these leaders hold power for a limited period, before a further election is held to determine whether or not they should continue in office. (bbc.co.uk)
  • A further minority Labour government took office after the 1929 election when, for the first time since 1906, the Medway Towns returned a Labour MP (in the shape of S Frank Markham, the Member for Chatham). (libcom.org)
  • The election resulted in the fall of the first Labour government and a strong victory for the Conservative Party and the continued collapse of the Liberal Party . (wikipedia.org)
  • The idea of the government imposition of a candidate resonates in Mexico where many believe that the government imposed candidates who actually lost the presidential election in 1988 and in 2006. (links.org.au)
  • In this way, the ALP enabled East Harlem's radical congressman, Vito Marcantonio, to serve seven terms: he won elections as the coalition candidate of the ALP and one or both of the major parties as well as one election when he ran independently solely on the ALP line. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • The right-wing press depicted the letter as a grave foreign subversion of British politics and blamed the incumbent Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald for promoting the policy of political reconciliation and open trade with the Soviet Union on which the scheme appeared to depend. (wikipedia.org)
  • In foreign policy, the government used its executive powers to offer official recognition of the Soviet Union in February 1924. (wikipedia.org)
  • It predicted that the Labour government's attempted normalisation of Britain's diplomatic and economic relations with the Soviet Union would not only profit the latter but also stir the British proletariat to revolutionary action and allow Soviet influence throughout the British Empire to widen. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1923, a power struggle took place in the politburo of the Soviet Union. (civfanatics.com)
  • However, Trotsky did record exactly what he thought should be done in the Soviet Union in every stage of its history, from its birth to Trotsky s death. (civfanatics.com)
  • This paper explores the ways in which a Trotskyist Soviet Union would have differed from that which was ruled by Stalin. (civfanatics.com)
  • Soon after the NEP was put into effect, Trotsky became worried about the growth of capitalism in the Soviet Union. (civfanatics.com)
  • At the end of that year, I went on a summer study tour of the Soviet Union run by the University of Michigan and supported by the National Defense Education Act. (inroadsjournal.ca)
  • Rock music proved a popular and subversive force in the Soviet Union. (inroadsjournal.ca)
  • My reaction to seeing the Soviet Union first-hand was to feel affection for the Russian people while despising the Communist system that repressed them. (inroadsjournal.ca)
  • through the Depression 1930s which saw the assumption of power by the Nazis in Germany, the growth and activities of pro-Nazi organizations in Canada, including Winnipeg, and the increasing concern of provincial and federal governments about incipient revolution, which placed many political organizations and individuals, including Jews, under official suspicion. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • In English, the republic was usually simply called "Germany", with "Weimar Republic" (a term introduced by Adolf Hitler in 1929) not commonly used until the 1930s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Early in the 1930s both Regina College, originally a Methodist sponsored institution, and Mount Royal College, a United Church affiliate in Calgary, were forced to become non-denominational, publicly-funded and government-operated colleges. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • 5 ] By the 1930s, the dominance of Brandon's boosters in shaping civic developments was challenged by working class political opposition and somewhat undermined by the diminished financial independence and legislative autonomy of the City of Brandon. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • Young people in Germany were also encouraged to resist the Nazis by resistance groups or opposition parties in exile. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • 1924 saw Britain's first Labour government, which (lacking an overall majority) lasted less than a year. (libcom.org)
  • But it was not so easy to organise a trade union in Assam during pre-independence or in the 1950s. (sentinelassam.com)
  • Noted freedom fighter and trade union leader Late Robin Kakoti planned methodically to organise INTUC in Assam. (sentinelassam.com)
  • He urged the conscious social activists to organise trade unions, where trade union-trained youth Atul Chandra Saikia was also there. (sentinelassam.com)
  • The contribution of the Federal Union to the development of the federal idea in Great Britain and Europe was to express and organise the beginning of a new political militancy: the aim of the political struggle was no longer the conquest of national power, but the building of a supranational institution, a federation (not a league) of nations. (faef.eu)
  • The changing scenario after the First World War, the rapid growth of communication, and worldwide awareness of the trade union movement gave birth to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) at the end of World War II in 1918. (sentinelassam.com)
  • Meanwhile in the Netherlands, the "left" socialist party gave birth to a communist party in 1918, only to split in 1920, which resulted in a Communist Workers' Party similar to but much smaller than its German equivalent. (libcom.org)
  • This fragmented political system led to 25 separate parties being formed between 1918-1929, and subsequently the failings of 6 coalition governments between 1919-1923. (freebooksummary.com)
  • It was in this atmosphere of national disillusionment that the Nazi Party was able to prosper. (freebooksummary.com)
  • On 8 October 1924, the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald suffered defeat in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence forwarded by the Liberals, who had until then supported the continuation of the minority government while also blocking most of its signature policy initiatives. (wikipedia.org)
  • Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has won the Mexican presidential elections with a plurality of 38 per cent of the vote, returning to power the party which ruled Mexico as an authoritarian one-party-state for decades. (links.org.au)
  • The focus of this reforming zeal was typically old Labour sacred cows-Labour's internal structures, the party's relationship with the unions and public service reform. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • On one side are the party's 'moderates' - a confederation of Blairites, Brownites, Fabian gradualists, social liberals and old right wing trade union types. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • They have now lost control of the leadership, the grassroots and the party's machinery and in doing so, the very direction of the party they once assumed was their birthright. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • The leadership remains disconnected from the parliamentary party, which, in turn, is at odds with most of the new grassroots. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • Proud of the remarkable achievements of their representatives in the State Council, the secretaries of the party listed the parliamentary victories, particularly, stressing the fact that three of the progressive motions introduced by the LSSP faction were passed in the very first year of their performance. (marxists.org)
  • Warren Moscow, the New York state political correspondent of the Times , stated: "Had it not been for the existence of the ALP in 1937 and 1941, the Republicans would never have given La Guardia his second and third nominations. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • What is important to realise is that the 1929 European Export Edit (used by Pytel for his synchronisation reconstruction) is the shortest extant version of New Babylon , removing around ten minutes of film from the Gosfilmofond version approved by the Moscow censorship board at the beginning of 1929. (siue.edu)
  • Nevertheless, the party of the organised working class had at last occupied the government benches and supplanted the Liberals as the main opposition to the Conservatives. (libcom.org)
  • However, it was a minority government and therefore liable to fall if the Conservatives and Liberals combined against it. (wikipedia.org)
  • David Clark, a former government adviser, argues that Tony Blair is motivated by nothing but power, and is 'psychologically incapable' of building a fairer society (1). (spiked-online.com)
  • In the early 1920s, the Communist International called "ultra-leftists" those communists who were anti-union and anti-parliament, mainly the German-Dutch opposition (the KAPD), less so the "abstentionist" Italian CP led by Bordiga. (libcom.org)
  • The Democratic, Republican, and Liberal parties began to cross endorse coalition candidates to defeat Leo Isacson, the ALP congressman from the South Bronx in 1948, Benjamin Davis the Communist City Councilman from Harlem who was also running on the ALP line, and Vito Marcantonio in 1950. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • Christian democrats are usually socially conservative and generally have a relatively skeptical stance towards abortion and same-sex marriage, although some Christian democratic parties have accepted the limited legalization of both. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was also not unknown for Fascist squads to be found stewarding Conservative Party public meetings. (libcom.org)
  • [2] The letter perhaps aided the Conservative Party by hastening the ongoing collapse of the Liberal Party vote, which, in turn, produced a Conservative landslide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Peña Nieto received 38 per cent of the vote, compared to 32 per cent for Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left-of-centre Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and 25 per cent for Josefina Vázquez Mota of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). (links.org.au)
  • Peña Nieto defeated the left-of-centre Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who got 32 perc ent of the vote and Josefina Vázquez Mota of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) who received about 26 per cent. (links.org.au)
  • Churchill had a long and varied political career, involving two periods as a Conservative and one as a Liberal. (eurozine.com)
  • Blair-bashing has become good sport for the commentators, as they line up to expose the prime minister's character flaws: arrogant, a control freak, cares only about power and his own reputation, and lacking in political vision. (spiked-online.com)
  • Raúl Castro has acquired a reputation as an advocate and organizer of political repression, but also as an able administrator and economic pragmatist who, according to reports, advised and urged his brother Fidel to carry out the economic reforms, such as the legalization of dollars, that were implemented in the 1990s. (isj.org.uk)
  • Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the European left-right political spectrum, Christian democracy has been difficult to pinpoint, as Christian democrats have often rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, while simultaneously defending private property rights against excessive state intervention. (wikipedia.org)
  • Christian democracy fosters an "ecumenical unity achieved on the religious level against the atheism of the government in the Communist countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • He set about destroying democracy, outlawing the trade unions and parties of the Left, and instituting a murderous dictatorship. (libcom.org)
  • Democracy was seen as a novel, untried form of government that had no precedent in German history and through Germany's spiritual and material collapse after the war, the Republican democratic experiment seemed alien to German tradition. (freebooksummary.com)
  • An army-led "Chinese" turn in Cuba, lacking the Putin-style cosmetic appearance of democracy, would make it more difficult to get rid of the Helms-Burton Act but would not entirely preclude the possibility of reaching certain understandings with U.S. business circles and with the U.S. government, perhaps even with the aid of the Chinese themselves. (isj.org.uk)
  • A few months later, the left found itself a minority in the KPD and split to create the KAPD: the "A" ( Arbeiter ) emphasised that the new party claimed to be the authentic expression of working class interest, against bourgeois and bureaucrats alike. (libcom.org)
  • Worldwide, many Christian democratic parties are members of the Centrist Democrat International. (wikipedia.org)
  • Examples of major Christian democratic parties include the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, the Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal, the Centre in Switzerland, the Spanish People's Party, the Mexican National Action Party, the Austrian People's Party, and the Christian Democratic Party of Chile. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many European Christian democratic parties are affiliated with the European People's Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many Christian democratic parties in the Americas are affiliated with the Christian Democrat Organization of America. (wikipedia.org)
  • By contrast, Christian democratic parties in Latin America tend to vary in their position on the political spectrum depending on the country they are in, being either more left-leaning, as in the case of the Christian Democratic Party in Chile, or more right-leaning, as in the case of the National Action Party in Mexico. (wikipedia.org)
  • at the same time, Christian democratic parties enshrine confessional liberty. (wikipedia.org)
  • A democratic constitution confers the right (and some would say the obligation) on citizens to participate in the nation's affairs - through voting, through membership of political parties, through membership of pressure groups such as trades unions, through meetings and demonstrations etc. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The PRI claims to have become a modern and democratic party, but it seems to many that simply means that they use a plastic gift card with a magnetic strip rather than a taco and a bottle of beer to buy a vote. (links.org.au)
  • For example, in 1945, while the ALP attracted 13 percent of the New York City's mayoral vote, it obtained 18.5 percent of the vote for the five borough presidential candidates, causing it to outpoll every other party except the Democratic in Brooklyn and the Bronx. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • There's certainly much commonality between the two groups across large swathes of policy and on the importance of fighting the hard left, but as that latter threat recedes and the choices of government heave into view, the differences from thirty years ago will become more evident. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • There are big differences between those on what we usually refer to as the moderate side of the party, and the radicals on the left. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • On various occasions during 2001, Raúl Castro declared that the U.S. and Cuba should widen their areas of cooperation "in spite of political differences" on issues such as drugs, emigration, and the struggle against terrorism. (isj.org.uk)
  • More distinct differences are evident in other areas such as their foreign policies and political theory. (civfanatics.com)
  • In the political arena too the 1920s were years of upheaval. (libcom.org)
  • This isn't a faction temperamentally suited to radical upheaval, least of all when it comes to the ceremonies of Labour's traditions which are intertwined with the union movement and wreathed in emotion and sentimentality. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • And the labour unions gradually came up in India during the British regime. (sentinelassam.com)
  • The first trade union in India came up in Mumbai in 1850 with the establishment of textile mills. (sentinelassam.com)
  • The first labour association in India was formed as the Bombay Mill Hands Association' in 1890 under the leadership of Nalini Pandit Narayan Meghaji Lokhande, the Father of the Trade Union Movement in India. (sentinelassam.com)
  • and the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946, strengthened the trade union movement in India. (sentinelassam.com)
  • In this article we summarise British rule in India and examine the main and most influential political characters, which eventually led to India being broken up, at Partition as it became known. (marxist.com)
  • Partition could have been avoided had it not been for the failure of the Communist Party of India (CPI) to provide the revolutionary leadership required. (marxist.com)
  • The British interest in India began with the discontent of British merchants towards the increase in the price of a pound of pepper by 5 shillings, which was levied by Dutch merchants, who had exclusive monopoly on the spice trade. (marxist.com)
  • In response to this, 24 of these incensed merchants gathered in London, on 24th September 1599, to found a trading firm which became known as the East India Company. (marxist.com)
  • It should be understood that initially the aims of the East India Company were merely to establish safe and secure trade with the subcontinent. (marxist.com)
  • Labour leftist Mark Seddon argues that New Labour keeps people like him with firm political views off the benches, passing them over for 'desiccated calculating machines' (5). (spiked-online.com)
  • In 1947, Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel established the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) with affiliation to the International Trade Union Confederation. (sentinelassam.com)
  • The Strike was called by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on behalf of the miners, who faced savage cuts in their wages. (libcom.org)
  • Protesting that decision López Obrador mobilised his followers who rallied in Mexico City by the hundreds of thousands and eventually 1 million blocking the city's major thoroughfares, while leftist legislators attempted to block Calderón's inauguration in a chaotic Congress, where representatives of the rival parties came to blows. (links.org.au)
  • During the war, what later became the German left took a firm anti-patriotic stand, as the Russian and Serbian socialist parties did, as well as small minorities like the Irish Trades Union Congress led by J. Connolly, the Jewish Bund, or the "Narrow" Bulgarian socialists. (libcom.org)
  • It is a symptom of the simplified, bipolar frame through which Labour's internal politics is viewed: Corbynite left or Blairite right, where all developments are reduced to a zero-sum game of one side winning and the other losing. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • Blair-bashers ignore New Labour's roots in both its party, and its times. (spiked-online.com)
  • Meanwhile, the state owned industry, which still encompassed any large scale operations like coal and iron, was losing money.3 Even as early as 1923, Trotsky had wanted the government to begin gradually but decisively expanding the socialist sector.4 Private businesses and trade would continue to be allowed at first, but in a much less prominent role. (civfanatics.com)
  • In 1936 the leaders of the needle trades unions (David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union [ILGWU], Alex Rose of the United Hat and Millinery Workers Union, and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union) determined to provide a line on the ballot which would help ease the transition of its large contingent of Socialist-voting members in New York to vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • It also proposed to lend it money and to open up trade, but parliament mostly obstructed these measures. (wikipedia.org)
  • After spending time as a Labour councillor in Monmouthshire, Bevan was elected to Parliament as the Labour representative of the Ebbw Vale constituency in 1929. (humanists.uk)
  • By the late 1920s the Party had begun to establish itself in the Medway Towns, as in other industrial areas, chiefly among the unemployed. (libcom.org)
  • The first Community institutions were actually not imagined and created 65 years ago simply to establish a free-trade area and promote economic development among its members. (faef.eu)
  • In 2002 he was urging the government to 'develop its ideological thinking further', and 'set out more clearly the kind of society Britain should become' (8). (spiked-online.com)
  • As the German army was significant in achieving German unification, serving and former soldiers would seek to exploit their prestige by interfering in political process with Hitler using soldiers as an instrument for the achievement of Nazi objectives. (freebooksummary.com)
  • 10 This model would combine, as in China, a much greater opening to the capitalist market, particularly foreign investment, with the continuation of strong political controls at home including the use of whatever degree of repression might be necessary to maintain such controls. (isj.org.uk)
  • The absence of sufficiently trained cadres has made trade union organization lag behind the general political advances made. (marxists.org)
  • The 1920s, like the whole inter-war period, were a time of protracted economic, social, and political crisis. (libcom.org)
  • The word was later applied to the Third International for its class against class "sectarian" period (1929-34), before the Popular Front policy. (libcom.org)
  • In the postwar period the major parties increasingly refused to accept ALP endorsement for their candidates. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • And Jewish Canadians, over the years, have determined that involvement and participation in the political process whether as candidates, supporters, canvassers, voters, or lobbyists is the most effective means of guaranteeing both individual and communal well-being, which have as basic foundations equality and acceptance. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • Most significantly, it held the balance of power so that the votes accumulated on its line often spelled victory or defeat for candidates of the major parties. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • Most often the ALP endorsed the candidate of the major party it considered most progressive, and it forwarded its own independent candidates when neither parties' candidate met its political criteria. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • In a sense it embodied the best of all possible worlds: it created the possibility of influencing the nominating processes of the major parties as well as the possibility of forwarding independent candidates. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • and, 2) parties to enter their candidates on more than one line and have these votes merged. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • In 1947 the Wilson-Pakula Act essentially abolished the open primary of candidates by requiring candidates who entered primaries of which they were not members to first obtain the permission of the county committees of those parties. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • They were conceived as the first step in a political process which, through the pooling of certain vital governmental functions such as economy and currency, aimed to achieve a federation, not a league of nations, establishing economic stability as a fundamental condition for political stability. (faef.eu)
  • Political events reflected a momentous social change. (libcom.org)
  • The genesis of a trade union sprang from the necessity of time and the growth of industry to protect and secure the rights and interests of the workers in a collective way. (sentinelassam.com)
  • The Chatham and District Trades Council reported that overall the strike had still been holding firm locally at the time of the TUC's decision to surrender. (libcom.org)
  • On institutional abuse, Mr. O'Gorman said that the Government had made wide-ranging commitments to addressing the priority needs and concerns of those who had spent time in "Mother and Baby" and "County Home" institutions. (ohchr.org)
  • He was even expelled from Labour for a short time for his involvement with attempts to unite all parties of the left. (humanists.uk)
  • In Paris, Cerretti and Robinson found themselves among a medley of representatives of small nations seeking political recognition, based on President Wilson's rhetoric about the rights of small nations. (historyireland.com)
  • By 1916, Bevan was already the chairman of his local Miners' lodge and was heavily involved with union activities. (humanists.uk)
  • The Vatican was concerned about the activity of British evangelical groups in Palestine, and also about the volatile political state of the country. (historyireland.com)
  • Three years earlier the British government, under Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour, had promised the Jews 'a national home' in Palestine. (historyireland.com)
  • to find narratives capable of confronting the multiple crises of British politics and society, including the crisis in the 'idea' of Britain itself. (eurozine.com)
  • July 8, 2012 -- New Politics -- Carrying signs denouncing fraud, tens of thousands of students and other voters marched through Mexico City on July 7 to protest what they see as the government's imposition on the country of presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). (links.org.au)
  • Initially envisioned as the prototype of a national third party, the ALP remained a state party bearing many similarities with Wisconsin's Progressive Party and Minnesota's Farmer Labor Party. (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • Throughout much of its history it ruled a one-party state where workers in government industries, public employees, workers in the private sector and peasants were taken to the polls to vote under the eyes of their employers and the political bosses. (links.org.au)
  • Never before has the state of the party offered such wildly different and mutually contradictory interpretations. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • In a pair of short essays on the state of the party, Kevin Meagher casts a critical eye over the state of both the Labour Right and the Labour Left. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • The early career of Paschal Robinson OFM, the first papal nuncio to the Irish Free State, 1929-48. (historyireland.com)
  • With Federal Union, the European federation was no longer an abstract 'idea of reason', but the first step of a historical process: the overcoming of the nation-State, the modern political formula which institutionalises the political division of mankind. (faef.eu)
  • Socialists in the Netherlands were among the very few before 1914 who kept alive a revolutionary spirit: when the left split in 1909 to form its own party, it was the first split of that kind in Western Europe (only the Russians and Bulgarians had done so). (libcom.org)
  • Bevan overhauled the nation's muddled and localised healthcare provisions and introduced a publicly-funded, fully accessible, free at the point of use government-run institution. (humanists.uk)
  • Third, due to compulsory military service, the Cuban army has been a more inclusive institution than the more exclusive Communist Party. (isj.org.uk)
  • In Western countries, even where the form of monarchy survives, as in Britain and the Netherlands, political power is exercised by others. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The Indian Constitution, under Article 19(1)(c), guarantees the right to form a trade union. (sentinelassam.com)
  • In the twentieth century, Christian democrats led postwar Western and Southern Europe in building modern welfare states and constructing the European Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fundamental reason for the existence of the European Union has not been, in fact, the defence of a special cultural, racial or religious identity, but the creation of a definite method for resolving conflicts among States by peaceful and constitutional means. (faef.eu)
  • The system of proportional representation encouraged political instability through its proliferation of splinter parties that consequently made it difficult to create and maintain coalitions. (freebooksummary.com)
  • Even his most ardent political opponents (of whom he made many during his career, including several on his own side) admired his tenacity, intelligence, wit, dedication, and compassion. (humanists.uk)
  • He may have made a number of political adversaries, and his approach may at times have been counterproductive to his cause, but what cannot be denied is the strength of his convictions. (humanists.uk)
  • The membership is low because the Executive has made no drive for members on the principle that only ideologically advanced and convinced Socialists should be admitted into the Party. (marxists.org)
  • Having anticipated a measurable alteration of emphasis in Pytel's reconstructed synchronisation of the film and music in the 1929 European Export Edit, I confess that, at first sight, I retained my original impression. (siue.edu)
  • Chatter about MPs defecting to a new party grows more febrile. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
  • The columnist David Aaronovitch has noted the growth of anti-Blair chatter among what he calls 'dinner party critics' (2). (spiked-online.com)
  • 4) This paper explores a topic related to this last category, that is, the as-yet unrecognized large role Italian Americans played in the history of the American Labor Party (ALP). (vitomarcantonio.com)
  • Despite leaving school early, Bevan was very bright, and had always been fascinated by history and politics. (humanists.uk)
  • Janus's thesis has a great deal of merit when applied to the relationship between Jews and politics in Canada and the Jewish community in Winnipeg in particular. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • The myth easily promoted that it was the anti-war agitators which had fomented unrest amongst civilians and weakened the morale of the troops, and the new civilian government who failed to support the military that was to blame for Germany's undeserved defeat. (freebooksummary.com)
  • In the post-war era, 'Churchillism' showed an ability to adapt that is beyond the current political leadership - not only on the right. (eurozine.com)