• In March 2022, the party was federally de-registered by the Australian Electoral Commission after it was unable to prove it had more than the legally required 1,500 members. (wikipedia.org)
  • The split was between the party's national leadership, under the then party leader Dr H. V. Evatt, and the majority of the Victorian branch, which was dominated by a faction composed largely of ideologically driven anti-Communist Catholics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Speaking with us were Oswaldo Ramos, national secretary of the party's ideological commission, Pedro Eusse, national secretary for the Venezuelan National Workers' Front, and Carlos Lazo, philosophy professor, director of the Instituto Bolívar-Marx, and former United Nations diplomat. (peoplesworld.org)
  • By the time of the 1983 General Election I was a fully-fledged Marxist, campaigning for a political alternative to Labour through the Revolutionary Communist Party's electoral intervention. (spiked-online.com)
  • Specifically targeting the Communists, Minister of the Interior Hermann Göring ordered a raid on that party's headquarters in Berlin on February 24. (history.com)
  • The 1945-1951 Labour government, still widely seen as the high point of British socialism, did not only establish the NHS and the postwar welfare state and nationalise industries such as coal and steel. (spiked-online.com)
  • Am I wrong in saying all British governments since 1945 have done what the Americans have wanted? (bilderberg.org)
  • Italy's Christian Democracy Party (DC) was in power for almost fifty years, from 1945 to 1994. (firstthings.com)
  • Holidays of the Revolution: Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1945, by Amir Locker-Biletzki, State University of New York Press, 2020. (newsfollowup.com)
  • Amir Locker-Biletzki s excellent new study Holidays of the Revolution: Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1945 (SUNY Press, 2020) offers a fresh look at Jewish Communism in Palestine/Israel not only from a political perspective, but from a cultural one as well. (newsfollowup.com)
  • Santamaria headed The Catholic Social Studies Movement (often known as The Movement), modeled on Catholic Action groups in Europe and, ironically, in organizational terms, on some of the methods employed by its principal target, the Communist Party of Australia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evatt denounced the "Movement" and the Industrial Groups in 1954, alleging they were trying to take over the ALP and turn it into a Catholic Centre Party that would be Liberal-esque, or even of fascist persuasion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alberto Lovera was a Communist militant murdered by government forces 50 years ago in 1965, a revered name in Venezuelan working-class history, whose name has been adopted by a national movement of community groups. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Workers have gained a new role, and there are new numbers in the organized labor movement, with rights guaranteed by the new Bolivarian law. (peoplesworld.org)
  • In that spirit, Jacobin ​ ' s recent ​ " Rank and File " issue examined one of our more urgent contemporary questions: what is to be done to revitalize the labor movement? (inthesetimes.com)
  • It's called ​ " salting," and it was foundational to the development of the American labor movement. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Salting has deep roots in the history of the labor movement and the Left. (inthesetimes.com)
  • It served a pivotal political role during that time in Japan because the socialist movement itself suffered from disunity. (worldatlas.com)
  • After those events, the Farmer-Labour Party organized a movement in which they, along with their followers, created a new union called the Japan Labour Union League. (worldatlas.com)
  • However, she has seemed determined to keep her distance from all political parties, including Podemos, as she creates what she calls a new "civic movement", called Sumar (or Gather). (irishtimes.com)
  • Díaz's movement [Sumar] is still in nappies, its fragility is clear and it remains to be seen whether, by associating herself with grass-roots organisations she can build a political movement that mobilises the electorate to the left of the Socialists," noted El Periódico newspaper. (irishtimes.com)
  • Due to the way it evolved and because of the current context, the human rights movement in Tunisia faces a number of challenges, including its relationship with politics, the generational chasm among activists, and internal governance issues. (arab-reform.net)
  • There have been times in the past when the 'lesser evil argument' might have made sense to a good many people, as ruthless-looking Tories launched attacks on a mass working-class movement and Labour made rhetorical noises about defending the workers. (spiked-online.com)
  • However, the majority of the official tops of the labour movement had fully embraced capitalism politically. (socialistworld.net)
  • Just how alienated Blair was from the base, the outlook and loyalty of the ranks of the labour movement was indicated by his revelation: "I voted Labour in 1983. (socialistworld.net)
  • It used anti-Communist material created with government funds to aid right-wing social democrats within the Labour Party and the trade union movement. (bilderberg.org)
  • Christopher Mayhew, the Foreign Office minister who set up the IRD, later reported to his boss, Ernest Bevin, that he had made arrangements with Herbert Tracey, public secretary of the Trade Union Congress, "for the dissemination inside the Labour movement at home of anti-Communist propaganda which we are producing for overseas consumption. (bilderberg.org)
  • The Movement was a mixture of communists, radicals, moderately left-wing people from the churches and the professions, trade unionists (some communists, some not), anti-conscriptionists from the time of the Great War and pacifists. (hyperhistory.org)
  • Similarly, radical MPs can use their position to speak out about human rights abuses against movement participants, highlight information about potentially damaging plans by government, and attempt to shame other parties into accepting progressive reforms or amendments - all roles that Caroline Lucas plays at present. (newint.org)
  • If an elected Green Party sees the role of a movement as being only to provide potential supporters for their work within the system, they will have a short political life. (newint.org)
  • Feelings among the Communist-led project's sympathizers ranged, but few believed the societies created by the Bolshevik Revolution-inspired movement were perfect. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Compared to the pro-European EPP, those with Eurosceptic views may be members of the European Christian Political Movement . (wikipedia.org)
  • The far left of that story are the Socialist Zionists, in part embodied by the Hashomer Hatzair and Habonim kibbutz movements and thinkers such as Ber Borochov or Nachman Syrkin, both architects of the Zionist labor movement. (newsfollowup.com)
  • And what can we learn from these Jewish Communists in today s world where Zionism has arguably congealed into a chauvinist movement and, via the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law, has codified its rejection of equality in Israel for all its citizens? (newsfollowup.com)
  • Many ALP members during the Cold War period, most but not all of them Catholics, became alarmed at what they saw as the growing power of the Communist Party of Australia within the country's trade unions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Italians, who are busy organizing increasingly massive "pitchfork" demonstrations in cities across their country, and are calling on police and soldiers to take off their helmets and join them in bringing down their country's corrupt government, have greeted his remarks with a collective yawn. (counterpunch.org)
  • She has the highest approval rating of the country's main political leaders, according to the National Statistics Institute. (irishtimes.com)
  • Due to increased oil production over the last decade, the country's per capita gross national income, ranked in nominal terms, improved to 78th (approximately $6,800 per annum). (democracyweb.org)
  • On occasion ,one-time radicals have found themselves condemning direct action, as Green Party London Assembly Member Jenny Jones did following the student occupation of Conservative Party headquarters in 2010 (she later apologized). (newint.org)
  • Responding to anti-immigrant hysteria then rampant, he founded the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and began a series of raids on radicals, labor activists, and immigrants. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), formerly the Democratic Labor Party, is an Australian political party. (wikipedia.org)
  • It broke off from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a result of the 1955 ALP split, originally under the name Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fittingly, From Militant to the Socialist Party - a new book by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe - will be out soon. (socialistworld.net)
  • As a coalition of Bolivarian forces, its politics ranged from communist and socialist on the left to ranchers, peasants, civil servants, military, reformists and petty bourgeois in the center and even center-right, which had little real motivation for moving toward socialism. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Every time, however, the Labour Party let its left-wing supporters down, as state socialism turned into a means to reconcile the working class to the needs of the capitalist system. (spiked-online.com)
  • The meeting, which supposedly marked the union of National Socialism with Hindenburg and the German establishment, essentially turned the country over to the Nazis. (history.com)
  • From its formative stages, Communists in Palestine-Israel preferred Socialism over Zionism. (newsfollowup.com)
  • I refer, rather, to Jewish Communists, internationalist revolutionaries with strong ties to Trotsky and the Comintern (the Third International Communist organization) who viewed Palestine as a location for Jews and Arabs to join forces in the global battle against capitalism and imperialism. (newsfollowup.com)
  • Both major political parties-Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-are committed to the economic reforms begun in 1991, when Manmohan Singh, now the prime minister, was the finance minister. (mckinsey.com)
  • NEARLY 5,000 workers rallied in India's capital on March 3 and 4 against the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government's continuing assault on the working class, answering the call of Mazdoor Adhikar Sangharsh Abhiyan (MASA), a platform of 14 workers' organizations with representation in 20 Indian states. (socialistworker.org)
  • So Pope Francis, the new pope who has conservative American Catholics, particularly those in politics and the media, freaked out because he is criticizing capitalist greed, knows Marxists who are "good people," and isn't upset to be labeled one of them, even though he says "Marxist ideology is wrong. (counterpunch.org)
  • The Democratic tendencies of American Catholics, for example, result from their class position when they first emigrated to America and the history of their integration into society and politics. (janda.org)
  • The ideological leader of the Farmer-Labour sympathizers was Asanuma Inejiro, who was joined by socialist scholars Aso Hisashi, Kono Mitsu, Miwa Juso, and several others. (worldatlas.com)
  • These two political parties, despite the similarity in their names, carried out different ideological perspectives on how the future of Japan should look like. (worldatlas.com)
  • Since its inception, the LTDH has acted as a refuge for political activists of various ideological and political backgrounds, sometimes resulting in conflating political and rights' activism, despite attempts by the founders to separate the two fields. (arab-reform.net)
  • Her role in the furlough scheme during Covid and in guiding a flagship labour reform through parliament earlier this year raised her profile and her smiling, upbeat manner has struck a chord with many voters. (irishtimes.com)
  • All manner of political parties have their own media organs, and headlines magnifying the objections to reform scream from every newsstand. (mckinsey.com)
  • Not that coalition politics hasn't affected the pace of reform. (mckinsey.com)
  • The government should nonetheless receive credit for refusing to back away from the reform programs already in motion, as some observers thought it would after the 2004 elections. (mckinsey.com)
  • But the state governments, which hold considerable power in India's decentralized democracy, sometimes slow the pace of reform. (mckinsey.com)
  • In fact, the original third way was an attempt by advocates of reform in communist eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s to pick out a route between communism and capitalism - a sort of social economy. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • In China, where I lived and worked for several years in the 1990s, Mao's Communist Party has devolved into a kind of fascism, in which the state and private corporations have become one, along with the military and police, all in the interest of preserving the power and privilege of a corrupt ruling elite who call themselves Communists and publicly avow the creed of Marxism. (counterpunch.org)
  • Dissatisfaction with the government stood at 80%, a record high, and Major's approval rating plummeted to 15% but there was noone else in the Tory leadership capable of doing any better. (socialistworld.net)
  • By the late 1920s, Adolf Hitler and his Nationalist Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party were gaining strength due to growing popular dissatisfaction with the ruling Weimar Republic . (history.com)
  • The response of Tony Blair, elected as Labour leader in 1994, and the Labour leadership was to drive even further towards the right, shamelessly stealing Major's ideas and garb. (socialistworld.net)
  • Today, however, when neither the Labour nor Tory parties are even shadows of their former selves, it should be self-evidently ludicrous to stick to the old ways, as if this was a political version of Life on Mars . (spiked-online.com)
  • The Tory government under John Major could not escape electoral nemesis and they were aware of this. (socialistworld.net)
  • The brewing mass opposition to the Major government widened the split within the Tory party. (socialistworld.net)
  • The pro-Tory bias of the British national press is fairly obvious but many other channels have been taken by British and American intelligence in this country as part of a massive covert propaganda campaign against the left. (bilderberg.org)
  • Rights' activists, whether at the LTDH or other associations, were perceived by the government as part of the political opposition, notwithstanding developments in the official human rights discourse. (arab-reform.net)
  • His regime had consolidated its grip over the previous twenty years and by then had very little space left for any serious political opposition. (arab-reform.net)
  • One part of the equation may be that the Labour Party has a notoriously bad record for supporting civil society campaigns, even when they are in opposition themselves. (newint.org)
  • In the face of the last Conservative government, the Labour leadership failed to support the National Union of Miners during the Miners' Strike (1984-85), spoke out against members who participated in the (ultimately successful) civil disobedience campaign against the Poll Tax (1989-90), and provided no opposition to Margaret Thatcher on her decision to enter the Falklands War (1982) - an act that contributed to the doubling of her poll ratings. (newint.org)
  • As the 2019 general election draws nearer, the largest opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC), offers dim prospects for challenging BJP rule. (socialistworker.org)
  • With elections set for early March, the Nazis set about suppressing their political opposition. (history.com)
  • The Conservative Party in Britain, for example, became the representative of the middle-class establishment, and the Labour Party catered to the interests of the working class. (janda.org)
  • But nevertheless, they have insisted, it remains 'the lesser evil' compared to the Tories - an essentially working-class party linked to the trade unions, as against the Conservatives' support for capitalism and the rich. (spiked-online.com)
  • The struggle for the legitimization and representation of working-class interests by labor unions often generated intense political conflict in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (janda.org)
  • Today this cleavage is seen in the political competition between business associations and labor unions, and more generally between members of the middle class and working class. (janda.org)
  • The social strata that participated in KKE´s founding were labour strata, represented either by some unions in southern Greece or mainly by the Socialist Workers' Federation of Thessaloniki . (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • By the end of the year, all non-Nazi political parties, labor unions and other organizations had ceased to exist. (history.com)
  • One of the first national unions, the Knights of Labor, was formed in 1869 and championed a progressive agenda. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Immigrants therefore faced social prejudice from other sectors of the American workforce and were rarely welcomed by labor unions. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Like immigrants, they were often banned from joining labor unions. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Those to be banned include Resist and Labour Against the Witchhunt, which claim anti-Semitism allegations were politically motivated, and Labour In Exile, which expressly welcomes expelled or suspended members. (mirror.co.uk)
  • How did Jewish Communists confront, resist, and at times absorb their Socialist Zionist opponents? (newsfollowup.com)
  • Some of us on the left never accepted the 'lesser evil' case for Labour even in its heyday. (spiked-online.com)
  • At the most, left-right abolitionists argue, the designations really only applied in the heyday of what political scientists call the "cleavage" between workers (on the left) and owners, professionals and their lackeys (on the right) - Labour versus National in this country. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • With his government defeated, Cain sought and received a dissolution of parliament later that day, with the election set down for 28 May 1955. (wikipedia.org)
  • After the elections in 1928, a decision was made that the Social Democratic Party, the Japan Labour-Farmer Party, and the Farmer-Labour Party should all join together for parliament, disregarding the differences in their political discourse. (worldatlas.com)
  • That supra-organization, however, was short-lived, because the government ejected the Farmer-Labour Party from the parliament. (worldatlas.com)
  • When Caroline Lucas won the Brighton Pavilion constituency for the Greens in 2010, she became one of only a handful of candidates from parties to the left of Labour to be elected to the UK Parliament since the Second World War. (newint.org)
  • Perhaps this was most plain to see in the case of the 2003 Scottish Parliament election, when 13 leftwing candidates (seven 7 Greens, six Scottish Socialist Party) were elected, in part due to their prominent role in the campaign against the war in Iraq. (newint.org)
  • But all of this comes with a warning: small leftwing parties often don't last long in parliament. (newint.org)
  • The European People's Party (EPP), inspired by Christian Democracy, has consistently been the largest single group at the European Parliament since that body's beginning in 1976. (firstthings.com)
  • What were the economic and political conditions that allowed its establishment in 1918? (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • The establishment of the SEKE is linked to World War I and then Prime Minister Venizelos' efforts for Greece to have a socialist party that would take part in international conferences. (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • Nice to know that when a few ordinary generals, entirely spontaneously with no government/establishment prompting whatsoever, decide to denounce politicians riding military coattails, the simple words of these ordinary citizens will be reported by all of Her majesty's Press (again spontaneously with no collaboration) & the ever impartial BBC. (blogspot.com)
  • The openly communist Socialist Appeal will also become a forbidden group. (mirror.co.uk)
  • After all the turmoil has ended, the Farmer-Labour Party had about 6,000 members. (worldatlas.com)
  • The organization focused on civil and political rights that were systematically and massively violated by the politically-oppressive regimes ruling the country. (arab-reform.net)
  • Labor liberals believe these problems can be corrected with small-picture fixes: social media, paper coalitions with community groups, narrow campaigns against this or that particular right-wing legislation, and other tactical shifts that leave the structure of the union unchanged. (inthesetimes.com)
  • It didn't help that the Labour party became dominated by educated liberals, whose parents might have been blue-collar workers but who were themselves professionals who did not live blue collar workers' experiences, needs and aspirations. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • The expelled ALP members formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) under the influence of B. A. Santamaria. (wikipedia.org)
  • After twelve hours of debate on the motion, in the early hours of 20 April, 11 of the expelled Labor members crossed the floor to support Bolte's motion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Keir Starmer is preparing to purge far left Labour members part of 'poisonous' campaign groups in a bold confrontation with operators loyal to Jeremy Corbyn . (mirror.co.uk)
  • The former leader was suspended from the Labour Party last year after the Equality and Human Rights Commission found the party under his leadership harassed Jewish members. (mirror.co.uk)
  • A few of the members from the Labour-Farmer Party were once communists as well, the most notable of them all being Kondo Eizo, who was the creator of the Enlightened People's Communist Party. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Farmer-Labour Party members found themselves between the right-wing Socialist Democratic Party and the Labour-Farmer Party as a left-wing option. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Party members were blamed for acting like bourgeoise by the left-wing politicians, and the right-winged options saw them as a pan that was used by the communists. (worldatlas.com)
  • How many Labour members are former communist party or similar members? (blogspot.com)
  • He was later tried in Leipzig, along with three Bulgarian members of the Communist International and a leading German Communist. (history.com)
  • Booms, crashes, and panics have had a profound impact on public support for labor organizing, particularly in their influence on the attitudes of members of the American middle and upper middle classes. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Worldwide, many Christian democratic parties are members of the Centrist Democrat International . (wikipedia.org)
  • The idea for the flag came from Count Richard von Coudenhove--Kalergi, who in 1923 had founded the Paneuropean Union, the first political organization dedicated to European unity. (firstthings.com)
  • Many Christian democratic parties in the Americas are affiliated with the Christian Democrat Organization of America . (wikipedia.org)
  • The party remains registered for state elections in Victoria and territorial elections in the Australian Capital Territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Spain's famously fractious political left is being divided once again by a dispute which threatens to undermine its electoral support just months ahead of crucial elections. (irishtimes.com)
  • The political commentator Íñigo Sáenz de Ugarte noted that "if this conflict, or whatever you wish to call it, ends up triggering an irreversible divorce between Podemos and Yolanda Díaz, then the right will automatically have won the elections. (irishtimes.com)
  • So whatever happens in between elections, however bad Labour apparently becomes, the message is that we should still support it come election time. (spiked-online.com)
  • But it also followed the largest ever national campaign on climate change, which included marches and direct actions in which she played a prominent role. (newint.org)
  • On February 4, Hitler's cabinet issued the temporary Decree for the Protection of the German People, which restricted the German press and authorized the police to ban political meetings and marches. (history.com)
  • that is, Them or Us - the clear class divide in politics gave meaning to the anti-Toryism that led the left to swallow its doubts and support Labour. (spiked-online.com)
  • As the benefits of strong growth are felt across the country, this political support will be sustained. (mckinsey.com)
  • The Communist Party, whose support sustains the governing coalition, has blocked privatization and efforts to relieve the special economic zones from the burden of restrictive labor laws. (mckinsey.com)
  • With anti-communism as a strong priority, the DLP almost always directed that its voters preference the Liberal Party and Country Party ahead of the ALP, contributing to the electoral dominance of the Coalition during the 1950s and 1960s. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the centre of the storm is Yolanda Díaz, the labour minister and a deputy prime minister in the coalition government, who has become the latest star of the Spanish left. (irishtimes.com)
  • Once elected, small radical parties can make a difference, as pressure from the Left shifts the political centre - indeed, some historians argue that this was a major reason for the creation of the welfare state in the post-war era. (newint.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)
  • Public and political freedoms were severely restricted, especially freedom of expression and the ability of parties and voluntary organizations to operate - with the exception of the well-entrenched and strong Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (The General Tunisian Labour Union, UGTT). (arab-reform.net)
  • Significant political organizations and their leaders. (nationmaster.com)
  • Organizations with leaders involved in politics, but not standing for legislative election. (nationmaster.com)
  • Americans, thanks to decades of overt, blatant propaganda in our schools and our media, don't know that Marxism is a philosophy, a school of thought, an economic and social theory, not a political party. (counterpunch.org)
  • But not a Communist, though that point will fly right past most Americans, for whom Marxism is equated with Communism. (counterpunch.org)
  • In a similar way, the Jewish Communists viewed the Socialist Zionists as their opponents, subordinating their Marxism to their Zionism. (newsfollowup.com)
  • Díaz is a Galician labour lawyer who joined the government in 2020 as one of five ministers representing the Unidas Podemos (UP) electoral platform. (irishtimes.com)
  • Yolanda Díaz, the labour minister and a deputy prime minister, is reluctant to associate herself with Podemos, a junior partner in the Socialist-led coalition. (irishtimes.com)
  • After one year in power, the prime minister himself gave the government low marks for implementing the Common Minimum Program, a blueprint for change agreed upon by the coalition partners. (mckinsey.com)
  • For example, in the UK, the monarch is the chief of state, and the prime minister is the head of government. (nationmaster.com)
  • Locker-Biletzki writes, At the core of the Jewish-Israeli Communist identity stood anti-Zionism. (newsfollowup.com)
  • One Labour source said: 'Under Corbyn those from the far left fringes with poisonous beliefs and warped world-views were welcomed into the party. (mirror.co.uk)
  • Mr McDonnell was among those who reacted to the news, tweeting: 'Standard Blairite fare to try show how strong a leader you are by taking on your own party but bizarre to do it by expelling people, most of whom have left already. (mirror.co.uk)
  • Now the labor left needs to listen to its own advice. (inthesetimes.com)
  • The absence of an active subject is more than a grammatical problem - it represents the problem of the labor left. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Most theorists on the Left write of labor from the perspective of intellectuals who stand above the class struggle, rather than workers in the thick of it. (inthesetimes.com)
  • The labor left must seek not just to salvage labor's existing institutions but to transform them and build new ones. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Such "red" municipal governments have been elected over and over by the Italian public because they tend to do a better job, are less corrupt, and try to do what New York City's new left-leaning Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants to do: reduce the wealth gap in his city, and do more to help its poorest residents. (counterpunch.org)
  • Díaz's reluctance to associate herself with Podemos, a junior partner in the Socialist-led coalition, has provoked bewilderment and anger within the far-left party, which claims credit for her recent rise. (irishtimes.com)
  • The ludicrous spectacle of the leftovers of the left parroting their old arguments for supporting Labour is history repeated as low farce. (spiked-online.com)
  • Labour, left-wing voices have accepted in every modern election from the era of Thatcher to Brown, is far from perfect. (spiked-online.com)
  • Today, when there are no mass movements or struggles at all, most of the remnants of the left still cling to the threadbare comfort blanket of the 'lesser evil' argument for Labour, even though they can only justify it by resorting to fantasy politics about what the parties now represent. (spiked-online.com)
  • Yet still the left clung to Labour. (spiked-online.com)
  • Gavrilis Lampatos has published a plethora of articles and studies on the history of the Greek Left and in particular of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in collective works, newspapers and magazines as well as in two monographs, "Greek political refugees in Tashkent 1949-1957" (Athens, 2001) and " KKE and power 1940-1944 " (Athens, 2018). (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • The Communist Party, together with other smaller parties on the Left, formed the National Liberation Front (EAM), which, responding to the needs of the people in urban centres, as well as the power vacuum that existed in the mountainous areas of Greece, rapidly evolved into a huge political force. (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • Why did a right party dominate the last 50 years and what chance has a left party of doing the same over the next 20 or 30 years? (colinjames.co.nz)
  • But, first, does anyone believe there is a left and a right any more in politics? (colinjames.co.nz)
  • In 1948, a secret political/psychological warfare department known as the Information Research Department (IRD), was set up within the Foreign Office, with the aim of embarking on a "propaganda offensive" against the left. (bilderberg.org)
  • As soon as the proles, particularly the Labour voting proles, turn their attention to a far left party, after Labour's total failure to address serious concerns about 'multiculturalism', and immigration, democracy has now become a fluid concept. (blogspot.com)
  • But the name could also aptly describe the political colour of the area, the most left-wing part of the country, centred on Luxembourg's second city, Esch-sur-Alzette. (links.org.au)
  • On the European left-right political spectrum, Christian democracy has been difficult to pinpoint, as Christian democrats have rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, while simultaneously defending private property rights against excessive state intervention. (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, [24] [25] 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)
  • The "aristocrats of labour", as Ken Douglas used to call the wharfies and other highly paid blue-collar workers, often voted National. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • The first was the legendary Glaswegian trade unionist Willie Gallacher, who risked prison and British tanks for helping organize the Clyde Workers Campaign for a 40-hour week, after which he was elected for the Communist Party. (newint.org)
  • This unrest had been stayed during the War, when workers and employers labored on behalf of the war effort. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • During the early national period, workers began to organize to exert more control over working conditions and compensation. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Immigrant workers brought with them a range of models and traditions of labor organizing in both agriculture and industry. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Companies viewed them as a source of cheap labor, sometimes using them to replace more experienced workers. (wikisummaries.org)
  • The PSUV itself operated almost entirely as an electoral bloc comprising numerous political parties, including the PCV. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Police repression, intimidation, and control over the electoral process and the state-run media have ensured that the Aliyevs and their allies maintain political control. (democracyweb.org)
  • The lesson that can be drawn is that electoral gains for radical parties almost exclusively grow out of participation in broader social movements. (newint.org)
  • UP made history by burying differences with the Socialist Party and forming Spain's first coalition government of the modern era. (irishtimes.com)
  • As is well known, the price of oil, which previously was able to fund the broad social betterment projects of the Bolivarian government, has fallen drastically, to less than half of its former value. (peoplesworld.org)
  • In 1927, the Communist Party of Japan accused the Farmer-Labour Party of being deceitful and that they were just poorly using the leftist way of thinking and that they are not so much different from the right political options represented by the Social Democrats. (worldatlas.com)
  • When the Social Democratic Party split in 1926, the Farmer-Labour Party occupied the leading position in the Sodomei trade union. (worldatlas.com)
  • Just a year later, in 1927, they were joined by the farmers of Japan, who decided to leave the Social Democratic Party. (worldatlas.com)
  • If you think about it, those are pretty tough concepts to argue with, and, as far as I am concerned, offer a very sound basis, or at least starting point, for analyzing historical, political, economic and social developments. (counterpunch.org)
  • For us, Labourism was a conservative dead weight that had held down the British working class for decades and a barrier to political and social progress. (spiked-online.com)
  • The National Revolution spawned two kinds of social cleavag e. (janda.org)
  • As social groups related to these cleavages developed, they won access to the political process before the extension of the voting franchise. (janda.org)
  • Liberal-minded professionals with a social conscience often voted Labour. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • In relation to American business history, labor history is an integral part of international and national patterns of social and economic life, and therefore, it cannot readily be separated from these broader trends. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Bolivarian Revolution is certainly one of the most notable 20th and 21st century attempts at national liberation - even extending to continental liberation in its aspirations - but it cannot be consolidated under monopoly capital control, especially in an economy where one product, oil, reigns supreme. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The National Revolution involved the process of nation building that transformed the map of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (janda.org)
  • Political scientists by and large ignore this and expend great energy on Labour - which was a failure in that half-century. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Category B is less highly-classified information suitable for careful dissemination by staff of British missions to suitable contacts (e.g. editors, professors, scientists, labour leaders, etc.) who can use it as factual background material in their general work without attribution. (bilderberg.org)
  • Keir is right to stamp out anti-Semitism and toxic extremism and get the party back into the decent mainstream of Labour values. (mirror.co.uk)
  • CARACAS, Venezuela - In the wake of the disastrous National Assembly election of December 6th in this South American nation of 30 million people, our delegation from the North American-based Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle met with leaders of the Venezuelan Communist Part y (PCV) for an assessment of the results. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The right-wing leaders of the Labour Party did everything to shore up the government. (socialistworld.net)
  • Discussions of political parties normally focus on the present, on the policy positions and political leaders that define current party images. (janda.org)
  • In January of 1920, federal agents broke into the homes of suspected anarchists without search warrants, jailed labor leaders, and held about 5,000 citizens without respecting their right to legal counsel. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The center-periphery cleavage pitted the dominant national culture against ethnic, linguistic, or religious minorities in the provinces and the peripheral sectors of society. (janda.org)
  • In 1951 this cleavage could be said to have been such a complete description of the political landscape that Labour and National between them won 99.8% of the vote. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • The cleavage has gone flat-chested or pigeon-chested or barrel-chested - anything but the pretty picture of political science. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Iain, the BNP discriminate against a minority, Labour discriminate against the majority. (blogspot.com)
  • In most instances new voters were mobilized into supporting the party groups that already were represented in the political process. (janda.org)
  • Aso Hisahi was named the president of the party, and Miwa Juso was given the position of their general secretary. (worldatlas.com)
  • In 1993, the former secret police chief and first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Haidar Aliyev, seized power after a military insurrection backed by Russia. (democracyweb.org)
  • Essentially what I mean by that is creating a government that works for working families, rather than the kind of government we have today, which is largely owned and controlled by wealthy individuals and large corporations. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The established economies of the indigenous people were largely disrupted and displaced by colonial economic expansion, which sometimes involved the appropriation of Indian land and labor. (wikisummaries.org)
  • During the early nineteenth century, the southern states began developing plantation agriculture, depending largely on Slavery;labor slaves for labor. (wikisummaries.org)
  • In the past, however, it reflected a commitment to a political struggle in which major differences were at stake. (spiked-online.com)
  • The intellectual leader of the Victorian Catholic wing of the ALP (although not actually a party member)[citation needed] was B. A. Santamaria, a lay Catholic anti-Communist activist, who acquired the patronage of Dr Daniel Mannix. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] In New South Wales, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Norman Cardinal Gilroy, the first native-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, opposed the Movement's tactics, and there was no party split in that state. (wikipedia.org)
  • These groups had not indicated their political standing in the past, but observed political developments so as to identify with whoever prevailed militarily. (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • The Farmer-Labour party is an important part of the political history of Japan. (worldatlas.com)
  • I played a pretty big role in a labor fight noted in Erik Loomis's entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued new book, A History of America in Ten Strikes . (thenation.com)
  • Labor history is a broad and complex topic, especially because even the basic definitions of key terms such as "labor" and "history" shift across time and place. (wikisummaries.org)
  • A new book presents a political and cultural history of Jewish Communism in Palestine-Israel, and a model for a non-ethnocentric national identity. (newsfollowup.com)
  • Together they formed the Japan Masses Party, but in the years to come, the Farmer-Labour Party always managed to operate almost independently from other political partners. (worldatlas.com)
  • 2 May, as well as being in the midst of preparations for the upcoming snap election, marks 20 years since another general election - the one in 1997 which brought Tony Blair and New Labour to power. (socialistworld.net)
  • which, in a matter of just a few years, evolved into a communist party. (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • As regards KKE's role in the National Resistance as well as more generally, what were the factors that led to the widening of its political influence in the war years? (greeknewsagenda.gr)
  • Recognizing the need to increase the flow of foreign funds, the government has pledged to raise annual foreign direct investment to $15 billion within three years and to $50 billion within five. (mckinsey.com)
  • I have for some years been fascinated by the fact that the National party dominated governments for the second half of the twentieth century. (colinjames.co.nz)
  • Criky, do you guys really want us to have another four years of Labour, because you are certainly going about it in the right way. (blogspot.com)
  • The church-state conflict cast the centralizing, standardizing, and mobilizing forces of the national government against the traditional influence of the Catholic church. (janda.org)
  • Police arrested Marinus van der Lubbe, an unemployed 24-year-old Dutch laborer with Communist sympathies, at the scene. (history.com)
  • Since the first General Election debate in which I got involved, back in 1979, everything has changed in British politics. (spiked-online.com)
  • Election results includes the percent of vote and/or number of seats held by each party in the last election. (nationmaster.com)
  • Israeli Communist Party MK Moshe Sneh addresses a crowd at an election campaign event in Ramat Gan, October 30, 1959. (newsfollowup.com)
  • Our prescription for the labor movement's renewal needs a new grammar. (inthesetimes.com)
  • How did they construct a Jewish national identity against the Zionist one? (newsfollowup.com)
  • The Communists in Palestine/Israel could not avoid the Zionist orbit in which they lived, even as they continued to try to find alternative ways of cultivating a national consciousness that remained wedded to the revolutionary project of class struggle and committed to the Jewish and Palestinian working class. (newsfollowup.com)
  • The move sets the stage for factional warfare at the Labour Party conference in Brighton as Mr Starmer attempts to stamp his authority on the party. (mirror.co.uk)
  • The massive groundswell against the Tories had nothing to do with the policies of the Labour leadership. (socialistworld.net)
  • On the night of 19 April 1955, Liberal and Country Party leader Henry Bolte moved a motion of no-confidence against John Cain's Labor government in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. (wikipedia.org)
  • I didn't really think a Labour victory was the best thing for the country, and I was a Labour candidate! (socialistworld.net)
  • The following questions and answers, based on McKinsey's experience with government officials and businesses across the country, address some of the more common issues they raise. (mckinsey.com)
  • The politics of the Farmer-Labour Party firmly confronted the idea of Japan being involved in political shifts that were happening in China. (worldatlas.com)
  • In the ensuing decades, Europhile Christian parties continued to dominate Europe. (firstthings.com)