• For the first time in ages, there appears to be 'clear blue water' between a high-spending Labour Party and the Conservatives insisting that tax cuts must be paid for by cutting public spending. (spiked-online.com)
  • Beer is too polite to challenge R.T. Mackenzie openly but his whole book is a refutation of Mackenzie's well known analysis of British political parties in which, after contrasting the apparently authoritarian Conservative Party structure with that of the apparently democratic Labour Party, he concluded that the Party Whips ensured that both were equally monolithic and impervious to revolts within the party. (nybooks.com)
  • I'm proud to speak on behalf of the Labour Party today in supporting our motion to enhance the rights of workers and to provide greater employment protections for those in precarious and low-paid work. (labour.ie)
  • The foundation of the Labour Party in Ireland is inextricably linked with the trade union movement and we have argued throughout our history that the best means of strengthening the hand of workers and their unions is through cooperation of both organised and political Labour. (labour.ie)
  • Members of all political parties-the tradition-minded Conservatives, the reform-seeking Liberals, and the workers' Labour Party-would play a role in the new government under Churchill. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The 2015 Labour Party leadership election ballot ran from August 14 to September 10, with the result declared at a special conference on September 12. (socialismtoday.org)
  • This edition of Socialism Today goes to press three weeks before the result of the Labour Party leadership election is announced. (socialismtoday.org)
  • But does this mean that the transformation of the Labour Party into New Labour, another 'normal' capitalist party, has now been reversed? (socialismtoday.org)
  • It was both an ideological and an organisational process, rooting out socialist ideas and destroying the democratic structures of the Labour Party which had allowed the organised working class, through the trade unions in particular, to contend for influence within the party. (socialismtoday.org)
  • The Corbyn insurgency is indeed a movement against 'swashbuckling capitalism', but the 'new social order' of the last two decades that removed the element of independent working-class representation within the Labour Party will not be lightly overturned. (socialismtoday.org)
  • It was these characteristics that defined the Labour Party in the past as a 'capitalist workers' party', with a leadership at the top which invariably reflected the policy of the capitalist class, but with a socialistic ideological basis to the party and a structure through which workers could move to challenge the leadership and threaten the capitalists' interests. (socialismtoday.org)
  • Ex-MP Peter Hain now laments how this move to "broaden the franchise" has turned out (The Guardian, 12 August), with the surge of Corbynistas from outside the Labour Party signing up to vote. (socialismtoday.org)
  • Is there not also the fact that the Labour party initiated a massive Union 'moderisation' scheme, where effectively, this Labour Government used our (public) money to give to the Unions, which in turn the Unions donated (some) back to the Labour party. (blogs.com)
  • Labour Party staff have perhaps been to Sicily to see how they 'do politics' there. (blogs.com)
  • While Labour was never by any stretch of the imagination a socialist party, it had been created by the trade unions as a working-class party. (spiked-online.com)
  • The Portuguese Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the Left bloc came together to offer an alternative. (cpim.org)
  • Before 1993, Andorra's political system had no clear division of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under the 1993 constitution, the co-princes continue as heads of state, but the head of government retains executive power. (wikipedia.org)
  • Then, in 1993, when Bashir introduced a nominally civilian regime, he set up his trade union federation he could control: the Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation (SWTUF). (africasacountry.com)
  • From 1993 to 2003, she was a professor of Political Science at Università degli Studi di Firenze . (bvsalud.org)
  • By definition, political parties are funded by contributions from their membership and by individuals and organisations which share their political ideas or who stand to benefit from their activities. (ifp.org.za)
  • Political parties, especially those in government, are lobbied vigorously by organisations, businesses and special interest groups such as trade unions. (ifp.org.za)
  • How did democracy and political organisations develop in Britain? (aqa.org.uk)
  • More than 300 human rights and aid organisations, church groups, trade unions and political parties from across Europe have called on the EU to uphold its legal responsibilities and hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law and to defend the right of individuals and institutions to take part in the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for justice and equality. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. (wikipedia.org)
  • It became not just the party of social justice, but also the unabashed champion of economic opportunity and individual aspiration… Yesterday Alistair Darling, using the sombre tones appropriate to the occasion, provided members of Parliament with details of New Labour's tragic end. (spiked-online.com)
  • In spite of a massive mobilisation of the workers and youth, a movement of revolutionary dimensions, the PASOK government managed to push through parliament its austerity measures. (socialist.net)
  • The PASOK government finally managed to successfully pass through parliament its new austerity measures. (socialist.net)
  • Some defenders of the status quo might retort that multi-party democracy is not imperilled because there are 16 parties represented in Parliament. (ifp.org.za)
  • Parliament annually appropriates a sum divided between represented parties on the basis of proportionality (90% on the basis of seats held) and equity (10% divided equally among parties). (ifp.org.za)
  • It is not only the trade unions whose members sit in Parliament and on innumerable ministerial committees. (nybooks.com)
  • On the other hand, the Peoples' Alliance (Pakatan Rakyat - PR) - a three-party coalition formed by the People's Justice Party, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party and the Democratic Action Party - seemed poised to finally take control of the parliament. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The BNP and Awami League have traditionally traded power but in recent years Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League the BNP is but a shadow of its former self, holding on seven out of 350 seats in parliament. (factsanddetails.com)
  • In 2011, protests were driven by youth and student movements led by the middle classes, and 2012's protests, via party youth organizations, gave protesters access to mosques. (africasacountry.com)
  • In most African countries, the largest and most representative organizations are religious institutions, farmers' organizations and trade unions. (africasacountry.com)
  • He starts from the premise that a consensus exists among all parties and organizations on the necessity for governing the country through collectivism and a managed economy. (nybooks.com)
  • But even then, an authentic alternative elite couldn't have been wholly created on the outside, by exiles or by foreigners: If opposition leaders aren't the product of an indigenous impulse to create alternative institutions - political parties, charities, newspapers, human rights organizations - then they won't have the political clout to push through radical reforms when they get the chance. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • University Institute in 1987, with the thesis "Underground political organizations. (bvsalud.org)
  • Analy- zing meso level social processes, della Porta seeks to mobilize concepts that are central to those theo- ries, such as repertoires of contention, engagement and interpretative frameworks, to explain the cau- sal mechanisms (Gerring, 2007) that produce transformations in the organizations of social move- ments, which are always understood in interaction with the other actors of the political arenas. (bvsalud.org)
  • When carrying out its functions, the WHO FCTC Secretariat cooperates with the relevant departments of WHO, other competent international organizations and bodies, as well as non-governmental organizations accredited as observers to the Conference of the Parties (COP), the governing body of the Convention. (who.int)
  • Proving once again that strong, mass and independent trade unions are schools of democracy and have been crucial in democracy building, from the workplace to the national level in Africa. (africasacountry.com)
  • Trade unions have helped fight colonialism, and authoritarian and racist regimes, and to deepen democracy worldwide. (africasacountry.com)
  • In Nigeria, the National Union of Teachers has representation in all Nigeria's 36 states, from the northeast where Boko Haram ravages, the cosmopolitan democracy bastion Lagos and to the oil-rich Niger Delta characterized by resource conflicts and violence. (africasacountry.com)
  • The third is the strong reluctance - at this stage - on the part of New Democracy to take on government responsibility, because they see this as a way of preserving themselves as the political expression of the capitalist class in Greece. (socialist.net)
  • The place of political parties in a democracy is, despite the flaws, incontestable. (ifp.org.za)
  • As a result, it is accepted that party politics in a democracy requires private funding as well as public funding. (ifp.org.za)
  • Rules designed to regulate private funding should promote multi-party democracy and accountability. (ifp.org.za)
  • This is patently bad for multi-party democracy. (ifp.org.za)
  • The Institute for Democracy in SA (Idasa), which has been a strong advocate for reform for many years, has supported a multi-party dialogue. (ifp.org.za)
  • Democracy is not in crisis because of WhatsApp, but because of the lack of a social pact, because trade unions and political parties are no longer representative…He (president-elect Jair Bolsonaro) knew how to use the social networks to present himself as the solution (and) they may or may not help him once he's in the government. (ipsnews.net)
  • A government based on these connections would tend to accentuate conflicts, crises and threats to democracy, analysts argue. (ipsnews.net)
  • Democracy is not in crisis because of WhatsApp, but because of the lack of a social pact, because trade unions and political parties are no longer representative," said Giuseppe Cocco, a professor at the School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. (ipsnews.net)
  • 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 rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, while simultaneously defending private property rights against excessive state intervention. (wikipedia.org)
  • [33] Christian Democracy fosters an " ecumenical unity achieved on the religious level against the atheism of the government in the Communist countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • This includes, but goes beyond, the traditional study of parties and elections to include a much broader variety of aspects of politics (including public opinion, community activism, the media, NGOs, new social movements, trade unions etc.) and exploring the tensions between formal democracy, political power and social inequality. (maynoothuniversity.ie)
  • Turkey initially set out on its adventure of democracy by adopting a multi-party political system in 1950, and underwent a normalization process in politics under the late Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and the late President Turgut Özal. (insightturkey.com)
  • For a little more than a decade, Britain's centre left party turned its back on past economic folly. (spiked-online.com)
  • The so-called 'cash for peerages' investigation is presently establishing whether the parties have put forward nominations for peerages (seats in the House of Lords, Britain's upper house) in return for financial favours. (ifp.org.za)
  • Not because Beer has mistaken the nature of Britain's politics. (nybooks.com)
  • Visualizing The Surge In The UK's Homelessness , and Britain's Universal Credit: Government and the BBC Secretly Collude in Propaganda Campaign . (europereloaded.com)
  • 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)
  • Despite considerable potential - particularly in the energy, tourism, information and communication technology (ICT), infrastructure and agriculture sectors - political instability, widespread corruption, cumbersome bureaucracy, and inconsistent implementation of laws and regulations have deterred potential investment. (state.gov)
  • Inefficient government bureaucratic processes, a high rate of turnover among civil servants, and corruption exacerbate the difficulties for foreigners seeking to work in Nepal. (state.gov)
  • B razil's ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and pre-candidate for president in 2018 for the Workers' Party (PT) was convicted yesterday of corruption and money laundering, receiving a sentence of nine years and six months in prison. (nacla.org)
  • Some on the Left have mistakenly embraced the Lava Jato investigations, seeing it as a tool to end the blatant corruption of politics in the country. (nacla.org)
  • The PT did not invent corruption in Brazil, yet the Right and the corporate media have used the fact that the party embraced the business as usual politics of corruption and bribes to attack social movements and the Left as a whole. (nacla.org)
  • In Cocco's view, "its use in the election campaign does not explain Bolsonaro's triumph," which he said was due to the desire of the majority of Brazilian voters for a change against corruption, a political system that has lost credibility, the economic crisis and growing crime and insecurity. (ipsnews.net)
  • Through corruption and political ambition it became an unelected bully government in Brussels, where the well-connected were well compensated and insulated from the votes of mere citizens. (antiwar.com)
  • State Funding will only permit the corruption of government that we have witnessed under labour to go on even longer. (blogs.com)
  • The main research interests of Professor della Porta relate to the themes of social movements, political violence, protest policing and corruption. (bvsalud.org)
  • The financial turmoil will persist and intensify, providing a constant source of political instability. (socialist.net)
  • It is also a credit to our party that despite the economic turmoil within which we toiled for the first few years of the previous government, there was not one single mandatory redundancy in the public sector. (labour.ie)
  • These penalties caused a serious economic decline, unemployment, and political turmoil in Germany. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Yet some fell into economic stagnation or political turmoil while others thrived. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • Trade unions - each typically affiliated with parties or even factions within a political party - and unpredictable general strikes create business risk. (state.gov)
  • The factions of the FGTB apparatus linked to the PS and the line of the "lesser evil" have certainly abstained from any public comment, but several left union leaders have expressed themselves openly. (links.org.au)
  • The Bangladesh Communist Party and factions of the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal represent the extreme left and advocate revolutionary changes in the government. (factsanddetails.com)
  • When opposition parties supported economic reforms that adversely affected workers, these debates became even more heated. (ips-dc.org)
  • More than half of the BN seats came from rural states (especially Sarawak, Sabah and Johor), whereas the majority of people living in urban areas gave their preferences to the opposition parties. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The longer the picket, the shorter the strike'' is a common adage amongst trade union members and it refers to the solidarity between workers from all sectors and their representatives standing together against abusive employment practices. (labour.ie)
  • The Polish opposition had created the Solidarity trade union in the early 1980s. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • For British conservatism, an ice-laden political tundra was to follow 1997. (newstatesman.com)
  • Meanwhile the Conservative Party faces pressure to declare the source of historical loans. (blogs.com)
  • The CUT, the main trade union federation allied to the PT, has only reluctantly mobilized against the draconian cuts of the Temer government. (nacla.org)
  • In his editorials, the president of the Francophone union federation of metalworkers, the FGTB (67,000 members), Nico Cue, has made a speciality of denouncing these policies and the change of regime which accompanies it. (links.org.au)
  • Even after the impeachment of Dilma, the electoral failures of the PT, and the concentrated attacks on labor and social rights, the PT has refused to change its "neoliberal lite" political project that aims to reestablish alliances with big corporations and so-called centrist parties. (nacla.org)
  • Worldwide, many Christian democratic parties are members of the Centrist Democrat International . (wikipedia.org)
  • It is regarded as centrist but leaning to the left and has traditionally supported government-interventionist policies but has become more centrist and free-market-oriented in last couple of decades. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The second strongest party in the legislature is the Jatiya Party (JP), a conservative, centrist party. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Before stunned and furious social-democratic leaders, and in the presence of several hundred enthusiastic trade unionists, Piron denounced the austerity policies with which the PS has collaborated for 25 years without a break. (links.org.au)
  • The appeal by Piron and his comrades had a broad echo among trade unionists. (links.org.au)
  • The nominee will be selected among those candidates as someone who will balance the ticket considering their political ideology, demographic distribution and affiliations such as liberal, moderate or conservative, age, religion, etc. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • Party funding is not just in crisis in South Africa. (ifp.org.za)
  • The PCP stated that while maintaining its ideological and political positions, it is committed to ensure the departure of the right wing policies in Portugal. (cpim.org)
  • Here, he might have added, are the equivalent of grass roots politics in America, an outlet for the ordinary citizen to ensure that his own particular concerns are not ridden over roughshod by a centralizing government mounted on an ideological hobby-horse. (nybooks.com)
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan became known as the Axis Powers, and the forces that fought against Germany-France, Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States -were called the Allied Powers. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, an agreement that the two countries would not fight each other. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Under the terms of the nonaggression pact, the Soviet Union would not interfere with Germany's actions in Poland. (encyclopedia.com)
  • So when the Soviet Union disbanded, former communists - perhaps dressed up as social democrats or nationalists - took charge again. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • This position ignores that judges and public prosecutors are firmly part of the capitalist class with determined political interests - in this case, taking Lula out. (nacla.org)
  • The trade union movement has characteristics that make them particularly well-placed for this role, and especially feared by authoritarian regimes. (africasacountry.com)
  • Trade unions have representative structures from the workplace to the national level, and across geographical, ethnic, religious and historical divisions. (africasacountry.com)
  • It is abundantly clear that the Lava Jato investigation represents the judicialization of politics - that is, the dependence on the courts in deciding fundamentally political questions. (nacla.org)
  • Given the significant market proportion, PP represents, therefore, an opportunity for governments to promote responsible and sustainable business practices among their contractors. (lu.se)
  • Since 1987 they have participated in all the federal coalitions and also lead the Walloon regional government. (links.org.au)
  • The main elements that characterise the political, social and economic situation in the country are as follows. (socialist.net)
  • Labour's last term in government was marked by the economic collapse we inherited from Fianna Fail where over 250,000 workers lost their jobs. (labour.ie)
  • It's often said that Europe will continue to be unable to translate its economic power and its very big and positive institutional example into political power in the world. (lrb.co.uk)
  • The political and economic crisis is far from being resolved. (nacla.org)
  • Subsequent failures in trade and attempts at industrial modernization led to the country's final lag behind the British Empire, France and Germany in economic and political development. (collegesanduniversitiesinusa.com)
  • Our conversation ranged from how economic reform could have been done differently in Bulgaria and the failure to create a Labor Party to labor-market policies and the impact of the European Union on the Bulgarian economy. (ips-dc.org)
  • In Tunisia, where both the Islamic party, Ennahda, and liberal democrats were heavily repressed in the past, the friends and relatives of the old ruling family are still thought to pull most of the economic strings. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • Today we see far-right (neoliberal) economic policies, which have gutted ordinary people's economic lives, combined with trendy far-left, 'progressive' identity politics that focus on a tiny minority of the population, all enacted by the same single government. (europereloaded.com)
  • The G7 countries are the world's economic and political leaders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Over Europe, his government dithers like the Scots in 1979 and his party stops him accepting even modest electoral reform. (newstatesman.com)
  • This thesis is refreshing because it convincingly challenges the prevailing mode among British historians and political scientists of playing down the role of ideas in politics. (nybooks.com)
  • Yet despite the National Front clout on Malaysian politics, in the last two elections the opposition has succeeded in narrowing the gap to unprecedented levels. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) was banned in 1952 and remained illegal until its east wing component became the Bangladesh Communist Party (BCP) after 1971. (factsanddetails.com)
  • In post-communist Europe, for example, countries that faced similar problems took very different paths after they elected democratic governments in 1990. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • This time, contrary to the past, the main recipient of the Chinese community votes was not the traditional Malaysian Chinese Association, but the Democratic Action Party - a member of the PR coalition - which increased its seats by a third, up to 38 seats. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Teachers' unions are usually the largest in all countries, and often the most radical. (africasacountry.com)
  • On the other hand, "it is clear that a left political force is needed …which is sufficiently radical to face the situation…The radicalism of the austerity policies means that we need a political party which is ready to confront the Troika, the neoliberal dogmas, the single system of thought, the policies of the European Commission which are exclusively at the service of capital and the destruction of social benefits. (links.org.au)
  • On the other hand, "it is clear that a left political force is needed (…) which is sufficiently radical to face the situation. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • On the contrary, the factor most closely linked to the arrival of stability and growth is human: Those countries that had an "alternative elite" - a cadre of people who had worked together in the past, who had thought about government and who were at some level prepared to take it over - were far more likely both to carry out radical reforms and to persuade the population to accept them. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • se seleccionaron 11 estudios publicados en el período 2019-2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • Theoretically he could still be eligible to run in the 2018 elections, but if his conviction is maintained before this, he will lose all his political rights for twenty years. (nacla.org)
  • RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 14 2018 (IPS) - The government that will take office on Jan. 1 in Brazil, presided over by Jair Bolsonaro, will put to the test the extreme right in power, with beliefs that sound anachronistic and a management based on a direct connection with the public. (ipsnews.net)
  • Likewise, the US would do well to exit the various phony "free trade" agreements that provide advantage to the well-connected elites while harming the rest of us. (antiwar.com)
  • At the heart of the protest movement in Sudan is a trade union. (africasacountry.com)
  • Sudan's trade union movement was crucial in revolutions against military regimes in 1964 and 1985. (africasacountry.com)
  • The second is the existence of a government that has been weakened by the blows of the mass movement. (socialist.net)
  • If the mass movement fails to bring the government down through an intensification of the class struggle, it will cling on to power and carry out as much it can of the dirty work that has been assigned to them by local and international capital. (socialist.net)
  • In two directions: the debate inside the trade union movement and the left in general, on the one hand, and the call for political regrouping of left forces on the other. (links.org.au)
  • Compared to the pro-European EPP, those with Eurosceptic views may be members of the European Christian Political Movement . (wikipedia.org)
  • Neither the political patriciate nor the trade union movement had been savaged by Margaret Thatcher's capitalist counter-revolution. (newstatesman.com)
  • This seemed to be an excellent choice for McCain at first, McCain being an older man from Arizona with moderate views which did not appeal to all Republican votes, however, when balanced with Palin, a younger female from Alaska with very conservative views and idolised by the influential tea party movement almost all Republicans were in favour. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • At Israel's request, European governments including the UK and France are introducing anti-democratic legislation and taking other repressive measures to undermine the BDS movement. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • Latest figures from the Electoral Commission show that 74% of Labour's latest declared donations of £3.4m came from the trade union movement. (blogs.com)
  • Italian professor Donatella della Porta is a political scientist and world reference in the field of social movement studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The SPA is a reigniting the historically important role of trade unions in Sudanese politics , according to Sudanese-American journalist Isma'il Kushkush. (africasacountry.com)
  • There is a broad consensus across political parties that there is a need to regulate private party funding. (ifp.org.za)
  • Happy the Country in which consensus and conflict are ordered in a dialectic that makes of the political arena at once a market of interests and a forum for debate of fundamental moral concerns. (nybooks.com)
  • He then demonstrates that this consensus does not result in dim Butskellism rendering Government and Opposition almost indistinguishable. (nybooks.com)
  • The EU was meant to be a customs union where post-World War II Western Europe could rebuild itself through free trade and a reduction in bureaucracy. (antiwar.com)
  • Party (KKE) leadership bearing the greater responsibility in this - to form a left political coalition that would state clearly to the workers that they will take power in order to implement a programme that can eradicate once and for all the very system that is responsible for the debt, and for poverty and unemployment. (socialist.net)
  • I want to begin by welcoming former Clerys workers including Susie McGowan who I met yesterday and also her trade union colleagues. (labour.ie)
  • This means that we have been unswerving in our support for workers in both government and opposition. (labour.ie)
  • Our record on workers' speaks for itself, our dignity-at-work agenda was evident in every decision we made over the previous 5 years which is why it is outrageous that the current Programme for Government pays little more than lip service to the rights of working people in Ireland. (labour.ie)
  • An extremely dangerous leader who seemed to have a spellbinding grasp on his followers, Hitler had spent the previous decade building up the National Socialist German Workers' Party (or Nazi Party for short). (encyclopedia.com)
  • and the leftist peasants and workers party, the Krishak Sramik Party (KSP) of Fazlul Haq. (factsanddetails.com)
  • I congratulate the government, health workers, communities and all WHO staff who were involved in the response. (bvsalud.org)
  • British prime minister Neville Chamberlain (the chief officer of the British government) sought to avoid war between Germany and Britain. (encyclopedia.com)
  • But whatever the outcome of the contest, Jeremy Corbyn's campaign has already transformed the political situation in Britain. (socialismtoday.org)
  • And although explicit references to it have been muted in the campaign, even the S-word itself - socialism - is now back in 'mainstream' political debate. (socialismtoday.org)
  • Every four years, after the general elections, the General Council elects the head of government, who, in turn, chooses the other members of the Executive Council. (wikipedia.org)
  • The nation-wide structures make them well-placed organizationally to mobilize broadly, and union leaders are responsible to members through democratic structures. (africasacountry.com)
  • More explicit support came from the general secretary of a trade union organisation of the Confédération des syndicats chrétiens (CSC, Confederation of Christian Trade Unions), the Centrale nationale des employés (CNE, 160,000 members). (links.org.au)
  • On that day the leaders of the Charleroi regional branch of the socialist trade union FGTB â€" the second biggest in the country, with 102,000 members â€" publicly broke with the social democratic party and called for a rallying of the left to the perspective of a new broad, anti-capitalist force to the left of the PS and the Greens. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • During a previous coup attempt in the period of December 17-25, 2013, FETÖ members, who were vested in security units, media outlets, and the judiciary, made concerted efforts to erase then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the governing AK Party from Turkey's political scene. (insightturkey.com)
  • On the other hand, trade union affiliation (when democratically exercised by union members) enshrined the potential ability of the working class through the unions to control its political representatives. (socialismtoday.org)
  • In all, there were more than 30 political parties operating in the east wing, most of the them small, fractious, and with few elected members. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Labour's ambition is much broader, encompassing the whole of civil society and in keeping with our traditions as a social democratic party. (labour.ie)
  • The two co-princes serve coequally with limited powers that do not include an individual veto over government acts (however, a bill can in effect be "vetoed" if both do not sign the legislation). (wikipedia.org)
  • At every point in government, both central and local, but most especially in the Executive, i.e., in the Whitehall ministries, pressure groups are officially and unofficially brought into the process of legislation and administration, and mediate between the political parties and the electorate. (nybooks.com)
  • Under an agreement reached with the unions in July 2004, the 'Warwick Agreement', Labour agreed over 60 concessions, including the watering down of anti-strike legislation and additional Government funding for the unions. (blogs.com)
  • The fundamental impetus for this political transformation was a recommendation by the Council of Europe in 1990 that, if Andorra wished to attain full integration in the European Union (EU), it should adopt a modern constitution that guarantees the rights of those living and working there. (wikipedia.org)
  • Immediately after forming government it accepted another round of austerity measures imposed by the European Union and other multinational financial agencies. (cpim.org)
  • When I used to travel a lot people would say: 'Tell us, please, tell us about the European Union. (lrb.co.uk)
  • [7] [8] Christian democrats led postwar Western and Southern Europe in building the welfare states and constructing the European Union . (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite all of the steps towards democratic consolidation that Turkey has taken, both within the frame of its accession bid to the European Union (EU) in the 2000s, and in the legal-constitutional reforms it initiated for the demilitarization of the country, such an unusual coup attempt indicates that Turkey has not completely left the threat of military coups behind. (insightturkey.com)
  • In return, the unions agreed to provide funding for Labour's 2005 General Election campaign. (blogs.com)
  • A lack of understanding of international business standards and practices among the political and bureaucratic class, and a legal and regulatory regime that is not quite aligned with international practices also hinder, impede and frustrate foreign investors. (state.gov)
  • With the aim of penetrating into Turkey's military, civilian, and bureaucratic mechanisms, FETÖ opted for a pragmatic interaction with political parties (depending on the conjuncture) and tried to establish a shadow state structure in the country. (insightturkey.com)
  • However, the most spectacular aspect of this speech was not the denunciation of the role of the social democrats in coalition governments with the right, but rather the explicit call for the construction of an anti-capitalist political alternative, to the left of the PS and the Ecolo party (ecologist party). (links.org.au)
  • It is telling that it was the work of a trade union, the newly established Sudan Professionals Association (SPA), rather than war, sanctions or charges by the International Criminal Court against President Omar al-Bashir, that ended his regime after 30 years. (africasacountry.com)
  • Back then, New Labour declared it would stick to Tory spending plans for its early years in office, so sensitive was it to the charge of being the tax-and-spend party. (spiked-online.com)
  • It is impossible to calculate the amount of funds made available to parties by donors over the past thirteen years. (ifp.org.za)
  • Nepal's ruling parties have spent much of their energy over the last years on internal political squabbles instead of governance. (state.gov)
  • The nineties were challenging years in Bulgaria for trade unions affiliated with the political opposition. (ips-dc.org)
  • The ensuing years brought new waves of repression, followed by a right-wing reaction that ultimately toppled the government. (crimethinc.com)
  • Until the private funding of political parties is regulated, expect more scandals involving undemocratic regimes, fronts for political parties and corporate donors exhibiting an unhealthy taste for self-interest. (ifp.org.za)
  • Those protests did show the potential for mass politics. (africasacountry.com)
  • This notion has, however, been skillfully blended with the modern idea of mass participation in politics through ginger groups such as Rab Butler's young men and the Bow Group. (nybooks.com)
  • In contrast, the Labour Party's distrust of elitism, and its view that the rank and file of the party create policy within the party in which differences of outlook are publicly revealed, is equally clearly stamped upon the record of the party in the last decade. (nybooks.com)
  • Turkey has suffered from interventions and enforcements against its elected governments, on the average, in every decade. (insightturkey.com)
  • Despite the austerity measures that followed, in the recent elections the Syriza was once again reelected to government even while it was short of the requisite majority. (cpim.org)
  • How this new government will face the pressures for greater austerity measures has to be seen. (cpim.org)
  • There were fierce debates within the union over whether to be involved in formal politics. (ips-dc.org)
  • But the trade unions' collective role was systematically erased, too, starting with the introduction in 1994 of 'one member, one vote' (OMOV) rules for selecting candidates. (socialismtoday.org)
  • A staunch defender of the traditional family, his will have a strong presence in his government, which has already begun to spark conflicts and scandals involving some of his offspring. (ipsnews.net)
  • Some students of political communications expand their scope to consider under that rubric much more than just the characteristics of specialized communications institutions (Berelson et al. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In this two-party state the Conservative and Labour Parties hold completely divergent views about the nature of politics, and their ideas impose upon them different policies, different party structures, and a different conception of the relation of man to the State which create two opposed styles of politics. (nybooks.com)
  • Daniel Richard, inter-professional secretary of the Verviers regional organisation of the FGTB, adds: "It is the role of the union, and even its raison d'être, not only to defend the works at the level of the workplaces, but also to impose another policy. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • The suggestion that New Labour is dead is somewhat ironic since the party is itself merely the zombie left behind after the demise of 'Old Labour', which was placed on life support, brain dead, after that 1992 election defeat. (spiked-online.com)
  • Yet this does not mean that the Left should support the PT's and Lula's political project. (nacla.org)
  • Uncritical support of Lava Jato also ignores the fact that the entire left, social movements, and unions are tarnished by the witch-hunt against the PT. (nacla.org)
  • Such a resolution will depend on the capacity of social movements, unions, and left parties to block the attacks on labor and social rights (which not even Lula himself has indicated he will not repeal if elected), force Temer out of the government, demand direct elections for president and the Congress, and construct a viable political alternative. (nacla.org)
  • I think that it is necessary to have, to the left of the PS and Ecolo, a more significant political force, better structured, more credible and unitary than what currently exists. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • The election victory of the right-wing extremist Geert Wilders in the Dutch parliamentary elections is the product of the complete bankruptcy of the former left-wing forces and at the same time expresses the shift to the right of the entire political establishment. (wsws.org)
  • Without satisfactory results, the greatest risk is that the government will become unviable, if its relations with the other branches of power and with institutions and organised groups deteriorate," and the strong expectations of change created in the elections are frustrated, he said. (ipsnews.net)
  • By such broad definitions "political communication" is a category that includes a large proportion of all deliberative and hortatory activities that take place outside of the household. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Government buying comprises a significant proportion of the overall global economy, accounting for 15-20% of the global GDP. (lu.se)