• No organisation - including the Labour Party - has thought longer and harder about how we make Britain a more equal country. (fabians.org.uk)
  • But the truth is that the Labour Party has not been particularly effective at making the case against inequality in recent years. (fabians.org.uk)
  • And I don't know anybody in the Labour Party who doesn't feel the same way. (fabians.org.uk)
  • Today, that hatred fuels support for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Bernie Sanders. (cei.org)
  • Everything, it seems, except the British left's desperate, bankrupt case for supporting the Labour Party. (spiked-online.com)
  • 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 Farmer-Labour party is an important part of the political history of Japan. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Farmer-Labour Party of Japan was a political party of socialist views that conducted their work from 1926 to 1928. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Farmer-Labour Party is not to be confused with the Japan Labour-Farmer Party, which was also active in Japan during the 1920s. (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 politics of the Farmer-Labour Party firmly confronted the idea of Japan being involved in political shifts that were happening in China. (worldatlas.com)
  • The Farmer-Labour Party was often compared to the Communist International (the so-called Third International that operated from 1919 to 1943). (worldatlas.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • With the help from the Farmer-Labour Party, they created an All-Japan Peasant Union, along with the National Women's League. (worldatlas.com)
  • After all the turmoil has ended, the Farmer-Labour Party had about 6,000 members. (worldatlas.com)
  • 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)
  • Finally, in December of 1928, the Farmer-Labour Party joined the Proletarian Masses Party and other parties that were consisting mostly of Japan farmers. (worldatlas.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)
  • 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)
  • This challenge to the ANC by the country's largest trade union, with more than 440,000 members, has caused shockwaves throughout the country. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Italy's fiscal problems and the government's inability to take effective action against excessive spending are at the core of the country's poor economic performance and high national debt. (iea.org.uk)
  • Instead of comprehensive peace, the CPA prompted the two parties to pursue a set of coincident interests largely created by the country's oil industry, which pumps southern oil through northern pipelines. (merip.org)
  • Meanwhile, though the government has managed to secure economic aid, or pledges to that end, from multilateral and bilateral donors, it continues to battle an ever-growing mass of discontent and dissent from the country's trade unions and civil society. (thediplomat.com)
  • Already two MPs from the main opposition party, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), have pledged to make representations in Geneva regarding the country's health crisis and the government's complicity in it. (thediplomat.com)
  • It played a vital role in the formation of the country's working-class organizations, including the establishment of trade unions. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Later, as change accelerated in the country, it was a founding member of the opposition coalition known as the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF). (ips-dc.org)
  • 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)
  • For the first time ever the grip on power of the National Front (Barisan Nasional - BN), the ruling coalition that has led the country for several decades, was on the brink of collapse. (opendemocracy.net)
  • 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 National Front coalition has won every general election since 1957 thanks to, among others things, favorable constitutional reform, corruption, abuse of power, media control, electoral fraud and strong influence on the electoral commission and the electoral districts boundaries. (opendemocracy.net)
  • 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)
  • The Movement's land occupation strategy combined legal-constitutional tactics, extra parliamentary action with an inclusive style of coalition politics that brought together church organizations, human rights groups, urban trade unions, parliamentary parties, local civic groups, and municipal officials. (libcom.org)
  • Bashir and the leadership of his National Congress Party (NCP) - a coalition of Islamists, security men, and financial and commercial capital - have held power in Sudan since a 1989 coup. (merip.org)
  • Only a third of the eligible electorate voted in the city-state of Bremen for either of Germany's two main "people's parties"-the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU)-which govern in a grand coalition in Berlin. (wsws.org)
  • The Green Party and the Left Party were able to profit from the growing opposition to the grand coalition of the SPD and CDU, which has ruled Bremen for the past twelve years. (wsws.org)
  • The federal chairman of the SPD Kurt Beck explained that the decision on a new government coalition rested in the hands of the regional organization in Bremen, but sections of the SPD have already indicated their preference for an alliance with the Greens. (wsws.org)
  • Commenting on the election result the Hamburger Abendblatt wrote, "From today competitive pressure by the Left Party will intensify scenarios of a departure from the grand coalition in Berlin amongst the lefts in the SPD. (wsws.org)
  • Speakers for the CDU called for a clear statement of intent from the SPD regarding the continuation of the grand coalition and, as he has done in the past, vice-chancellor Franz Müntefering (SPD) declared that the drop in support for his party in this local election would have no effect on the government's program and policies. (wsws.org)
  • It also means that coalition governments are the norm. (havingtheircake.com)
  • Since then, the charter has served to bind together the Tripartite Alliance of the ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Member of the Communist Party from 1936 to 1957, he now considers himself 'on the extreme right of the extreme left. (marxists.org)
  • The Bangladesh Communist Party and factions of the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal represent the extreme left and advocate revolutionary changes in the government. (factsanddetails.com)
  • 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)
  • Uncharacteristic of military coups but in concert with the general global trend of Keynesianism and consensus politics of the time, the new 1961 constitution liberalised the political system, allowing for the formation of socialist, but not communist, parties. (isj.org.uk)
  • Cardoso's restructuring of the economy has met with only sporadic and ineffective opposition among urban trade unions (like the CUT) and the parliamentary opposition (Workers Party, Communist Party of Brazil, etc. (libcom.org)
  • Workers decorate an office of the Kurdistan Communist Party - Iraq. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Then there is the oldest party in the Kurdistan Region, the Kurdistan Communist Party. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The Kurdistan Communist Party was technically founded in 1993, although in reality this simply meant the branch of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) in what had become the Kurdistan Region was now solely responsible for its own affairs in the new de facto independent area. (peoplesworld.org)
  • In 1963, the U.S.-backed Ba'athist coup that deposed Abd al-Karim Qasim led to thousands of Communist Party members being slaughtered in the following days, with party leader Salam Adil among those executed. (peoplesworld.org)
  • However, in the mid-1970s, relations between the Communist Party and the Ba'athists warmed somewhat, with the Communists initially viewing Saddam Hussein positively when he came to power, even referring to him in glowing terms as Iraq's own variant of Fidel Castro in the aftermath of nationalization campaigns. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Hawre Gorran, Deputy Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Communist Party in Sulaymaniyah. (peoplesworld.org)
  • But with Iraq effectively split in two, given the level of control that the KRG enjoys over its own affairs (even in light of Iraqi federal intervention after the botched 2017 independence referendum), I wanted to know to what degree the Kurdistan Communist Party remains relevant. (peoplesworld.org)
  • In Sulaymaniyah, where the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is the dominant political force, I was able to speak with the Deputy Secretary-General for the Communist Party in the governorate, Hawre Gorran. (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)
  • [33] Christian Democracy fosters an " ecumenical unity achieved on the religious level against the atheism of the government in the Communist countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • In 1928 an initiative was started by the Communist Party, who proposed that the two parties, carrying an almost identical name, should unite their political ambitions and ideologies. (worldatlas.com)
  • In 1950 the opposition Democrat Party (DP), headed by Adnan Menderes, won a landslide election victory that marked major political, economic and social changes. (isj.org.uk)
  • 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)
  • The many years of tinkering with the electoral district boundaries and the electoral laws by the National Front means that the PR came home with less parliamentary seats than the BN, a democratic paradox that Malaysia shares with many advanced western democracies. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Still the results are an important reminder of the declining popularity of Najib Razak's government, and they raise embarrassing questions about the overall fairness of the electoral process. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The most recent conference decided to build a new democratic Left party, which is the first electoral effort of its kind in Ukraine. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Though they have managed to achieve some electoral success, public perception of them as a genuine opposition party that can tackle the mismanagement of the region appears to have dulled. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of Labour when the party suffered its fourth successive electoral defeat in 1992, was exultant: 'This is the social democratic moment. (spiked-online.com)
  • There was also substantial electoral support for the Left Party, which received 8.4 percent. (wsws.org)
  • The extreme right-wing German People's Union (DVU) received 5.4 percent and, due to an anomaly in the local electoral law, will be able to send a deputy into the state parliament. (wsws.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)
  • Saudi Arabia has huge reserves of oil, is one of the largest procurers of defence equipment in the world and is Britain's biggest trading partner in the Middle East, while the UK is its second biggest foreign investor. (jeancalder.co.uk)
  • For a little more than a decade, Britain's centre left party turned its back on past economic folly. (spiked-online.com)
  • This will be paid for in the short term by extra borrowing, with Britain's national debt projected to reach 57 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2013. (spiked-online.com)
  • 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)
  • Zambia remains highly dependent on its mining and extractives industry, which accounts for 77% of exports and 39% of government revenue as of 2021, according to the Zambia Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative. (state.gov)
  • Jamaat-e-Islami Party and the Islami Oikyo Jote represent the extreme right and Islamist side of Bangladeshi politics. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Such a reconsideration was particularly unaffordable for the NCP, which despite winning an overwhelming majority for itself in the 2010 general elections, still sees itself as a minority party with an Islamist ideological base that requires shari'a (Islamic law) components in the constitution and commercial and criminal law. (merip.org)
  • There are some minor Islamist parties that have seats in parliament, as well as the New Generation Movement that won eight seats in the 2018 election. (peoplesworld.org)
  • By the early 1920s, communism and social democracy had become the two dominant political tendencies within the international socialist movement, with socialism itself becoming the most influential secular movement of the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • One is the transition towards a post-apartheid political democracy. (greenleft.org.au)
  • How did democracy and political organisations develop in Britain? (aqa.org.uk)
  • Whilst politics was changing dramatically across Europe, we were seeking out the safe and stolid comfort zone of technocratic social democracy. (fabians.org.uk)
  • In accepting the terms of the 1947 Truman Doctrine-aid from the United States in return for democratisation and a liberal economy-the regime that had ruled Turkey since the First World War voluntarily made way for bourgeois democracy and introduced multi-party elections. (isj.org.uk)
  • The CPA also promised national reconciliation, democracy and a transformation of the regime's internal security forces, but the elites made little attempt to fulfill of these pledges, which required unaffordable changes to Sudan's coercive political culture and a reconsideration of national identity. (merip.org)
  • Of these, three emerged that were able to contest elections: the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the Alliance for Democracy , and the All People's Party. (britannica.com)
  • 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)
  • The struggles for full National Rights of the Maori people and against racism. (trevorloudon.com)
  • But the left, dominated by Stalinist and Kemalist politics, drew the young activists into guerrilla warfare and street clashes with fascists and was unable to build out of the confident, combative working class struggles. (isj.org.uk)
  • On the other hand, in the countryside, major confrontations have taken place Large-scale struggles have been an ongoing reality Cardoso's political offensive, featuring the massive privatization of lucrative mines, telecommunications energy (and other key industries), his deregulation o financial markets, the liberalization of trade and capital flows has severely eroded the economic base a nationalist populist constituencies composed of local producers and industrial workers. (libcom.org)
  • Examines historic bases of social movements: political parties, both moderate and radical unionism and land struggles, the reaction against neoliberal economic policies of the 1990s undermining earlier economic and political gains. (civilresistance.info)
  • For the overwhelming majority of those on the left, however, at a time of mass protest movements and trade union struggles, Labourism remained the safest bet to take on Thatcher's Tories. (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)
  • 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)
  • In the 2008 election, for the first time in over 50 years, the National Front was unable to retain its two-thirds majority of the parliament (an essential prerequisite to amend the constitution unilaterally - which has happened 60 times in the past). (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)
  • Wickremesinghe, whose own party controls just one seat in Parliament, needs the support of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Rajapaksa-linked party that rose to power in the aftermath of the attacks. (thediplomat.com)
  • 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)
  • This was sufficient for the party to enter a West German state parliament for the first time. (wsws.org)
  • Major opposition party: Bangladesh National Party (BNP) of Begum Khaleda Zia. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Cambodia's self-exiled opposition party founder Sam Rainsy, who has vowed to return to his home country, gestures to supporters after being prevented from checking-in for a flight from Paris to Bangkok at Roissy Airport in Paris, France November 7, 2019. (voacambodia.com)
  • The president went ahead with the speech, and it was a remarkable demonstration of his political skills: warm, self-deprecating and nostalgic, replete with well-aimed anecdotes about his affection and concern for southerners, as well as promises to support the referendum process, respect the results and work out problems within the framework of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the northern and southern leaderships. (merip.org)
  • This movement has confronted the government, but also the trade union and political leaderships! (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Heading the one-party (Republican People's Party, CHP), bureaucratic, authoritarian regime, Atatürk set out to fashion, with a series of reforms, a modernised, secular nation in which a capitalist class could develop and take the country into the 20th -century. (isj.org.uk)
  • Makinde and Fayose recently had open political differences over the control of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the southwest region. (legit.ng)
  • In the past, however, it reflected a commitment to a political struggle in which major differences were at stake. (spiked-online.com)
  • Swedish political life is based on the idea of collaboration and co-determination, so whilst there are conventional political parties, the ideological differences between them are relatively minor by comparison with some other countries. (havingtheircake.com)
  • By 1991, and the election of the first non-socialist government, Podkrepa formally withdrew from the UDF. (ips-dc.org)
  • It could have been an election of historical proportions, the foundation of Malaysia's new democratic future, and instead, as a reluctant guest of honor at a much-hyped party, the future refused to show up. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In US presidential election, a balanced ticket is described as a condition when the candidate chose a 'running mate' usually of the same party with the aim of acquiring more widespread appeal to the campaign. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • The presidential candidate must select his Vice-Presidential nominee and present them at the national nominating convention which is usually held between July and September of the election year. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • 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)
  • The last time Phnom Penh saw large scale violence was when garment and CNRP protests were violently dispersed by the government in early 2014, following the contested 2013 national election. (voacambodia.com)
  • However, although all main opposition parties, including the populist and Eurosceptic 5-Star Movement, are calling for an early general election, the final say is in the hands of Sergio Mattarella, the Italian Republic's President, who will soon open consultations to find a new Prime Minister. (iea.org.uk)
  • Although Babangida voided presidential primary elections held in 1992, and all the candidates were banned from politics, a presidential election was slated for June 1993 between two pro-government candidates: Chief M.K.O. Abiola of the SDP and Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the NRC. (britannica.com)
  • Since the first General Election debate in which I got involved, back in 1979, everything has changed in British politics. (spiked-online.com)
  • 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)
  • The state election in the north German city of Bremen on May 13 clearly revealed the extent of popular opposition to the federal government. (wsws.org)
  • Four years ago the two parties currently fusing to form the Left Party (the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and the Election Alternative-WASG) received just 1.7 percent in Bremen. (wsws.org)
  • On the evening of the election result the re-elected Bremen mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) announced that his party would "rapidly" form a government and invited both parties for exploratory discussions. (wsws.org)
  • The Bremen election result is a consequence of government policies at a federal and state level aimed at combating economic problems by increasing social and welfare cuts, which have brought about rapid social decline. (wsws.org)
  • When opposition parties supported economic reforms that adversely affected workers, these debates became even more heated. (ips-dc.org)
  • It is however imperative that Italy pursue further market reforms once the new government is in place. (iea.org.uk)
  • This is a complex problem for free marketers, who understand trade-offs, and are fine with parties who have had an unfair advantage losing that advantage-an attitude that can be seen as cold-hearted towards the "losers" when reforms are instituted. (cei.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)
  • Socialism is a political philosophy and movement encompassing a wide range of economic and social systems which are characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. (wikipedia.org)
  • Different types of socialism vary based on the role of markets and planning in resource allocation, on the structure of management in organizations, and from below or from above approaches, with some socialists favouring a party, state, or technocratic-driven approach. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following the end of the Cold War and the revolutions of 1989, many of these countries have moved away from socialism as a neoliberal consensus replaced the social democratic consensus in the advanced capitalist world, while many former socialist politicians and political parties embraced "Third Way" politics, remaining committed to equality and welfare, while abandoning public ownership and class-based politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • This turned out to be a serious miscalculation that forced him out of power in August 1993, and an Interim National Government (ING) was instituted, led by Yoruba businessman Ernest Shonekan. (britannica.com)
  • If the political future of Nigeria appeared bright with the victory of Chief Abiola in June 1993, Abacha's seizure of power and subsequent rule reversed most of the gains that the country had made since 1960. (britannica.com)
  • Though the Iraqi party, as well as its Kurdish sister party set up in 1993, opposed the U.S. invasion of 2003, the democratization of politics that has taken place since has allowed the ICP to take on a renewed prominence in Iraq. (peoplesworld.org)
  • From 1993 to 2003, she was a professor of Political Science at Università degli Studi di Firenze . (bvsalud.org)
  • As a term, it describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally socialist state led to socialism's widespread association with the Soviet economic model, several scholars posit that in practice, the model functioned as a form of state capitalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • The main elements that characterise the political, social and economic situation in the country are as follows. (socialist.net)
  • Many believed an ANC government would implement the goals set out in the Freedom Charter , which calls for radical economic and political measures. (greenleft.org.au)
  • When I asked what the founders of the new party meant when they declared themselves a party of the left, Potarskaya replied that the party will challenge social, economic, and gender inequalities, and the members are now in the process of drawing up a program with specific demands along those lines. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • There has been increased anxiety over economic prospects ever since the European Union said it was investigating potential suspension of the "Everything But Arms" trade preferences over systemic human rights violations in the country. (voacambodia.com)
  • There are widespread worries that political uncertainty will only compound long-standing economic problems which were never properly addressed by Mr. Renzi in his almost three years of office. (iea.org.uk)
  • While women have gained some ground in terms of economic rights, their civil and political rights are systematically violated. (jeancalder.co.uk)
  • The G7 countries are the world's economic and political leaders. (bvsalud.org)
  • The early return to the classrooms announced by the CNTE was a far cry from the failure that the Cu government claimed: Parents Respond to Section 22 s Call to Resume Classes was the headline in Gr fico (21 August), while El Imparcial of the same date announced that in the Tehuantepec Isthmus region, 90% of Schools Began the 2015-2016 School Year. (internationalist.org)
  • According to the Italian Treasury, Italy's 2016 total government spending as a percentage of national income will be 49.6%, higher still than in 2011, when the country was hit hard by the European debt crisis. (iea.org.uk)
  • Against this background, this study presents an assessment of the political economy of the foiled coup attempt on July 15, 2016 via the main theoretical approaches developed to explain the relations between economy and military coups. (insightturkey.com)
  • The socialist political movement includes a set of political philosophies that originated in the revolutionary movements of the mid-to-late 18th century and out of concern for the social problems that socialists associated with capitalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • In their turn, party and union provided (often unwillingly) the institutional and rhetorical matrix for fluid social movements of much greater ambition and inventiveness. (newleftreview.org)
  • trade unions are in long-term decline, and movements for peace, racial and sexual equality have all but petered out, not because any of their long-term objectives were realized, but because they are unable to mobilize support. (newleftreview.org)
  • Trade union movements were suspended and protesters were killed, yet opposition to the government, particularly outside of the country, did not abate. (britannica.com)
  • The main research interests of Professor della Porta relate to the themes of social movements, political violence, protest policing and corruption. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this sense, della Porta's central concern in the contemporary study of social movements is to "bring capitalism back" (Della Porta, 2015) to the debate as an essential ele- ment for the sociological and political understanding of global conflicts. (bvsalud.org)
  • I think there are many challenges, because the type of social movements and the type of con- tentious politics that are developing are different from the ones that were addressed by social move- ment studies traditionally. (bvsalud.org)
  • 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)
  • Without these agents there appear to be only two forces capable of shaping the contemporary world: market globalization propelled by governments and multinational corporations, and populist reactions that seek to assert national or communal sovereignty. (newleftreview.org)
  • Within this landscape, a new political agent has been identified-a potential alternative both to the global market and to the populist responses to it. (newleftreview.org)
  • Socialist parties and ideas remain a political force with varying degrees of power and influence on all continents, heading national governments in many countries around the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Main sets this development in the context of socialist parties winning power through elections in other Latin American countries. (civilresistance.info)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The 1979 constitution was modified by a Constituent Assembly, and a series of elections were then held for local government councillors, state governors, and legislatures. (britannica.com)
  • The Labour governments of 1974-1979, elected on a wave of trade union militancy and anti-Toryism, went on to cut working-class living standards to meet the needs of British capitalism in the recession, slashing public spending and imposing a five per cent norm for pay rises at a time of rampant inflation and mass unemployment. (spiked-online.com)
  • An important role for unarmed resistance has been for people to mobilize in defence of their existing government against illegal attempts by military and political groups to seize power. (civilresistance.info)
  • Whilst unarmed resistance to coups is sometimes treated as part of a wider debate about the possibility of defending existing governments and society against military attack, its importance is in many ways distinct from the case for abandoning weapons for national defence, and can be seen as central to debates about democratization. (civilresistance.info)
  • Do market mechanisms have a role to play in national defence? (iea.org.uk)
  • Their respective parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), have long dominated the political landscape, dividing the territory of the autonomous region between themselves after a period of intense inner-Kurdish warfare in the 1990s. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Unsatisfied with the consolation prizes of cheap Chinese-made goods or government handouts, it's no surprise many of these voters dropped out of two-party politics. (cei.org)
  • How do voters participate and achieve political efficacy? (powershow.com)
  • In doing so he pitted modernism against "backward" religion and cleaved the nation along ideological lines-Kemalism against Islamism-such that the development of modern Turkey has been carried out as an ideological, and at times physical, tug of war between the two, encapsulated today by the CHP and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). (isj.org.uk)
  • The truth is that, throughout this crisis, the government has been too slow to introduce lockdowns, too reluctant to tighten our borders and too ideological in its approach to test and trace. (newstatesman.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)
  • The immediate popular resistance to the military coup in 2009, that ousted the democratically elected President Manuel Zelava, did not defeat the coup, but a sustained and impressive movement continued under the National Front for Popular Resistance, which brought together trade unions, church leaders, academics and teachers and others, despite violent repression by the military and police. (civilresistance.info)
  • and the leftist peasants and workers party, the Krishak Sramik Party (KSP) of Fazlul Haq. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The Communists were proud of their heritage as a multinational party and advocated an Iraqi state with full rights for both of its dominant nations, Arabs and Kurds. (peoplesworld.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Addressing a press conference on Monday, October 25 in Abuja , the national chairman of the forum, Alhaji Gambo Lawan, called on all political parties and leaders, religious and traditional rulers, professional bodies to join the movement. (legit.ng)
  • The one act of political terrorism, Trades Hall bombing, targeted the union movement. (trevorloudon.com)
  • A turning point had been marked in 1968, when the student occupation movement politicised a generation of students, pulling many into radical politics. (isj.org.uk)
  • The article was written at a time when the Landless Workers Movement/Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST) was building links to Brazilian parliamentary parties. (libcom.org)
  • The coup was partly aimed at forestalling a peace agreement to end the civil war between the Khartoum government and the southern-based rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), now led by Kiir. (merip.org)
  • The extent of the corruption and nepotism of both major parties, as well as their monopoly on power, led to the emergence of the Gorran Movement in 2009. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Compared to the pro-European EPP, those with Eurosceptic views may be members of the European Christian Political Movement . (wikipedia.org)
  • It served a pivotal political role during that time in Japan because the socialist movement itself suffered from disunity. (worldatlas.com)
  • This movement was not initiated by any party or trade union. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Discreetly, "les Républicains" and the Socialist Party have expressed their sympathy with the movement. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • On the other hand, while leaders of France insoumise, such as Jean-Louis Mélenchon or François Ruffin have expressed support for the movement in several televised interventions, as has Olivier Besancenot of the NPA, all major trade unions, not only the CFDT and FO but also the CGT and Solidaires have refused to support the demonstrations, insisting on the manipulations of the far-right and the road transport bosses. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Italian professor Donatella della Porta is a political scientist and world reference in the field of social movement studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • So, no matter which political party is in power, they are prevented from trending to extremes by the overall national consensus and particularly by the well-entrenched collaborative frameworks. (havingtheircake.com)
  • When the ANC swept into power in 1994, it did so as the party that had successfully led the anti-apartheid struggle. (greenleft.org.au)
  • According to the "Gale Encyclopedia of World History: Governments": There are more than one hundred political parties in Bangladesh, but only thirty to forty have an active presence, with five wielding the most political power. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Focuses particularly on role of the National Front of Popular Resistance in creating in 2011 a new political party Liberty and Refoundation with the aim of winning power and creating a new constitution. (civilresistance.info)
  • It has now come to light that FETÖ conspired to develop a shadow state or parallel, state-within-a-state structure in Turkey, which gained strength and legitimacy in national and international public opinion via its media, education, and banking entities, owing to its cooperation with clandestine power centers. (insightturkey.com)
  • This had initially been the line of the Qasim government that had taken power in 1958, which the Communists generally supported. (peoplesworld.org)
  • How will the bombshell charge that the Rajapaksas were complicit in the 2019 Easter bombings impact Sri Lankan politics? (thediplomat.com)
  • A documentary on the 2019 Easter bombings, released this week by the United Kingdom's Channel 4 but expected for a long time, has opened a political can of worms in Sri Lanka. (thediplomat.com)
  • Yet in 2019 it was the SLPP that accused Wickremesinghe, who was then prime minister, of neglecting national security. (thediplomat.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)
  • A similar process is happening in the United States, but it is more widespread and blamed on both parties in Washington. (cei.org)
  • It seems that collaborative frameworks enable Sweden to avoid the suspicion of government that seems to afflict some other countries, because people understand that government is not solely responsible for policy, and that their interests are represented through their affiliations to employers, unions and local government. (havingtheircake.com)
  • The nineties were challenging years in Bulgaria for trade unions affiliated with the political opposition. (ips-dc.org)
  • I was the head of the national employment service for four years: at the time when the unemployment rate ranged around 18-19 percent. (ips-dc.org)
  • Just someone who paid union dues for years and saw a lot of sellouts and shitty deals made with bosses. (trevorloudon.com)
  • The following three years of military rule largely destroyed the left and re-stabilised the system, establishing a less tolerant political atmosphere for the imposition of neoliberalism. (isj.org.uk)
  • Over the past 30 years, Brazilian governments-both military and civilian-have proclaimed the need for "agrarian reform" but have resisted implementing an effective policy. (libcom.org)
  • For the past six years, relations between Kiir and Bashir, the leaders of Sudan's two ruling parties, have been marked by obstruction and wary confrontation. (merip.org)
  • 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)
  • The vote represented an increase compared to the party's showing in Bremen in the federal elections held two years ago (5.5 percent), although the party lost 7,000 votes compared to its 2005 total. (wsws.org)
  • The legacy of successive Conservative governments since 2010 is that we were less secure as a country, and less resilient in the face of a crisis. (newstatesman.com)
  • The documentary comes at a particularly sensitive time for the Wickremesinghe government, when the regime's very raison d'être is being called into question. (thediplomat.com)
  • W ithin contemporary radical politics, there are a lot of questions to which there are many possible answers, and one question to which there is none. (newleftreview.org)
  • The gaping hole that was left behind ruined many peoples' lives - and made the Conservative Party and free market economics objects of utter hatred in some regions. (cei.org)
  • And every two or three weeks that followed, the evolution of the political situation provoked an escalation, as a growing number of people were taking over the streets, especially after special police forces began to beat and even kill demonstrators. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Since the announcement, there has been a significant escalation in political intimidation and arrests. (voacambodia.com)
  • Secondly, she took on the union in a major national strike. (cei.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)
  • The United Kingdom has left the European Union and we must now redefine our global role in an uncertain world. (newstatesman.com)
  • Contrary to conventional wisdom outside of Italy, the referendum had nothing to do with either the European Union or Italy's euro membership. (iea.org.uk)
  • [7] [8] Christian democrats led postwar Western and Southern Europe in building the welfare states and constructing the European Union . (wikipedia.org)
  • The financial turmoil will persist and intensify, providing a constant source of political instability. (socialist.net)
  • Teachers of Section 22 of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE) hold a protest rally in the main square of the city of Oaxaca on August 20 after a march marking the beginning of the school year and in defiance of orders of the federal and state governments. (internationalist.org)