• The analysis shows how political tensions have been played out in systemic and event con- spiracy theories in Polish mainstream media before the presidential elections in spring 2020. (lu.se)
  • Given his own extensive powers today, it's ironic that in the 1970s, when he was still in the political wilderness, Mahathir criticised the country's founding Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman for being too powerful and 'making the party subservient to the person. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Will His Bet on the Country's Political Future Pay Off? (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has disbanded Africa's largest political party in an effort to reinvent the country's politics-but some powerful players stand to lose, and they won't go quietly. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In 1934 Menzies moved to Federal politics, winning the United Australia Party seat of Kooyong, which he held until his retirement in 1966. (nla.gov.au)
  • Menzies retired from politics in January 1966. (nla.gov.au)
  • He reminded me that Suharto's New Order was hailed by students as the prelude to political reform back in 1966. (insideindonesia.org)
  • To its supporters, the PP offers an escape from the divisive and, increasingly deadly , ethnic politics which characterized three decades of EPRDF rule. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • On the death of Lyons in April 1939, Menzies was elected leader of the United Australia Party and became Prime Minister. (nla.gov.au)
  • In its place a new party was formed, led by Ethiopia's new prime minister and the EPRDF's last chairman, Abiy Ahmed -heralding, according to its supporters, an entirely new mode of politics. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the case of Indonesia many people believe that there will never be another Suharto, another leader with quite the same breathtaking powers. (insideindonesia.org)
  • As I have written elsewhere, the politics of Indonesia, and to a lesser extent Malaysia, reflects the revival or recovery of essentially monarchical traditions buried deep in the indigenous culture. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Peter Boyle: The PRP plans to launch a new workers' party in Indonesia by 2012. (links.org.au)
  • The PRP has the view that the main problem of politics and democracy in Indonesia is the absence of working-class politics. (links.org.au)
  • The willfully ignorant and delusional still cling desperately to their faux-alternative Democratic politician or their Tea Party Republican politician with the tin-foil hat. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The Party was demoralised and fragmenting and Menzies played a key role in the formation of a new party-the Liberal Party-in 1944-45. (nla.gov.au)
  • The coalition of Liberal and Country parties was remarkably united, whereas the Labor Party suffered a major split in 1954-55 from which it did not recover until about 1970. (nla.gov.au)
  • Foreign investors praise them for their economic achievements, if not for their liberal politics. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Although PiS, which in English translates to Law and Jus- tice, and PO, also known as Civic Platform, are both conservative parties, most of the Poles usually end up favoring one over the other as the PO is liberal conservative while the PiS is national conservative. (lu.se)
  • If that is so, I find it a little ironic that the end of authoritarian rule has been precipitated by economics rather than politics. (insideindonesia.org)
  • There are grassroots forces that are learning about the struggle and increasingly identify their political position with socialism and left politics. (links.org.au)
  • With no warm welcome expected from the MQM-P, Pak Sarzameen Party and MQM-Afaq, the hypothetical return of Dr Nusrat and Jalil may not bring any substantive change in the city's political dynamics, says journalist Mazhar Abbas. (com.pk)
  • This trend has affected the political atmosphere in Poland in a way that has further propelled political polarization in the domestic sphere, with conspiracy theories and suspicion toward one another being one of its symptoms. (lu.se)
  • It was a routine chat… we agreed that Muhajir politics can only see its golden days again if all the factions get united for a shared cause," disclosed an MQM-Pakistan leader who contested a provincial assembly seat in the recent election on the party ticket. (com.pk)
  • It could be proven that newspapers associated with either one of the two political power blocs have engaged in a further division between liberals and conservatives by disseminating partisan conspiracy narratives before the presidential election. (lu.se)
  • Since coming to power in 1991, the coalition party controlled each tier of government in Africa's second most-populous nation. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Prosperity Party (PP) has done away with the four-part ethnic coalition structure which made up the EPRDF: the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front, the Amhara National Democratic Movement (later Amhara Democratic Party), the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization (later Oromo Democratic Party), and the Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Movement. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Establishing a political party of the working class has been the objective of the PRP since the very beginning of our existence in 2004. (links.org.au)
  • Our operation as a political association of working people since 2004 was a step in introducing and popularising the political idea of forming a party among working-class activists. (links.org.au)
  • For several years we have carried out open propaganda among working people in our grassroots bases about the necessity to build a working-class party as the only vehicle for struggle. (links.org.au)
  • The next step after this propaganda is to broaden our consolidation efforts in order to recruit more people who agree to build the working-class party. (links.org.au)
  • A working-class party is one which can build and develop an ideological platform for the realisation of socialism. (links.org.au)
  • The Chamber's far-right wing embodied by the Koch brothers has generated the Tea Party, the working class shock troops that are necessary if fascism, a term that describes the corporate-state, is to actually function in the US. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • In 1943 Menzies regained the leadership of the United Australia Party. (nla.gov.au)
  • The first lesson to be learned from the process of political change in Southeast Asia is that a change of leadership does not necessarily bring about a change of political culture. (insideindonesia.org)
  • However, it should be noted that we have received tremendous response from all tiers of political leadership associated with mainstream Muhajir parties. (com.pk)
  • Amid the effects of the pandemic, indigenous protagonism has played a fundamental role in guaranteeing these peoples' rights and access to food, denouncing the absent and slow official responses as acts of institutional violence, which will have serious and lasting effects on the lives of indigenous peoples. (bvsalud.org)
  • He resigned in August 1941 and three months later the Labor Party came to power. (nla.gov.au)
  • If all goes as planned, the result of this debacle will be to implement central bank digital currencies in this country and worldwide, in order to capture and control all peoples through a digital technocratic system. (republicbroadcasting.org)
  • Compare and contrast that, though, with the political declaration that was made on control of noncommunicable diseases. (medscape.com)
  • But what we have learned is that left groups cannot be reduced only to activists trying to create a party in their own image. (links.org.au)
  • Conspir- acy theories can create doubt about political opponents and their integrity and unfold a con- siderable danger to democracy. (lu.se)
  • It's a dangerous way to bring about political change, I think, because it happens without thorough institutional reform. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Metaphorically speaking, if each and every individual is willing to save one life, especially his own, all life can be saved and society restored, as this will cause a great change in the attitude of the masses so that large numbers of individuals can gain strength en masse. (republicbroadcasting.org)
  • They may have a small following in Karachi but given the lack of an on-ground organisational structure, even their presence won't bring about a dramatic change," he notes, "their strong past association with the MQM founder is also a roadblock for their politics in the city. (com.pk)
  • The Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) was once Africa's largest, and arguably most powerful, political party. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • T he inertia in Karachi's political scene was interrupted unexpectedly when the former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders Wasay Jalil and Dr Nadeem Nusrat announced the formation of a grand alliance of Muhajir political parties of the urban Sindh on a new platform - Voice of Karachi. (com.pk)
  • Several leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Pak Sarzameen Party told this scribe on the condition of anonymity that Jalil and Nusrat had contacted them lately. (com.pk)
  • Jomo Kenyatta never knew the exact year of his birth - only that he was born sometime in the 1890s into a tribe that had always counted people ' s ages according to their initiation groups. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Global Corruption Barometer debuted in 2003 and since that year has surveyed the experiences of everyday life of people confronting corruption around the world. (lu.se)
  • I don't mean the common or garden resolutions that you and I might make at New Year - that promise to be better, that promise to perhaps have a more individualistically strong life - but rather the resolutions that are delivered by governments and, specifically in this occasion, by the United Nations. (medscape.com)
  • Elections are now a sham proceeding at every level US government. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • This master's thesis takes its cue from Polish sociologist Franciszek Czech (2019), who ar- gued that the saturation of Polish magazines with conspiracy narratives suggests a deep po- larization of the Polish society on a political level. (lu.se)
  • If this can be done, people can fight any backwardness and also fight off the immaturity and irrationalities that may have contributed to earlier left splits, and have made differences in the left seem more intense than they should be. (links.org.au)
  • His Government took the first steps to put Australia on a war footing. (nla.gov.au)
  • Can you explain the likely politics of such a party and what steps the PRP will be taking in the lead-up to the launch to prepare such a party? (links.org.au)
  • He became active in the National Party and in 1928 won a seat in the Victorian Legislative Council. (nla.gov.au)
  • Regular public contestation between these two influential parties has provoked the Polish people to further divide into two main blocs. (lu.se)
  • Do you see this future workers' party as a broad, multi-tendency party or a party around a very defined ideological platform? (links.org.au)
  • Party cadres should make sure that the new party's ideological platform is formulated and nurtured openly and with the participation of the masses. (links.org.au)
  • Our chairman, Dr Nadeem Nusrat, has announced his plan to unify all Muhajir political factions on one platform. (com.pk)
  • But, just when things seemed to be moving in a particular direction, a few days after Jalil's statement, Mustafa Kamal, the chairperson of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) called a press conference to throw cold water on the suggestions of any re-unification. (com.pk)
  • Where does left unity fit in this plan for a new party? (links.org.au)
  • Rizvi will soon be resuming his politics as an MQM-Pakistan leader," he says. (com.pk)
  • And the Chamber launders the money of the Chinese, German, Japanese, Indian, Saudi and other foreign corporate entities seeking to advance their interests in the US political arena. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Over the last six months, the PRP has initiated a number of joint statements issued by left groups from various political traditions in the Asia-Pacific region . (links.org.au)
  • Their aim, they said, was to build an effective opposition against the Sindh government led by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). (com.pk)