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| | Labour Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). | | | Tony Blair secured the revision of Clause IV of the party constitution, which had been adopted in 1918, and which committed the party to 'the common ownership of the means of production'. | | | Peter Mandelson was a senior figure in this process, and exercised a great deal of authority in the party following the death of John Smith and the subsequent election of Tony Blair as party leader. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Labour_Party
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| | 173. BETRAYAL BY THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY GOVERNMENT |
| | The Labour Party won the general election in Britain in October 1964 and Wilson became the new Prime Minister. | | | Harold Wilson, the leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, in reply to a letter from the secretary of the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) in December 1963, wrote that his party's representatives had "strongly criticised the Colonial Secretary's decision to impose proportional representation in British Guiana.". | | | During his meeting with Greenwood, Dr. Jagan gave him copies of two secret police reports on the PNC terrorist organisation, and the Senate statement by Janet Jagan before her resignation as Minister of Home Affairs. |
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| | The British Labour Party and war in historical perspective |
| | The Labour Party was defeated again in the 1983 general election. | | | This was due to opposition from the Labour Party and the British public. | | | In his book "America and the British Labour Party- the special relationship at work" Peter Jones wrote: "Faced with the problem of managing potentially irate back bench supporters, particularly in the context of leading a government with a wafer thin majority, Harold Wilson found himself in something of a dilemma. |
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http://www.marxist.com/Europe/lp_and_war.html
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| | British Labour Party Moves Toward PR |
| | Mary Georghiou is the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform's Parliamentary and Political Officer. | | | A democratic crusade from Labour -- "a new constitution for a new century" -- may turn out to be the best principle and tactic for Labour at the next election. | | | Still, FPP had been rejected, and the commission went so far as to recommend party list PR for an elected second chamber and for elections to the European Parliament. |
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http://www.fairvote.org/reports/1993/georghiou.html
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| | Labour Party |
| | Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party in July 1994 and immediately signaled that if Labour was to become electable it would need to `ditch its old political baggage`, in other words ditch socialism. | | | One of the first things Blair and his cohorts did was to ditch clause 4, which they did in April 1995, with the craven support of sections of the left and trade union leadership. | | | Right Wing Labour leaders recognised that only this clause separated the Party fundamentally from the Tories and Liberals, and kept many genuine socialists within its ranks. |
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http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaLabour.htm
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| | Labour Party |
| | After being narrowly defeated in the 1951 General Election, Attlee led the Labour Party until resigning in 1955. | | | William Adamson became leader of the party in October 1917 and held the post until February 1921 when he was replaced by Joseph Clynes. | | | MacDonald's moderate image was popular with the voters and in the 1929 General Election the Labour Party won 288 seats, making it the largest party in the House of Commons. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Plabour.htm
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| | Labour Party conference - SourceWatch |
| | The Labour Party Conference is formally the supreme decision-making body of the Party. | | | The Campaign For Labour Party Democracy tabled a motion at the 2004 conference which would prohibit cabinet ministers from serving on the powerful Conference Arrangements Committee [4] (http://home.freeuk.com/clpd/2004agm/noministersoncac.htm). | | | However, under the leadership of Tony Blair, it has been accused of becoming more of a showcase event, akin to the Democratic Convention and Republican National Convention of the American political system. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Labour_Party_conference
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| | Waking Up to the Electorate: The Making of the British New Labour Party |
| | British politics continued to be marked by a degree of fluidity. | | | Conflict between Militant supporters and their opponents in one of the Newham seats eventually led to a court case, where the presiding judge, Lord Denning, provided a vivid picture of what had ensued: | | | When forced to visit his constituency at election times, Strachey would deign to campaign during part of the day but then retreat to the Royal British Hotel, dining in a private room screened off from his supporters. |
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http://www.fathom.com/course/21701747/session4.html
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| | How the British Labour Party was formed |
| | In Parliament politicians of both parties (Tories and Liberals) were active on the Employers' Parliamentary Council. | | | The franchise was gradually being extended to working class people, so that the two main capitalist parties - the Liberals and Tories - had to appeal to working class voters for the first time. | | | After a decade of attacks upon the trades union movement and little support from the Liberal Party it was time to act independently. |
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http://www.marxist.com/History/how_LP_was_formed.html
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| | British Labour Party supports Burma |
| | The Leader of Opposition and British Labour Party Tony Blair addressed the Conference on October 1. | | | We call on the Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) to end the violation of human rights and to lift the ban on free political activity. | | | Your courage and dignity have been an inspiration to democrats everywhere. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/reg.burma/archives/199610/msg00108.html
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| | British Labour Party election manifesto, 1966 |
| | It was at the Security Council of the United Nations that Britain explained her policy for ending the Rhodesian rebellion and won world support to make sanctions effective. | | | The time has come when the Government must ask the British people to renew and strengthen its mandate. | | | With the appointment in the Foreign Office of a Minister for Disarmament, Britain has exercised increasing influence in the Geneva Disarmament Conference. |
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http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/man/lab66.htm
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| | WILLisms.com: British Labour Party Campaign "Adverts." |
| | The British Conservatives are unorganized and poor politicians. | | | Unlike Labour we don't have politicians talking to politicians. | | | We are truly lucky in America that a man as truly good as Tony Blair is in charge of our closest ally and best friend of Great Britain. |
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http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/04/british_labour.html
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| | Labour party on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Witch-hunt row after Labour axes 20 rebels; Party members protested at bid to elect Cherie's friend. | | | Labour Politicians Celebrate Victory In UK General Election | | | British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I. Origins |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/L/Labourpa.asp
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| | Marxism and the British Labour Party |
| | In Sweden and Ireland the comrades stood independently in local elections where list and proportional representation electoral systems meant there was no danger of splitting the vote. | | | What have we done in every general election or bye-election in the past. | | | For us it is a class question of supporting the Labour Party against the bourgeois parties, irrespective of their candidates. |
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http://www.marxist.net/openturn/main/3-3-3.htm
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| | Waking Up to the Electorate: The Making of the British New Labour Party |
| | Identify the factors that led to the Labour Party's failure to influence the British electorate. | | | This seminar is extracted from Chapter 9 of Labour's First Century, Cambridge University Press, 2000. | | | Much of the British electorate remained unsympathetic to socialism. |
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http://www.fathom.com/course/21701747
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| | Iraq looms darkly over British Labour Party conclave |
| | That is the same day as a closely-watched by-election in the Labour stronghold of Hartlepool, northeast England, where voters could punish Blair for taking Britain into the US-led war to oust Saddam Hussein's regime. | | | BRIGHTON, England (AFP) - Iraq loomed menacingly over the annual conference of Britain's governing Labour Party, spoiling the efforts of Prime Minister Tony Blair to focus minds on domestic issues ahead of an expected general election next year. | | | Blair, keen to lead Labour to a third term in power in an election likely in May or June next year, had hoped that 18 months after the Iraq invasion, he would be able to refocus attention on domestic issues such as health care and education reform. |
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=28666
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| | Marxism message, British Labour Party |
| | This compared to 32 per cent among party delegates. | | | Already there is opposition in the party branches. | | | Tariq Ali's piece on the London protest, posted on this list a few days ago, crisply, succintly and entertainingly illustrates the case for a united front, involving the labour movement and Labour Party forces, to build a mass movement against Blair's war plans. |
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http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002w40/msg00055.htm
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| | The British Labour Party and Foreign Policy, 1900-31, Part II |
| | Great Britain: the Rise and Fall of an Empire | | | After the war, the Party supplanted the Liberal Party to become one of the two major political parties in Britain. | | | Labour and the Outbreak of War: Summer 1939, Part II |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_history/57523
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| | British Politics - Labour Party |
| | Tony Blair's New Labour Speech - 4 October 1994 | | | Labour Party Political Broadcast - 21 September 1994 | | | Post-War By-Election Swings To Labour Greater Than 10% |
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| | Home page: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future |
| | Promoted by Matt Carter, General Secretary, on behalf of The Labour Party, both at 16 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. | | | "There will be many British families who will have lost friends and relatives and we express our deep sadness at this loss" Tony Blair said. | | | [Logo] The Labour Party - labour.org.uk[Logo] new Labour, new Britain |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: A History of the British Labour Party |
| | Highly recommended for scholars and informed and lay readers.?Paul Burnam, Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Libs., Delaware | | | Subjects > Nonfiction > Politics > Political Parties | | | He begins with its inception as a parliamentary coordinating committee for the Trades Union Congress in 1900 and proceeds to its surprising defeat in the 1992 general election. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0333929071
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| | The Militant - November 30, 2004 -- What’s character of British Labour Party? |
| | Kopec is right about the party’s “bourgeois, imperialist politics.” The present Labour government is just the latest case. | | | Those voting Labour at the next general election will not be casting a “class vote.&; Labour today stands before workers as a social imperialist party, looking far more like the Democrats in the United States than like the social democratic party it once claimed to be. | | | But while the new party was an organizational break from the Liberal Party, it continued liberal labor politics. |
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http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6844/684436.html
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| | Lenin: The British Labour Party Conference |
| | On Party discipline, for example, a resolution was adopted threatening expulsion from the Party for violation of the decisions of the Party or of the Parliamentary group. | | | This compromise resulted from the peculiarities of British history and the segregation of the labour aristocracy in non-socialist, liberal trade unions. | | | In 1922 it became the organ of the British Labour Party. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/feb/06.htm
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| | The British Labour Party and Defense — Greenwood Publishing Group |
| | This volume examines the evolution of the British Labour Party's defense and security policies since the party's formation in 1900. | | | The authors examine in detail how defense policy, in particular nuclear disarmament, was Labour's Achilles' heel in the 1983 and 1987 general elections and how the party fundamentally changed its defense and security policies after its third successive election defeat. | | | As a result, Labour now has a pragmatic set of defense and security policies relevant to the 1990s, as evidenced by the party's robust position on the Gulf War, its support for Britain's nuclear deterrent, and its welcome of the "London Declaration" following the NATO summit in July 1990. |
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http://www.greenwood.com/books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C4201
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| | British Labour Party continues coverup of Hillsborough football disaster |
| | This decision comes in the face of a mass of new evidence refuting the original verdict, which absolved the South Yorkshire police of all responsibility. | | | Trevor Hicks, chairman of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said that Straw's decision was "a case of New Labour, new betrayal. | | | Relatives have also threatened to stand their own candidates against Labour MPs in the Liverpool Merseyside area, including George Howarth, a Home Office minister. |
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http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/feb1998/hillf23.shtml
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