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| | History of the Labour Party: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future |
 | | This was followed in 1996 by the publication of New Labour, New Life for Britain, the draft manifesto that was discussed and voted upon by party members across the country. | | | Labour's fourth successive election defeat was a major shock to the party. | | | The ensuing leadership contest saw the election of Tony Blair, the youngest-ever leader of the Labour Party. |
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http://www.labour.org.uk/labourhistory
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| | The Emergence of the Labour Party - Dr Henry Pelling |
| | But the British Independent Labour party and its members of Parliament followed MacDonald’s lead, and when he resigned the chairmanship of the party which he had held for three years, he was succeeded by Arthur Henderson, a prominent trade unionist. | | | This time Labour was allotted a seat in the small War Cabinet, which was given to Arthur Henderson. | | | Labour again formed governments in 1964, 1966, 1974 (twice) under Harold Wilson and finally (after Wilson’s retirement) under James Callahan. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~semp/labour.htm
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| | GENUKI: The Merthyr Election of 1906 |
| | Radcliffe concentrated his campaign against Hardie in a determined effort to woo the labour voters away from the political heresy which they had endorsed at the previous election, and he encouraged the............... | | | Far more effective than Radcliffe's appeal to the labour voters was his attempt to become the focus on Liberal-nonconformist discontent. | | | Nor could it be forgotten that the chance antagonism of the sitting members, D. Thomas and W. Pritchard Morgan, had conditioned the climate of opinion during this election contest and that Thomas' support of Hardie against Morgan had won a large number of votes for the architect of the Independent Labour Party. |
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http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MerthyrElection.html
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| | Jim Mortimer - Formation of the Labour Party |
| | With the exception of the year 1885-86 Henry Broadhurst acted as secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC from 1875 to 1889. | | | The 1906 General Election, though it marked a significant advance for Labour, demonstrated that the bulk of working class voters were still inclined to give their votes to other parties, particularly to the Liberals. | | | Hardie was elected as the chairman of the new organisation, a fitting tribute to his pioneering role and to his independent stance as the MP for West Ham South. |
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http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/mortimer.htm
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| | Britain: unions found anti-Blair ginger group |
| | It is now a decade since Labour, under its newly elected leader Tony Blair, finally repudiated any connection between the party and its working class base—throwing out Clause 4 of the party constitution committing it to social ownership—and openly refashioned itself as a big business party. | | | They are seeking to safeguard and restore the political monopoly over the working class enjoyed by the bureaucratic monolith that constitutes Labour by building illusions that it can be returned to its former reformist programme. | | | On Saturday July 3, some 350 delegates gathered at the Trades Union Congress headquarters in London for the founding congress of a Labour Representation Committee. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/brit-j23.shtml
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| | Socialism Today - How the Labour Party was formed |
| | For Blair an independent party of labour, forged out of class struggle, was an historic mistake. | | | 'THE CLASS WAR is over', declared Tony Blair at New Labour's conference last year. | | | In 1890, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) voted in support of the eight-hour day. |
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http://www.socialismtoday.org/45/labour.html
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| | Organise the "awkward squad"! Workers' Liberty |
| | In the earlier years of the Blair government, almost all the union leaders were servile and compliant, and the notion of a broad new political action committee based on at least a significant minority of trade unions came to look remote and unrealistic. | | | Go ahead and implement the Labour Party conference decision which Blair has dismissed, for an independent inquiry into PFI, while at the same time campaigning to stop PFI and other privatisations, for example PPP on the Tube; | | | It is not new for Labour Party leaders to ignore, evade or flout conference decisions. |
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http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/346
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| | Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In the early 1930s the party passed antiwar resolutions and advocated collective security through the League of Nations, but it favored aid to the republican government in the Spanish civil war and eventually came to accept rearmament against the threat from Nazi Germany. | | | James Callaghan took over as prime minister following Wilson’s resignation in 1976. | | | When Attlee and other elder leaders retired and Hugh Gaitskell became party leader, Aneurin Bevan, leading the left wing of the party, unsuccessfully contested Gaitskell’s position. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/la/Labourpa.html
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| | Manitoba Labour Representation Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For the provincial election of 1915, the LRC supported the two SDPC candidates in Winnipeg North (one of whom was successful), and also nominated William Bayley in Assiniboia. | | | The LRC cooperated with the Social Democratic Party of Canada in the municipal elections of 1913, and the two parties did not compete against each other in the 1914 provincial election. | | | This organization dissolved after the election of 1915. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Representation_Committee_(in_Manitoba)
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| | TUC History Online |
| | In this photograph, the Chairman, James Keir Hardie and secretary, James Ramsay MacDonald, of the Labour Party are seated to the right of the middle row. | | | In January, there were 40 Labour MPs, and in December, 42 Labour MPs. |
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http://tuc1.unl.ac.uk/timeline/Tl_Display.php?irn=3000002
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| | CLPD - NEC Elections 2002 |
| | I'm a senior Scottish TUC official, responsible for work on social justice, and I believe I can effectively promote policies that reflect the views of ordinary party members. | | | Ann Black / Rozanne Foyer / Kumar Murshid / Mark Seddon / Christine Shawcroft / Pete Willsman / Conference Arrangements Committee / National Constitutional Committee / National Policy Forum | | | Labour has just three years to renew public services and restore trust in politics. |
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http://home.freeuk.net/clpd/nom2.htm
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| | Ymgyrchu! - The Ballot Box - Elections - 1966 and the Labour Party |
| | The Labour Party's success was enhanced and strengthened in the 1966 General Election when 61% of the Welsh electorate voted for it. | | | The name was changed in 1906 to the Labour Party and by this time the party had 29 members in Parliament. | | | The Labour Representation Committee was established in 1900 and in the same year two members were elected to Parliament to represent the Committee. |
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http://www.llgc.org.uk/Ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/Etholiadau/1966/index-e.htm
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| | The Labour Representation Committee |
| | The LRC summer conference and first Annual General Meeting (AGM); ‘Time for Real Labour’ was held at TUC Congress House on Saturday 16th July 2005. | | | LRC and SCG Rally and Social at the 2005 Labour Party Conference | | | Labour Party members appalled by the brutal treatment of Walter Wolfgang are today demanding a full and independent enquiry into way the party conference is currently being run. |
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http://www.l-r-c.org.uk
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| | Launching the Labour Representation Committee Time to organise for Change by John McDonnell MP |
| | Labour Representation Committee Founding Conference: Saturday 3 July, TUC, Congress House, Gt Russell St, London WC2. | | | The conference brings together rank and file Labour Party members and trade unionists to establish the organised resurgence of socialism within the Labour Party. | | | The LRC aims to bring socialists together from the Labour Party, trade unions and campaigning organisations in order to establish the principles and policy direction which we wish to see the party adhere to and take for the next generation. |
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http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/0407/p1.htm
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| | Frustration and only strategy ‘long haul’ 10Jul04Socialist Worker |
| | He was eager to stress that delegates at his union conference had not voted to break from Labour immediately. | | | The CWU members voted to end all funding for Labour if it privatises the postal service. | | | It agreed to meet again next year, when there is likely to be an election and all the usual pressure on party members to bury their criticisms and get the vote out. |
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http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=790
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| | Labour Representation Committee launched |
| | Over 500 people attended the founding conference of the Labour Representation Committee on 3 July 2004 at TUC Congress House in London. | | | That is why this conference and the inauguration of the Labour Representation Committee is so important, to build confidence within the party and start having success in changing the direction of the party.’ | | | The 10 June election results were a severe warning for the Labour leadership — continuing with the pro-Bush international policy, and the pro-business domestic policy, will result in electoral setbacks. |
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http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/articles/0409/p5b.htm
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| | The Labour Party |
| | But he fought on against the war and for working class justice to the last few days of his life, which came in the middle of the war. | | | Non-socialist Labour Party members like most trade unionists supported the war wholeheartedly and were drawn in to the centre of government, as were many in the Labour Party itself. | | | The Labour Party of old would have been leading that but not the Labour Party of today. |
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http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr237/german.htm
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| | LEON TROTSKY: The Labour Movement 1906-1924 |
| | We are not going here into the question of why it is that the British Labour Party confines itself to Georgia. | | | 2 In the General Election of January 1906 the Labour Representation Committee increased its parliamentary strength from 5 to 26 seats. | | | This crisis would mean new elections and new elections would result in the victory of the ‘Left Bloc’. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/britain/britain/ch07.htm
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| | Microtext Collections in the History of Great Britain |
| | The private minute books of the General Council, the executive body of the Trades Union Congress, 1921-1946. | | | The General Council was first constituted in 1921 to replace the old Parliamentary Committee and to give centralized leadership to the whole trade union movement. | | | Many of the same issues were discussed at this congress and the Labour Party Conferences (see MFM 774 above). |
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http://www.mtsu.edu/~library/microtxt/grbrit.html
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| | Labour Representation Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This committee included two members from the ILP, two from the SDF, one Fabian, and seven trade unionists. | | | The LRC put up fifteen candidates in the 1900 General Election and between them they won 62,698 votes. | | | Organisations present at this conference were the Independent Labour Party (ILP), the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and the Fabian Society, as well as various trade union leaders. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Representation_Committee
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| | Untitled Document |
| | LACK OF SUPPORT FROM T.U.C. MOTION FOR 1d LEVY DEFEATED 200 - 93 | | | MINERS ACCUSE S.L.P. BY 1895 INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY c. | | | SINCE (AT LEAST) 1867 WORKING CLASS LOOK TO LIBERALS |
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/topic34aslides.htm
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| | Paul Foot: London, 27 February 1900 (1999) |
| | Throughout all this time, the TUC’s political strategy was to act as a pressure group on the Liberal Party. | | | The second was the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), a small organisation led by the former stockbroker H.M. Hyndman. | | | But for all the weaknesses and hesitancy of the LRC, the decisive break with the old bourgeois parties had been made, and would continue for 100 years until now, when Tony Blair is trying to get in bed with the Liberals once again. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1999/02/lrc.htm
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| | Scottish Flotsam from the Hebrides Dates and Happenings of May |
| | This ultimately merged with the British Labour Party in 1909. | | | After its 1906 General Election victories the Labour Representation Committee was renamed the Labour Party and J. Ramsay Macdonald (1866 -1937) became its first secretary. | | | However, Labour did well in local government capturing Glasgow in 1933 and also proving successful in other towns during the decade. |
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http://www.scottishradiance.com/flotsam/flotsam9905.htm
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| | Why we are launching the Labour Representation Committee |
| | I think most people recognise that Tony Blair, as leader of the Party, is becoming a liability. | | | Labour must stand out ideologically from the Tory and Liberal parties, which are capitalist parties. | | | Socialist Appeal's deputy editor, Rob Sewell, interviewed Mick Rix, the former general secretary of ASLEF and instigator of the new Labour Representation Committee, about his views and prospects of reclaiming the Labour Party. |
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http://www.marxist.com/Europe/rix_interview_1103.html
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| | Class consciousness and the origins of Labour |
| | Tillett stood for election in Bradford in 1892 and the ILP was formed in the city one year later. | | | In the 1880s the Liberal Party was a bourgeois party with a labour wing. | | | Ignoring both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, the syndicalists failed to undermine the Labour leaders and were unable to prevent the wave of jingoism which brought an end to the movement in 1914. |
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| | About the LRC |
| | The LRC is an open democratic organisation committed to the development of a radical policy agenda for the Labour Party and the trade unions. | | | Therefore we are calling upon all socialists, Labour Party and trade union members, constituency Labour parties and union branches to join our campaign and join or affiliate to the LRC. | | | Never in the history of the Labour Party has the need been so great to make the case for peace and socialism. |
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http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/about
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| | Labour Representation Committee conference Workers' Liberty |
| | The Labour Representation Committee is therefore committed to ensuring that the trade unions and their branches, other affiliates and socialist societies, elected representatives, the women’s organisation, the black socialist society, the youth organisation, lesbian &gay members, disabled members, retired members, branches and constituencies, are all encouraged to be active and involved in their Party. | | | Today’s Labour Representation Committee aims to ensure that the Party reflects these views, has socialist policies that give hope to our supporters, encourages Party membership, enthuses those looking for an ethical 21st century and helps those that come forward to represent these aims with confidence and support. | | | Please ensure that you are part of this historic campaign to win back the Labour Party for the working class. |
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http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/1203
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| | Fabian Society on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Affiliate societies' committee chairs named for 2000-03 term. | | | The Labour party adopted their main tenets, and the Fabian Society remains as an affiliated research and publicity agency. | | | Repudiating the necessity of violent class struggle, they took little notice of trade unionism and other labor movements until Beatrice Potter (who later married Sidney Webb) joined the group. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/F/FabianS1o.asp
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| | National Executive Committee Minutes of the Labour Representation Committee, 1900-06, and the Labour Party since 1906. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: 1906 |
| | February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/1/19/190/1906
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| | Victorian Britain - The Coming of the Labour Party |
| | Victorian Britain - The Coming of the Labour Party | | | ‘It was not Liberal reluctance to embrace working-class candidates, but Tory intransigence in the House of Lords, that created the need for a Labour Party.’ Discuss. | | | Was the formation of the Labour Representation Committee simply the result of working men’s disillusion with the Liberals? |
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/labourparty.htm
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| | Labour Party (UK) Archives |
| | Founded in 1900, the Labour Representation Committee changed its name into Labour Party in 1906; has its office in London. | | | Originals at the National Museum of Labour History, Manchester; microform publication by Harvester Press. | | | Originals at the National Museum of Labour History, Manchester |
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