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 Encyclopedia4U - The Labour Party (UK) - Encyclopedia Article
It was also helped by public exhaustion with the Conservative Party (which had been in power since 1979) and some commentators have suggested that even 'old Labour' would have won in 1997.
The results were announced on July 26 ; Labour won 48% of the vote and a Parliamentary majority of 146 seats (the largest in post-war British history until the 179 seat Labour majority in 1997).
The 1960s Labour government, although far less radical on economic policy than it's 1940s predecessor, introduced some important social reforms, such as the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality, and also the abolition of the death penalty.
http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/t/the-labour-party-uk-.html

  
 Labour’s Labor Problem by Gerald A. Dorfman
Finally in 1997—after 18 unbroken years in power—the Conservative Party was swept from office by a Labour electoral landslide led by Tony Blair, who became prime minister; and with Labour’s return to office came union leaders’ hopes that “their” government would restore a significant measure of their influence and participation.
In short, when Tony Blair took office as prime minister he enjoyed the advantage of the union movement’s accepting that “its” new Labour government would not be restoring it to the position of power and influence that it had enjoyed 25 years earlier.
By the end of the 1970s, with a Labour government in power, the whole relationship essentially collapsed as the unions staged massive strikes during the winter of 1978–79, which came to be known aptly as the Winter of Discontent.
http://www.hooverdigest.org/052/dorfman.html   (2201 words)

  
 Constitution of Ukraine
The territorial structure of Ukraine is based on the principles of unity and indivisibility of the state territory, the combination of centralisation and decentralisation in the exercise of state power, and the balanced socio-economic development of r egions that takes into account their historical, economic, ecological, geographical and demographic characteristics, and ethnic and cultural traditions.
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine is composed of eighteen judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
The Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine is elected to office and dismissed from office by the Plenary Assembly of the Supreme Court of Ukraine by secret ballot, by the procedure established by law.
http://www.rada.kiev.ua/const/conengl.htm   (2201 words)

  
 CNN.com - Conservative boost in Norway poll - September 12, 2001
After the results, Labour will remain the biggest party in parliament but the Conservatives, who have been out of power since 1990, surged to 21.3 percent of the vote from 14.3 percent in 1997.
Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to try to stay on even though voters slashed support for his Labour Party to 24.4 percent in Monday's vote from 35 percent in 1997.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg became PM of one of the world's richest nations last year at the age of 41 after he and his Labour Party ousted a three-party moderate coalition led by Christian Democrat Kjell Magne Bondevik in a parliamentary showdown.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/11/norway.poll/index.html   (891 words)

  
 The Labor Aristocracy: The Material Basis for Opportunism in The Labor Movement
Due to the additional costs of training skilled labour, the value of skilled labour power is higher than the value of unskilled labour power, yielding from the outset to differentiation in wages in favour of skilled workers.
The opportunism associated with the labour aristocracy, personified in its leaders, is essentially a political and ideological alliance with monopoly capital (on all the basic questions) in return for a degree of relative privilege vis-à-vis the rest of the proletariat (domestically and internationally).
Lenin's decisive and provocative political point was that in the epoch of imperialism, a section of the proletariat, the labour aristocracy, constitutes "the social mainstay of the bourgeoisie."
http://home.connexus.net.au/~benj/LOM.htm   (891 words)

  
 MPs Elected In The UK General Election, 2001 [Definition]
He is Labour MP for Darlington, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's re-election campaign....
Hugo Swire Hugo Swire (born 30 November 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
Christine McCafferty Christine McCafferty (born 14 October 1945) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
http://www.wikimirror.com/MPs_elected_in_the_UK_general_election,_2001   (891 words)

  
 NewsHour Extra: England's Election - June 8, 2001
Labour came to power in a sweeping victory in 1997, at a time when the Conservative government appeared to be running out of ideas.
There are three main political parties in the United Kingdom: The Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats.
The Labour Party was born in 1900 with the aim of protecting the rights of trade unions and giving a political voice to the working class.
http://pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june01/english_elections_6-6.html   (1179 words)

  
 Jamaica: Map, History and Much More From Answers.com
In 1980 the JLP returned to power, with the moderate Edward Seaga as prime minister.
The party continued in power under Donald B. Sangster after the 1967 elections; he died in office and was succeeded by Hugh Shearer.
The Jamaican Parliament is bicameral, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
http://www.answers.com/topic/jamaica   (4632 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited The Guardian New Labour renewed is Brown's rallying cry
Gordon Brown yesterday set out his personal manifesto for the renewal of the New Labour project so that it can dominate the centre ground of politics and retain power as the "voice of the mainstream majority" long after Tony Blair has finally left office.
Labour's prime minister in waiting coupled a sweeping survey of how he intends to build a "progressive consensus" to achieve his twin goals - 21st century individualism sustained by 21st century community values - with a promise to tour every region of Britain in the year ahead to "listen, hear and learn".
But in praising Mr Blair's decade as Labour leader and embracing most of the New Labour agenda, Mr Brown only once got close to explicit criticism of the Blair era now coming towards its end.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1578978,00.html   (4632 words)

  
 Labour lose heavily in England but gain in Wales
Labour has won the Welsh election, retained power in Scotland but suffered over 790 losses in the English local elections in a night of mixed fortunes for all the major parties - and breakthroughs for the radical left and racist right.
Labour today won the Welsh assembly election, taking half of the 60 seats - but on a dismal national turnout of 36%.
For the Tories there was jubilation that party leader David McLetchie won his place back at the parliament through a constituency seat win, unseating Labour's enterprise minister Iain Gray.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904867/posts   (1709 words)

  
 Sir Alexander Bustamante
In a general election on April 10, 1962, the Jamaican Labour Party was returned to power with twenty six of the forty five seats in the House of Representatives, Bustamante was appointed premier.
The political movement was split and Bustamante founded the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 1943 to prepare for Jamaica's first general election under universal adult suffrage.
The JLP lost power to the PNP in the general election of January 1955 and so Bustamante became leader of the Opposition.
http://www.moec.gov.jm/heroes/alexander.htm   (2829 words)

  
 Social Democratic and Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SDLP served in the power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland, alongside the Ulster Unionist Party, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin.
Founder and first leader Gerry Fitt - a former leader of the explicitly republican Republican Labour Party - would later claim that it was the party's decision to demand a Council of Ireland as part of the Sunningdale Agreement that signified the point at which the party adopted a clear nationalist agenda.
It was formed by former members of the Republican Labour Party - a fragment of the Irish Labour Party, the National Democrats, a small social democratic nationalist party, individual nationalists and members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party   (1155 words)

  
 C.U.P.E. v. Ontario (Minister of Labour)
The Minister, as a matter of law, was required to exercise his power of appointment in a manner consistent with the purpose and objects of the statute that conferred the power.
90 The Minister argues that the wording of his power of appointment makes it clear that he and not the courts was intended to have the last word on appointments to chair compulsory arbitration boards in hospital and nursing home disputes.
Labour relations expertise, independence and impartiality, reflected in broad acceptability, are not necessarily dominant or obvious factors and should not be imposed as specific restrictions on the Minister's discretion.
http://www.lancasterhouse.com/decisions/2003/may/oca-cupe.htm   (1155 words)

  
 The Central Bank of Barbados
Erskine Sandiford led the Democratic Labour Party to power in the 1991 elections.
The Barbados Labour Party took the reins of government again, when in the General Elections of 1976 and 1981 it was led to power by Mr.
Owen Arthur led the Barbados Labour Party to victory in the 1994 elections.
http://www.centralbank.org.bb/country_info.shtml   (931 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books LRB essay Honourable mention
Labour came to power in 1997 not only because the public were sick of the Tories, but because Whitehall and the City believed that a strong Labour party was a better safeguard for Tory policies than a weak and divided Conservative party.
Although Benn daydreams of being invited to join another Labour cabinet, offers "TB" advice on hereditary peers, and confides that he would accept a peerage if the second chamber were elective, his stature is not what it was - and that prickles.
Just as the Labour party under Blair has become a "police state", Britain under New Labour has become truly Orwellian.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,1057227,00.html   (931 words)

  
 Social Democratic and Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SDLP served in the power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland, alongside the Ulster Unionist Party, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin.
Founder and first leader Gerry Fitt - a former leader of the explicitly republican Republican Labour Party - would later claim that it was the party's decision to demand a Council of Ireland as part of the Sunningdale Agreement that signified the point at which the party adopted a clear nationalist agenda.
It was formed by former members of the Republican Labour Party - a fragment of the Irish Labour Party, the National Democrats, a small social democratic nationalist party, individual nationalists and members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party   (1208 words)

  
 SUSAN WATKINS - A WEIGHTLESS HEGEMONY
In its essentials, New Labour’s diplomatic policy has been a continuation of the uk& standard post-Suez stance: no longer a power, Britain could still be an ‘influence’ on Washington, most effectively by brokering interests between Europe and the us.
It was because Blair had secured the politico-institutional foundation for this formula that he could forge a deal with Murdoch before his election and New Labour seal a pact with big business that has lasted ever since.
The downward sociological spiral was given a further twist in 1998 by a party constitution that gave the hitherto powerless members of local Constituency Associations—average age, 62; most are country dwellers—the right to elect the Conservative leader.
http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25901.shtml   (1208 words)

  
 Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which enfranchised urban workers.
The party lost power to the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 elections and remained in the opposition until the late 1990s.
The new party elected 29 members to Parliament in 1906; in the two elections of 1910 it elected 40 and 42.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/la/Labourpa.html   (1220 words)

  
 Social Democratic and Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SDLP served in the power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland, alongside the Ulster Unionist Party, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin.
Founder and first leader Gerry Fitt - a former leader of the explicitly republican Republican Labour Party - would later claim that it was the party's decision to demand a Council of Ireland as part of the Sunningdale Agreement that signified the point at which the party adopted a clear nationalist agenda.
It was formed by former members of the Republican Labour Party - a fragment of the Irish Labour Party, the National Democrats, a small social democratic nationalist party, individual nationalists and members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party   (1155 words)

  
 Labour Party Manifesto, General Election 1997
The purpose of new Labour is to give Britain a different political choice: the choice between a failed Conservative government, exhausted and divided in everything other than its desire to cling on to power, and a new and revitalised Labour Party that has been resolute in transforming itself into a party of the future.
With a new Labour government, Britain will be strong in defence; resolute in standing up for its own interests; an advocate of human rights and democracy the world over; a reliable and powerful ally in the international institutions of which we are a member; and will be a leader in Europe.
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/man/lab97.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Irish Labour's missed opportunities
Similar to 1907, the Nationalists pushed through these demands at a time when the British labour movement was moving sharply to the left, with widescale unofficial strikes in the wartime industries and pressurising the British Labour Party to adopt a radical programme, which propelled it into power a year later.
While throughout the rest of Britain Labour stormed ahead, the NILP in the 1949 May council elections were once again annihilated.
Despite dominating the NILP with his Unionist views between the two world wars, his frustration at the growing impotency of the NILPandemdash;precisely because of the pro-Unionist policies on which it stoodandemdash;led him to split from the NILP to form the 'Commonwealth Labour Party' in 1944.
http://www.marxist.com/History/labireland2.html   (1155 words)

  
 Vere Cornwall Bird
Such power and influence had made his name virtually synonymous with the governance of Antigua and Barbuda during more than four decades, except for one election in 1971, after becoming the first elected member of the colonial legislature in 1945.
They have frequently castigated his style of governance, blaming him for alleged public corruption and cronyism within his party, running of Antigua and Barbuda as a "family estate" and ensuring the predominance of the Bird dynasty in the control of political power.
He was the first and only chief minister, first and last premier and first prime minister, a position he held from 1981 to 1994 when he resigned amid failing health and increasing internal wranglings within his government and party, to be succeeded by his second son, current head of government and party leader, Lester Bird.
http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Biography/bio_VC_Bird_legend.html   (618 words)

  
 New Labour
Labour’s transformation reflects an obvious shift in the balance of power in favor of right-reformist neo-liberal politics at the expense of left-reformist social democratic politics (Heffernan 2000, 71).
Above all, Blair is concerned with identifying New Labour with the aspirations of the majority of voters, much in the same way Thatcher did in the 1980s.
The most recent general election in 2001 did confirm Labour’s growing strength among the middle class, but it also exposed Labour’s unpopularity with the working class, especially among older voters living on the state pension (Harrop 2001, 308).
http://www.lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/spring2002docs/rdanley.htm   (618 words)

  
 Democratic Labor Party: Information From Answers.com
Since the ALP and the conservative parties usually held approximately equal numbers of seats in the Senate, the DLP was able to use balance of power in the Senate to extract concessions from Liberal governments, particularly government grants to Catholic schools, greater spending on defence and non-recognition of the People's Republic of China.
This tactic was successful and the DLP lost all its Senate seats at the May 1974 election.
Between 1955 and 1974 the DLP was able to command a significant vote, particularly in Victoria and Queensland, and during the period held between one and five seats in the Senate (which is elected by proportional representation).
http://www.answers.com/topic/democratic-labor-party-1   (965 words)

  
 FIJI: Chaudhry and his Labour Party will never learn:
August, 2004, we referred to the Supreme Court judgment of July 9, 2004 and how Prime Minister Qarase swallowing his pride offered to give the Fiji Labour Party 14 seats in a cabinet of 30, leaving only 16 berths for his party and his coalition partners.
Qarase did this more to obey strictly the Supreme Court ruling and to his credit we should say that he made this genuine offer to end once and for all the then three year old constitutional crisis over power sharing in a multi racial society.
We had also appealed to Mahendra Chaudhry and his party that it was their turn to accept the offer graciously and not contest the offer anymore as otherwise it would only prove the contention of Qarase that the power sharing in the Constitution is unworkable.
http://www.saag.org/\papers14\paper1344.html   (965 words)

  
 Labour In Northern Ireland------------View Update
The main losers were the Catholics, kept out of power at Stormont by the Unionist Party's electoral success and deliberately excluded from the Westminster power nexus by the Labour Party.
    Belfast Labour did not stand for the new Northern Ireland Parliament in May 1921, or in the General Election of 1922.
  The Belfast Labour Party was abandoned at birth, in what was an act of wanton political irresponsibility by the Labour Party.
http://www.labour-lini.org.uk/viewupdate.asp?id=34   (965 words)

  
 USSR Graph
In theory, supreme power in the party was invested in the Party Congress, however, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary.
By the time of the Twenty-Eighth Party Congress in July 1990, the CPSU was largely regarded as being unable to lead the country and had, in fifteen republics, split into opposing factions favoring either independent republics or the continuation of the Soviet Union.
Party Congresses would elect a Central Committee which, in turn, would elect a Politburo.
http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/crawfor/apcg/Russia/Unit4RussiaGraphB.htm   (1401 words)

  
 Israel Labour Party --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It and its major component, Mapai, dominated Israel's government from the country's independence in 1948 until 1977, when the rival Likud coalition first came to power.
Israeli statesman Shimon Peres served as prime minister of Israel in 1984–86 and 1995–96.
Along with Shimon Peres, his foreign minister, and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir 'Arafat, Rabin was awarded the Nobel prize for peace in 1994.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9042982   (593 words)

  
 Communist Party Of The Soviet Union Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
In theory, supreme power in the party was invested in the Party Congress, however, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary.
In Lithuania, the CPSU branch converted into the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania.
Under Stalin the most powerful position in the party became the General Secretary who was elected by the Politburo.
http://www.merica.com/encyclopedia/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union   (1708 words)

  
 Report of the Socialist Party of Ireland
The policy of the general strike has been adopted by the Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress with great success on three occasions.
At the moment of the insurrection, the British Labour Party was in coalition with the bourgeois parties of England, Mr Arthur Henderson, Mr Wm Bruce, and Mr GH Roberts being members of the Ministry, the first mentioned having Cabinet rank.
On the side of education the party took the initiative in establishing the James Connolly Labour College, a federation of the Labour Movement for the purpose of Marxian education within the movement.
http://www.workersrepublic.org/Pages/Ireland/Communism/spireport1.html   (1708 words)

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