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| | ATA News from Albania (96-06-01) |
 | | Opposition party members of election commissions pulled out of voting upon instruction of respective parties' presidencies, three hours before polling closed on May 26, with the claim that elections were rigged by the party in power, DP. | | | In my opinion this is not the road towards solution in a democratic state where the confrontation of opinions and ballots are those that decide. | | | The two organizations ask the President, Prime Minister, Interior Minister, Attorney General and the Constituional Court to adopt immediate measures for the stabilization of the situation created artificially by extremits of all hues. |
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| | Gnassingbe sworn in, opposition left with limited options |
| | Gnassingbe has proffered the olive branch and invited his opponents to join a government of national reconciliation, but opposition leaders have refused to cut a deal with a new president whom they believe propelled himself to power by rigging an election. | | | But some observers say that by making Togo follow its constitution to the letter, ECOWAS signed off on an election where the best-known opposition leader was barred from standing and where an old and disputed electoral register was used to issue voting cards. | | | LOME, 4 May 2005 (IRIN) - As Faure Gnassingbe succeeded his father as president of Togo on Wednesday, a crushed opposition mulled its next move, with most observers predicting that eventually it would have to compromise and enter into some sort of unity government. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Left Opposition |
| | Nearly all members of the Left Opposition in the USSR were executed during the Moscow Trials of the Great Purge. | | | After Stalin consolidated his power, the Left Opposition was banned, and its members were expelled from the party. | | | Leon Trotsky was the de-facto leader of the Left Opposition. |
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| | Left communism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the party Congress of 1926 held in Lyons, crowned by Gramsci's famous, the left majority was now defeated and on course to becoming a minority within the party. | | | Eventually these two factors led to the displacement of Bordiga from his position as first secretary and his replacement by Gramsci. | | | This was a result of the of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) being in advance of other sections of the PSI in their realisation that a separate Communist Party had to be formed which did not include reformists. |
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| | Left-wing politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term comes originally from the legislative seating arrangement during the French Revolution, when republicans who opposed the Ancien Régime were commonly referred to as leftists because they sat on the left side of successive legislative assemblies. | | | Lerner, though irked that NION and UFPJ did not stand up for his inclusion as a speaker, continued to encourage people to attend the rally. | | | For example, the Democratic Leadership Council, an organization of centrists affiliated with the Democratic Party in which former President Bill Clinton was active, is generally considered to be the right wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. |
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| | International Socialist Review |
| | In both cases, however, the Left lacked the political wherewithal to sustain the movement. | | | Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean have both made overtures to the anti-abortion movement, and NARAL Pro-Choice America subsequently dropped its opposition to the “Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act,” requiring doctors to offer anesthesia for the fetus in abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy. | | | Nader’s run for president in 2000 quickly grew into the electoral voice of the global justice movement. |
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| | History of British Trotskyism - Part One - Fighting Against the Stream - The Origins and Early Years [Section 1] |
| | The leaders of the ILP were insistently demanding the right to act as a separate party. | | | During the strike, the CPGB had failed to act as an independent revolutionary party, warning of the dangers from the left as well as the right. | | | "The book," wrote Trotsky later, "was aimed essentially at the official conception of the Politburo, with its hope of an evolution to the left by the British General Council, and of a gradual and painless penetration of communism into the ranks of the British Labour Party and trade unions."[5] |
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| | Damien Durand: The birth of the Chinese Left Opposition - RH |
| | These documents were to serve as an introduction and to teach Chen to understand his own role in the 1925-27 period. | | | In his opinion, the line of Our Word was ‘that of capitulators’, while Chen Duxiu represented ‘the Right Opposition masquerading behind the phraseology of the Left’. | | | I had opinions of my own, and began to act with more prudence than before... |
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| | Some analysts think Dean will not lose that much support when people look more closely at his stances, because his support on the left comes more from "outsiders" than it does from "ideological" liberals — perhaps an 80-20 split. | | | A Chicago activist who says he donated $500 to Dean's campaign — the average Dean donation in the second quarter was $112 — has gathered almost 600 signatures on an online petition expressing "deep reservations" about Dean's Middle East positions, which signers consider too pro-Israel. | | | Dean Losing Support on Left For His Stances on Its Issues |
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| | Behind Child Left No Opposition |
| | President Bush's centerpiece education law, the No Child Left Behind Act, complaining it imposes costly new... | | | and Senate in December, with opposition again limited to an odd amalgam... | | | More States Are Fighting 'No Child Left Behind' Law (washingtonpost.com) |
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| | In April 17-25, 1918, the Left SRs held a congress in Moscow stating that the Soviet government had resumed the policies of the provisional government. | | | Those convicted received sentences of less than a year, for it was found that the party organisation had little involvement with the assassination. | | | The opposition was labelled as Trotskyist (because Trotsky was the defacto leader of the opposition), while the right side of the party was referred to as Stalinist (because Stalin was the defacto leader). |
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| | Italy's left will recall Iraq troops: Prodi -DAWN - International; 28 March, 2004 |
| | Mr Prodi has said he would not run in the June elections, instead serving out his term as president of the commission which expires in October, but he has assumed the mantle of opposition leader as polls approach. | | | In a letter to the Corriere della Sera daily, former prime minister Prodi called the Iraqi war "unjustified and illegitimate". | | | Mr Prodi, the only man to have beaten Mr Berlusconi at the polls, in a general election in 1996, appeared in his letter to be appealing to critics who saw the coalition's opposition to the presence of Italian troops in Iraq as too lacking in conviction. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Norway votes with governing coalition and left-leaning opposition in close ... |
| | Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, 58, cast an early vote Sunday in his home district of Kolbotn, while the opposition's front man, Labor party leader Jens Stoltenberg, voted in Oslo on Monday. | | | European Union membership, which Norwegian voters rejected in 1994, has not been an issue. | | | Even if the center-right parties win a majority, it is not clear whether the current government can stay in office, as Party of Progress leader Carl I. Hagen has said he would not accept Bondevik as prime minister after the election. |
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| | How the FI was conceived |
| | On January 30, 1933, Hindenburg, the constitutional head of the Weimar Republic, elected with the votes of the Social Democracy, called on Hitler to form a new cabinet. | | | The organizational cohesion of the International Left Opposition was not seriously undertaken until the time of Trotsky's expulsion from the USSR and his arrival in Turkey, in February 1929. | | | As a leader of the Fourth International he headed a provisional international centre in the United States during World War Two and left politics shortly thereafter.] |
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| | TAP: Vol 4, Iss. 15. The Left's Obsessive Opposition. Richard Rothstein. |
| | Or we can begin to appreciate a president and administration who, notwithstanding the never-satisfied plaints of liberal friends, forge ahead to implement an agenda of economic justice, equality, and decency. | | | Other liberals are sympathetic to Clinton but fear that his program and hence his presidency will fail; they attack him as pragmatists rather than as ideologues. | | | Perhaps liberals who have spent their entire lives in bitter opposition to Democratic and Republican presidents alike have no instincts on which to draw when a progressive leader, under siege, needs their support. |
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| | Radek returned to Poland in 1905 and participated in the 1905 revolution in Warsaw as a member of the Social Democratic party of Poland and Lithuania. | | | In 1923 a member of the Left Opposition, expelled from the party in 1927 as a result. | | | Karl Bernardovich Radek (Sobelsohn) born in L'viv in 1885 to an Austrophile Jewish family of postal official. |
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| | Japan opposition looks left, right after crushing defeat : Mail & Guardian Online |
| | The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is set to elect a new leader on Saturday after Katsuya Okada, a dour former civil servant, quit over the election rout in which the party lost one third of its seats. | | | Koizumi largely ignored foreign policy in the election, focusing the campaign squarely on his proposal to privatise the post office which he cast as a litmus test for reform. | | | Several news reports said the younger DPJ members are rallying behind Seiji Maehara, a 43-year-old who was the opposition's shadow defence chief and spokesperson on national security in the last Parliament. |
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| | CEA joins No Child Left Behind opposition - The Daily Campus - News |
| | "It is my observation and opinion that the local interpretation of the Federal No Child Left Behind education law is seriously effecting access to music education for America 's public school students," Woods said. | | | The Connecticut Education Association (CEA) joined the National Education Association (NEA) and various school districts across the country to bring a lawsuit against President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on April 20. | | | CEA joins No Child Left Behind opposition - The Daily Campus - News |
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| | Opposing the Religious Right Tracking the Left's Opposition to Christian and Jewish Conservatism |
| | The author is Dr. Edmund W. Robb, a Methodist evangelist, and his journalist daughter. | | | While Christian and Jewish conservatives -- members of the "Religious Right" -- are often categorized and labeled in the mainstream media, the people and organizations that actively oppose them (the Anti-Religious Left?) are often spared ideological labels while being quoted as experts on cultural, religious, or constitutional issues. | | | Most of their direct efforts failed, but they did accomplish one thing: they alienated many of their conservative members who left in droves, thereby weakening their own influence. |
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| | Stalinism - encyclopedia article about Stalinism. |
| | New Left The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. | | | Left communism Left Communism is a term describing a whole range of communist viewpoints which oppose the political ideas of the Bolsheviks from a position which is asserted to be more authentically Marxist and proletarian than the views held by the Communist International after its first two Congresses. | | | Trotsky considered himself a Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party that defends orthodox marxist theory at the highest level. |
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| | The former supporters of the Right Opposition in the United States drifted to the right-wing of the labour movement and into anti-Communist activities, with Lovestone working for many years both for the AFL-CIO and the CIA. | | | Trotsky argued that his tendency, the Left Opposition, represented the internationalist traditions of the working class. | | | In the United States, Jay Lovestone, Bertram Wolfe and their supporters founded the Communist Party (Opposition) and published the newspaper Workers Age. |
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| | Infoshop.org - Anarchists Against War - SOME FURTHER NOTES ON LEFT-LIBERTARIAN OPPOSITION TO WAR |
| | Infoshop.org - Anarchists Against War - SOME FURTHER NOTES ON LEFT-LIBERTARIAN OPPOSITION TO WAR | | | But the left was gravely split on the issue of war, both because of the rise of the USSR and the development of Fascism in a number of countries. | | | The Friends of Durutti, which was founded after the death of this heroic anarchist fighter in the defense of Madrid against the Francoists, carried on his opposition to compromise-cooperation with state-oriented anti- Fascists. |
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| | The Left Opposition in Greece (1930)_PRIVATE __ |
| | This party will be independent of the Stalinist machine and the bureaucrats of the official Greek party. | | | Next to an official Communist party, which has left only a few weak traces of its existence in the political life of the Greek proletariat, an opposition movement is being built, organised in all the industrial cities of the country and in the countryside, and wielding a significant influence inside the trade union movement. | | | This work of assimilating the ideas of the International Left Opposition went alongside their penetration into the trade union organisations and the economic struggles of the working class. |
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| | BBC News EUROPE Left victorious in Poland |
| | The result, which was met with enormous cheers at the headquarters of the Democratic Left party, represents an enormous shift in the country's political landscape. | | | Civic Platform, which like the Democratic Left strongly supports Poland's bid to join the European Union, came second with about 13% of the vote. | | | Exit polls suggest the Democratic Left is set to take around 41% of the vote, which would leave it just short of an outright majority in parliament. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Left over? |
| | The left in America was once a powerful force that fought for civil rights and helped to end the Vietnam war. | | | This has been most striking in recent times on attitudes towards the war. | | | What became of the political culture that stopped the Vietnam war, brought about civil rights and very nearly made Jesse Jackson the Democratic presidential candidate? |
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| | The Hindu : National : Left opposition to Pension Bill continues |
| | Earlier, the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, urged the Left parties to reconsider their opposition to the Bill. | | | With the United Progressive Alliance Government getting the Patents (Amendment) Bill approved by the Lok Sabha, it is now faced with another major task — the passing of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2005. | | | The Left parties are not only opposed to the opening up of the pension system to private players but also have reservations about the new defined contribution pension regime which is to replace the earlier defined benefit pension system. |
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| | Lean Left: Opposition Party! |
| | The Democrats are the opposition party, so let's have an Opposition Party! | | | As Democrats take up a focused and united stance as the party in opposition, I propose we celebrate the occasion as it deserves - with an Opposition Party! | | | The unions robbed $30 million from their memberships and gave it to the Democratic Party this election cycle! |
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| | Netanyahu's wife sees leftist threat to his life |
| | She did not describe the alleged provocation against her husband, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or single out specific opposition leaders. | | | Israel's first lady, Sara Netanyahu, accused left-wing opposition leaders of inciting violence against her husband ahead of the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. | | | Netanyahu's wife sees leftist threat to his life |
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| | Lean Left: Opposition Research |
| | Needless to say, the Republicans have historically been quite a bit better at this than the Democrats, and it probably cost Gore the election in 2000. | | | The Atlantic is featuring this article on the increasing role that "opposition research" is playing in presidential politics, and how both parties circumvent the need to run negative ads by manipulating the media's coverage of their opponents. |
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| | LA Weekly: News: Iraq: Telling the Left From the Right |
| | The anti-Saddam opposition was openly and tragically betrayed by Washington. | | | Instead of the U.S.-backed return of the old ruling class, the Communist Party and Shia and Kurdish opposition groups want U.N.-monitored elections inside a post-Saddam Iraq leading to a federal representative government. | | | The Iraqis closest to Washington remain deposed aristocrats, although the Bush administration finally dumped the plan, backed by the Pentagon alone, to restore exiled former supporters of the Kingdom of Iraq, which prevailed for 27 years, to power as the Iraqi National Congress. |
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| | Left, Opposition condemn oil price hike; AP legislation on quota not permissible: SC; SBI employees on token strike; SC ... |
| | New Delhi/Chennai/Kolkata: The Left and several opposition parties, including the BJP and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), on Friday condemned the UPA Government's decision to raise oil prices. | | | Emerging out of the CPI-M's weekly state secretariat meeting, former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu said that he was quite surprised by the development and would be talking to other leaders of the Left before deciding the next course of action. | | | But I saw in the newspaper today that the government had effected it," Basu said. |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: The Left's Strange Opposition to Preemptive War by Tibor R. Machan |
| | That is the essence of limited government - it may not just impose its force without acting defensively, in protection of the rights of the citizenry. | | | But statists of both the Left and Right Wings do not want government to be so limited. They want it to act aggressively so as to prevent evils. | | | Indeed, conservative Republicans, who do not mind prior restraint - some even favor censorship - are more consistent here than are those on the Left who protest against President Bush's preemptive war plans. Most of them have never pretended to be against preventive aggression in principle, only if it doesn't work! |
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| | The Hindu : National : Left deplores Opposition threat |
| | The Left parties plan to raise the issue and demand that the Government come up with a solution. | | | On the spate of attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the killing of civilians and security personnel, the Left parties, expressing concern, decided to raise in Parliament the issue of restoring normality in the State. | | | The leaders who attended the meeting were Basudev Acharia, Nilotpal Basu, Dipankar Mukherjee, and Md. Salim (CPI-M), P.K. Vasudevan Nair, Gurudas Dasgupta and Ajay Chakraborty (CPI), Bir Singh Mahato (All-India Forward Bloc) and Abani Ray, Manoj Bhattacharya and Joachim Baxla (Revolutionary Socialist Party). |
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| | thedesertsun.com No Child Left Behind opposition growing |
| | The school board voted Thursday night to file suit against the state of California over its implementation of the federal law, which was a key domestic program passed during President Bush's first term. | | | And the superintendent of the district said he would leave the option of suing the federal government open - but that No Child Left Behind seemed to be imploding by itself. | | | The law requires annual student testing in reading and math with the goal of improving the academic performance of all children, regardless of their race, ethnicity or family income. |
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| | International Left Opposition |
| | A key U.N. envoy met with Zimbabwe's embattled president Wednesday as the government moved ahead with a crackdown that has left thousands arrested And their livelihoods destroyed. | | | AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- Opposition to the European Union constitution has grown among Dutch voters, according to a new poll, but most said the outcome of Sunday's French referendum had not influenced them. | | | Nearly two million people in Zimbabwe's towns and cities have been left homeless, while a further 22,000 street traders have been arrested as Robert Mugabe intensified a crackdown on opposition strongholds. |
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| | Iraqi Opposition Feels Left Out of War |
| | The opposition groups -- loosely allied Kurdish, Shiite Muslim and secular organizations -- have long insisted that most Iraqis look forward to the ouster of President Saddam Hussein and his security-heavy Baath Party government. | | | Iraq's U.S.-endorsed opposition has distanced itself from the Bush administration's war strategy, suggesting the plan to conquer the country without involving the Iraqi public has opened the way for military problems in the south. | | | But they have expressed irritation that, in their view, the Bush administration has made little effort to include Iraqis in military or political strategy. |
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| | Left Center Left: Opposition Strategy |
| | As I wrote a month ago, the Democrats have to start seeing themselves as a true party of opposition in large part because of the way President Bush has reshaped the capital into something much more like a parliamentary system. | | | December 15, 2004 at 07:53 AM in Human Services, Politics - General | | | I agreed with Josh Marshall a month ago, when he wrote that the Democrats have to strategize along the lines of a parliamentary opposition party, but it seems especially important advice now that Social Security battles are coming up: |
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| | A resurgence of left-wing opposition in Israel? |
| | The latest protest demonstrations have been quite large, and there are many more people refusing either to serve altogether in an army of occupation (a small minority), or to serve in the Palestinian occupied territories. | | | There is however something else that has changed the scene in the last ten years, and could lead Harel and others to over-optimistic conclusions. | | | Finally, as the Israeli society is moving to the right, only a small fraction of its dovish minority breaks away from the Zionist consensus and joins the radical opposition. |
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| | Danish (Left) Opposition, Unions Call For Pro-Palestinian Demo |
| | COPENHAGEN, April 15 (IslamOnline and News Agencies) - Following their call on the government to stop exporting defense equipment to Israel, opposition parties and trade unions in Denmark called for a demonstration on Tuesday to protest against Israel's military offensive in the Palestinian territories, news agencies reported. | | | The protest, whose slogan is to be "Peace Now", was jointly announced Monday by the Social Democrats, the People's Socialist Party, and the former communist Unity List as well as by trade unions, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). | | | Danish (Left) Opposition, Unions Call For Pro-Palestinian Demo |
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