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163 matches to Labour Party
International Labour Organization. ILO. 1919- Agency of League of Nations, United Nations.
Kagawa. 1888-1960. Japanese Christian pacifist evangelist writer/labour leader. National Anti-War League 1928.
Knights of Labor. 1869-1917. Secret (-1879) US anti-capitalist labour organization. Haymarket. AFL.
Krupp. 1587-1968. German family of arms manufacturers. Steel works 1812. Canon 1847. Used slave labour in WWII.
Labourers, Statute. 1351. Parliament’s freezing of rising wages after plague leads to Peasants Revolt.
Lansbury, George. 1859-1940. British Labour MP. Women’s suffrage. Pacifist, opposed to WWI.
MacDonald, Ramsay. 1866-1937. First British Labour Prime Minister 1924~35.
Marxism. Official dogma of Communism. Dialectical Materialism. “Perfect economic system will not require political state.” Marx. Engels. Value is based on labour. Maoism. Leninism.
Meir, Golda. 1898-1978. Israeli Labour Prime Minister 1969-74.
National Party. 1936-. New Zealand conservative anti-Labour party.
Palais de la Bourse. 1808-1907. First public stock exchange 1724 was in Mazarin Mansion.
Proletariat. Marxist term for those who live by the sale of their labour. Bourgeoisie.
Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.
Repartimiento. c1500-1820. Spanish-American colonists recruit Indians for forced labour.
Smith, Adam. 1723-1790. Scottish economist. Doctrine of free exchange. Natural law of supply and demand. Wealth of Nations 1776. -“Labour is source of all wealth”.
Social Democratic Party. 1981-87. British moderate Labour centre party.
Stymphalian birds. Man-eating birds Hercules killed as 6th labour.
Whitlam, Gough. 1916-. Australian Labour Prime Minister 1972-5. Quit Vietnam War. Dismissed by Governor General. Reduced immigration restrictions. White Australia.
Wilson, Harold. 1916-95. British Labour Prime Minister 1964~76.
Yeoman. English class between labourers and gentry.
Zinoviev Letter. 1924. From COMINTERN to London advising worker revolution. Labour defeated.
Aberhart, William. 1878-1943. Canadian Social Credit advocate.
Abolitionists. 1774-1868. US anti-slavery party. Merged into Republicans. Radical Republicans.
African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.
Anti-Masonic Party. 1826. US party absorbed into Whigs 1838.