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  • ...(events and sponsorship). The Trade Unions, who once generated 90% of the Party's income, now provide only 30% (and only 3 high-value donations in 1998-9). ...traditional core of working class supporters. What was supposed to be the 'Party of the working class' is funded by the rich and packed out with businessmen
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  • In early 1994, Guangen Ding, head of the Communist Party's propaganda department, banned private satellite dishes in China, in a sin ...eed International) put it up for sale. Of the two bidders (the other being Labour MP, Robert Maxwell), Murdoch won with a bid for £800,000. In 1967 he had a
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  • :One strand was the clandestine anti-communist (and anti-socialist) organisation in British trade unions, of which the best example is to be f the 1933, was Chairman of the [[Independent Labour Party]]
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  • ...a majority of 7,455. <ref> [http://www.express.co.uk/politics/politicians/labour/chris-bryant/186 Chris Bryant] ''Express'', accessed 19 May 2015 </ref> In ...nce secretary, citing disagreements over defence issues with newly-elected Labour leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]]. <ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-3424
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  • '''George Foulkes''' (Lord Foulkes) is a British Labour Party peer and a Lothians MSP. ...r has a long-standing interest in the Caribbean, and is a member of an all-party group at Westminster. <ref name="row"> [http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/
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  • ...bbyist. In 2007 he was appointed as director of election resources for the party under [[Gordon Brown]]. On the 5 September 2013 he was created a [[Labour]] peer in the House of Lords.<ref name="parl"> [http://www.parliament.uk/bi
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  • ...the word hypocrite might be useful here. Mr Hutton has displayed a typical socialist attitude - 'do as I say, not as I do'." Hastings adds that Mrs Hutton uses ...y. Both conceive of companies as networks of contracts between capital and labour that generate revenue streams to be manipulated by whoever has central cont
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  • ...] and then [[LM]] when it was retitled after the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] was dissolved, until the magazine was forced to close in 2000 after losin *[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/4653/ 'Labour's phoney war'], ''Spiked'', 3 October 2003.
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  • ...he Exchequer 1950-51 and Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963. For much of the 1950s, Labour was divided between right-wing 'Gaitskellites' and left-wing 'Bevanites.'
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  • ...n of 1905, he joined a baker's union, controlled by the socialist [[Jewish Labour Bund]].<ref name="Parmet7">Robert D. Parmet, ''The Master of Seventh Avenue ...bor Movement'', NYU Press, 2005, p.11.</ref> He supported the campaigns of Socialist presidential candidate [[Eugene Debs]] and Congressman [[Meyer London]].<re
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  • A member of Scottish Labour Party and Councillor for Newlands/Auldburn, Stephen Curran is City Treasurer. He :Member of GMB Trade Union, The Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count a
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  • ...n Colleran]]Councillor for Partick West as a member of the Scottish Labour Party, Aileen Colleran moved from Council Business Manager to Chief Wip in May 20 *Socialist Environmental Resources Association
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  • '''Jay Lovestone''' was the former leader of the [[Communist Party USA]] expelled by [[Joseph Stalin]] in 1929 for 'idealogical deviationism.' ...e of New York]] in 1915, becoming President of the antiwar Intercollegiate Socialist Society prior to his graduation in 1918.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Ja
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  • ...dge‬}}'''Chris Smith''' (Lord Smith of Finsbury) is a former UK [[Labour Party]] politician and minister, and a former chairman of the UK [[Environment Ag ...lso chaired the housing committee and was chief Labour whip. In 1997, when Labour wan their election, he was made Secretary of State for heritage, the depart
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  • ...y's Place], Harry's Place, 24 November 2002.</ref> He joined the Communist Party aged 18: ...itics as a Labour Party activist and, after a brief departure to the CPGB, Labour is where I have remained and where I broadly belong. But the couple of year
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  • ...to his salary, and, earlier, he made an unsuccessful attempt to become New Labour candidate in Corby, apparently, like many a technocrat, not really understa ...cial liberal rather than anything that the past or the future would call a socialist.<ref>Tim Pendry '[http://asithappens.tppr.info/journal/2008/3/12/the-blogs-
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  • ...cellor of the Exchequer. Hobsbawm has been a long time fundraiser for New Labour, and a tireless defender of the PR industry. ...' From there according to Hobsbawm: ' I was aware of what the [[Democratic Party]] was doing with their fund-raising, and I wanted to try and import some of
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  • ...al Socialists, the Socialist Labour League and the Worker’ Revolutionary Party were associated with violent industrial disputes. [[Peter Janke|Janke]] wr
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  • ...decision to phase out the aircraft carriers, afterwards leaving the Labour Party and becoming a Liberal. <ref>Denis Healey, ''The Time of My Life'' (London: ...79; contested London South West for European Parliament, Sep 1979; Liberal Party Spokesman on Defence, 1980-1997; President, [[Parliamentary Association for
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  • ...our, and the danger of giving encouragement to the racist British National Party is a strong reason to stay silent. But what is happening now is so extreme ...Coalition]]. The former Labour MP [[George Galloway]] created the Respect Party with the support of the MAB, and won a seat in Parliament by cultivating Mu
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