Sentences with phrase «british labour movement»

The link between workers» rights and support for the EU amongst the British labour movement is not new and dates back to the 1980s when the TUC — faced with a domestic Conservative government hostile to trade unions and following Jacques Delors» speech advocating a social dimension to European integration — withdrew its support for the UK's withdrawal from the (then) EEC and instead adopted a positive approach to UK membership.

Not exact matches

True, some British politicians argue in favour of the single market while demanding restrictions in the field of intra-European movement of labour.

The British socialist and labour movements of the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century chose to view Magna Carta as an important symbol to invoke in their own struggles against the current system and its abuses.

Labour doesn't even need to establish a constituency of support to do these things - Labour has institutional links with the union and cooperative movements, a majority in the Commons, and has just bailed out British capitalism.

The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the defeats suffered by the trade union movement, as well as the decline in influence of the British Communist Party, led to a strengthening of the position of Labour party members who were opposed to Marxism.

The contribution of the British people - the trade unions, the student movement, the Liberal and Labour parties, the ordinary shoppers who did their bit - all of it should never be forgotten.

A final concern, about which I have written elsewhere, is the pressure of unregulated EU free movement of labour on the wages and job opportunities of low - skilled British workers.

This is a naked attempt not just to reduce funding for the Labour party, but more importantly to reduce the political influence of the trade union movement within British politics.

He set out that free movement of people would end, and that Labour would clamp down on the use of migrant labour by employment agencies to undercut British workers - a party commitment dating back to Ed Miliband's leadeLabour would clamp down on the use of migrant labour by employment agencies to undercut British workers - a party commitment dating back to Ed Miliband's leadelabour by employment agencies to undercut British workers - a party commitment dating back to Ed Miliband's leadership.

It allows Labour to leave the single market but then unilaterally offer something akin to free movement - this time as a decision of the British government rather than a rule of membership from Brussels.

This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candilabour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candiLabour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.