In the 1930s, socialist trade unionists formed the American
Labor Party here basically to give people on the far left a way to support FDR and the New Deal without pulling the Democratic lever.
Not exact matches
(The «
labor»
here represents the exploited
party, not the beneficiary.)
Meanwhile back
here on planet Earth; where no one, (not even someone such as myself with a lifelong interest in politics,) has ever heard of either Jeremy Corbyn or Angela Eagle much before last week, the Ivory tower jibe chimes very much in tune with my own previous assessment of a now all but completely defunct
Labor party completely out of touch with the public at large and with broader opinion, and out to lunch.
So, perhaps Cuomo is banking on the fact that he's got the public opinion on his side
here — much like with gay marriage — and also is counting on the fact that
labor won't likely support a Republican, particularly not with the rightward trend the
party has been taking of late.
Howie Hawkins (Green
Party), R. L. Stephens (
Labor organizer, Chicago), Benjamin Serby (Team Bernie NY), and Karl Berlin (labor organizer, Pittsburgh) discuss the 2016 elections and where the left should go from
Labor organizer, Chicago), Benjamin Serby (Team Bernie NY), and Karl Berlin (
labor organizer, Pittsburgh) discuss the 2016 elections and where the left should go from
labor organizer, Pittsburgh) discuss the 2016 elections and where the left should go from
here.
On show
here are works belonging to the Christian Democratic Appeal (a small clay figurine representing the importance of family values and faith), the
Labor Party (a piece of a new kind of asphalt, more endurable under extreme temperatures, connoting stability, employment and freedom of movement for the working class), the Socialist
Party (photos of a protest by harbor workers in Rotterdam that went on strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the owners.)
In my view the carbon plan was kept alive
here by much stronger genuine interest among the electorate than in the US, certainly not by the political skills of the hapless
Labor party or features of the legislation.
As part of its alliance with hard - left nut jobs, the Greens,
Labor lurched so far to the loopy left it's now unrecognisable as the «Workers»
Party» it once used to be (see our post
here).