Sentences with phrase «in the labour movement»

(Rather than reinvent the wheel, perhaps we in the labour movement could teach them a thing or two about that.)

This app reaches out to its audience and asks it to participate directly in the Labour movement to carry out grass roots activity.

Born in 1935, Paul was educated at Bury Grammar School and Manchester University, where he began his career in the labour movement as chair of the Manchester Federation of Young Socialists.

Mutualism has a rich history in the Labour movement and its principles are in many ways anathema to Conservatives, not least the notion of co-operative ownership of the means of production which represent a threat to universal property rights.

It is beholden on all in the labour movement to make stuff happen!

Blue Labour was launched in 2010 by academic and Labour peer Maurice Glasman, and dedicated to reclaiming distinctive traditions of reciprocity and mutuality in the labour movement.

I don't think anyone in the labour movement should be in the business of cheering on cuts to social security eligibility, regardless of where the recipients are from.

Some in the Labour movement argue that by talking about the deficit the party can only lose, since it is a Tory issue: they should «frame» the debate in terms more favourable to themselves.

The best possible political use of opposition to cutting lone parent benefits was made because it was left neither to enemies of the working class to cynically exploit — specifically the Liberal Democrats — nor simply to those most affected or more minority forces in the labour movement.

For the entire twentieth century the battles over policy in the labour movement have been fought within a unitary Labour Party.

It is the only current in the labour movement which supports virtually every progressive struggle.

While three quarters of swing voters thought Labour must accept a large part of the blame for the economic situation, most in the Labour movement disagreed.

However, left forces in the labour movement have not been extinguished, both inside and outside the Labour Party.

People in the Labour movement generally believe swing voters to be ignorant (because they did not understand what Labour had achieved), credulous (because they believed what they read in the right - wing press) and selfish (because they thought only of their own interests, rather than public services and the poor).

LabourList and John Prescott's GoFourth will then be significant powers in the Labour movement.

A majority in the Labour movement believe the coalition will prove so unpopular that Labour will win the next election without having to change fundamentally.

The obstacle to this project is the Labour left — linked to the growing opposition to Blair's attacks on the welfare state in the labour movement.

More than two thirds of swing voters think the coalition's proposed cuts are «unavoidable», compared to less than half in the Labour movement.

A majority in the Labour movement disagree.

A majority in the Labour movement believe the party lost the election because its traditional core supporters decided not to vote Labour, not because middle class swing voters went to other parties.

«The high rate of spoiled ballots and lower turnout in elections fought under AV should trigger an alarm to those in the Labour movement who care about democracy,» she said.

But Mr Smith told the BBC in July: «We have had a massive problem recently with misogyny and intolerance in the party, anti-Semitism, racism and the awful way in which women in the Labour movement have been treated.

He has been active in the Labour movement for decades and fights for working people as a UNISON official.

God life in the labour movement not all is dead then, well done young labour because the link with the labour party is at risk, the demi gods at the top of the Union are playing a dangerous game, so is the labour party.

Stella Creasy, another candidate for the deputy leadership, criticised what she described as «machine politics» in the Labour movement.

Lansbury, the Labour leader until the 1935 election in November, became notorious for his personal commitment to pacificism but other high - profile figures in the Labour movement didn't share his commitment, hence the very personal attack on him by Ernest Bevin, who was a leading personality in the trade union movement at the time — if you check out his Wikipedia entry.

But Benn insisted that many people in the Labour movement had adapted their stance on Europe over the years:

In the Labour movement itself I have trouble seeing any John The Bapist figures partly because, like the fascists, its true father, there is no political creed discernible only a mania for media control and a brutal instinct for power.

Meanwhile, the gulf between the attitudes of the Conservatives - Liberal Democrat coalition and those in the labour movement was highlighted by a TUC report out today, which suggested that the poorest had been in a livelihood crisis for the last 30 years.

We obviously share Rob's commitment «to counteract rightwards drift in the labour movement and the Labour Party».

Imperfect though the arrangement was, at least they were locals with roots in the Labour movement.

«I have no time for talk of a split in the Labour movement - it's Labour or nothing for me.

So when we finally beat the Tories in 1997, we faced a mixture of hope and optimism as activists in the labour movement.

He added: «This package is all about marginalising Labour MPs in the Labour movement.

It could hardly be otherwise, given the roots it has in the labour movement representing the sectional interests of otherwise quite disparate occupational groupings.

It's time to fix things in the labour movement.

Not exact matches

The Popular Unity Candidacy joins a line of far - left movements seizing the political momentum in Europe, from Greece's ruling Syriza party and Spain's own far - left Podemos movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour Party.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term declinIn the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term declinin both countries are in long - term declinin long - term decline.

By the early 1990s, the New Democratic Party — the political ally of the labour movement — was in power in three Canadian provinces, including Ontario, and held 43 seats in Parliament.

But in busting assumptions about female workers, the strike also represented a broader change in attitude toward gender that affected the entire labour movement.

In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included members from business, labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.

«Jim will leave BC's labour movement stronger and more united, even in these very challenging times,» said Simpson.

It is killing the labour movement in the face of this recession and the surge in foreign takeovers.

In short, we in the PSAC and the broader labour movement face on every side staggering threats that call for all hands on decIn short, we in the PSAC and the broader labour movement face on every side staggering threats that call for all hands on decin the PSAC and the broader labour movement face on every side staggering threats that call for all hands on deck.

This movement witnessed many sacrifices; some labour activists even lost their lives as a result, in order to obtain justice for all workers.

This workers» festival originated in 1886 in the United States but did not seem to have an impact on the Canadian labour movement until the early 19th century.

Networks from Canada and Quebec, representing labour unions; Indigenous, farmers, and migrant groups; environmentalists; women's organizations; international solidarity groups; student movements; and human rights organizations will join their American and Mexican counterparts at the historic Antiguo Palacio de Escuela de Medicina in Mexico City.

Here we see the shape of struggles to come — in the nascent alliances and tensions between the labour movement and those on the front lines of the struggle for climate justice.