Sentences with phrase «labour movement activists»

New Zealand About Blog The Standard newspaper — from where our masthead comes — was founded by labour movement activists in the 1930s.

New Zealand About Blog The Standard newspaper — from where our masthead comes — was founded by labour movement activists in the 1930s.

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

Unions are essentially defensive operations and the seismic disputes in the coming years for the heart and soul of Labour may prove to be not between a Jeremy Corbyn cult and its enemies, or wider Left versus Right clashes but the collective industrial movement up against individual political activists.

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

Scottish National party and WEP activists are also involved in the new movement, which has been endorsed by Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and the Norwich South MP and possible Labour leadership contender, Clive Lewis.

The growth in Labour's local activist base and organisation was reflected in the elections following the war, the co-operative movement now providing its own resources to the Co-operative Party after the armistice.

An infrastructure of union shop stewards, academics, the «peace movement», union - financed research and constituency activists which had sustained Labour's left in the early 1980s — and almost won the deputy leadership for Tony Benn — had all but disappeared over the following decades.

He ennobled Maurice Glasman, a great believer (and participant) in grass - roots democracy, and he hired Arnie Graf, the American veteran campaigner who had mentored Barack Obama in his early days as a young activist in Chicago, to inject the Labour party with the movement politics spirit.

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

Tribute on the death of an esteemed IWC staff member and activist, who will also be sadly missed in many communities, family, legal clinics, injured workers, disability rights organizations, the labour movement, fellow GO train commuters....