Sentences with phrase «labour movement opposition»

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposition.

Not exact matches

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.

The strategy, dubbed «Let Corbyn be Corbyn» aims to portray the Labour leader as an anti-establishment figure and hopes to build on recent populist movements that have set themselves up in opposition to a political and media elite.

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 movLabour left — linked to the growing opposition to Blair's attacks on the welfare state in the labour movlabour movement.

That surely can not be right, and it is worth reminding those Opposition Members who object to the rationale that it was one of the founding tenets of the Chartists - one of the predecessor movements to the Labour party - that all votes should be of equal value.»

In the preceding years, a strong movement calling for this had built up in opposition to the ruling Conservative governments, which many opponents claimed had undermined the social and economic consensus that had prevailed until then - particularly in respect of labour rights.

Opposition finds Labour trapped in a vicious pincer movement between the Tory attack and the bluster of a motley crew of small parties, parliament being the focus of gladiatorial battles.

So opposition is going to have to be extra-parliamentary and focused on the labour movement; party membership shouldn't, outside of elections, matter.

His critics will argue Merkel, in the face of opposition to free movement reform from eastern European countries, will always choose EU cohesion over changes to the labour market.

Then Thatcherism swept all before it; the Labour opposition fractured; the trade union movement — the backbone of the left in the broadest sense — was pummelled; and then the Soviet collapse unleashed a tidal wave of capitalist triumphalism that swamped even democratic leftists who abhorred Stalinist totalitarianism.