Sentences with phrase «left wing activists»

Left wing activists looking to take on Chuka Umunna had better watch out.The Labour MP has teamed...

The idea was that dominance of the parliamentary leadership would be guaranteed by downgrading the role of party structures, dominated by supposedly left wing activists, in favour of postal ballots of individuals.

This has been the big campaign of the year for the trade unions and left wing activists.

Then there is also the left wing activist and writer Owen Jones who has given money.

However if it were to occur Bristol West would be one of the more likely candidates given that it is left wing activist central.

In 1920 - following the example of Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971), John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld)(1891 - 1968) and others - Ernst, Jean Arp and a left wing activist and painter Alfred Gruenwald set up a Cologne branch of Dada.

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PHILIPPINES: A few thousand left - wing activists and laborers marched and held noisy rallies to press for higher wages and an end to temporary contractual jobs that deprive workers of many benefits.

By now, the business community is used to accusations of its alleged black arts from environmentalists, left - wing politicians and assorted other activists.

But May Day 2018 turned out to be a day of violent clashes between police and protesters, as both left - wing and right - wing activists took to the streets with fire and fists, from Paris to Istanbul.

Other right - wing conspiracy theorists falsely claimed the shooting was a staged «false flag» operation, and that the student organizers were secretly being led by «left wing gun control activists,» the Miami Herald reported.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

«Their kidnapping took place», continued the BBC report, «during a period of massive state repression of left - wing activists, union leaders and social activists which became known as the «Dirty War».

RNS writer Daniel Burke says several U.S. Catholic bishops charge that their church's «flagship» anti-poverty program funds left - wing activists who subvert church doctrine on homosexuality and abortion.

But one thing that differentiated all the activists, D'Annunzio, Marinetti, and Mussolini from a left - wing socialist like Gramsci and a conservative liberal like Croce was their glorification of war and more particularly their violent interventionism in the First World War.

The danger which Labour faces after the election is not a vigorous internal challenge by left - wing activists furious at betrayal, but how to rebuild support with a very low membership and few activists.

One - state solutions 1: Many left - wing Palestinian academics and activists, and some far - left - wing Israelis, view a one - state solution with equal rights for all inhabitants as the only just solution to the conflict.

In that time, Obama has been punched from all sides — from conservatives, of course, using both legitimate arguments and the made - up fantasies of the right - wing fringe, but also from the Left, as activists and bloggers try to hold his feet to the liberal fire.

But we will never again — in any future conflict — let those activist, left - wing human rights lawyers harangue and harass the bravest of the brave — the men and women of Britain's Armed Forces.

That did not sit well with some left - wing party activists, the group Rise and Resist, who protested the governor, shouting «shame» and released a video widely viewed on social media.

The left - wing Green Party nominated a ticket consisting of political activists Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke.

In the words of left - wing singer - songwriter, Billy Bragg, unions need to do much more than «be active with the activists» and «reach to the converted».

Previously, MPs had monopolised that right but after a left - wing activist campaign (including a young Jon Lansman, founder of Momentum), a new electoral college was formed.

To this end, some have raised the prospect of reintroducing mandatory reselection for MPs, harking back to a Bennite - inspired rule from the 1980s that helped left - wing constituency activists to keep moderate MPs in line.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

How ironic therefore that far from securing the bankrupt ideology of right - wing «modernisers» it has now all blown up in their faces and far from weakening further Party activists it has done the opposite and left the majority of right - wing welfare cutting Labour MPs looking like the unrepresentative, out of touch nasty selfish bunch of careerists that they are.

However, many Labour MPs are under pressure from local left - wing activists to back Corbyn and vote against airstrikes.

It's been reported that Sex and the City star and left - wing activist Cynthia Nixon has been talking to consultants linked to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about a possible primary challenge to Cuomo in the governor's race this year.

This breed of left - wing activist pinned their hopes on Scottish independence in 2014 as a deliberate means of sending the union into meltdown.

The controversial WFP, which is under investigation for possible violations of the New York City campaign - finance law, was founded nearly a decade ago by left - wing labor unions and political activists, and has emerged as a potent force in helping Democratic candidates.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

I obviously do not wish to belittle the significance of the deaths of people in the other groups - ethnic Poles, Slovenians, Homosexuals, left - wing political activists, disabled people, Roma, and arguably also prisoners of war from the USSR (my own grandfather was both a Jew and a soldier in the Red Army); and it's important to mention them as well.

Left - wing activists flooded into Labour to vote for Corbyn, with the unprecedented consequence in British politics that a parliamentary party was left with a leader which it did not suppLeft - wing activists flooded into Labour to vote for Corbyn, with the unprecedented consequence in British politics that a parliamentary party was left with a leader which it did not suppleft with a leader which it did not support.

Two polls from Siena College and Quinnipiac University have shown Cuomo's margin of victory diminished by a generic candidate running to his left — surveys that have emboldened the activist wing of the party upset with his stances on tax cuts and charter schools.

Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday he «strongly» backs a new proposal to unite warring Democrats in the state Senate, a move demanded by left - wing activists as the governor heads into an election year.

The Senate candidate is the vice chair of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization formerly headed by left - wing activist David Brock and an approved funding group of the progressive Democracy Alliance.

In the summer of 1974, Howie Hawkins — a rising sophomore at Dartmouth College and fierce left - wing, anti-Vietnam War activist — started officer training in Quantico, Virginia for the Marine Corps.

Centrist activists in Lewisham had feared the NEC, on which Corbyn's backers now have a majority, would only allow them to choose between candidates from the left wing of the party.

Progressives in the Council, meanwhile, have said additional officers will allow for better «community policing» — though some left - wing activists have knocked the Council for proposing to increase the size of a police force they believe needs to be overhauled.

At the same time, Cuomo insisted the split withing the WFP, which endorsed his primary opponent Cynthia Nixon on Saturday, was between the activist wing of the party and its founding labor unions, which have left the organization on the eve of meeting last weekend.

In the recording obtained by The Observer, he went on to tell activists it was «absolutely crucial» that they secured a change to the party's rules to ensure that a left wing contender can replace Corbyn when he stands down.

Left - wing Democratic Party activists are organizing a protest outside Cuomo's 60th birthday fundraiser bash at Cipriani Wall Street on Dec. 14 — just across from the Trump Building — that will feature Bon Jovi and Bill Clinton.

The left - wing activists were labelled «scum» by Nigel Farage after they confronted him and his family while they were having lunch.

That is likely to mean a further reduction in the number of left - wing activists some of whom will either give up in despair or will find other forms of political expression.

McCrory later dismissed criticism of the law, which also curbed LGBT anti-discrimination protections, as «political theater» that he says is concocted by left - wing activists, accusing them of a «calculated smear campaign.»

Left - wing activists have found a collateral target in their efforts to resist President Trump — powerful Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer.

The Democratic majority was only three weeks old, but by Jan. 26, the grass - roots and Net - roots activists of the party's left wing had already settled on their new enemy: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D - Calif.)

Gillibrand quickly endorsed Cuomo for reelection, despite the fact that she has spoken out against a group of breakaway Democrats in the state Senate in a power - sharing arrangement with the Senate GOP that some elected officials and left - wing activists believe has been encouraged by the governor.

There is «no way» left - wing activists will be allowed to force moderate Labour MPs out, the shadow chancellor said.

One was left - wing Scottish Unite activist, Karie Murphy, former nurse and later office manager to -LSB-...]

Last year, James Hodgkinson, a left - wing activist, opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing for an upcoming congressional baseball game, seriously injuring GOP Rep. Steve Scalise and several others.