The Anti-Monopoly Party was an American political party formed on May the 14th 1884 at Chicago, demanding economical government, equitable laws, including an Interstate Commerce law, laws establishing labour bureaus and providing industrial arbitration, direct vote for senators, graduated income tax, payment of the national debt as it matures, and 'fostering-care' for agriculture, and denouncing the tariff and the granting of land to corporations. The Anti-Monopoly Party later joined with the Green-Back Labour party to form the 'People's Party'. Research Anti-Monopoly Party
The Daily Mirror is a tabloid newspaper. It was founded in 1903 chiefly as a journal for women, and modified in 1904 as a general illustrated newspaper. Today it is known as a sensationalist tabloid supporting the Labour party. Research Daily Mirror
The Independent Labour Party was inaugurated at Bedford on January 14th 1893. It was established with the object of bringing the trade unions of the country into the political arena as a distinct organisation for securing the direct representation of labour in Parliament, without any regard either to Liberalism or Toryism. Ironically, the Labour Party is today strongly criticised for the influence the trade unions have over it, with many people in Britain wishing to sever the links between the party and the unions. Research Labour Party
Respect, the Unity Coalition, is a British left-wing political party formed directly out of the anti-war movement in the UK which followed the invasion of Iraq in 2002. Some of those involved in the anti-war movement felt that a political movement was needed to further the aims of those millions who marched against the war. A public meeting was called in January 2004 in London at Friend's House and from that meeting, which was attended by more than 1500 people, an executive was formed. Among those instrumental in founding Respect were George Galloway MP (who had been expelled from the ruling Labour party for revealing truths about the illegality of the invasion of Iraq), Lindsey German, Convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, Ken Loach the film maker and Salma Yaqoob, of the Birmingham Stop the War group. Many British political observers see Respect as an attempt to recreate the true Socialist Labour party which had become a party - renamed 'New Labour' - with almost identical aims to the Tory party, and in so doing had misled and cheated its supporters who traditionally believed in values such as the national ownership of railways and public services and which they had thought would be re-nationalised by the Tony Blair led Labour government.
Sir William Alexander Bustamante (born William Alexander Clarke, he changed his name to show his opposition to racism) was a Jamaican politician. He was the Prime Minister of Jamaica on its independence from Britain, from 1962 to 1967. He founded the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 1943 and was minister for communications in the executive council of 1944. Research Alexander Bustamante
Christopher Addison was an English politician and surgeon. He was born in 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire and died in 1951. Educated at Harrogate and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London where he qualified, he was for a time professor of anatomy at University College, Sheffield and editor of the Quarterly Medical Journal. In 1910 he entered politics as Liberal member of parliament for Hoxton and in 1914 became parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education. He assisted Lloyd George in the scheme for National Health Insurance, and was appointed first secretary to the new Ministry of Munitions, and in 1917 head of the new Ministry of reconstruction. In 1919 Christopher Addison became Britain's first minister of health. In 1921 following difficulties with Lloyd George Christopher Addison resigned and joined the Labour Party. He was created a baron in 1937 and in 1940 assumed leadership of the Labour peers, in 1945 becoming leader of the House of Lords. Research Christopher Addison
Clement Richard Attlee (Lord Attlee) was a British politician. He was born in 1883 at Putney and died in 1967. Educated at University College, Oxford he was called to the Bar in 1905. A socialist, in 1919 he became the first Labour mayor of Stepney and in 1922 entered parliament and became Ramsay Macdonald's parliamentary secretary. In 1931 he became deputy-leader of the opposition and in 1935 succeeded George Lansbury as leader of the Labour Party, and in 1945 became Prime Minister, his government being responsible for social reform following the Second World War, including the establishment of the National Health Service. He was once more leader of the opposition from 1951 until he retired in 1955 and was made an earl. Research Clement Attlee
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen is a British politician. He was born in 1938. After serving as Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979 in the Labour government he became increasingly dissatisfied with the Labour Party's policies, and in 1981 broke away to become a founding member (one of the 'gang of four') of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, resigning to form a breakaway SDP when the main party decided to merge with the Liberals; he eventually disbanded this party in 1990. In 1992 he was appointed the EC's chief mediator in attempts to solve the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. Research David Owen
Diane Julie Abbott is an English politician. She was born in 1953. After being educated at Cambridge she worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties, the Greater London Council and Lambeth Borough Council before being elected to Parliament as member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987. A member of the Labour party since 1971, she was the first 'Black' woman to be elected to the British government. Research Diane Abbott
George Galloway is a Scottish politician. He was born in 1954. Under the Blair government, he opposed the invasion of Iraq and move away from traditional socialist policies by the Labour party was subsequently expelled from the Labour party, was a founder member of the socialist Respect party and successfully rebuffed a campaign of libel and slander mounted against him in an attempt to discredit him. Research George Galloway
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