Labour Party
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The name Labour Party or similar, is used by several political parties
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 around the world, particularly common in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

. They are most commonly, but not exclusively, social democrats
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

 or democratic socialists
Democratic socialism
Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialist movements and organizations to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation...

 and have been traditionally allied to the Labour movement
Labour movement
The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour...

 and trade unions
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

. Many labour parties are members of the Socialist International
Socialist International
The Socialist International is a worldwide organization of democratic socialist, social democratic and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.- History :...

.

Active Labour parties

Nation Party
 Angola Party of Labour
 Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Labour Party
Antigua Labour Party
The Antigua Labour Party is the former ruling political party in Antigua and Barbuda. It has long been led by Lester Bird, who was chairman of the party since 1971, and became Prime Minister and political leader in 1994. The party was founded by Lester's father, V.C. Bird...


National Labour Party
 Armenia All Armenian Labour Party
All Armenian Labour Party
The All Armenian Labour Party is a social democratic political party in Armenia.At the last elections, on 25 May 2003, the party won 1 seat....


United Labour Party
United Labour Party (Armenia)
The United Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Armenia. It is led by Gurgen Arsenian.At the last elections, 25 May 2003, the party won 5.7 % of popular votes and 6 out of 131 seats. In the 2007 Armenian parliamentary elections it didn't win any seat with a popular vote of 4.39%....

 Australia Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...


Democratic Labor Party
Democratic Labor Party
The Democratic Labor Party is a political party in Australia that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. The first "DLP" Senator in decades, party vice-president John Madigan was elected to the Australian Senate with 2.3 percent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal...


Progressive Labour Party
 Barbados Barbados Labour Party
Barbados Labour Party
The Barbados Labour Party is the main opposition party of Barbados. Led by Rt. Hon.Owen Arthur, the BLP holds 9 out of 30 seats in the House of Assembly as of January 2008...


Democratic Labour Party
Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)
The Democratic Labour Party is a political party in Barbados, and currently the ruling party of the country. It is led by Freundel Stuart.-History:...

 Belarus Belarusian Labour Party
Belarusian Labour Party
The Belarusian Labour Party is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the party is Alexander Buchvostau....

 Bougainville Province Bougainville Labour Party
Bougainville Labour Party
Bougainville Labour Party is a political party in the autonomous region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is led by Thomas Tamusio, a lawyer....

 Brazil Brazilian Labour Party
Brazilian Labour Party (current)
The Brazilian Labour Party is a center-right political party in Brazil founded in 1981 by Ivete Vargas, niece of President Getúlio Vargas. It claims the legacy of the historical PTB, although many historians reject this because the early version of PTB was a center-left party with wide support in...


Brazilian Labour Renewal Party
Brazilian Labour Renewal Party
The Brazilian Labour Renewal Party is a tiny populist-centrist Brazilian political party.In 2006 the party gained some electoral importance because of the election of ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello, impeached in 1992, who made his comeback in national politics as Senator....


Democratic Labour Party
Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)
The Democratic Labour Party is a populist, democratic socialist political party of Brazil. It was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader Leonel Brizola as an attempt to reorganize the Brazilian leftist forces during the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship...


National Labour Party
National Labour Party (Brazil)
The National Labour Party is a tiny populist-centrist Brazilian political party originally founded in 1945.It was founded by dissidents from the Brazilian Labor Party in 1945, and supported the winning candidacy of Jânio Quadros in 1960. It was abolished by the military regime in 1965.It was...


Social Labour Party
Social Labour Party
The Social Labour Party is a political party in Brazil.The PST was originally founded by dissidents of the Brazilian Labor Party in 1947. Abolished by the military regime in 1965, it was re-organized in 1988 before merging with another party to form the Progressive Party in 1993...

 Independent State of Croatia Croatian Labourists - Labour Party
Croatian Labourists - Labour Party
The Croatian Labourists – Labour Party is a left-wing and populist political party in Croatia. It was formed in 2010 by a former Trade Unionist and People's Party MP Dragutin Lesar, who is the party's only current member of parliament....

 Burundi Independent Labor Party
Independent Labor Party
The Independent Labor Party is a small, predominantly ethnic Tutsi political party in Burundi....

 Republic of the Congo Congolese Party of Labour
Congolese Party of Labour
The Congolese Party of Labour , founded in 1969 by Marien Ngouabi, is the ruling political party of the Republic of the Congo...

 Dominica Dominica Labour Party
Dominica Labour Party
The Dominica Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Dominica.-History:Founded in 1955 by Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Emmanuel Christopher Loblack, it is the oldest political party in Dominica. It first contested general elections in 1961, winning seven of the eleven seats. In the next...

 Fiji Fiji Labour Party
Fiji Labour Party
The Fiji Labour Party is a political party in Fiji, which holds observer status with the Socialist International. Most of its support at present comes from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoci Bavadra. It is...

 Georgia (country) Georgian Labour Party
Georgian Labour Party
The Georgian Labour Party is a political party in Georgia. The party is led by its founder Shalva Natelashvili.Its main goal is to make Georgia a democratic country and eventually to become a member of the European Union...

 Gibraltar Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party is the oldest surviving active political party in Gibraltar. Its grass roots are deep in the Trade Union Movement, as its founder and former leader Joe Bossano was the District Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union...

 Grenada Grenada United Labor Party
 Indonesia Labor Party
Labor Party (Indonesia)
The Labor Party is a political party in Indonesia. It has its origins in the Indonesian Prosperous Laborers organization , which in 1993 threw its support behind the Indonesian Democratic Party as a vehicle for its political aspirations...

 Republic of Ireland Labour Party
Labour Party (Ireland)
The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. The Labour Party was founded in 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin and William X. O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress. Unlike the other main Irish...

 Isle of Man Manx Labour Party
Manx Labour Party
The Manx Labour Party is a political party operating in the Isle of Man. It is independent of its namesake, the Labour Party in the UK.-History:...

 Israel Israeli Labor Party
 Jamaica Jamaica Labour Party
Jamaica Labour Party
The Jamaica Labour Party is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's National Party. Despite its name, the JLP is a centre-right, conservative party.-Background:...

 Liberia Labor Party of Liberia
Labor Party of Liberia
The Labor Party of Liberia is a political party in Liberia. It fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005 elections.LPL candidate Joseph Woah-Tee won 0.6% of the vote in the presidential poll. The party failed to win any seats in the Senate or House of Representatives....

 Lithuania Labour Party
Labour Party (Lithuania)
The Labour Party , or DP, is a centrist political party in Lithuania. It was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire Viktor Uspaskich....

 Malta Labour Party
 Mauritius Mauritian Labour Party
Mauritian Labour Party
The Labour Party is a political party in Mauritius.The Mauritian Labour Party was structured in 1936 to model the British Labour Party and has similar socialist goals...

 Mexico Labor Party
Labor Party (Mexico)
The Labor Party is a nationally recognized political party in Mexico. It was founded on December 8, 1990. The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya....

 Morocco Labour Party
Labour Party (Morocco)
The Labour Party is a political party in Morocco.In the parliamentary election, held on 7 September 2007, the party won 5 out of 325 seats. It won 4 out of 395 seats in the parliamentary election, held in 25 November 2011....

 Netherlands Labour Party
 Netherlands Antilles Labour Party People's Crusade
Labour Party People's Crusade
The Labour Party People's Crusade is a political party in Curaçao. At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles, 18 January 2002, the party won 12.1% of the popular vote and 2 out of 22 seats. At the elections of 27 January 2006, the party lost parliamentary representation....

 New Caledonia Labour Party
Labour Party (New Caledonia)
The Labour Party is a New Caledonian political party established on 18 November 2007. It is radically pro-independence and backed by the trade union Union of Kanak Workers and the Exploited...

 New Zealand New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. It describes itself as centre-left and socially progressive and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935....

 Nigeria Labour Party
Labour Party (Nigeria)
The Labour Party is a socialist/social democratic political party in Nigeria. In the 21 April 2007 Nigerian National Assembly election, the party won 1 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives and no seats in the Senate. The Party's flagbearer in Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, emerged the...

 Norway Labour Party
 Papua New Guinea Labour Party
PNG Labour Party
The Papua New Guinea Labour Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea.At the last legislative elections, 30 June–14 July 2007, the party won 1 seat ....


People’s Labour Party
People's Labour Party (Papua New Guinea)
The People's Labour Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea.At the last legislative elections, 30 June–14 July 2007, the party won 2 seats ....

 Pakistan Labour Party Pakistan
Labour Party Pakistan
The Labour Party Pakistan is a political party, claiming a membership of 7.300 in 2009, which originates from the Trotskyist tradition. Its founders were students in the Netherlands who came into contact with the Committee for a Workers International and were recruited to that body in 1980...

 Poland Polish Labour Party
Polish Labour Party
The Polish Labour Party is a minor left-wing political party in Poland, describing itself as socialist. It was created on 11 November 2001 as the 'Alternative - Labour Party' and acquired its current name in 2004...

 Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
The Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party is a centre-left political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is currently the ruling party in the country after winnign six of the eleven seats in the 2010 general election.-History:...

 Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Labour Party
Saint Lucia Labour Party
The Saint Lucia Labour Party is a social democratic political party in Saint Lucia. It currently holds ten of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly.-History:...

 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Progressive Labor Party
Unity Labour Party
Unity Labour Party
The Unity Labour Party is a democratic socialist political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Currently the governing party, it is led by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.-History:...

 Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Labour Party
Solomon Islands Labour Party
The Solomon Islands Labour Party is a political party in the Solomon Islands. The party was founded in 1988 by the Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions after the leadership of the union split...

 South Africa New Labour Party (South Africa)
New Labour Party (South Africa)
The New Labour Party was a minor South African political party founded by Peter Marais via floor crossing legislation after he left the New National Party in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former Labour Party led by the late Reverend Allan Hendrickse as an anti-apartheid Coloured...

 South Korea Democratic Labor Party
 Suriname Surinamese Labour Party
Surinamese Labour Party
The Surinamese Labour Party is a political party in Suriname.At the last legislative elections , the party was part of the New Front for Democracy and Development that won 31.65% of the popular vote and 14 out of 51 seats in the National Assembly. The SPA got one seat out of these 14....

 Sweden Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

 Switzerland Swiss Labour Party
 Tanzania Tanzania Labour Party
Tanzania Labour Party
The Tanzania Labour Party is a political party in Tanzania.At the 2000 legislative elections, the party won 3 out of 269 seats in the National Assembly...

 Republic of China Labour Party
Labor Party (Taiwan)
The Labor Party is a political party in Taiwan that proposes gradual unification with Mainland China, with great autonomy for Taiwan. The Party is active in organizing workers and organizing protests against the United States and Japan.-External links:* *...

 Turkey Labour Party
Labour Party (Turkey)
Labour Party is a political party in Turkey. Its chairman is Selma Gurkan. The party was founded as Emek Partisi in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name Emeğin Partisi , the same year...

 United Kingdom Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...


Scottish Labour Party
Scottish Labour Party
The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....

 (Scottish branch of the Labour Party (UK))
Welsh Labour (Welsh branch of the Labour Party (UK))
Socialist Labour Party (UK)
Socialist Labour Party (UK)
The Socialist Labour Party is a far left socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party is led by former trade union leader Arthur Scargill, who established it in 1996 as a breakaway from the Labour Party...


Newtownabbey Labour Party
Newtownabbey Labour Party
The Newtownabbey Labour Party is a minor political party based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.The party originated as the Newtownabbey branch of the Northern Ireland Labour Party. It left its parent organisation in the 1970s...

 (in Northern Ireland)
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...

  (in Northern Ireland)
 United States Labor Party
Labor Party (United States)
The Labor Party is an American social democratic political party advocating workers' interests. Membership at one point reached about 5,000....

 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Labour Party
Zimbabwe Labour Party
Zimbabwe Labour Party is a political party in Zimbabwe. It was founded in 1995. The party president is Langton Machoko. ZLP publishes Chimoto.-External links:*...


Historical Labour parties

Nation Party
 Australia Industrial Socialist Labor Party
Industrial Socialist Labor Party
The Industrial Socialist Labor Party was a short lived socialist political party in Australia in the late 1910s and early 1920s. It was founded by radical socialist members of the industrial wing of the Australian Labor Party , at a time when the ALP's socialist ideology was a matter of intra-party...

 Belgium Belgian Labour Party
Belgian Labour Party
The Belgian Labour Party, called Belgische Werkliedenpartij in Dutch and Parti Ouvrier Belge in French, was the first socialist party in Belgium, founded in 1885.-History:...

 Burkina Faso Party of Labour of Burkina
Party of Labour of Burkina
The Party of Labour of Burkina was a political party in Burkina Faso .The PTB was a Marxist-Leninist party founded in 1990 as a split from the Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement mainly by former members of the Union of Burkinabè Communists...


Voltaic Labour Party
Voltaic Labour Party
Voltaic Labour Party , was a centre-left political party in Upper Volta. PTV contested the 1970 elections, without any significant result....

 1970
 Canada Canadian Labour Party
Canadian Labour Party
The Canadian Labour Party was an early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a national labour party in Canada. Although it ran candidates in the federal elections of 1917, 1921, 1925 and 1926, it never succeeded in its goal of providing a national forum for the Canadian labour movement...

 1917-1929
Labour Party of Canada
Labour candidates and parties in Canada
There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s...

 1870s-1960s
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - (Farmer-Labour-Socialist)
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

 1932-1961
Labour-Progressive Party
Labour-Progressive Party
For the Labour-Progressive Coalition Government in New Zealand see the Fifth Labour Government of New ZealandThe Labor-Progressive Party was the legal political organization of the Communist Party of Canada between 1943 and 1959....


North American Labour Party
North American Labour Party
The North American Labour Party was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. However, because it was not a registered political party under the rules of Elections Canada, its candidates were considered to be independents.The NALP was the Canadian...

 Independent State of Croatia Croatian labour party 1906-1918
 Gibraltar Gibraltar Labour Party
Gibraltar Labour Party
The Gibraltar Labour Party was a political party in Gibraltar. They described themselves as a progressive socialist organisation and stated that their formation was prompted by the need for a strong opposition to the government...

 Greenland Labour Party
Labour Party (Greenland)
The Labour Party was a short-lived leftist political party in Greenland. The party was founded in early 1979 as the political wing of the Sulinermik Inuussutissarsiuteqartut Kattuffiat trade union centre...

 Guatemala Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos
Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos
Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos was an underground communist party in Guatemala...

 Indonesia Labour Party
Labour Party (Indonesia)
The Labour Party was a political party in Indonesia. It was formed on December 25, 1949 by a group of former Labour Party of Indonesia members, who had disagreed with the merger of PBI into the Communist Party of Indonesia....


Labour Party of Indonesia
Labour Party of Indonesia
-Indonesian Labour Front:The party was founded as a national trade union center, the Indonesian Labour Front , on September 15, 1945...

 Italy Italian Labour Party
Italian Labour Party
The Italian Labour Party was a socialist political party in Italy.It was founded in 1882 in Milan by Giuseppe Croce and Costantino Lazzari and was supported externally by the Milanese Socialist League of Filippo Turati...

 Jamaica National Labour Party
National Labour Party (Jamaica)
The National Labour Party was a political party in Jamaica, founded by Ken Hill. Hill had been expelled from the People's National Party in 1952, accused of having advocated communism. The NLP ran three candidates in the 1955 general election; Ken Hill contested Kingston Western, getting 3,262 votes...

 Lithuania Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania
Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania
Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania was a social democratic political party in Lithuania, that emerged out of the Lithuanian section of the CPSU in December 1989 LDDP was led by Algirdas Brazauskas, the first president of independent Lithuania. Because Brazauskas was elected as the first...

 Malaysia Labour Party
Labour Party of Malaya
The Labour Party of Malaya was a political party of Malaya that was active between 1952 to 1969. It was originally formed as a confederation of state based labour parties known as the Pan-Malayan Labour Party or PMFP.-Origins:...

 Namibia Labour Party
Labour Party (Namibia)
The South West African Labour Party, initially known as the Federal Coloured People's Party, was a political party in Namibia. It was formed in 1973, and led by Andrew Kloppers. In October 1974, it won the elections to the South West Africa Coloured Council. It participated in the Turnhalle...

 Netherlands Central Democratic Labour Party
Central Democratic Labour Party
Central Democratic Labour Party was a political party in the Netherlands, which participated in the 1933 parliamentary election. The party mustered 182 votes, almost exclusively from Amsterdam ....

 New Zealand NewLabour Party
NewLabour Party (New Zealand)
NewLabour was a left-of-centre party founded in 1989 by Jim Anderton, an MP and former President of the New Zealand Labour Party.NewLabour was established by a number of Labour Party members who left the party in reaction to "Rogernomics", the economic policies implemented by the Labour Party's...


New Zealand Labour Party (original)
 Nova Scotia Cape Breton Labour Party
Cape Breton Labour Party
The Cape Breton Labour Party was a social democratic provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada that advocated separate provincial status for Cape Breton, which is the northern part of the Province of Nova Scotia.-Founding:...

 1970-1984
 Panama Labour Party
Labor Party (Panama)
The Labor Party was a Panamanian political party.The country's first communist-oriented party, the Labor Party, was founded in 1925 and affiliated with the Communist International. Its successor, the Communist Party of Panama was officially established in 1930....

 Puerto Rico Labor Party
Labor Party (Puerto Rico)
The Labor Party , also known as the Socialist Worker's Party, was a political party in Puerto Rico from 1899 to 1915.The party was founded on July 18, 1899 by Santiago Iglesias Pantín, an early leader of the Puerto Rican labor movement who was influenced by the Socialist Labor Party of America.The...

 Samoa Western Samoa Labour Party
Western Samoa Labour Party
The Western Samoa Labour Party was a political party in Samoa. It was founded on June 4, 1993 by To'alepai Toesulusulu Si'ueva, a former Minister of Health in the 1985 - 88 coalition government. The party opposed the HRPP and the 1991 constitutional amendment which saw the term of the Fono...

 Kingdom of Scotland Communist Labour Party
Communist Labour Party (Scotland)
The Communist Labour Party was a small Communist Party in Scotland. It was formed in September 1920 by the Scottish Workers' Committee and the Scottish section of the Communist Party , some members of the Socialist Labour Party and various local communist groups...


Labour Party of Scotland
Labour Party of Scotland
The Labour Party of Scotland were a small political party active in Dundee, Scotland. They were formed as a left-wing breakaway from the Scottish National Party and contested the Dundee East by-election, 1973, where the number of votes they gathered, 1409 for their candidate George McLean, were...

 (former name of Scottish branch of Labour Party (UK))
 Senegal Labour Party of Sine Saloum
Labour Party of Sine Saloum
Labour Party of Sine Saloum was a political party in Sine-Saloum, Senegal. It existed around 1960.-Source:#Nzouankeu, Jacques Mariel. Les partis politiques sénégalais. Dakar: Editions Clairafrique, 1984....

 Singapore Labour Party
Labour Front
The Labour Front was a political party in Singapore. It was founded before the 1955 legislative council elections by David Saul Marshall, Singapore's first chief minister in 1955 and Lim Yew Hock, Singapore's second chief minister...

 Slovakia Labour Party
Labour Party (Slovakia)
Labour Party was a political party in the First Slovak Republic. The party was formed by Social Democrats who opposed cooperation with the Communist Party....

 South Africa Labour Party
Labour Party (South Africa)
The South African Labour Party, formed in March 1910 following discussions between trade unions and the Independent Labour Party of Transvaal, was a professedly democratic socialist party representing the interests of the white working class.-History:...


Labour Party (Coloured)
Labour Party (Coloured)
The Labour Party was a South African political party founded in 1969 and led for many years by Revd Allan Hendrickse. Although avowedly opposed to apartheid, it participated in the Coloured Persons Representative Council. It opposed the guerrilla struggle of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the call for...

 United Kingdom Independent Labour Party
Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932, when it voted to leave...


National Labour
Belfast Labour Party
Belfast Labour Party
The Belfast Labour Party was a political party in Belfast, Ireland from 1892 until 1924.The first socialist party in Ireland, it was founded in 1892, affiliated to the British Labour Representation Committee in 1900 and remained attached to the UK Labour Party which subsequently evolved.Labour ran...


Labour Party of Northern Ireland
Labour Party of Northern Ireland
The Labour Party of Northern Ireland is a political party in Northern Ireland, formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor and Northern Ireland Assembly member, and Billy Blease, a member of the British House of Lords.-Progress:In 1987, the...


Northern Ireland Labour Party
Northern Ireland Labour Party
The Northern Ireland Labour Party was an Irish political party which operated from 1924 until 1987.In 1913 the British Labour Party resolved to give the recently formed Irish Labour Party exclusive organising rights in Ireland...


Republican Labour Party
Republican Labour Party
The Republican Labour Party was a political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt...

 (In Northern Ireland)
 United States American Labor Party
American Labor Party
The American Labor Party was a political party in the United States established in 1936 which was active almost exclusively in the state of New York. The organization was founded by labor leaders and former members of the Socialist Party who had established themselves as the Social Democratic...


Communist Labor Party of North America
Communist Labor Party of North America
The Communist Labor Party of North America , was formed in 1974 on the basis of a merger of the Communist League and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. This organization disbanded in 1993 and reformed as the League of Revolutionaries for a New America....


Farmer-Labor Party
Farmer-Labor Party
The first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation caused by American entry into World War I put agricultural prices and workers' wages into imbalance with rapidly escalating retail prices during the war years, and farmers and workers sought...


Labor Party (United States - 19th Century)
Labor Party (United States - 19th Century)
Labor Party was the name or partial name of a number of United States political parties which were organized during the 1870s and 1880s.The Social Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America was formed in 1874...


Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party
Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party
Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party, a radical split from the Socialist Labor Party in the United States. RSLP was formed in 1881 by anarchist-oriented elements of the SLP that had rallied around 'Revolutionary Clubs'....


Socialist Labor Party of America
Socialist Labor Party of America
The Socialist Labor Party of America , established in 1876 as the Workingmen's Party, is the oldest socialist political party in the United States and the second oldest socialist party in the world. Originally known as the Workingmen's Party of America, the party changed its name in 1877 and has...


U.S. Labor Party
U.S. Labor Party
The U.S. Labor Party was a political party formed in 1973 by the National Caucus of Labor Committees . It served as a vehicle for Lyndon LaRouche to run for President of the United States in 1976, but it also sponsored many candidates for local offices and Congressional and Senate seats between...


United States Socialist-Labor Party
United States Socialist-Labor Party
The United States Socialist-Labor Party was a socialist political party in the election of 1928 which broke away from the main Socialist Party of America....


See also

  • Communist party
    Communist party
    A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

  • Democratic Socialist Party
    Democratic Socialist Party
    -Current parties:*Democratic Socialist Party *Loktantrik Samajwadi Party *Democratic Socialist Party *Italian Democratic Socialist Party*Democratic Socialist Party *Democratic Socialist Party...

  • Labour movement
    Labour movement
    The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour...

  • Left-wing political parties
    Left-wing political parties
    The following is a list of left-wing political parties. It includes parties from the centre-left to the far and ultra left.- Active :* Albania – Socialist Party of Albania, Socialist Movement for Integration...

  • List of political parties
  • List of social democratic parties
  • Social Democratic Party
    Social Democratic Party
    The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by a large number of political parties in various countries around the world...

  • Socialist Equality Party
    Socialist Equality Party (United States)
    The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyist political party in the United States, one of several Socialist Equality Parties around the world affiliated to the International Committee of the Fourth International . The ICFI publishes daily news articles, perspectives and commentaries on the World...

  • Socialist Labour Party
  • Socialist Party
    Socialist Party
    Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist. All of these parties claim to uphold socialism, though they might belong to different branches of the socialist movement and might therefore have different interpretations of...

  • Socialist Workers Party
  • Workers' Party
    Workers' Party
    Workers' Party is a name used by a number of political parties throughout the world. While the name has been used by both left-wing and right-wing organizations, it is currently used by left-wing followers of Communism, Maoism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Social Democracy, Socialism and...

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