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Militant opposition to the incorporation of Eritrea into Ethiopia had begun in 1958 with the founding of the Eritrean Liberation Movement ( ELM ), an organization made up mainly of students, intellectuals, and urban wage laborers.
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Militant opposition to modernism was what most clearly set off fundamentalism.
Others were vocal in their opposition to the attacks on the Militant.
It is the main opposition party and is currently is a coalition opposition with the sister party Militant Socialist Movement as from May 1st, 2012.
Mauritian opposition party the Mouvement Militant Mauricien ( MMM ) began to question the validity under international law of the purchase of the Chagos and the removal of the Chagossians.
Militant and into
The SP's left wing " Militant " faction sought to expand the organization into an " all-inclusive party " — inviting in members of the Lovestone and Trotskyist movements as well as radical individuals as the first step towards making the SP a mass party.
The organization was deeply factionalized, with the Militant faction split into right (" Altmanite "), center (" Clarity ") and left (" Appeal ") factions, in addition to the radical pacifists around Norman Thomas.
Disagreements among the Militant faction led it to shatter into three rival groups, a Right Wing headed by Jack Altman, a Center group called " Clarity " headed by Herbert Zam and Gus Tyler, and a Trotskyist revolutionary Left Wing faction called the " Appeal " group after the name of their factional newspaper.
In the 1980s, the Militant tendency was dominant in the Labour group of Liverpool City Council, which came into conflict with the Conservative-led central government over its finances, and in the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation, which led a successful non-payment campaign against the Community Charge, commonly called the poll tax.
The Militant denied this, claiming it stood for Labour's core socialist policies, whilst the ' right-wing ' leadership were the real infiltrators, intent on changing the Labour Party into a capitalist party.
Church Militant and Church Triumphant ( Ecclesia Militans, Ecclesia Triumphans ) These terms, taken together, are used to express the concept of a united Church that extends beyond the earthly realm into Heaven.
* Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base, report by the United States Senate Republican Policy Committee
The PSM worked with Jugnauth and the team moved into a more powerful party known as the Militant Socialist Movement, the MSM. Jugnauth led the MSM along with the support of an alliance with the Mauritius Labour Party and the Social Democrats.
Rashid's 2000 book, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, was a New York Times bestseller for five weeks, translated into 22 languages, and has sold 1. 5 million copies since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The group he led, known as the Paddington group, joined the Militant Group led by Denzil Dean Harber and when in 1937 a group of South African Trotskyists appeared in London it was Haston who moved their acceptance into membership of the Militant Group.
The Fourth International was formed in 1938, and the WIL refused to merge into the newly formed official British affiliate, the Revolutionary Socialist League itself a regroupment of the Militant Group and others.
Militant nationalist websites, whether Zhonghua or Han, are often suppressed by the government because they appear to be elevating popular discussions into political levels.
Militant and had
By 1969, the name Revolutionary Socialist League had been dropped internally by the group, and Militant would later found the Committee for a Workers ' International ( CWI ) in 1974.
Michael Meacher MP, then strongly aligned with Tony Benn, had written in the Labour Party's Labour Weekly that John Golding, one of those prominent in pursuing the expulsions of Militant supporters, was " bleeding the party's election prospects to death ".
Militant MP Dave Nellist had been elected from Coventry South East in 1983.
The minority, led by Ted Grant and Alan Woods, claim to have been expelled, while the Militant claimed they had set up an alternative organisation and so had departed.
Later the Militant tendency were cited as the reason for Tatchell's selection, but as Tatchell pointed out in his book The Battle for Bermondsey, they had at that time only a handful of members in the constituency, Tatchell had never been a member and Militant did not support his selection.
The register was an attempt to regulate entryists, but this measure was primarily aimed at the Militant tendency and had little effect on the newspaper prior to 1990.
The Socialist Party has held council seats in several areas of Britain but has never had any elected MPs, although prominent Militant supporters Dave Nellist, and the late Pat Wall and Terry Fields, were elected to parliament as Labour MPs prior to the formation of the party.
The debate centred around whether Militant could still effectively operate in the Labour Party following the leadership's attacks on the tendency-selling the Militant newspaper was enough to get expelled, whereas previously, the Labour Party had not been inclined to support expulsions.
Militant young Communists were a threat to the older Bolsheviks because they had the potential to undermine the new, NEP-based society.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Trotskyist Militant tendency had been a significant force within the British Labour Party.
At the height of its influence in the mid-to-late 1980s, Militant had three Labour MPs, control of Liverpool City Council, and initiated the campaign that brought down the Poll Tax.
Ted Grant had been one of the founders and a major theoretical leader of the Militant tendency but was expelled with other supporters after the 1991 debate on the Open Turn.
After the debate and conference decision, the Militant tendency claimed that Grant and Woods had begun a separate organisation and had split from Militant, whilst Grant and Woods claimed to have been expelled.
The Trotskyist Militant tendency, working in the Labour Party, had gradually increased their support.
Grant cited the success of the Militant in Britain, which as entryists had secured Dave Nellist, Terry Fields and Pat Wall as MPs.
It was no longer possible, the CWI argued, for Militant to carry out activity in the way it had been done up to the late 1980s.
Militant and 1958
In 1958, Terry Harrison, a boilermaker at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, joined the Revolutionary Socialist League ( RSL ), the precursor to the Militant tendency.
Militant and with
Militant feminists expressed their disdain with an inherently sexist and patriarchal society, and concluded the most effective way to overcome sexism and attain the equality of women would be to deny men any power or pleasure from women.
In 1982, the coalition of Mouvement Militant Mauricien / Parti Socialiste Mauricien came to power in a landslide electoral victory, with Sir Anerood Jugnauth as Prime Minister and Harish Boodhoo as the deputy Prime Minister.
In 1983, defectors from the MMM joined with the PSM to form the Militant Socialist Movement ( MSM ) and formed a majority in coalition with the MLP.
The strike's defeat early in the year, and the bad publicity associated with the entryism practised by the Militant tendency were the immediate background for the 1985 Labour Party conference.
In organisational terms, the party leadership continued to battle with the Militant tendency, though by now Militant was in retreat in the party and was simultaneously attracted by the opportunities to grow outside Labour's ranks — opportunities largely created by Margaret Thatcher's hugely unpopular poll tax.
The dome that covers this area is decorated with frescoes by the Cordovan artist Antonio Palomino ( 18th century ) representing the triumph of the Church Militant, the faith, and religious life.
The gathering of militants, primarily Shi ' a but including some Sunnis, " with various religious and revolutionary credentials ," was hosted by the Association of Militant Clerics and the Pasdaran Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
* Militant Feminism: An Explosive Interview with and Urban Guerilla Interview with Juliet Belmas in May / June 2010 issue of Earth First!
“ Militant groups who sympathise with Al-Qaeda warned one week ago that there would be an attack on Kenya and they mentioned Israelis ,” he said.
The Militant tendency was a Trotskyist group with roots that stretched back to the Workers International League in the 1930s, and the post-war Revolutionary Communist Party.
National Secretary Jimmy Deane, together with Ted Grant, Keith Dickenson, Ellis Hillman and others on the executive of the RSL decided to launch the Militant newspaper, initially a four-page monthly.
" Drive Out the Tories " was the headline of the first issue of Militant, published just before the general election of 1964 with an article written by the business editor, S. Mani.
The addition of the " Walton Young Socialists " indicated the significance with which Peter Taaffe and Militant viewed the young socialists, and began the practice of Militant members identifying themselves with their local Labour Party or Trade Union.
Following the 1964 general election, which the Labour Party won with a majority of four seats, Militant called for " No retreat by Labour " from its promises, urging the carrying out of its promised nationalisation of steel and urban land and calling on it to " take action against the big monopolies, combines and trusts which dominate the economy ".
According to an internal document by Grant, the International considered Militant to have " a poorly functioning organization ", and aligned itself instead with the International Marxist Group ( IMG ).
" Shortly after his election to the position of editor of the Militant, Taaffe, together with Ted Mooney and other Militant supporters, participated in an apprentices ' strike, leading apprentices in English Electric on the East Lancashire Road.
Peter Kilfoyle as an organiser with a specific remit to remove Militant supporters from the Labour Party.
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