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The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) ( French: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, then in 1955 rebranded in French as Parti social démocratique du Canada ) was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist political party in Canada, founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, agrarian, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction.
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Co-operative and Commonwealth
This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.
* Co-operative Commonwealth ( society )
Industrial Cape Breton has historically been a region of labour activism, electing Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( and later NDP ) MPs, and even produced many early members of the Communist Party of Canada in the pre-World War II era.
Another option circulated within the party saw the balance of power to be held by either the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and their 25 seats or Social Credit Party of Canada with their 15.
* The Regina Manifesto ( 1933 ), by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
His socialist values and his close ties with Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) intellectuals ( including F. R. Scott, Eugene Forsey, Michael Kelway Oliver and Charles Taylor ) led to his support and membership in that federal social-democratic party throughout the 1950s.
In Canada, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the precursor to the New Democratic Party, had some significant success in provincial politics.
After 1936 the prime minister lost patience when western Canadians preferred radical alternatives such as the CCF ( Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ) and Social Credit to his middle-of-the-road liberalism.
Woodsworth went on to found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, forerunner of the New Democratic Party.
Despite the name change, most former Progressive supporters continued to support the Liberal Party or the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and Bracken's leadership of the Conservative Party came to an end in 1948.
Similarly, the upset 1960 by-election victory of Walter Pitman in Peterborough as a " New Party " candidate was seen as a significant boost for the movement to replace the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation with an unnamed " New Party " which would be integrated with the labour movement.
His surprise defeat at the hand of Joseph Noseworthy of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ended his political career, and may also have been a factor in the Conservative Party's decision to move to the left and rebrand itself the Progressive Conservative Party under Meighen's replacement.
The full, but little used, name of the party was Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ).
At its founding convention in 1932, the party settled on the name " Co-operative Commonwealth Federation-( Farmer-Labour-Socialist )" and selected J. S.
It concluded that " No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Co-operative Commonwealth.
It brought into power Duff Pattullo and introduced into the Legislature the new Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( C CF ), a democratic socialist opposition party.
The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada ( BC ), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations.
In the 20th century, however, the Liberal Party adopted more elements of European reform liberalism and co-opted elements of the social-democratic Progressive Party of Canada, and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) party.
With the onset of the Depression, Douglas became a social activist in Weyburn, and joined the new Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) organization.
Category: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPs
Category: Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MLAs
His government quickly enacted a series of progressive reforms, which were supported by the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
Co-operative and Federation
In the Manitoba election of 1958, Schreyer was elected to the Manitoba legislative assembly as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), representing the rural constituency of Brokenhead ; being only 22 years old at the time, Schreyer became the youngest person ever elected to that chamber.
It was through this lens that he viewed the 1932 founding of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ); though many UFA members supported this new party, which saw itself as a partnership between farmers and labourers, Brownlee considered it dangerously socialist.
Commencing with the 1952 provincial election, the province used an alternative vote system that had been designed to enable the Conservative and Liberal parties to keep the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power.
The Regina Manifesto was the programme of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was adopted at the first national convention of the CCF held in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1933.
Co-operative and CCF
As a result of western alienation both the dominant Conservative and Liberal parties were challenged in the west by the rise of a number of protest parties including the Progressive Party of Canada, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), the Reconstruction Party of Canada and the Social Credit Party of Canada.
It was formed in October 1961 from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Ontario Section ) ( Ontario CCF ) and the Ontario Federation of Labour ( OFL ).
The NDP's predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), was a democratic socialist political party, founded in 1932.
The emergence of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), forerunner of the NDP – a left-of-centre political party formed by the coming together of various socialist, farm and labour groups under a united front – forced the Liberals to the right.
As a radical member of the Progressive Party, Macphail joined the socialist Ginger Group, faction of the Progressive Party that later led to the formation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ).
Accordingly, following the collapse of the conference proposals in 1946, in 1947, the social democratic premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), decided to go it alone, and established Canada's first publicly-funded hospital insurance plan.
* August 1-The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) is formed in Regina, Saskatchewan
Eventually the Progressive Party of Canada and the United Farmers movement faded into obscurity with most of their members joining the Liberal Party of Canada and the democratic socialist, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF, or present day New Democratic Party ).
Forsey became a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) member, while Grant remained a Conservative – although he became disdainful of an overall shift in policy toward liberal economics and continentalism, something Forsey saw happening decades earlier.
* The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), formed in 1932, prepared to fight its first election on a socialist program.
He was first elected as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) in 1945 and ended his career as a Liberal Party Senator.
He was first elected to Parliament in 1945 representing the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ).
In the 1944 election, however, Saskatchewan experienced a dramatic change when it elected the first democratic socialist government in North America under Tommy Douglas and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ).
Following the election, the Farmer-Labour Group officially became the Saskatchewan section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), although it had been known unofficially as the CCF's Saskatchewan wing before that.
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