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Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.
His last four years as leader are widely seen as one of the Labour Party's weaker periods.
This initiative was short lived and didn't proceed following the Democratic Labour Party's defeat during the 1994 elections.
Scottish educated Andrew Bonar Law led a Conservative government from 1922 to 1923 and another Scot, Ramsey MacDonald, would be the Labour Party's first Prime Minister in 1924 and again from 1929-35.
This approach stood in contrast to the Labour Party's seemingly slicker campaign and it chimed with the electorate, along with hard-hitting negative campaign advertising focusing on the issue of Labour's approach to taxation.
By the end of the 1980s, membership had fallen to just over 6, 000, 000 — little more than half the level of a decade earlier — and it also counted against the Labour Party's hopes of regaining power, as its relationship with the trade unions had traditionally been seen as a strength but after the Winter of Discontent it was seen as a liability.
In 1998, the Labour Party's loss in a parliamentary vote led the Prime Minister to call an early election.
This was largely seen as the consequence of the Labour Party's swing to the left, polarising divisions in an already divided party.
In early 1987, Labour lost a by-election in Greenwich to the Social Democratic Party's Rosie Barnes.
* 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).
In 1981, dismayed with the Labour Party's continuing leftward drift, he was one of the " Gang of Four "-Labour moderates who formed the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).
Aneurin Bevan, who had introduced the Labour Party's National Health Service in 1948, criticised the Attlee government for not progressing further, demanding economic planning and criticising the implementation of nationalisation for not empowering the workers with democratic control of operations.
Criticisms such as this have generally been countered by Conservatives making similar claims about members of the Labour Party's group in the European Parliament.
** Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's " shadow cabinet ".
After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.
In an article for the Sunday Telegraph on 3 April Powell expressed his opposition to the Labour Party's manifesto pledge to outlaw fox hunting.
However, Powell lost his seat in the election by 731 votes to the Social Democratic and Labour Party's Eddie McGrady, mainly due to demographic and boundary changes that resulted in there being many more Irish Nationalists in the constituency than before.
The opposition attacked the Labour Party's more left-wing policies, and accused it of undermining free enterprise and hard work.
It is thought that the fallout contributed to the Israeli Labour Party's defeat in the May 1977 elections.
A member of the Labour Party's " soft left ," Wilson joked about leading a cabinet that was made up mostly of social democrats, comparing himself to a Bolshevik revolutionary presiding over a Tsarist cabinet, but there was arguably little to divide him ideologically from the cabinet majority.
In the meantime, he conducted an inquiry into the Labour Party's organisation following its defeat in the 1955 general election, which compared the Party organisation to an antiquated " penny farthing " bicycle, and made various recommendations for improvements.
Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Labour and Conference
The crisis coincided with the Labour Party Conference.
Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.
The Labour Party voted at its 1960 Conference for unilateral nuclear disarmament, representing CND's greatest influence on national politics and coinciding with the highest level of public support for its policy of unilateralism.
Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party leader, received the vote with a promise to " fight, fight, and fight again " against the decision and it was overturned at the 1961 Conference.
The Governing Body decides the agenda of the International Labour Conference, adopts the draft programme and budget of the organization for submission to the conference, elects the director-general, requests information from member states concerning labour matters, appoints commissions of inquiry and supervises the work of the International Labour Office.
The ILO organizes the International Labour Conference in Geneva every year in June, where conventions and recommendations are crafted and adopted.
In 1998, the 86th International Labour Conference adopted the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >
In February 1918, the third Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist Conference ( representing delegates from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy ) issued its report, advocating an international labour rights body, an end to secret diplomacy, and other goals.
The advisory Commission on International Labour Legislation was established by the Peace Conference to draft these proposals.
The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.
" The Empirical Strength of the Labour Theory of Value " in Conference Proceedings of Marxian Economics: A Centenary Appraisal, Riccardo Bellofiore ( ed.
** Prague Party Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Benn was overwhelmingly popular with Labour activists: a survey of delegates at the Labour Party Conference in 1978 found that by large margins they supported Benn for the leadership and many Bennite policies.
In a keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference of 1980, shortly before the resignation of party leader James Callaghan and election of Michael Foot as successor, Benn outlined what he envisaged the next Labour Government would do.
She was elected to St Pancras Borough Council in 1937, and in 1943 she spoke at the annual Labour Party Conference for the first time.
* Report of the Seventy-seventh Annual Conference of the Labour Party, Blackpool, 1978 ( ISBN 0-86117-035-0 )
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