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Chartist Magazine - Chartist promote debate amongst people active in radical politics about the contemporary relevance of democratic socialism across the spectrum of politics, economics, science, philosophy, art and inter-personal relations.
Computing For Labour - An organization within the British Labour Party whose aim is to help all levels of the Party to use computer technology effectively to achieve the Party's objectives.
Labour Research Department - An independent, trade union based research organization. Publications included Labour Research, Bargaining Report, Fact Service and LRD Booklets. LRD also provides electronic services, such as a full-text publications database, to its affiliates via the web.
LabourNet UK - News from the trade union movement, updated daily.
Scientists for Labour - An organization open to members or supporters of the Labour Party who are interested or involved in UK science and technology. Established at the 1994 Labour Party Conference.
Socialist Appeal - Monthly magazine aims to "commit the Labour government to introduce bold socialist measures." Published by the Marxist tendency within the Labour Party led by Ted Grant and Allan Woods.
The Christian Socialist Movement - Based in Britain and active in the Labour Party, the CSM is in a tradition that stretches back to the early church. "We all share a belief in justice, peace and the wholeness of creation."
The Ernest Bevin Society - Named after the reforming cabinet minister in Attlee's Labour government the EBS advocates "old Labour" policies within Tony Blair's New Labour party. Site contains reprints of magazine articles from the 80s to the present.
Institute for Public Policy Research - Centre-left think tank which is influential with the Labour Party.
Campaign for Labour Party Democracy - Founded in 1973, the CLPD is a pressure group within the Labour Party advocating changes in the party to make it more accountable to rank-and-file party members.
Socialist Health Association - The Socialist Health Association promotes health and well-being and the eradication of inequalities, in the UK and worldwide, through the application of socialist principles to society and government. The site includes discussions of policies on a wide range of issues.
Labour In Northern Ireland - Our objective is to gain the right of individual membership of the Labour Party for people living in Northern Ireland.
Labour Left Briefing - Left-of-centre advocates within the Labour Party.
The Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform - Labour is committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons; join the moral crusade to change the way we practise politics.
Second Term - Information about a key network of Blairite activists within the British Labour Party and their objectives.
Labour Small Business Forum - Discussion of Labour's policy as it affects small businesses.
Socialist Campaign Group - Group of left wing Labour MPs advocating socialist policies.
Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights - Campaigning organisation for lesbians, gays and bisexuals in the Labour Party.
Labour Reform - Democratic Socialist Network - All Labour Party members are invited to join us campaiging for a more transparent, democratic and socialist Labour Party.
Fabian Society - An affiliate of Labour which has evolved into a left of centre think tank conducting research into political ideas and public policy reform. Includes an on-line ordering service for various publications.
Socialist Environment and Resources Association - SERA is the environment campaign affiliated to the British Labour Party, yet is an independent think tank and green pressure group.
Compass: direction for the democratic left - Membership organisation within the Labour Party aiming at democratic reforms - seeking to develop an ideological vision for the good society.
Labour for a Referendum - The Labour Party campaign for a referendum on the European Constitution.
New Wave Labour - We are a group of Labour politicians who are eager to continue our electoral success beyond 'New Labour' and shift the fulcrum of British Politics to the moderate left.
Save the Labour Party - An organisation campaigning to rebuild an active party membership and renew the Labour Party's internal democracy.
Tribune - Independent weekly newspaper produced by left-wing Labour Party members, also serves as a pressure group within the party.
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Special Interest Groups "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Special Interest Groups The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Special Interest Groups It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Special Interest Groups "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Special Interest Groups Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Special Interest Groups A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Special Interest Groups The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Special Interest Groups One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Special Interest Groups Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Special Interest Groups Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw May you never leave your marriage alive. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Special Interest Groups "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Special Interest Groups As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Special Interest Groups I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Special Interest Groups "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Special Interest Groups With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Special Interest Groups Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Special Interest Groups A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Special Interest Groups "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Special Interest Groups A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Special Interest Groups Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Special Interest Groups Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Special Interest Groups
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