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Martin Skaaren


Martin Skaaren (30 April 1905 – 1 February 1999) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Skaaren was born in Hitra, and he is related to the massive bloodline called Skaaren. The Skaaren bloodline has roots in the viking history, and the bloodline is related to Erik blodøks He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1961, and was re-elected on one occasion. Skaaren was deputy mayor of Kvenvær municipality in the period 1937–1945. He then rose to the position of mayor, sitting
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American Left


parties. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a political party that formed after a 1995 ideological rupture with Workers World Party over the issue of their support of the Fidel Castro government in Cuba, The SEP are composed of Trotskyists and are affiliated with the World Socialist Web Site. With fewer than one thousand members in 1996, the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) was the second largest Marxist–Leninist party in the United States. Formed by supporters of Leon Trotsky, they believed that the Soviet Union and other Communist
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Naresh Balyan


Naresh Balyan () is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Uttam Nagar constituency of New Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. Naresh Balyan was born in Delhi. He attended the Haryana Shakti Senior Secondary School and attained ninth grade degree. Naresh Balyan has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Uttam Nagar constituency and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. On 21 Sep 2015, Balyan complained to police
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in Australia. The SEP was established in 2010 as the successor party to the Socialist Labour League, which was founded in 1972 as the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). According to its 2019 election statement, the party opposes identity politics and the Me Too movement. The party also criticises contemporary trade unions, having adopted the position that "They are no longer workers’ organisations." Inspired by the British Socialist Labour League
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Warren Skaaren


Warren Skaaren (March 9, 1946 in Rochester, Minnesota – December 28, 1990 in Austin, Texas from cancer) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Skaaren was appointed by Governor Preston Smith as executive director of the newly formed Texas Film Commission on December 9, 1970. His first success was getting the film "The Getaway" shot in Texas. Nearly 40 more feature films were shot in Texas while Skaaren headed the Film Commission. He was a driving force behind the distribution of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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Warren Skaaren


unproduced sequels to "The Jewel of the Nile" (1985) called "The Crimson Eagle" and "Beetlejuice" (1989) called "Beetlejuice in Love". According to its draft date, "Beetlejuice in Love" is believed to be the last screenplay he wrote before his death. Skaaren is a native of Rochester, Minnesota. He graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1969. He served as the Student Association President from 1968–1969 and was a member of Hanszen College. He moved to Austin,
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Warren Skaaren


Texas and began working at the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. Warren Skaaren is also related to the Skaaren bloodline. The Skaaren bloodline originates from west-Norway. One of his ancestors most likely immigrated from Norway. He married Helen Griffin on March 7, 1969. He and his wife fostered seven children, and he helped found the Travis County Foster Parents Association. He also served on the board of directors of the Deborah Hay Dance Company. In 1986 he established a private charitable trust, the Laurel Foundation,
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Socialist Equality Party (United States)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States, one of several Socialist Equality parties around the world affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The ICFI publishes daily news articles, perspectives and commentaries on the World Socialist Web Site and maintains Mehring Books as publishing house. The SEP was formed in 1995 by the Workers League, the US supporters of the ICFI. The Workers League had been founded in 1966 by the American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI)
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David North (socialist)


David North (born 1950) is an American Marxist theoretician. He is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP), formerly the Workers League. He served as the national secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008. North was the principal political and theoretical leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International during the organization's split with the Workers Revolutionary Party in Britain. North is also the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the voice
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Martin Poliačik


Martin Poliačik (born June 27, 1980) is a politician and a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and a member of the "Progressive Slovakia" political party. He is one of the founding members of a classical liberal political party Freedom and Solidarity (). In the National Council he is a member of Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and Committee on Education, Science, Youth and Sports. He studied at University of Trnava between 1999 and 2006, where he earned Magister in philosophy and a supplementary degree
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Charles Caccia


to back Sheila Copps in the Liberal Party's 2003 leadership election. His left-leaning politics and support of Copps ended his political career when the more right-leaning Paul Martin became Liberal leader and prime minister in 2004. Martin backed former Toronto city councillor Mario Silva for the Liberal Party nomination in Davenport. With Martin's support, Silva signed up enough new members until it was obvious he would defeat Caccia for the nomination. Caccia pulled out of the race, and after some talk, chose to retire from politics rather
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Taylor Martin


the University Finance Club. Martin got his start in politics after a chance meeting with then candidate for the Federal Division of Robertson, Lucy Wicks, becoming a member of the Liberal Party soon after. Martin has previous worked at the firm Mercer Financial Services, his family's kitchen fabrication business, and as an advisor to Federal MP Lucy Wicks. Martin was preselected by the Liberal Party to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Mike Gallacher, and subsequently was elected as the youngest member of the New South Wales Legislative
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


to the UK Conservative Party. This prompts mixed reactions from senior party figures. 4 Sep – Ruth Davidson formally announces that she will stand in the contest. 5 Sep – Murdo Fraser launches his campaign in Edinburgh. 8 Sep – Ruth Davidson launches her campaign in Edinburgh. 11 Sep – Lord Forsyth, at one point a suggested leadership candidate, declares his backing for Ruth Davidson. 23 Sep – Nominations for leadership close. Margaret Mitchell confirms she will stand in the election. 2 Oct – David Mundell MP declares his backing
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Young Conservatives (Czech Republic)


The Young Conservatives () is a political youth organisation in the Czech Republic. It is the youth wing of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), a centre-right political party, and shares that party's conservative and economically liberal ideology. Young people within the age from 15 to 35 apply for a membership in the MK. Several significant politicians from the ODS party started as members of Young Conservatives, including Jan Zahradil, Jiří Pospíšil, Petr Sokol, Martin Baxa, Petr Gandalovič, Ivan Langer, Martin Novotný,
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Mamadou Kamara Dékamo


Director-General of SEP Development from 1984 to 1992. He became a member of the Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in 1992, and he was elected to the National Assembly as a PCT candidate from the Poto-Poto section of Brazzaville in the 1992 parliamentary election. On 25 December 1992, he was appointed as Minister of Communication, Posts, and Telecommunications, as well as Government Spokesman, in the power-sharing government of Prime Minister Claude Antoine Dacosta, which was to serve until a new
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Jerry White (socialist)


Jerome "Jerry" White (born 1959) is an American politician and journalist, and is the Labor Editor reporting for the World Socialist Web Site. He is a member of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States, and was a member of its predecessor the Workers League, joining the movement in 1979. White ran as the SEP candidate for United States President in 1996 and 2008, and again in 2012 with running mate Phyllis Scherrer. White was again the SEP presidential nominee in the 2016 election. Jarome White was
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UCLA School of Political Parties


The UCLA School of Political Parties is a school of thought that contends that political parties are created by the policy demands of groups in society. It is so named because many of its proponents studied at or are faculty members in UCLA's political science department. The school's views contrast with the view that policy outcomes are secondary or subordinate to the goal of winning office. Their view can be seen in the book "The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform" by Martin Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel
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J. C. Martin (Texas politician)


C. Martin strengthened to maintain political power in the late 1970s: "Pepe Martin was the last Independent [party] mayor. He was the typical patron. ... Pepe Martin was corrupt, but he brought out the votes." Thompson said that corruption has continued in Laredo past the Martin era, as voter turnout has declined, and the region has lost much of its former state political clout in Austin. He suggested that the city council might be able to reduce corruption were the eight members to heed individual constituents, rather
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Algie Martin Simons


Algie Martin Simons (1870–1950) was an American socialist journalist, newspaper editor, and political activist, best remembered as the editor of "The International Socialist Review" for nearly a decade. Originally an adherent of the Socialist Labor Party of America and a founding member of the Socialist Party of America, Simons' political views became increasingly conservative over time, leading him to be appointed on a pro-war "labor delegation" to the government of revolutionary Russia headed by Alexander Kerensky in 1917. Simons was a bitter opponent of
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Laura Curran


News" and "New York Post". In 2017, Curran won a Sep 12 primary against Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who switched parties from Republican to Democratic. In the general election, Curran won a contentious campaign against former New York State Senator and Mineola Village Mayor Jack Martins. The then sitting Nassau County Executive, Ed Mangano, had decided not to run for re-election following an indictment on federal corruption charges. The campaign between Curran and Martins touched on gang violence (MS-13) and runaway property taxes
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Order of the Nation (political party)


the Nation. As per May 2012, the LIDEM parliamentary group included eight members of the 200-member Chamber of Deputies. Of these eight members, Martin Vacek and Radim Vysloužil were never members of the LIDEM party itself, but independents working with the party to form a stronger coalition group. The six MPs who were both members of the LIDEM parliamentary group and LIDEM party included: At the end of April 2013, Jana Suchá did not renew her membership fees for the following year, but the party announced on 4 August 2013 that
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Micheál Martin


" Corbett (1929–2010). He was the third child in a family of five. Martin's eldest brother Seán and his twin brother Pádraig subsequently became involved in local politics in Cork. His two younger sisters, Eileen and Máiréad, have remained apolitical. Martin attended Coláiste Chríost Rí before studying arts at University College Cork. It was during his time at university that Martin became involved in politics. He was a prominent member of the cumann of Ógra Fianna Fáil, the youth wing of the party before later serving as national
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Clare Martin


job and return to Darwin in May 1985 where she gained another position on an ABC Radio morning show. In 1986, Martin made the move to television, as the presenter of "The 7.30 Report" until 1988. After returning from long service leave where she cared for her two young children, Martin returned to work in 1990 to work on ABC Radio's morning program. Martin had been interested in political journalism for some years, although she was not a member of any party, believing that party affiliation compromises journalistic integrity
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Edelweiss (political party)


Edelweiss (, SA) is a regionalist, Christian-democratic political party active in Aosta Valley, Italy. Its long-time leader has been Maurizio Martin. Other leading members include Rudi Marguerettaz (member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2013–2018) and Pierluigi Marquis (President of Aosta Valley in 2017). SA was founded in 2001 by the merger of the Autonomists and the Autonomist Federation. The Autonomists were basically the Valdostan section of the Italian People's Party, one of the successors of Christian Democracy, while the Autonomist
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


The Scottish Democratic Alliance (SDA) is a political organisation formed in 2009 as the successor to the Scottish Enterprise Party (SEP). It supports Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. Although it evolved from a political party, the SDA spent some time operating as a think tank on current affairs in Scotland. It stood its first candidate for election in the 2013 Aberdeen Donside by-election, coming last with 35 votes (0.1%). The SDA favours a low-tax Scotland independent of both the EU
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Joseph W. Martin Jr.


were fellow GOP House members Bruce Fairchild Barton and Hamilton Fish III. After 1952, Martin joined the moderate wing of the Republican Party and supported Dwight D. Eisenhower's internationalist outlook (through support of foreign aid), endorsed federal aid for school construction, and backed Lyndon B. Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. In 1960, McGraw-Hill published "My First Fifty Years in Politics", by Joe Martin as told to Robert J. Donovan, a lively and detailed account of Martin's role in American politics over a
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Martin Häusling


Martin Häusling (born 26 March 1961) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany. He is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. Before entering politics, Häusling managed his family's 75 hectare organic farm near Kassel. Häusling entered local politics in 1981. He was elected to the Landtag of Hesse in 2003, but he failed to retain his seat at the following election in 2008. Although he successfully stood at the subsequent early election in 2009
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Warren Skaaren


", a film in which he took a personal financial stake. The success of the film enabled Skaaren to leave the Film Commission and begin his career in the film industry. His notable writing includes: "Fire with Fire" (1986), "Beverly Hills Cop II" (1987), "Beetlejuice" (1988), and "Batman" (1989). He was also credited as associate producer for "Top Gun" (1986), for which he wrote a draft. He had also written
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Glenys Hanna Martin


the first female to hold the post of Chairman of any major political party in The Bahamas. Glenys Hanna Martin is a 3-time PLP member of parliament for the Englerston Constituency, having first won the seat in the 2002 General Elections. That same year she was appointed to the Cabinet of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas as Minister of Transport and Aviation. In 2012, when the Progressive Liberal Party was again elected to government, she was again appointed Minister of Transport and Aviation. Glenys Hanna Martin previously served as Chair of the Bahamas
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Jorge Bom Jesus


of Education and Culture and from 2012 to 2014 served as Minister of Education, Culture and Science under the government of Gabriel Costa. Member of the Political Commission of the MLSTP-PSD since 2006, Jorge Bom Jesus was elected vice-president of the party in 2011, when Aurélio Martins was president. With allegations that Aurélio Martins was approaching the Independent Democratic Action (ADI), the rival party of the MLSTP-PSD, a General Congress was convened in 2018, in which he was unanimously elected as the party's
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Electoral division of Fannie Bay


an exception in Northern Territory politics, as it has tended to be neither marginal or safe for either party, with incumbent members of both parties having managed to easily hold the electorate for several years. This was illustrated in 1995, when Country Liberal Party Chief Minister Marshall Perron resigned, only to be replaced by the Labor Party's Clare Martin—who six years later herself became Chief Minister while still representing the electorate. Martin resigned as Chief Minister in 2007, and retired at the 2008 election. Michael Gunner narrowly retained the
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Beetlejuice


film's tone, indicating the graphic nature of the Maitlands' deaths while depicting the afterlife as a complex bureaucracy. Skaaren's rewrite also altered McDowell's depiction of the limbo that keeps Barbara and Adam trapped inside of their home; in McDowell's script, it takes the form of a massive, empty void filled with giant clock gears that shred the fabric of time and space as they move. Skaaren had Barbara and Adam encounter different limbos every time they leave their home, including the "clock world", and the
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Martin K. Weiche


As of the 1972 election, however, candidates who were not nominated by officially registered political parties could only identify themselves as "Independent" or "no party". In 1980, Weiche was identified in the media as president of the Canadian National Socialist Party (an unregistered political party) when, in Sarnia, Weiche was invited to appear on radio station CHOK. The appearance was cancelled due to public complaints. Despite the cancellation, a clash broke out between followers of Weiche and members of the Conference Against Racist and Fascist
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Martin Geertsen


Martin Geertsen, born 1970 in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark, is a former mayor of culture in Copenhagen and former political leader of the Venstre party in Copenhagen. Martin Geertsen has been a member of Venstre, including its youth arm "VU" since 1987, and was the leader of the Falster branch of VU from 1989 to 1990, when he graduated from high school at "Nykøbing Katedralskole". He started studying political science at the University of Copenhagen in 1991, from which he got his degree of BA. From 1993
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William Martin Nygaard


chief executive of the publishing house until 1940 when his son Mads Wiel Nygaard took over as chief executive. William Martin Nygaard continued as chairman of the board. In 1895 William Nygaard initiated the founding of the Norwegian Publishers Association, serving as chairman from 1895 to 1922 and 1925 to 1929. William Nygaard was a member of Kristiania city council from 1908 to 1919. In 1910 he was one of the founders of the political party Liberal Left Party, chairing the local chapter in Kristiania until 1916. He was a central board member
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Scottish Democratic Alliance


Norway to promote tourism. The Scottish Enterprise Party was a centre-right political party in Scotland which supported Scottish independence and withdrawal from the European Union. It was formed in July 2004 to provide an alternative to the largely social democratic Scottish National Party for centre-right voters who support independence. The party opposed Scottish membership of the European Union and any prospective membership of the euro; it supported the principle of a constitutional monarchy and elections conducted through the Single Transferable Vote. The SEP backed the constitutional view that parliamentary sovereignty does
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Beetlejuice


Sandworm's world, identified as Saturn's moon Titan. Skaaren also introduced the "leitmotif" of music accompanying Barbara and Adam's ghostly hijinks, although his script specified R&B tunes instead of Harry Belafonte, and was to have concluded with Lydia dancing to "When a Man Loves a Woman". Skaaren's first draft retained some of the more sinister characteristics of McDowell's Betelgeuse, but toned down the character to make him a troublesome pervert rather than blatantly murderous. Betelgeuse's true form was that of the Middle Eastern man
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Political libel


deeply involved in the Green Party of Canada and the comments focused solely on this involvement, without mentioning his business activities at all, the case was seemingly another political libel instance. The party itself had threatened to file at least one lawsuit during the same election as the Martin-Harper incident, against former staff member Matthew Pollesel. While the Party claimed that suits were in response to reports in the press and Elections Canada regarding the party's internal finances, nothing was ever filed when Pollesel's lawyer notified the Green Party that
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Martin Bormann


through insurance companies for members who were hurt or killed in the frequent violent skirmishes with members of other political parties. As insurance companies were unwilling to pay out claims for such activities, in 1930 Bormann set up the "Hilfskasse der NSDAP" (NSDAP Auxiliary Fund), a benefits and relief fund directly administered by the party. Each party member was required to pay premiums and might receive compensation for injuries sustained while conducting party business. Payments out of the fund were made solely at Bormann's discretion. He began to gain
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Peter Francis Martin


Peter Francis Martin (January 13, 1856 – May 2, 1935) was a contractor and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Halifax in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1921 as a Unionist Party member. Martin was elected by acclamation in the Khaki Election of 1917; in Halifax, the election was postponed after the Halifax Explosion and Martin's Liberal opponent withdrew in a show of post-explosion unity. Martin replaced Prime Minister Robert Borden, who had run (and won) in Kings
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Batman (1989 film)


about 20 minutes' worth) were stolen. With various problems during filming, Burton called it "Torture. The worst period of my life!" Hamm was not allowed to perform rewrites during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. Warren Skaaren, who had also worked on Burton's "Beetlejuice", did rewrites. Jonathan Gems and Charles McKeown rewrote the script during filming. Only Skaaren received screenplay credit with Hamm. Hamm criticized the rewrites, but blamed the changes on Warner Bros. Burton explained, "I don't
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Ana Gomes


Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes , better known as Ana Gomes, (born 9 February 1954 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician, who suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics in 2003. In 2004, she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (Portuguese Socialist Party member of the European Socialist Party) and was reelected in June 2009. She is married with one daughter, three stepchildren and six grandchildren. Ana Gomes is currently a City Council member of Sintra. She has been a career diplomat
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Congress of the People (Trinidad and Tobago)


internal conflicts as the party became divided on its participation in the coalition with the United National Congress. The majority of COP supporters becoming disenchanted started clamoring for Ramadhar's resignation and for the COP to leave the Peoples Partnership Government. Leading this charge were three dissident members the Political Leader's brother Kishore Ramadhar, Rudolph Hanamji the party's Chairman in Diego Martin West and the former Chairman Satu-Ann Ramcharan, the dissidents were finally suspended from the party with Political Leader Prakash Ramadhar accusing the Dissidents of betraying the party. This action
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Revolutionary Workers League (Oehlerite)


Oehler, and Martin Abern against joining the Socialist, with Cannon and Shachtman favoring the proposal. The group led by Oehler and Tom Stamm were not entirely opposed to work among the left wing members of the Socialist party, but wanted to bring them into the WP as a group, rather than have the Workers Party dissolve into the Socialist Party. To that end they began negotiations with the Revolutionary Policy Committee. When they reported their talks to the Partys Political Committee, they set up their own negotiating committee without any members of
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The Livingston Group


building and strategic communications. The firm has a network of over forty (40) principals, consultants, and international associates, including former Members of Congress of both major parties, former members of political staffs, and corporate executives. The firm's partners are Livingston and two former staff members, J. Allen Martin and Paul Cambon, who worked for him when he was a Congressman, and veteran congressional staff and government affairs professionals Bernie Robinson and Martin Cancienne. The firm's "senior counselors" are: As of 2016,
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Aline Hanson


chaired the Cultural Association of Saint Martin and was the director of the port at Galisbay. In addition, she became a board member of Semsamar, a planned community development company in which the owners who buy the firm's properties own shares in the developed projects. In 2001, Hanson decided to leave the political arena for six years, but returned to politics in 2007 when the Overseas Collectivity of St. Martin was created. She was elected as a councilor for the Rassemblement Responsabilité Réussite (RRR) party. Interested in creating new
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


MSP and Liz Smith MSP endorse Murdo Fraser. 30 Aug – Liz Smith is declared as Murdo Fraser's campaign manager. 1 Sep – Gavin Brown, formerly speculated as standing in the election, states that he will not run and lends his backing to Murdo Fraser. 2 Sep – Jackson Carlaw officially launches his leadership campaign in Glasgow. 4 Sep – Murdo Fraser makes the high-profile announcement that if elected leader, he would disband the Scottish Conservatives and seek to create a new centre-right party, autonomous but allied
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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Christopher Holland-Martin


in relation to the Governor of Kenya in 1945. After the war, Holland-Martin was appointed a Director of Martins Bank. He also became involved in politics and was made Joint Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1947; two years later he married Lady Anne Cavendish MBE, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. At the 1951 general election, Holland-Martin was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Ludlow. His experience in financial matters was often in evidence in House of Commons debates, although he was generally low
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John L. Martin


John L. Martin (born June 5, 1941, in Eagle Lake, Maine) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Martin has been in Maine politics since his first election to the Maine House of Representatives in 1964, and is sometimes called "The Earl of Eagle Lake" as a result. With his election in 2014, he is the longest serving legislator in Maine history. Martin was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1964 through 1994, serving as Minority Floor Leader from 1971 through 1974.
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Jeanette Olsen


Jeanette Martine Olsen (22 October 1873 – 23 September 1959) was a Norwegian editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. She was born in Kristiania. Her first political position was as leader of the local women's branch in Skien Labour Party from 1907 to 1912. From 1911 to 1913 she was a national board member of the Labour Party women's association. She was also a board member of the county branch in Bratsberg. In 1913 she was hired as manager of the newspaper "Haugesunds Folkeblad", and
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Martin Lemay


Martin Lemay (born March 19, 1964 in Amos, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Parti Québécois (PQ) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the National Assembly of Quebec. He studied history and sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He also received a post graduate certificate in public management at the École nationale d'administration publique. Lemay began his political career in municipal politics being a councilor for the district of Sainte-Marie
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Martin Lee


hanjian", traitor of the Han people. On 27 October, the Democratic Party issued an announcement to newspapers setting out the party's position regarding the article Lee published. Chairman Albert Ho reiterated, "It is not an apology, but a clear declaration of what we stand for." After being a member of the Legislative Council for 23 years, Lee announced on 27 March 2008 that he would not seek re-election when his term ended in September of that year. Martin Lee remained active in commenting politics and
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Martin Webster


Martin Guy Alan Webster (born 14 May 1943) is a British political activist, a former leading figure on the far-right in the United Kingdom. An early member of the National Labour Party, he was John Tyndall's closest ally, and followed him in joining the original British National Party, the National Socialist Movement and the Greater Britain Movement. Webster also spent time in prison for helping to organise a paramilitary organisation, Spearhead, and was convicted under the Public Order Act 1936. Rumours of his homosexuality led to
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Progressive Party of Saskatchewan


' political party in the province. The Progressives ran seven candidates and elected six members to the Saskatchewan legislature in the 1921 general election despite the absence of a provincial organization due to the reluctance of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association to break with the Saskatchewan Liberal Party. The Liberals had a tradition of consulting the SGGA about farm policy and of appointing prominent farm activists to cabinet such as Charles Dunning and John Maharg. A political crisis ensued the Liberal government in late 1921 in which Premier William Melville Martin angered the SGGA by campaigning for
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Hans Martin Sutermeister


history and Psychosomatic medicine. Hintzsche, however, who decided jointly, rejected his habilitation. He joined the Ring of Independents political party and began his political career in the legislature of the Canton of Bern. From 1967 to 1971 he served as a member of the municipal executive, as well as director of the city's schools. As school director, he promoted comprehensive schools. Although he had a reputation as a progressive within his party, he also stirred some concern both inside and outside the party by fiercely criticizing "The
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Politics of Peru


), it nevertheless moves away from it on the question of class struggle and on the importance given to the struggle for the political unity of Latin America. In 1928, the Peruvian Socialist Party was founded, notably under the leadership of José Carlos Mariátegui, himself a former member of APRA. Shortly afterwards, in 1929, the party created the General Confederation of Workers. The Republic of Peru is in a state of ongoing democratization. Led by President Martin Vizcarra, the new government is expected to be transparent and accountable.
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Tammy Martin


Tammy Martin is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2017 provincial election. A member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party, she represents the electoral district of Cape Breton Centre. Before her election, Martin was employed by the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. She resides in New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Martin first attempted to enter provincial politics in a 2015 byelection, but was defeated by Liberal David Wilton. She ran again in the 2017 election
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Martin Wingfield


party from Tyndall's father-in-law Charles Parker by publishing a dissident paper the "Sussex Front". With Ian Anderson, he was associated with the traditionalist Flag Group wing in opposition to the Political Soldier wing and became one of the leading members of this dissident group, editing their paper "The Flag". Around this time he was criticized by leading Official National Front member Nick Griffin as being more suited to the extreme right-wing of the Conservative Party. In his role as editor of NF party organs
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History of left-wing politics in the United States


Foster to expel Foster's former allies, James P. Cannon and Max Shachtman, who were followers of Leon Trotsky. Following another Soviet factional dispute, Lovestone and Gitlow were expelled, and Earl Browder became party leader. Cannon, Shachtman, and Martin Abern then set up the Trotskyist Communist League of America, and recruited members from the CPUSA. The League then merged with A. J. Muste's American Workers Party in 1934, forming the Workers Party. New members included James Burnham and Sidney Hook. By the 1930s the Socialist Party
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Fathers' rights movement by country


"Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)" is currently registered as a political party with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). Fathers' rights groups in Australia have condemned the actions of a militant men's group that engaged in criminal activities, including stalking and harassment. Since Sep 2006 the Belgian federal law on "co-parenté" came into effect. It introduced a presumption of dual location or shared residency which by law should be taken into serious consideration and thorough investigation with priority in each individual case by
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Micheál Martin


government allow the MV "Rachel Corrie" to deliver its cargo of aid to Gaza instead of involving itself in "further bloodshed". In September 2010, doubts about Brian Cowen's abilities and political judgement as Taoiseach and party leader emerged following a disastrous early-morning radio interview on "Morning Ireland". Cowen survived, however, that same month Martin admitted that he and other cabinet members, namedly Brian Lenihan and Dermot Ahern, harboured ambitions to lead the party should a vacancy arise. While some backbench rebel Fianna Fáil
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Martine Billard


Martine Billard (born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician and a deputy to the National Assembly of France. She is a member of the Parti de Gauche. Martine Billard entered politics in May 1968 with the "comité d'action lycéen". She studied economics at Panthéon-Assas University, and campaigned against far-right movements, which were especially active there. In the 1970s, she joined the feminist movement, and was active in the pro-choice movement, and against right
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John Martin (British Columbia politician)


Conservative party nomination in the Chilliwack-Hope by-election. He became the Tory nominee (was acclaimed as the British Columbia Conservative Party candidate) in 2012, and also was named a member of the minority party shadow cabinet as a counterpart to the then-Liberal-party-member Attorney General of British Columbia. Martin was first elected, as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party, during the May 2013 provincial election. As of 2017, Martin represents the Chilliwack district as a member of the Legislative Assembly of
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Martin Koppel


Martín Koppel is one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. Before joining the staff of the SWP's paper "The Militant" in 1991, he was a steelworker in Chicago and member of the United Steelworkers of America union. Koppel is a Communist political organizer, a native of Argentina who grew up in the United States. Koppel first became involved in political activism while an exchange student in Marseille, France. The next year, in 1977, he joined the Socialist Workers Party in Baltimore.
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Martin Zijlstra


Marten "Martin" Zijlstra (22 July 1944 – 10 December 2014) was a Dutch politician. He started his political career as member of the States of Groningen, serving between 1974 and 1978. Starting in 1977 he served as Mayor of Termunten for thirteen years. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands between 1989 and 2002 for the Labour Party and focused on interior affairs and defence policy. After his time as Representative he served two stints as acting mayor in Oldambt and Schiermonnikoog. Zijlstra was born
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Martin Wattenberg (political scientist)


Martin P. Wattenberg is a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He is an expert on American elections and party politics and is co-author of a popular undergraduate college text on American government, "Government in America: People, Policy, and Politics", published by Pearson Longman. He is also the author of "Where Have All the Voters Gone: The Decline of American Political Parties", "Is Voting For Young People?", "The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics", and
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John Cummins (Canadian politician)


John Martin Cummins (born March 12, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was the leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party from 2011 until resigning after the 2013 election. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Delta—Richmond East in British Columbia from 1993 until 2011, when he turned to provincial politics becoming the leader of the unaffiliated provincial party. Born in Georgetown, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1993 election, as a Reform Party member. He was
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List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland


party: 1932–48, 1951–54, 1957–73, 1977–81, 1982, 1987–94, and 1997–2011. On all occasions up to 1989, it was in a single-party government; on all occasions since then it was the leading party in a coalition government. It is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and is led by former minister Micheál Martin. It was founded in 1926 by Éamon de Valera as a radical anti-Treaty party, drawing support from small farmers and urban workers but has since become
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Vundavalli Aruna Kumar


be heard. Vexed with the political scenario in the Indian Parliament, 2014, during the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh State in which his party Indian National Congress did not listen to his concern about the future of the state and moreover the absence of Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (died in Sep, 2009) in his life let him to step down from election politics forever. After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state the government at central was charges with BJP and at state it was taken over by TDP. Both TDP and BJP
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Giles Dilnot


the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), accused Dilnot of issuing "politically slanderous" commentary during a live interview claiming his comment "crossed accepted journalistic boundaries", a complaint that was later rejected. While interviewing Marsden for BBC 2’s "Daily Politics" on 21 May 2014 during the campaign for the European election, Dilnot, referring to Marsden's claim that existing news media would be removed in a revolution, said "Please tell me I am not first up against the wall when it comes." According to Marsden
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Electoral history of Jean Chrétien


successful in leading the party in three general elections, Martin and his supporters gradually undercut Chrétien's leadership, leading to Chrétien's retirement late in 2003. He was succeeded by Martin as prime minister and Liberal leader. Chrétien remained a Member of Parliament until the 2004 general election, when he retired from politics. Chrétien led the Liberal Party in three general elections: 1993, 1997 and 2000. He won majority governments each time. In his first general election as leader, Chrétien won a majority government and in the process reduced
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Parvesh Verma


Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma (born 7 November 1977) is an Indian politician and a Member of parliament from West Delhi Lok Sabha Constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In May, 2014 he was elected to 16th Lok Sabha, and he was reelected in 2019. Since 1 Sep, 2014 onwards he is Member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament and Member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development. He is a son of senior BJP politician and former Chief
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Gillian Martin


Gillian Anne Martin is a Scottish politician. She is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Aberdeenshire East constituency. Martin grew up in Newburgh and was educated at Ellon Academy. Her parents have always been politically active. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she worked as a lecturer in further education for 15 years alongside running her own business in video production and training for the energy sector, however upon election to the Scottish Parliament she ceased operation of this business. She
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Gerard Martin


Gerard Francis Martin MP (born 28 May 1946), a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Bathurst between 1999 and 2011 for the Labor Party. Martin has worked as an administrator in the coal industry for 30 years and is married with two children. He was a councillor on the Lithgow City Council from 1974 to 1999 and was the longest-serving mayor of Lithgow, for sixteen years. Prior to entering New South Wales politics, he was previously Deputy Chair
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Randi Martin


Randi Martin is Professor of Psychology at Rice University and Director of the T. L. L. Temple Foundation Neuroplasticity Research Laboratory. With Suparna Rajaram and Judith Kroll, Martin co-founded Women in Cognitive Science in 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). Martin is Senior Editor of the journal "Cognition." Martin received a B.A. (1971) in General Social Science and Mathematics from University of Oregon. She completed a M.A. (
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Jeanne Martin Cissé


United Nations. Guinea was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council and she became the first woman to chair the council. She was also elected to chair the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. Martin Cissé returned to Guinea in 1976 at the request of President Touré, who appointed her as Minister of Social Affairs and a member of the Democratic Party of Guinea Politburo. After Touré's death in 1984, she was arrested along with numbers of other political leaders and detained for 13 months before being released without charge
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Alberto Manuel Campos


Alberto Manuel Campos (1919–1975) was an Argentine politician and member of the Peronist Party. He was born in José León Suárez, Buenos Aires and was assassinated on December 17, 1975. He was mayor of the General San Martin Party, in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires between May 25, 1973, and December 17, 1975. He was assassinated in an attack attributed to the armed Montoneros political organization in the town of José León Suárez during the extreme intensification of political violence that marked the last months of the
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Slovak National Party (historical)


of view was 1901, when the SNS received four mandates in the Hungarian parliament. (That was after 30 years of SNS' existence). 1901 was also the year of the party's reorganisation. Since then, all Slovak political movements (the original members, the Catholic "ľudáci" and the liberal Hlasists) except the Social Democrats were included in the party. (While until then, the party was ruled only by a group called the Martin centre.) In the 1905 elections, SNS received one mandate in
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Baabarr


film a repetition that "the film is of old story with new cast & crew, Martin specially criticises the decision of making film with lead role of "Soham Shah"" The film was not good at the box office as it hardly netted an amount of at the end of its first week after release & getting through the cinemas across India "Baabarr" at last managed to gross & determined a "Flop". "Baabarr" grossed £2,748 on 18 Sep 2009 & £1,439 on 11 Sep 2009 according to
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Constitution of Uruguay of 1934


which these decisions were to be made. This council consisted of the president and the cabinet ministers. The constitution required the chief executive to appoint three of the nine cabinet ministers from among the members of the political party that received the second largest number of votes in the presidential election. The General Assembly, for its part, could issue votes of no confidence in cabinet ministers, with the approval of two-thirds of its members. The constitution divided the Senate between the Blancos and the Colorados or, as political scientist Martin
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Constitution of Uruguay


to be made. This council consisted of the president and the cabinet ministers. The constitution required the chief executive to appoint three of the nine cabinet ministers from among the members of the political party that received the second largest number of votes in the presidential election. The General Assembly, for its part, could issue votes of no confidence in cabinet ministers, with the approval of two-thirds of its members. The constitution divided the Senate between the Blancos and the Colorados or, as political scientist Martin Weinstein has pointed out
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1848 United States presidential election


of the Liberty Party such as John Hale and Salmon Chase to form the Free Soil Party that summer. At this point, both Hale and King withdrew in favor of a Free Soil ticket led by former President Martin Van Buren, and the great majority of members of the Liberty Party followed them into the new political party. A small faction refused to support Van Buren for the presidency, however. They held another convention in June 1848 as the ""National Liberty Party."" Gerrit Smith was nominated almost unanimously with
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Peder Furubotn


Labour Party in Bergen. He was a board member of the radical union branch "Fagopposisjonen av 1911", which had been founded by Martin Tranmæl. He was elected general secretary for the Communist Party of Norway ("Norges Kommunistiske Parti", "NKP") from its foundation in 1923, and was chairman of the party from 1925 to 1930. During this period he was among the loyal Moscow supporters and criticized people who diverged from the "correct" political line, as well as the Labour Party. Furubotn stayed
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Democratic Party (Hong Kong)


party's share in the geographical constituencies dropped to 35%, and the party secured 9 out of the 24 directly elected seats. Its total number of seats in LegCo remained at 12. In December 2002, Yeung Sum succeeded Martin Lee as Party chairman in the leadership change, legislator Albert Chan, belonging to the pro-grassroots relatively "radical" faction, left the party. By the end of 2002, more than 50 members of the party which had already formed a political group, Social Democratic Forum, defected to
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Tasmania First Party


The Tasmania First Party is a minor Australian political party which operates exclusively in the state of Tasmania. The party was begun by members of the Tasmanian Firearms Owners Association in response to the Howard Government's 1996 National Firearms Agreement, which the party called a "unilateral imposition of unnecessarily restrictive firearm legislation, following the unique tragedy of Martin Bryant's Port Arthur protest"[sic]"." Tasmania First contested its first election in August 1998, the Tasmanian state election. The party received 5.1% of the primary vote for the House of
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Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz


The Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz (German: "Bürgerbewegung Pro Chemnitz"; known as Pro Chemnitz) is a municipal political party in the German city of Chemnitz. The Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz was initiated in 2009 by Karl Martin Kohlmann, a former Chemnitz city council member for The Republicans, and Reinhold Breede, former president of the city council at the beginning of the 1990s and a former CDU member. In March 2009 the city council group of The Republicans left the party "en bloc", owing to internal
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John Martin (judge)


signing of the treaty split the tribe politically between the Treaty Party and Chief John Ross' National Party. Martin had tried to remain neutral and continue his work as a tribal leader, but he came to believe that Ross' efforts were doomed to failure. The move to Red Hill proved only a temporary respite. The last straw of harassment came when U. S. soldiers under General John E. Wool surrounded his house one night while he was meeting with several other members of the Cherokee Grand Council, arrested them and confiscated all the
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Max Shachtman


Having dropped out of City College, in 1921 he joined the Workers Council, a Communist organization led by J.B. Salutsky and Alexander Trachtenberg which was sharply critical of the underground form of organization of the Communist Party of America. At the end of December 1921 the Communist Party launched a "legal political party," the Workers Party of America, of which the Workers' Council was a constituent member. Shachtman thereby joined the official Communist movement by virtue of the Workers' Council's dissolution by merger. Shachtman was persuaded by Martin
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Sheila Copps


resulted in further public controversy with Paul Martin and other members of the Liberal Party. Copps alleged that Martin had put a pledge in his 1995 budget to rescind the "outdated" Canada Health Act, and further claimed that her intervention had the offending line removed from the document. Her allegations were denied by Martin and David Dodge (who Copps claims faxed her the draft of the budget), Diane Marleau (who was Health Minister at the time), and others. After leaving politics, Copps wrote regular commentary for the
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Martin Salter


Martin John Salter (born 19 April 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Reading West from 1997 to 2010. Born to Ray and Naomi Salter in Hampton, Middlesex, Martin received a grammar school education before attending the University of Sussex, though he left before gaining a degree, saying 'academic life was not for him – "I wanted to do politics, not study it"'. Both his parents were active trade unionists, and grandfather George Baker was sent to Wormwood Scrubs
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Hrvoje Sep


Hrvoje Sep (born 26 February 1986) is a Croatian professional boxer. He was boxing for BK Leonardo under Leonardo Pjetraj. Sep was 6 times champion of Croatia (2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016), two times runner-up (2012, 2015). He was also WSB Season I Champion (As member of Paris United team) and two times (Season III and season V) as member of Astana Arlans team, with a 22-8 record. He competed in the light
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Réginald Bernut


leadership of the RPCR". He remained however on the municipal council until 2008, when he became closer to Harold Martin, who had been in conflict with the leadership of RPCR since 2001. When he became closer to other dissidents from this political movement they formed an electoral alliance which became the Future Together party for the 2004 provincial elections of New Caledonia, Bernut joined them and was elected on 9 May 2004 as councillor for the Southern Province and a member of the Congress under the auspices of this new political party. He
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Left Bloc


The Left Bloc (, ) is a left-wing political party in Portugal founded in 1999. It is often in print abbreviated to BE, but its name is usually said in full or colloquially abbreviated as O Bloco (The Bloc). Notable members have included Fernando Rosas, Francisco Louçã, and Miguel Portas (brother of CDS–PP leader Paulo Portas, a prominent right-wing politician). Since 1 December 2014, the party has been headed by a six-member Permanent Commission whose spokeswoman is Catarina Martins
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Political views of Paul Robeson


records released under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI believed that Robeson might have joined the Party under the name "John Thomas" but "his Communist Party membership book number is not known". Robeson's biographer, Martin Duberman, concludes that "he was never a member of CPUSA, never a functionary, never a participant in its daily bureaucratic operations". Paul Robeson, Jr. has also stated on numerous times that his father was never a member of the CPUSA. Robeson opposed anti-communist legislation. In
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Québec debout


québécois (GPQ) was formed on February 28, 2018 by seven Members of Parliament (MPs) who resigned from the caucus of the Bloc Québécois (BQ) due to their opposition to the leadership of Martine Ouellet, as well as political differences with her strategy of emphasizing the party's stance regarding active advocacy for Quebec sovereignty rather than a pragmatic approach that focuses on the practical interests of Quebec. While the seven MPs left the BQ parliamentary caucus, they initially remained members of the BQ party itself and had expressed the desire
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Wajid Khan (Canadian politician)


took part in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 as a Shenyang J-6 fighter pilot. He moved to Toronto, Canada, in 1974. Khan entered politics as a member of the Liberal Party, and supported Paul Martin for the party leadership in 2003. He was elected with over 50% support in Mississauga—Streetsville in the 2004 federal election, defeating Conservative Nina Tangri by nearly a 20 percentage point margin. Along with Yasmin Ratansi, Khan was the first Muslim Member of Parliament (MP) to be elected for the
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Popular Democrats


The Popular Democrats ("Democratici Popolari", DP) was a Christian-leftist Italian political party active in the Aosta Valley of Italy. Its leading members included Cesare Dujany, Maurizio Martin and Angelo Pollicini. The party emerged by a left-wing split (seven regional deputies out of 13) of regional Christian Democracy. Subsequently Popular Democrat leader Cesare Dujany became President of the Region at the head of a coalition composed of the Italian Socialist Party, the Valdostan Rally and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. In the 1973 regional
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Ontario Liberal Party leadership elections


This is a list of results of leadership elections for the Ontario Liberal Party, a political party in Ontario, Canada. Note: Before 1919, the leaders of the Ontario Liberal Party were chosen by the its elected Members of the Legislative Assembly. There were calls for a more open process as early as 1907. First ballot: Second ballot: Charles Martin Bowman, MPP for Bruce North; W.T.R. Preston, editor of the "Port Hope Evening Guide", Rev. W. G. Charlton of Aylmer, and A. J. Young of
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