Article: Party over? Just eight months on from its stunning success in the national elections, is the Swiss People's Party really on the brink of an equally spectacular collapse?(POLITICS)

Article: All shook up? The December expulsion of controversial justice minister Christoph Blocher provoked expressions of outrage from his right-wing Swiss People's Party and an immediate declaration that it would go into opposition. But in a country not used to confrontational politics, how exactly will the People's Party follow up on that threat--and will the left live to regret December's cleverly-orchestrated coup?(POLITICS)
Swiss News;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The Swiss People's Party had frequently threatened to pull out of government...Blocher's de-selection at the end of last year, the party quickly found itself in uncharted territory. The party faithful themselves were adamant that they were in...

Article: Communist Party, Chinese
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History;      632 words ...Communist Party, Chinese ( CCP ) Founded in Shanghai on...Guomindang (KMT) of Sun Yat-sen . Initially, the party was slow to take off, with around 1,000...Jianxi in 1931. Here, it grew into a mass party with around 300,000 members, while it gained...

Article: Turkey's ruling party rejects charges it undermines secularism
AP Worldstream;  June 16, 2008 ;     457 words ...Turkey's ruling party, facing closure by the country's highest court...rule. Turkey's top prosecutor has accused the party of violating constitutionally protected secularism and wants the party, which holds a majority in Parliament, closed...

Article: Conservative Party, UK
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History;      700+ words ...Conservative Party, UK The dominant political party in twentieth-century British politics. Despite the absence...absence of set beliefs beyond these general tenets has imbued the party with a sense of flexibility and pragmatism which, since the...

Article: Nationalist Party
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      700+ words ...Nationalist Party (1882–1922), the generic term for the Irish parliamentary party and its successive constituency organizations...in the 1870s it grew into a strongly centralized party under Parnell and his successors. The party was...

Article: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Encyclopedia of Russian History;      700+ words ...COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the ruling Party in the Soviet Union and, therefore, its most important political institution. The Party experienced a number of name changes during its history...

Article: TURKEY - June 16 - Turkish Governing Party Challenges 'Anti-Secular' Charge.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  June 21, 2008 ;     390 words ...The governing party of Turkey, facing closure after the country...prosecutor in Turkey, accused the governing AK Party of violating secularism, which is protected...Turkish Constitution, and has asked that the party be closed down. Yalcinkaya also asked that...

Article: Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Encyclopedia of Russian History;      700+ words ...COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiiskoi...Federatsii), or CPRF, descended from the short-lived Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CP...

Article: In the 2008 election, time to party like it's 1773
AP Online;  November 1, 2008 ;     647 words ...When the Boston Tea Party's presidential candidate Charles Jay went to register to vote...she said of his new political group, which joins the Christmas Party and Surfers Party of America among Florida's registered third parties. Jay was unshaven...

Article: Aubry wins French Socialist Party leadership
AP Worldstream;  November 22, 2008 ;     583 words ...The French Socialist Party said Saturday that the architect of France's 35-hour work week has won the party's leadership in an extremely tight race...135,000 members of France's main opposition party cast ballots, the party said. Manuel Valls...

Article: Labour Party, UK
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History;      700+ words ...Labour Party, UK The main progressive party in Britain since 1918. On 27 February 1900, the Labour Representation...federation of socialist societies, such as the Independent Labour Party , the Fabian Society , and trade unions . Initially it had only...

Article: Liberal Democratic Party
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History;      700+ words ...Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) (Japan) Japan's most established party of government was formed in 1955 as a congeries of centre...the electoral potential of the newly united Socialist Party rather than any other common purpose created Japan's...

Article: Labour Party
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      571 words ...Labour Party. ‘Labour’ candidates had contested...unions ) had voted in 1912 to form a Labour Party. Two years later the congress changed its...x2018;Irish Trades Union Congress and Labour Party’, but no party organization was established...

Article: Prohibition Party
Dictionary of American History;      638 words ...PROHIBITION PARTY PROHIBITION PARTY, the oldest continuous third party in the United States, was founded in 1869 by temperance crusaders who broke with the Republican Party because they felt it was betraying its original spirit and aims. Men such...