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...hard work and high rhetoric have paid off handsomely. The radicals have forced Labor to accept "reselection," a midterm performance review of M.P.s by their constituents. They have not only heavily influenced the party's manifesto, or platform, with their radical policies, but are pressing for more control over enforcement of party policy at the grass roots. When they wrested the privilege of selecting the party's leader and potential Prune Minister from the parliamentary party, many militants predicted their power play would one day be regarded as a kind of coup de grace against the moderates...
...hands from central casting, Psychologist Lyle Hicks Lanier and Novelist Andrew Nelson Lytle. These three men are all that is left of a famous band of twelve Southerners, a lot of them poets, a lot of them from Vanderbilt, who 50 years ago published an alternately brilliant and baffling manifesto called I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition...
...leaflets and articles on "the nature of our pluralistic society," for distribution in schools, churches and libraries. According to its inaugural statement last week, "the danger of the Religious New Right is that they attack the integrity and character of anyone who does not stand with them." A PAW manifesto, written by former Yale Divinity School Dean Colin Williams, contends that the Protestant right threatens pluralism, democracy and, yes, the American...
...renounced his title in 1963 in order to remain in the House of Commons, the left arrived in Blackpool determined to wrest control of the party from its leaders. In particular, the militants aimed at three longtime objectives: 1) the right to draft the party's policy manifesto, which is far more binding than a U.S. party platform; 2) closer control over M.P.s by their "constituency parties," or local committees, 80% of whose members are leftist militants; and 3) selection of the party leader by the rank and file instead of the M.P.s...
...base of all that?"). There is a theory for almost everything, and as long as you buy the basic assumption--that capitalists consciously try to oppress others constantly--then it fits together pretty well. And the inevitability part is nice--one day Dawn brought along "The Draft Manifesto and Programme of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA," a thick booklet on what will happen after, with detailed discussions of the personal ownership of firearms, the place of culture, and the limits on dissent...