The Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party. John D. Hicks

1933 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Avery Craven
Keyword(s):  
People's Party ◽  
History Of

The Activity of the Cluj County Branch of the Romanian National Party in the Spring of 1920 as Reflected in the Newspaper Patria

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Marin Pop ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
National Party ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Draft Resolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

"This study aims to highlight the activity of the Cluj County Branch of the Romanian National Party (hereafter abbreviated as RNP) in the spring of 1920, covering the events from the fall of the government led by Alexandru Vaida–Voevod until the end of the parliamentary elections of May–June 1920. After the Great Union, the city of Cluj became the political capital of Transylvania, especially after the Ruling Council, which was the provisional executive body of Transylvania, moved its headquarters from Sibiu to Cluj. Iuliu Maniu, the President of the Ruling Council and of the R.N.P, who was elected at the Sibiu Conference of 9–10 August 1919, had settled in Cluj as well. Moreover, at the head of Cluj County Branch of the RNP were personalities with a rich history of struggle for the cause of National Liberation of the Romanians in Transylvania: Iuliu Coroianu, Emil Hațieganu, Aurel Socol, Sever Dan, Alexandru Rusu, Ioan Giurgiu, the Archpriest Ioan Pop of Morlaca, and the Priest‑Martyr Aurel Muntean from Huedin. After the dismissal of the Vaida government, the Central Executive Committee of the RNP convened a party congress for 24 April 1920, in Alba Iulia. Just before the congress, the Cluj County organization had started the election campaign. Meetings were organized in every town and village, aiming to elect representatives for the Congress in Alba Iulia. On 21 April 1920, a large assembly was held in Cluj, during which the deputies of Cluj presented their work in Parliament. Simultaneously, delegates were elected for the Congress of Alba Iulia. The RNP Congress adopted a draft resolution and the governing bodies were elected. Iuliu Maniu was re‑elected as President. Based on the decisions adopted at the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia on 1 December 1918, he adopted a working program, which was summarized in thirteen chapters. During the electoral campaign of 1920 two major political groups became polar opposites: the one around the People’s Party, which was in power, and the parties that formed the Parliamentary Bloc and had governed before. On the list of candidates of the Cluj County Branch of the RNP we can mostly find the former MPs of the party, as well as those who had filled various leadership positions within the Ruling Council. Following the electoral process, despite all the efforts of the People’s Party, in power at that time – especially those of Octavian Goga – to dispel the propaganda conducted by the RNP, the latter party managed to obtain 27 seats in the House and 14 in the Senate. This placed the RNP in second place among Romania’s political parties. The Cluj County Branch of the RNP was able to win two of the five electoral districts in the Chamber, as well as two in the Senate, out of the three allocated to the county. Another conclusion would be that, starting from these parliamentary elections, more and more parties from the Old Kingdom penetrated into Transylvania and Banat. They would achieve some success with the voters only when they came to hold power in the state and organize elections. Still, the RNP remained the party with the largest grip on the electorate of Transylvania and Banat, and Cluj became the political capital of Transylvania."

Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in the Oklahoma Territory

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Gene Clanton ◽  
Worth Robert Miller
Keyword(s):  
People's Party ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oklahoma Territory

“Organism and Triangle”: A Short History of Labor Law in Turkey (1920-1950)

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koray Çalışkan
Keyword(s):  
Labor Law ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Short History ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Final Draft ◽  
History Of ◽  
Draft Bill

The first labor code of the Turkish Republic was enacted in 1936 and became effective in 1937. The most significant feature of this code was the time taken by the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) to legislate it. Negotiations began in 1925 with discussions of the Service Code draft bill. In the course of fifteen years TGNA discussed five draft bills and in 1936 a final draft was accepted. Between then and 1950, when the Republican People's Party (RPP) lost the election to the Democrat Party (DP), the scope of the labor code was extended without any alteration in its ideological content.

scholarly journals Public Authority and Local Resistance: Abdur Rehman and the industrial workers of Lahore, 1969–1974

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANUSHAY MALIK
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Local Structures ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Eventual Return ◽  
History Of ◽  
Resistance Movement

AbstractIn 1968 a popular movement emerged on the streets of Pakistan which toppled the regime of General Muhammad Ayub Khan and ushered in the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). After a decade of military rule this movement was heralded as a turning point in the country's political fortunes. However, the war in 1971, the failure of the PPP to live up to its radical slogans, and Pakistan's eventual return to military rule in 1977 were seen as clear indications of the failure of both the movement and the PPP. This article focuses on the area of Kot Lakhpat in Lahore and the emergence of a worker-led court under Abdur Rehman to argue that this narrative of the failure of the movement does not leave space for local success stories which, while temporary, had an important impact on the role that the working classes imagined for themselves within the state. The Kot Lakhpat movement was part of a longer history of labour politics, and its story challenges the centrality of the PPP and shows how local structures of authority can be formed in response to the greater space for radical action opened up by a wider national resistance movement.

What's in a Drink? Class Struggle, Popular Culture and the Politics of Akpeteshie (Local Gin) in Ghana, 1930–67

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Government

This article examines the history of akpeteshie (local gin) in Ghana from its illicit origins and widespread distillation in the 1930s to about 1967, when the Convention People's Party – seen as the ‘champion’ of the akpeteshie industry – was overthrown. Akpeteshie distillation proliferated when temperance interests succeeded in pressuring the colonial government into raising tariffs on imported liquor in 1930, just before the onset of a world-wide depression. Urban and rural workers, unable to afford expensive imported gin, became the patrons of akpeteshie. For urban workers, akpeteshie came to underpin an emerging popular culture.Akpeteshie distillation threatened the colonial government's prior dependence on revenue from imported liquor, raised the specter of crime and disorder, compromised colonial concerns about urban space, exposed the weakness of colonial rule and eventually led the British government into the embarrassing diplomatic position of seeking an alteration of the Saint Germain Convention of 1919 that had banned commercial distillation of spirits in the African colonies.By the 1940s, akpeteshie had emerged as an important symbol of African grievances under colonial rule. It became entwined in nationalist politics from the 1940s, and its legalization was one of the first legislative acts passed by the independent Ghanaian government. But the overwhelming African support for akpeteshie as an indigenous drink aside, the drink conjured images of class and popular protest that divided Ghanaian society and would unnerve independent African governments. As a cheap drink, akpeteshie became associated with the working-class experience, reflecting the social inequities within Ghanaian society and the undelivered promises of the independence struggle.

Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in the Oklahoma Territory

1989 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 528
Author(s):  
Robert W. Larson ◽  
Worth Robert Miller
Keyword(s):  
People's Party ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oklahoma Territory

scholarly journals New Aspects of Foreign and Internal Policy of Mariano Raho People’s Party in Spain

2012 ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
N. E. Anikeeva
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
People's Party ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internal Policy

The conservative People’s party led by M. Raho won in the general еlections in Spain in november 20, 2011. The spanish socialists went into opposition. There began a new stage in the political history of the country.

THE TOLERANT POPULISTS AND THE LEGACY OF WALTER NUGENT

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Creech
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
American Empire ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Lower Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractPublished in 1963 and with a second edition in 2013, Walter Nugent's The Tolerant Populists challenged and overturned an interpretation of the American Populist movement, largely associated with Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform, which portrayed the People's Party as backward looking, reactionary, irrational, antisemitic, and nativist. The Tolerant Populists demonstrated the Populist movement to be forward looking in its advocacy of statist economic reforms later adopted by progressives. In addition to this particular intervention in the literature, The Tolerant Populists, as it marked a turn in the 1960s to writing history from the bottom up, also more generally shaped the historiography of Populism by emphasizing the local social, cultural, and political roots of the movement; the movement's appeal to marginalized Americans in the 1890s; and the reasonableness of its policy measures to ease economic suffering. Moreover, the new edition critiques the continued use in popular media of lower-case “populism” to describe modern anti-statist movements that bear no resemblance to the movement of the 1890s. Finally, Walter Nugent forwarded the historiographical emphases in The Tolerant Populists to influence, in his later scholarship, the wider history of monetary policy, American demographic and social history, immigration, the American West, and American empire building.

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