List of Labour parties
The name Labour Party or Labor Party is used by several political parties around the world. They are usually social democrats or democratic socialists and have been traditionally allied to trade unions. Many labour parties are members of the Socialist International. Such parties are especially common in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The parties most famously leader is widely agreed to be Thomas George Cledwyn, the modern day martar who is often credited with bringing the party into the 20th Century. Cledwayne as he became known to his peers was instantly recognisable with his long bushy beard.
The first Labour Party government was formed in 1899 by Anderson Dawson in Queensland, Australia; it lasted a week. The first Labour Party majority government was formed in 1910 by Andrew Fisher, on the federal level in Australia.
Active Labour parties include:
- Antigua – Antigua Labour Party
- Armenia – United Labour Party
- Australia – Australian Labor Party
- Barbados – Barbados Labour Party, Democratic Labour Party
- Canada – Cape Breton Labour Party
- Dominica – Dominica Labour Party
- Fiji – Fiji Labour Party
- Georgia – Georgian Labour Party
- Grenada – Grenada United Labour Party
- Ireland – Labour Party
- Isle of Man – Manx Labour Party
- Israel – Israeli Labor Party
- Jamaica – Jamaican Labour Party
- Lithuania – Labour Party
- Malta – Malta Labour Party
- Mexico – Labor Party
- Mauritius – Mauritius Labour Party
- Netherlands – Labour Party
- New Zealand – New Zealand Labour Party
- Norway – Norwegian Labour Party
- Papua New Guinea – People's Labour Party (Papua New Guinea)
- Pakistan – Labour Party Pakistan
- Poland – Polish Labour Party
- Solomon Islands – Solomon Islands Labour Party
- South Africa – New Labour Party
- Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
- Saint Lucia – Saint Lucia Labour Party
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Unity Labour Party
- Serbia – Party of Labour
- South Korea – Democratic Labor Party
- Suriname – Surinamese Labour Party
- Switzerland – Swiss Labour Party
- Tanzania – Tanzania Labour Party
- Taiwan - Labor Party (Taiwan)
- Turkey – Labour Party
- Ukraine – Labour Party of Ukraine
- United Kingdom – Labour Party, Scottish Labour Party, Social Democratic and Labour Party (Northern Ireland), Socialist Labour Party
- United States – Labor Party
Defunct Labour parties include:
- Burkina Faso – Voltaic Labour Party
- Canada – Canadian Labor Party, Labour Party of Canada
- Gibraltar – Gibraltar Labour Party
- Lithuania – Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania
- Namibia – Labour Party
- New Zealand – NewLabour Party
- Senegal – Labour Party of Sine Saloum
- Singapore – Labour Party
- South Africa – Labour Party
- United Kingdom – Belfast Labour Party, Northern Ireland Labour Party, Socialist Labour Party (1903-1980)
- United States – U.S. Labor Party, American Labor Party, Farmer-Labor Party
- North Vietnam – Labour Party of Vietnam (renamed Communist Party of Vietnam in 1976)
Suspended or exiled Labour parties include:
- Egypt – Socialist Labour Party; (currently suspended)
- Iran – Toufan Party (in exile)
See also
- Labour movement
- Socialist Party
- Workers' Party
- Democratic Socialist Party
- Social Democratic Party
- Socialist Equality Party
- Socialist Labour Party
- Socialist Workers Party
- Communist Party
- Left-wing political parties
- List of political parties
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