Labor Party Standing Committee

[Gass3268]

Our Founding (We Almost Ended Up Being the Social Democratic Union)

View Labor Party Standing Committee, Jan-Sept 2012

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View Labor Party By-Laws (Adopted 5/27/13)

View Labor Party Platform (Adopted 6/15/13)

2013 Federal/Regional Elections, Labor Party Endorsement Deadline & Labor Party Event Dates

Welcome to the Committee HQ of the Labor Party. Currently Atlasia's true beacon of center-leftism, our mission is to further the broader debate on the economic and social issues that impact the lives of everyday Atlasians. We are prepared and poised to fight for progressive ideals in every region across the country by being the most evenly distributed political movement in Atlasia. All current information, events, votes and other announcements will be displayed in this post, making it easier to keep up with all that is going on in both Atlasia and the Labor Party.

Current Members:

National: 42

Mideast: 7
Midwest: 10
Northeast: 6
Pacific: 8
South: 11

Current Elected Officers:

Chair – Gass3268
Vice-Chair – TNF
General Secretary – Talleyrand
Attorney-at-Law - Bacon King

Regional Co-Ordinators:

Mideast – Njall
Midwest –
Northeast – Dr. Cynic
Pacific –
South (IDS) – Adam Griffin

Current Elected/Appointed Members of Government

Averroes Nix - President
DemPGH - Vice President & Attorney General 
Talleyrand - Secretary of External Affairs
opebo - Associate Justice, Supreme Court
Adam Griffin - Game Moderator

TNF - Midwest Regional Senator
Bore - Northeast Regional Senator
Napoleon - At-Large Senator
MaxQue - At-Large Senator
Gass3268 - At-Large Senator
Polnut - At-Large Senator
 
sirnick - Northeast Governor
Alfred F. Jones - IDS Legislator
Velasco - IDS Legislator
Njall - Mideast Assemblyman
MCC - Mideast Assemblyman
Most Serene Representative windjammer

Progressive Caucus Reps:

TNF - Chair

Alfred F. Jones - Labor Board Member
Bacon King - Labor Board Member
Velasco - Labor Board Member
Zanas - Labor Board Member

Aggregate PM Score:

-5.49 E
-5.75 S



Ongoing Votes/Events:

[Gass3268]

Anyone that is interested in getting involved with Labor Party politics should contact me on becoming a Regional Co-Ordinator. It is a great way to get into party politics and a stepping stone to leadership!  

[Dr. Cynic]

I wouldn't mind getting involved.

[Zanas]

I'm pretty sure I'm that fourth regular Progressive cacus board member for Labour.

Also, you should give the Southern coordinator job to Griffin, he basically built the party branch down here. That is, if he wants it of course.

[Adam Griffin]

Also, you should give the Southern coordinator job to Griffin, he basically built the party branch down here. That is, if he wants it of course.

I'd be happy to accept the responsibility if the Chair sees it fit.

[TNF]

I'm pretty sure I'm that fourth regular Progressive cacus board member for Labour.

Also, you should give the Southern coordinator job to Griffin, he basically built the party branch down here. That is, if he wants it of course.

I second this suggestion.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

I'm pretty sure I'm that fourth regular Progressive cacus board member for Labour.

Also, you should give the Southern coordinator job to Griffin, he basically built the party branch down here. That is, if he wants it of course.

I second this suggestion.

I third this suggestion.

[Adam Griffin]

[Sec. of State Superique]

Well....

[Adam Griffin]

Labor now - for the first time ever - has five Senators. I'm so proud of you guys.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

FREEDOM!

[Napoleon]

And the riches capitalism brought me allows us to celebrate this victory with some of the finest cognac- it's on me.

[TNF]

What a glorious day, comrades!

[TNF]

Comrades, I have a few things I'd like to bring before the party, with party modernization and professionalization in mind.

First and foremost, I make a motion that the Labor Party join both the Progressive Alliance and the Socialist International. These international alliances of working people's parties will be no doubt important to the furtherance of a democratic society not only in Atlasia, but on all corners of the globe. I make a request that the Labor Party send delegates to the meetings of both these organizations at the time of their next meetings.

Second, I wish to make a motion establishing a youth league for the Labor Party. Perhaps we shall call it the Young People's Labor League? I'm open to ideas on the name, but I find it would be appropriate and a way to open up more leadership positions to those new players in the game who want to be involved in party affairs.

Third, I wish to make a motion calling on the Labor Party to adopt an animal 'mascot' not unlike those of the ancient Democratic and Republican parties from the earliest days of Atlasia. I would recommend a beaver, the hardest of all the workers of the animal kingdom, as our official animal mascot.

Fourth, I wish to make a motion establishing an official headquarters for the Labor Party. I'm open to suggestions as to where this headquarters should be, but owing to it's historic position in the labor movement, I would argue in favor of Chicago, Illinois, or perhaps Detroit, Michigan.

Finally, I want to make a motion to enter into an electoral alliance with the Canadian New Democratic Party. As the Atlasia-Canada Common Market agreement erases our Northern border and allows limited jurisdictional authority, it only makes sense that two socialist parties join hands under a single umbrella, as a united Labor Party of Atlasia and Canada.

What say you, comrades?

[Talleyrand]

I second the motions to join the Progressive Alliance and Socialist International, as well as establishing a youth league within our party, for the reasons TNF has outlined above. I will also support the potential union with the New Democratic Party, although that is a proposal which will have to be approved by that respective party as well.



However, I do insist that this party adopt the common pig as our mascot. This animal has served humanity for tens of thousands of years, and has been wrongly maligned by those who see it as a symbol of filth; a similarity to the way many elitists view the working class.

(This is also a way to honor Bacon King for his service to the party.)

[Gass3268]

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Our mascot should be an ant. Or a majestic gazelle.

[sentinel]

You know I joined, but this whole socialism as your main platform point is real turnoff.

[PJ]

You know I joined, but this whole socialism as your main platform point is real turnoff.

I agree with this and it's one of the main reasons I left the party.

[sentinel]

You know I joined, but this whole socialism as your main platform point is real turnoff.

I agree with this and it's one of the main reasons I left the party.

And here come the jehovah's witnesses knocking at my door again, what a coindience

[Dereich]

You know I joined, but this whole socialism as your main platform point is real turnoff.

Labor isn't some generic leftist party. Its a hard left party with hard left ideals. I'm afraid your type don't really fit in anywhere right now, although the Federalists are always looking for more diversity in opinion

[Marokai Backbeat]

Even if I don't always agree with it, Labor has, so far, prided itself in sticking to being a big tent.. for socialists of all stripes. But that is what we have always stuck to. I hope that is what we always try to stick to. We shouldn't appeal to everyone. We are who we are.

[Talleyrand]

Even if I don't always agree with it, Labor has, so far, prided itself in sticking to being a big tent.. for socialists of all stripes. But that is what we have always stuck to. I hope that is what we always try to stick to. We shouldn't appeal to everyone. We are who we are.

I tend to agree with this. Labor is a broad coalition of socialists, social democrats, social liberals, and the like, but there are some key tenets we hold onto, and that means we won't suddenly transform our platform to accommodate everyone. I am probably at the very right of this party, but I'm sufficiently of the Left to feel comfortable as a Laborite.

[TNF]

You know I joined, but this whole socialism as your main platform point is real turnoff.

It's called the Labor Party. What did you expect?

[sentinel]

I don't mind socialistic ideas, I just never had a "all or nothing" approach to policy making.