Commonwealth Party (Iceland)
Commonwealth Party may refer to: *Commonwealth Party (Gibraltar), a defunct political party in Gibraltar *Commonwealth Party (New South Wales), a defunct political party in Australia *Common Wealth Party, a defunct political party in the United Kingdom *Commonwealth Land Party (UK), a defunct political party in the United Kingdom *Party for the Commonwealth of Canada The Party for the Commonwealth of Canada was a Canadian political parties, Canadian political party formed by Canadians who supported the LaRouche movement, ideology of the late U.S. politician Lyndon LaRouche in the 1984 Canadian federal election ...

Commonwealth Party (Gibraltar)
The Commonwealth Party was a political party in Gibraltar. It was the first party to contest an election after the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights (AACR) and was led by Juan Jose Triay. History The party was founded in 1953.Vincent E. McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p324 The party won a seat in the 1956 general elections, taken by Triay. In the elections to the City Council, three months later (on 5 December 1956) the Commonwealth Party got two out of ten seats, for Guy Stagnetto and Louis Bruzon (besides 5 for the AACR, and 3 independents). However, in 1957 Triay resigned from the Legislative Council in protest at the silence adopted by the other members of the council on the Spanish visa restrictions issue. In the by-election, the Commonwealth Party candidate, Alfred Vasquez Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 ma ...
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Commonwealth Party (New South Wales)
The Commonwealth Party was a short-lived, urban, conservative political party in New South Wales between May 1943 and January 1944. The United Australia Party, in coalition with the Country Party was in power federally and in New South Wales throughout much of the 1930s. However, ideological and leadership issues resulted in severe fissures occurring in conservative political forces towards the end of the decade. This was seen most markedly in the deposing of the Prime Minister Robert Menzies federally in 1941 and the NSW Premier Bertram Stevens in 1939. Menzies was succeeded as leader of the UAP by Billy Hughes in 1943. The Commonwealth Party was launched on 27 May 1943, sponsored by the Fighting Forces and Civilians' Organisation. Hughes referred to such formation of parties as "mushroom growths". Another party, the Liberal Democratic Party split from the UAP prior to the 1943 federal election in August. Hughes led the party to a disastrous defeat at the 1943 election. The ...
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Common Wealth Party
The Common Wealth Party (CW) was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom with parliamentary representation from the middle of the Second World War until the year after its end. Thereafter it continued in being, essentially as a pressure group, until 1993. The war years Common Wealth was founded on 26 July 1942 in World War II by the alliance of two left-wing groups: the 1941 Committee – a think tank centred on ''Picture Post'' owner Edward G. Hulton and its 'star' writers J.B. Priestley and Spanish Civil War veteran Tom Wintringham;Ben Hughes, ''They shall not pass!: the British battalion at Jarama: the Spanish Civil War''. Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Pub., 2011. (p. 227). and the neo-Christian ''Forward March movement'' led by Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Richard Acland, along with independents such as the industrialist and designer Robert Dudley BestRobert Dudley Best, ''My Modern Movement'', EnvelopeBooks 2021 and former Liberals who believed ...
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Commonwealth Land Party (UK)
The Commonwealth Land Party was a Stoke based political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1919 by J. W. Graham Peace and R. L. Outhwaite as the Commonwealth League, and was initially associated with the Independent Labour Party. It campaigned for the redistribution of land and the abolition of all taxation other than land rent.Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations'' Outhwaite was a former Liberal Member of Parliament who had sat for Hanley from 1912 to 1918 and a passionate advocate of the single tax policy. He had some success in persuading Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George to adopt aspects of his views into the Liberal Party Land Campaign. However, land reform took a back seat at the outbreak of World War One. The group renamed itself the "Commonwealth Land Party" in 1923. It had two candidates run in the 1931 general election, Arthur Rowland-Entwhistle at Burslem and ...
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