Proletariat. Marxist term for those who live by the sale of their labour. Bourgeoisie.

Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.

Repartimiento. c1500-1820. Spanish-American colonists recruit Indians for forced labour.

Smith, Adam. 1723-1790. Scottish economist. Doctrine of free exchange. Natural law of supply and demand. Wealth of Nations 1776. -“Labour is source of all wealth”.

Social Democratic Party. 1981-87. British moderate Labour centre party.

Stymphalian birds. Man-eating birds Hercules killed as 6th labour.

Trades Union Congress. TUC. 1868. Organization of British unions sponsoring Labour Party. ICFTU.

Whitlam, Gough. 1916-. Australian Labour Prime Minister 1972-5. Quit Vietnam War. Dismissed by Governor General. Reduced immigration restrictions. White Australia.

Wilson, Harold. 1916-95. British Labour Prime Minister 1964~76.

Yeoman. English class between labourers and gentry.

Zinoviev Letter. 1924. From COMINTERN to London advising worker revolution. Labour defeated.

African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.

Anti-Saloon League. 1893 US Temperance organization. Prohibition.

Arafat, Yasir. 1929-2004. Arab Fatah PLO leader. President of Palestinian Authority 1996-.

Assad, Hafiz al-. 1928-2000. Syrian President 1971-. Supports Qadaffi, PLO. Anti-Israel.

Blanc, Louis. 1811-82. French Utopian Socialist. Theory of equal wages. National Workshops. Organization du Travail 1839.

Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider). 1911-14. Organization of Abstract Expressionist artists. Kandinsky. Klee.

CENTO. 1955-79. Central Treaty Organization. Based on Baghdad Pact 1955. Turkey, Iran, U.K., Palestine defence.

CGT. 1895. Confédération Générale du Travail. Largest French union organization.

Clan-na-Gael. 1883- US Irish terrorist organization.

COMECON. Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. 1949-91. USSR and satellites central planning organization.

Congregationalism. 1581-. Protestant Church organization of local churches governing themselves. Browne.

Daughters of the American Revolution. 1890-. Patriotic organization of revolutionaries’ descendants.

Disciples of Christ. c1810-. US Protestant organization urging ancient order of Christianity.

Dunbarton Oaks Conference. 1944. UN organizational meeting. Yalta. San Francisco.

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