Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif
Parti social démocratique du Canada
ChairmanJ. S. Woodsworth
M. J. Coldwell
F. R. Scott
Percy Wright
David Lewis
SecretaryM. J. Coldwell
David Lewis
Lorne Ingle
Carl Hamilton
Founded1 August 1932
Dissolved3 August 1961
Preceded byGinger Group
Independent Labour Party
United Farmers of Alberta (political wing)
Succeeded byNew Democratic Party
HeadquartersOttawa, Ontario, Canada
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Social democracy
Agrarianism[1]
Political positionLeft-wing[2]
International affiliationSocialist International
Colours
  • Green
  • yellow

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; French: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC) was a federal democratic socialist[3] and social-democratic[4] political party in Canada. The CCF was founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, agrarian, co-operative, and labour groups,[5] and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, the CCF formed one of the first social-democratic governments in North America when it was elected to form the provincial government in Saskatchewan.[6]

The full, but little used, name of the party was Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Farmer-Labour-Socialist).[7]

In 1961, the CCF was succeeded by the New Democratic Party (NDP).

  1. ^ Seymour Martin Lipset (1971). Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan : a Study in Political Sociology. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-02056-6. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  2. ^ Alvin Finkel (1979). Business and Social Reform in the Thirties. James Lorimer & Company. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-88862-235-8.
  3. ^ The following sources describe the CCF as a democratic socialist political party:
  4. ^ These sources describe the CCF as a social-democratic political party:
  5. ^ Alvin Finkel (1997). Our Lives: Canada After 1945. James Lorimer & Company. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-55028-551-2. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  6. ^ Peter Davis (1983). Social Democracy in the South Pacific. Peter Davis. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-908636-35-8. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  7. ^ Calgary Herald, August 1, 1932