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The Respect Party is a left-wing political party in the United Kingdom founded in 2004. A socialist party,〔〔 its name is a contrived acronym standing for Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community, and Trade Unionism.〔 The Respect Party was established in London in January 2004; it grew out of the Stop the War Coalition, opposing the Iraq War. The Respect Party's highest profile figure and leader is George Galloway,〔 former MP for Bradford West and Bethnal Green and Bow, while its National Secretary is Chris Chilvers.〔Chris Chilvers. ("All the small things – the recent by-election results" ) respectparty.org (Sunday, 2 December 2012)〕 ==Founding== The party was originally launched by ''The Guardian'' journalist George Monbiot and Birmingham Stop the War Coalition chair Salma Yaqoob.〔 The party was opposed to the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan. It seeks to "provide a broad-based and inclusive alternative to the parties of privatisation, war, and occupation" and has a socialist agenda. Monbiot left in February 2004 because the party now intended to stand candidates against the Green Party. Respect had offered to form a pact with the Green Party standing on joint lists in the European elections, but this was rejected by the Greens.〔Matthew Tempest ("Monbiot quits Respect over threat to Greens" ), theguardian.com, 17 February 2004〕 The Greens also said that they had selected their candidates months previously by postal ballot for the 2004 European Parliamentary elections and were sceptical of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) influence on Respect. In its founding constitution the Respect Party states its overall aim is to "help create a socially just and ecologically sustainable society", giving a definition of social justice that includes "the organisation of society in the most open, and accountable way practicable based on common ownership and democratic control".〔 Galloway said in April 2004: "Respect. It's a young word. It's a black word. It's the first postmodern name for an electoral political movement; most are one or other arrangement of the words The, Something, and Party. With respect, we're different." Respect allows its members to hold membership of other political organisations. The coalition has the support of members of the Muslim Association of Britain and Muslim Council of Britain. Nick Cohen wrote of Respect in June 2004 "for the first time since the Enlightenment, a section of the left is allied with religious fanaticism and, for the first time since the Hitler-Stalin pact, a section of the left has gone soft on fascism."〔Nick Cohen ("Saddam's very own party" ), ''New Statesman'', 7 June 2004〕 In its 2006 accounts filed with the Electoral Commission, the party noted it had three paid employees, including John Rees and 5,739 registered members on 31 December 2006 (2005: 5,674). It has 42 branches (2005: 25) and had a total income of £273,023 and expenditure of £228,100.〔(Respect – The Unity Coalition – Financial Statements ) for the year ended 31 December 2006〕 Originally Respect did not have a leader as such and was run by an elected "national council", but this later changed. The former party leaders include Salma Yaqoob, Linda Smith and Nick Wrack. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Respect Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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