The Freedom Association
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 113 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5145-9190-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Freedom Association (TFA) is a pressure group in the United Kingdom that describes itself as non-partisan, centre-right and libertarian, which has links to the Conservative Party. TFA was founded in 1975 as the National Association for Freedom (NAFF) and gained public prominence through its anti-trade union campaigns. Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, the Minister of State for Employment between 1976-79, was strongly critical of NAFF's activities, identifying the group as an "ultra right wing political organisation" which "sought to interfere in industrial disputes, with harmful consequences." In the 1980s, TFA campaigned against sporting sanctions imposed on apartheid-era South Africa – earning a judicial rebuke after taking unsuccessful legal action to overturn the International Cricket Council ban on touring teams, which it saw as an imposition on cricketers' freedom. TFA has also campaigned against the UK's membership of the...