Humanist Party (UK)

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The Humanist Party is a political party active in the politics of the United Kingdom.

It was launched in 1984 as part of a process that saw the creation of Humanist Parties in many other countries around the world based on the philosophy of Mario Rodridguez Cobos (pen name: Silo). This philosophy which sees its roots in the non-violence movements of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi was translated into a political movement based on the following five points:

  1. The value of human life as the central value, above money and power, etc.
  2. Equality of all human beings. No human being above another.
  3. Freedom of belief and ideas.
  4. Development and creation of alternative economic models to the current neoliberal one.
  5. Methodology of active non-violence.

In August 1985 the first issue of "The Humanist" was published and in 1987 the first Humanist Party candidate fought in a parliamentary by-election. Since then the party has contested elections at all levels. The most recent examples were in the Scottish and European Parliamentary elections and the Greater London Authority elections. However, so far the party's candidates have not succeeded, receiving very few votes.

On 7 January 1989 the first Congress of the Humanist International was held in Florence, Italy, where the UK Humanist Party became a founder member.

The party is not connected with secular humanism.

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