Author: Gidon CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Independent Labour Party 1932-1939
Author: Gidon CohenThe Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
Author: Keith LaybournPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351866060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), which was a formative influence in the growth of the political Labour movement and its leaders in the late nineteenth century and the early to mid-twentieth century. The ILP supplied the Labour Party with some of its leading political figures, such as Ramsay MacDonald, and moved the Labour Party along the road of parliamentary socialism. However, divided over the First World War and challenged by the Labour Party becoming socialist in 1918, it had to face the fact that it was no longer the major parliamentary socialist party in Britain. Although it recovered after the First World War, rising to between 37,000 and 55,000 members, it came into conflict with the Labour Party and two Labour governments over their gradualist approach to socialism. This eventually led to its disaffiliation from the Labour Party in 1932 and its subsequent fragmentation into pro-Labour, pro-communist and independent groups. Its new revolutionary policy divided its members, as did the Abyssinian crisis, the Spanish Civil War and the Moscow Show Trials. By the end of the 1930s, seeking to re-affiliate to the Labour Party, it had been reduced to 2,000 to 3,000 members, was a sect rather than a party and had earned Hugh Dalton’s description that it was the ‘ILP flea’. In the following monograph, Keith Laybourn analyses the dynamic shifts in this history across 25 years. This scholarship will prove foundational for scholars and researchers of modern British history and socialist thought in the twentieth century.
The Independent Labour Party, 1918-32. Thesis and Abstract
Author: A. J. B. MarwickPublications of the Independent Labour Party, 1893-1932
Author: Gillian B. WoolvenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780904260021
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Failure of a Dream
Author: Gidon CohenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780755622191
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Independent Labour Party began the 1930s as a significant force in dispute with the Labour Party. In 1932, as these conflicts led to a split, the party had more MPs in Scotland than the larger organisation and a membership five times that of the British Communist Party. In the first major study of the Independent Labour Party after disaffiliation from the Labour Party in 1932, Gidon Cohen draws on archival material from Moscow and newly released police and secret service papers as well as other major British archives. In doing so he explores the culture and politics of an organization whic.
The Independent Labour Party, 1918-1932, with Special Reference to Its Relationship with the Labour Party
Author: R. E. DowseThe Independent Labor Party, 1932-1935
Author: Eugene Converse MurdockThe Independent Labour Party and the War
Author: Independent Labour Party (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Dictionary of Labour Biography
Author: K. GildartPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230500188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Volume XI of the Dictionary of Labour Biography maintains the strengths of earlier contributions to this well established and authoritative series. It incorporates many scholarly and original studies of Labour movement figures from a variety of periods and backgrounds together with special notes on related and neglected topics. Volume XI pays particular attention to the role and contributions of women and the multi-nationality of the British Labour movement. Each entry is accompanied by a thorough bibliography and incorporates the most recent historical scholarship in the field.
Not for King or Country
Author: Tyler WentzellPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487522886
Category : Communists
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. He is most well-known for commanding the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion during the Spanish Civil War.