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The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939: The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party book cover

1st Edition

The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939 The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party

By Keith Laybourn Copyright 2020
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction;  1. The Independent Labour Party and the Great War 1914-1918;  2. Should we stay or should we go? The Independent Labour Party and its new role 1918-1922;  3. Clifford Allen, the ‘Red Clydesiders’ and Socialism in Our Time, 1922-1928;  4. Conflict with the Labour Party and the Labour Government, and Disaffiliation, c 1928-1932: Reasoned debate or emotional suicide?;  5. ‘The ILP flea’: The rapid demise and factionalism of the Independent Labour Party in the early and mid-1930s;  6. A Mass of Contradictions? Internationals, Communism, the Labour Party and war;  7. Voices from the ranks, making the most of both moment and form: a distillation of the essence of the cultural and political life of ILP branches, federations, divisions, and their members, 1914-1939;  Conclusion;  Epilogue;  Appendices;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Keith Laybourn is the Diamond Jubilee Professor at the University of Huddersfield within the Division of History, where he has previously been Professor of Modern British History. He is also President of the Society for the Study of Labour History.

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