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Subject(s)

• Independent Labour Party (Great Britain) [Browse]

Series

Political Extremism and Radicalism: Global Communist and Socialist Movements. [More in this series]

Summary note

The archives of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) are a valuable source for the study of British labour history. An awareness of the ILP its policies, organisation and members - is essential for a full understanding of the inception and rise of the British Labour Party, and how it came to displace liberalism, a major phenomenon in modern British political history. The founding of the ILP by Keir Hardie, John Trevor and Robert Blatchford in Bradford in January 1893, was one of the most important steps taken by the working-class movement in its quest for social and political equality. Hardie, together with Ramsay MacDonald would go on to found the Labour Representation Committee in 1900, the precursor to the creation of the present Labour Party in 1906. Until the early 1930s the ILP acted as an important and influential affiliate of the official Labour Party. After this point disagreements over policy issues became more pronounced and in 1932 the ILP was disaffiliated by the Labour Party. After the mid-1930s the ILP exercised a decreasing influence on working-class politics. In 1975 the ILP re-joined the Labour Party and became a pressure group, known as Independent Labour Publications, within the Labour Party. The collection contains pamphlets and leaflets -- minutes, organisational and related records of the National Administrative Council as well as regional branches -- and the Francis Johnson (the ILP's corresponding secretary) correspondence.

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Notes

• Date range: 1856-1975.
• Includes the following publications: This Misery of Boots, Socialist and Labour Literature and others.
• Reproduction of the original from Independent Labour Publications.
• Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

OCLC

1439059063

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