http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/2010/01/04/disaffiliation-and-its-aftermath/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:32:35 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/2010/01/04/disaffiliation-and-its-aftermath/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Matthew Brown Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:09:20 +0000 http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/?p=697#comment-1098 Thanks for your comment, but it wasn't actually me who made the 'spot on' criticisms – it was Ian Bullock. I merely posted the article. Apologies for any confusion. Thanks for your comment, but it wasn’t actually me who made the ’spot on’ criticisms – it was Ian Bullock. I merely posted the article. Apologies for any confusion.

]]> http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/2010/01/04/disaffiliation-and-its-aftermath/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 darren redstar Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:56:25 +0000 http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/?p=697#comment-1097 I read the book in question recently to prepare a presentation on revolutionary youth in the 1930s.. and found that Matthew brown's criticisms are pretty spot on. There seems to be great gaps where many of the ideas and arguments should be. I see the split as being one rather blundered into- what should have been an attempt to use the ILPs strength to gain further influence within the LP, became instead an ultimatum and then an established fact. attempts at reorientation and a reunification of the left were treated with contempt by the madness of third period communism. Forced by circumstance to an independent existence the party had to develop a strategy and philosophy independent of both labour reformism and leninist 'orthodoxy', and to do so in double quick time. I would have liked a lot more on the influence of the "London bureau" parties on ILP thinking, and how far far its attempts to develop a revolutionary socialism succeeded. I read the book in question recently to prepare a presentation on revolutionary youth in the 1930s.. and found that Matthew brown’s criticisms are pretty spot on. There seems to be great gaps where many of the ideas and arguments should be.
I see the split as being one rather blundered into- what should have been an attempt to use the ILPs strength to gain further influence within the LP, became instead an ultimatum and then an established fact.
attempts at reorientation and a reunification of the left were treated with contempt by the madness of third period communism.
Forced by circumstance to an independent existence the party had to develop a strategy and philosophy independent of both labour reformism and leninist ‘orthodoxy’, and to do so in double quick time.
I would have liked a lot more on the influence of the “London bureau” parties on ILP thinking, and how far far its attempts to develop a revolutionary socialism succeeded.

]]> http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/2010/01/04/disaffiliation-and-its-aftermath/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 The Failure of a Dream - ILP Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:45:54 +0000 http://www.independentlabour.org.uk/main/?p=697#comment-1091 [...] Read another review of this book here. [...] [...] Read another review of this book here. [...]

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