On 27th August the ILP’s oldest member, Jennie Cuthbert, celebrates her 90th birthday.
Jennie joined the ILP in 1942. She was taken to an ILP Summer School in Bangor by her aunt, Anne Hambley. Anne had been a member for many years and the visit to Bangor was a reward for Jennie gaining a first class [...]
Three months in Spain
The British Battalion at Madrigueras and Jarama
Saturday 7 August, 2pm
People’s History Museum
Left Bank
Spinningfields
Manchester M3 3ER
FREE ENTRY
Historian Dr. Richard Baxell lectures on the day-to-day experiences of the British and Irish volunteers in The Spanish Civil War, during the early part of 1937.
The lecture will include audio and video clips from some of the [...]
The following is a statement – ‘a modest perspective’ – prepared by the ILP’s National Administrative Council for discussion at the 2010 ILP Weekend Seminar, ‘After the Election, What Next for the Left?’, to be held in Scarborough on 5-6 June. We hope it will stimulate comment and debate here on the website, at the [...]
What will the election mean for the left? Where will it leave the Labour Party? How should the ILP respond?
Whatever the results we will want to talk about it. If you do too, come to the ILP’s 2010 Round Table Seminar in Scarborough on 5/6 June.
Admission is free and accommodation is available – book by [...]
For all its fascinating detail and insights, IAN BULLOCK wants more from Gidon Cohen’s The Failure of a Dream
This account of the ILP in the 1930s begins with an outline of the party’s history during the seven years between leaving the Labour Party and the outbreak of war. The second chapter looks at the disaffiliation [...]
A recent book provides a “just about” convincing argument that the ILP’s decline in the 1930s was not an inevitable consequence of disaffiliation. CHRISTOPHER HALL reviews Gidon Cohen’s welcome attempt to fill a gap in ILP history
The history of the Independent Labour Party from its foundation until it was disaffiliated from the Labour Party has [...]
Barry Winter examines how capitalism went from boom to bust and where it leaves us
Introduction
I begin this introduction with what may seem like a diversion. I want to take us briefly back to the horrors of the First World War in which often enthusiastic, armies of young men across Europe were sent into battle by [...]
“There is a sense of uncertainty and flux, a feeling that we’re coming to the end of an era in politics. It’s one that we’ve never much liked, yet we know what’s coming could be so much worse.”
With those unsettling words David Connolly, chair of Independent Labour Publications, opened the ILP’s weekend seminar in Scarborough [...]
More than 60 people filled the Working Class Movement Library in Salford on 30th May to see former POUM militia man Roma Marquez Santo unveil a plaque to the ILP’s Spanish Civil War volunteers.
In a moving speech Roma declared it an honour for people, like himself, who fought fascism in the 1930s to be remembered [...]
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Crunch Times: Politics And The Crisis
“You can only be flabbergasted … at how Labour kowtowed to wealth,
glorified the City and put all the nation’s economic eggs into one
dangerous basket.”
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
ILP Round Table Seminar
Esplanade Hotel, Scarborough
13th-14th June 2009
Saturday 13th June 2.00 pm start
Sunday 14th June 9.30 am start
Session 1: From boom to bust
• How did [...]
