Part four of The ILP: Past & Present featuring the ILP in the 1930s, its role in the Spanish Civil War, and its attitude to the Second World War. It also covers the post-war decline of the ILP as a political force before its re-constitution as Independent Labour Publications in 1975.

This is the latest extract from a 1993 pamphlet written by BARRY WINTER which we are planning to re-write. We are putting the text online in six stages, supplemented by a series of ‘side stories’, and invite you to comment on the contents.

The third of six instalments from The ILP: Past & Present covering the rise of the Labour Party, the ILP’s growing disaffection and its eventual disaffiliation.

Part two of the ILP’s interview with Maurice Glasman, the social thinker most closely associated with the ideas around ‘Blue Labour’, and one of Labour leader Ed Miliband’s most influential advisers.

Glasman is a senior lecturer in political theory at London Metropolitan University and a former community organiser with London Citizens. He was made a peer by Miliband in February this year.

The second of six instalments from The ILP: Past & Present covering ethical socialism, the Labour Party, the women’s suffrage movement, and the onset of World War One.

The first of a two-part interview with Maurice Glasman, the social thinker most closely associated with ideas around ‘Blue Labour’ and one of Labour leader Ed Miliband’s most influential advisers.

Last month JON CRUDDAS delivered the Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture at University College, Oxford. Here, in an edited version of that talk, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, argues that, far from his cold, taciturn image, Attlee was always at heart an ILP socialist.

A host of very readable biographies exist, yet there remains a sense of something hidden deep within the character of the man.

The Labour Party in Perspective by Clement Attlee was published in 1937. Here are a couple of brief extracts.
‘Some thirty years ago, when I was a young barrister just down from Oxford, I engaged in various forms of social work in East London. The condition of the people in that area as I saw them [...]

Part one of the ILP’s history pamphlet, The ILP: Past and Present, written by BARRY WINTER, covering the birth of the organisation and its role in helping to found the Labour Party.

‘Patriotism, Fellowship and the Left: Explorations in British Labour History’, a series of lectures by Jon Cruddas MP, are at University College, Oxford in November.

A booklet version of The ILP: Our Politics, the ILP’s recent statement on the current political situation, is now available.