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Apr 24th, 2013 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Features, Frontpage
KATH CONNOLLY delves into the early life of socialist firebrand Jennie Lee, finding a woman steeped in the ILP and the politics she learned at the family fireside in Fife.
Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s I remember Jennie Lee as a small, grey-haired woman, a fiery speaker and chair of Labour Party conference. And as an Open University graduate in 1978 I was aware of her role in establishing the OU. The ILP’s 120th anniversary is an opportunity to look at the roots of her politics and her political life in more detail.
Tags: 120th anniversary, ILP history, Socialists and Socialism, The ILP, The Labour Party, Working class
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Mar 28th, 2013 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Features, Frontpage, Lead
GRAHAM TAYLOR celebrates the life and achievements of Alfred Salter, the brilliant doctor, Bermondsey MP and lifelong ILPer who helped transform an impoverished corner of south east London.
His life is chiefly known from Fenner Brockway’s 1949 classic of political biography, Bermondsey Story, which describes in moving terms how the young doctor dedicated his life to a slum area overrun by squalor and disease.
Tags: 120th anniversary, Health, ILP history, Socialists and Socialism, The ILP, Working class
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Mar 14th, 2013 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Features, Frontpage
DAVID HOWELL remembers DH Lawrence and ‘the Eastwood circle’, a dissenting academy in Nottinghamshire ‘with the ILP at its heart’. Its lost world of Edwardian socialism shows that while ‘vision is essential, it is never enough’.
The Eastwood circle epitomised the ILP’s moral politics at a moment of optimism and diversity – a politics of ethical socialism, feminism, syndicalism and radical sexual thought.
Tags: 120th anniversary, ILP history, Socialists and Socialism, The ILP, Working class
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Dec 14th, 2012 |
By Barry Winter |
Category: Articles, Frontpage
The law locks up the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common / But leaves the greater villain loose / Who steals the common from off the goose…
Tags: Con Dems, Financial crisis, Working class
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Nov 26th, 2012 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Frontpage, History
A new film about the birth of the co-operative movement has been described as “inspirational” and “amazing” after being shown three times on Film4 since its premiere in Manchester.
Tags: Books, Co-operatives and mutuality, Film, Working class
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Nov 23rd, 2012 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Comment, Features, Frontpage
The campaign for a living wage is now supported by the TUC and the Labour Party, plus many universities, some local authorities, and some businesses and charitable organisations. It is long overdue, says ERNIE JACQUES, but to have a real impact a living wage must be compulsory.
Tags: Campaigns, Con Dems, The Labour Party, TUC, Working class
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Nov 19th, 2012 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage
The Raymond Williams Foundation is holding a ‘Communications’ residential weekend seminar at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool on 23-25 November.
Tags: Education, Socialists and Socialism, Working class
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Nov 19th, 2012 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Features, Frontpage, Lead
Growing poverty and inequality in Europe prove that the market alone cannot deliver. It’s time to change the narrative, says JUDITH KIRTON-DARLING, Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). Here, she sets out the terms of a new European social contract.
Austerity and poverty in Europe are blighting our continent. Both are having dramatic impacts on solidarity, our democracies and our capacity to create the conditions for peace and prosperity in Europe.
Tags: Economics, Europe, Trade unions, TUC, Working class
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Oct 15th, 2012 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Comment, Features, Frontpage
DAVID CONNOLLY is unconvinced by the central argument of Paul Salveson’s Socialism with a Northern Accent.
Tags: Ethical socialism, ILP history, Working class
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Aug 21st, 2012 |
By Matthew Brown |
Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage
The Leeds-based Ford-Maguire Society is hosting a meeting on social housing next month which will look back at early campaigns for public housing and ask what lessons there are for housing policy today.
Tags: Housing, ILP history, Socialists and Socialism, Working class
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A short, moving account of the Spanish Civil War. Focusing on events in Catalonia, it shows how even today, there is more to be remembered than the courage of the International Brigade.
A lively, frank and well-illustrated account of the ILP’s history from its origins in the 1890s, the Labour party’s development, and the rise and fall of the Labour left.