Sheffield learning resources co-operative Principle 5 has ventured into pamphlet publishing for the first time with a re-print of Edward Carpenter’s Sheffield and Socialism, first extracted from his biography Days and Dreams by Mushroom Bookshop in 1993....
New research by Hope not Hate reveals a mix of underlying fear, emergent racism and community spirit among people’s responses to the coronavirus pandemic....
Leading left anti-Brexit campaign group Another Europe is Possible has pledged to continue fighting for democracy, human rights and social justice and to protect key progressive aspects of EU membership....
Hope not Hate has published a new podcast on the fight to defeat fascism in post-war Britain, focusing on the 43 Group that took on Oswald Mosley’s followers in east London....
A plaque to honour members of the Independent Labour Party and the National Clarion Cycling Club who fought in the Spanish Civil War will be unveiled at Nelson ILP Clarion House on Sunday 20 October....
Baroness Shami Chakrabarti will deliver the third annual Dave Hopper Memorial Lecture at Durham’s Miners’ Hall on Friday 12 July as part of Education4Action’s ‘Politics, Pits and Protest’ 10-day fringe programme leading up to the 2019 Durham Miners’ Gala....
The story of a successful parent-led campaign against cuts to school transport is told in a new pamphlet from Disability Empowerment Action Links (DEAL) and Unite Community....
Bob Smillie, one of the ILP’s most prominent Spanish Civil War volunteers, will be honoured in Valencia on Tuesday 14 May when a specially commissioned plaque is unveiled close to his grave....
The long-lost prison files of Bob Smillie, one of the ILP’s most notable Spanish Civil War volunteers, have finally been unearthed in Valencia, casting new doubts on the official version of his mysterious death in 1937....
A bid to reprint Towards Democracy, the seminal poem of Sheffield radical and founding ILPer Edward Carpenter, has been kickstarted with a crowdfunding campaign by the new co-operative publishing company, Millthorpe Press....
Britain’s self-styled “oldest democratic socialist publication” was relaunched at Labour Party conference this week with new owners and a new editor....
Until recently, pioneering ILPer Ada Salter was little known in her home town of Raunds. GRAHAM TAYLOR reports on the first event ever to celebrate her legacy in the Northamptonshire town....