LEADER 03545nam 2200529 450 001 9910346037403321 005 20171229084632.0 010 $a1-77199-157-7 010 $a1-77199-156-9 035 $a(CKB)3790000000538406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5173422 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/61519 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/fvmtvn 035 $a(PPN)24283499X 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000538406 100 $a20180104h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnder siege $ethe Independent Labour Party in interwar Britain /$fIan Bullock 210 $cAthabasca University Press$d2017 210 1$aEdmonton, Alberta :$cAU Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (416 pages) 311 $a1-77199-155-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, operated under the aegis of the Labour Party. As that party edged nearer to power following World War I, forming minority governments in 1924 and again in 1929, the ILP found its own identity under siege. On one side stood those who wanted the ILP to subordinate itself to an increasingly cautious and conventional Labour leadership; on the other stood those who felt that the ILP should throw its lot in with the Communist Party of Great Britain. After the ILP disaffiliated from Labour in 1932 in order to pursue a new, "revolutionary" policy, it was again torn, this time between those who wanted to merge with the Communists and those who saw the ILP as their more genuinely revolutionary and democratic rival. At the opening of the 1930s, the ILP boasted five times the membership of the Communist Party, as well as a sizeable contingent of MPs. By the end of the decade, having tested the possibility of creating a revolutionary party in Britain almost to the point of its own destruction, the ILP was much diminished--although, unlike the Communists, it still retained a foothold in Parliament. Despite this reversal of fortunes, during the 1930s--years that witnessed the ascendancy of both Stalin and Hitler--the ILP demonstrated an unswerving commitment to democratic socialist thinking. Drawing extensively on the ILP's Labour Leader and other contemporary left-wing newspapers, as well as on ILP publications and internal party documents, Bullock examines the debates and ideological battles of the ILP during the tumultuous interwar period. He argues that the ILP made a lasting contribution to British politics in general, and to the modern Labour Party in particular, by preserving the values of democratic socialism during the interwar period."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPolitical parties$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1910-1936 610 $alabour party 610 $aEngland 610 $asocialism 610 $aBritain 610 $acommunism 610 $aJimmy Maxton 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory 676 $a324.241/097 700 $aBullock$b Ian$f1941-$0801165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910346037403321 996 $aUnder siege$92286144 997 $aUNINA