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Waiting for the Workers - A History of the Independent Labour Party 1938-1950 (Hardcover)
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Waiting for the Workers - A History of the Independent Labour Party 1938-1950 (Hardcover)
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Waiting for the workers is based on the extensive research and
interviews conducted by Peter Thwaites over 40 years ago when he
was writing his thesis. He was given special access to the Party's
papers and introduced to former Party members. Dr Thwaites' book
describes in detail how World War II affected the Party's
activities and the subsequent impact of the war on the Party
itself. In 1932 the Independent Labour Party split from the Labour
Party but was badly damaged as a result and by 1938 it was
considering rejoining. But the outbreak of the Second World War,
which the ILP believed was solely a struggle between rival
capitalist powers, made that impossible. As a result the ILP became
the only political party with parliamentary representation that
consistently opposed Great Britain's participation in the war; and
it fought by-election and propaganda campaigns putting forward its
revolutionary socialist proposals for ending the war and winning
the peace. Post-war defections to the Labour Party, however,
removed its parliamentary and local government representation and
decimated its membership so that by 1950 it had become a spent
force. This book examines this largely forgotten aspect of the
history of the war years and details the ILP's political beliefs
and policies, and describes both its opposition to the war and the
internal disagreements over its relationship to the Labour Party
which eventually tore it apart.
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