The failure of a dream: the independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II - 16

The Independent Labour Party began the 1930s as a significant force in dispute with the Labour Party proper.

In 1932, as these conflicts led to a split, the party had more MPs in Scotland than the larger organisation and a membership five times that of the British Communist Party.

In the first major study of the Independent Labour Party after disaffiliation from the mainstream in 1932, Gidon Cohen draws on archival material from Moscow and newly released police and secret service papers as well as other major British archives.

In doing so he explores the culture and politics of an organisation which he argues, contrary to received scholarship, remained an important component of the British left throughout the 1930s. _x000D__x000D_CONTENTS: _x000D_1. Introduction _x000D_2. The Split _x000D_3. Membership and Organisation _x000D_4. Electoral Arenas _x000D_5. Divided We Fall: Internal Politics _x000D_6. Intellectuals, Ideas and Policy _x000D_7. Infiltration: Communism and the National Unemployed Workers' Movement _x000D_8.

The Mainstream: Labour and the Unions _x000D_9. Pacifism, Wars and the Internationals _x000D_10. Conclusion