I am a chronic procrastinator and I am easily distracted! To get large scanning jobs done I set myself targets, … More
Author: Rob M
The Coventry Workers Association
The return of Maoist monday! In 1981 The Workers Newsletter Group (as the former Working Peoples Party of England became … More
Weaving A Bower Against Endless Night
I had been looking for an opportunity to post this interesting pamphlet for a while, and the recent 50th anniversary … More
Cripps! Pollitt! Maxton! One struggle, one fight!
This morning’s post brought a couple of contemporary Independent Labour Publications pamphlets- Land And Freedom from 2013, about the Spanish … More
Walter Kendall and the origins of Bolshevism
The ILP’s paper Socialist Leader ran some interesting articles in the 1950s and 60s. In the summer of 1962 Socialist … More
Take me to your Leader
Well, no sooner had I drafted and scheduled the ILP article at the beginning of this month than there came … More
Forward- A Scottish ILP paper
Continuing our Independent Labour Party theme, we have four issues of the newspaper Forward from 1946 and 1947. 8 pages, … More
Happy 130th Birthday Independent Labour Party
The ILP turns 130 today and will mark the occasion with a conference in Bradford tomorrow. Whilst no longer a … More
Odds & Ends: What was ‘Bulletin’ (1995/6)?
We have issue no6 of Bulletin, an 8 page, A4 publication from early 1996. Produced by ‘members of the labour … More
Committee for a Socialist Programme
As promised last week, today I am looking at the Committee for a Socialist Programme which split from the Working … More