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New page: The '''Independent Labour Party''' (ILP) was a socialist political party of the United Kingdom, established in 1893. Along with the Trades Union Congress and other left-wing oprgan...
The '''Independent Labour Party''' (ILP) was a socialist political party of the [[United Kingdom]], established in 1893. Along with the [[Trades Union Congress]] and other left-wing oprganisations, it founded the [[Labour Representation Committee]] in 1900 with the objective of getting representatives of the labour movement elected to [[Parliament]]; in 1906 the LRC changed its name to the [[Labour Party]]. Between 1906 and 1932 the ILP formed a 'party within a party' in the Labour Party, and provided many of Labour's national leaders. As the Labour Party did not have constituency organisations or admit individual members until 1918, the main ways for individuals to become involved in the party was by membership of a [[trade union]] or membership of the ILP. Many socialists saw the trades union leadership as reformist and 'syndicalist', seeking day-to-day improvements in workers' pay and conditions rather than socialist transformation; the ILP, by contrast, was seen as the 'socialist conscience' of the party, and developed a [[Marxist]] revolutionary wing. During the [[First World War]], the ILP had also espoused pacifism, drawing in part on its nonconformist Christian roots and in part on socialist ideology.
In 1932 the ILP 'disaffilliated' (broke away) from the Labour Party after arguments about party discipline and whether ILP [[MP]]s would accept the Labour Party whip. Party membership plummeted and continued to decline for decades, and by the late 1930s the ILP retained only 3 MPs, all for [[Galsgow]] constituencies.
[[Category:British political parties]]
In 1932 the ILP 'disaffilliated' (broke away) from the Labour Party after arguments about party discipline and whether ILP [[MP]]s would accept the Labour Party whip. Party membership plummeted and continued to decline for decades, and by the late 1930s the ILP retained only 3 MPs, all for [[Galsgow]] constituencies.
[[Category:British political parties]]