The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from Disaffiliation to World War II

by Gidon Cohen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845113004
• ISBN13: 9781845113001
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"