Labour Party

EM joined the Independent Labour Party (which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader.

She used her position to advocate on behalf of women's suffrage, which she believed to be an integral part of socialism. She spoke to this effect on several occasions, including the annual conferences of the...

The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...

NM attended the annual Labour Party Conference as delegate of the Argyll Constituency Party.

When she was invited to stand as a Labour Party candidate in the 1918 general election, however, she declined, primarily on grounds of her advancing age.

During the 1980s RR was active in support both of the Labour Party and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Later she was involved with Emily's List (founded in February 1993 with the aim...

GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...

RW met Emma Goldman in London, and joined her in her campaign against Bolshevism and its support in the Labour Party in Britain.

PB grew increasingly conservative, socially if not in party politics, as she grew older. She identified herself as a Liberal, and was uncomfortable about the Welfare State system launched while the Labour Party held power...

The establishment of the League, which was the first attempt to form a separate organization for women within the Labour Party , was met with mixed feelings by IOF , who always believed that men's...

The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...

NJ , formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears.

AWE and her brother John Strachey , future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party (which was founded by Keir Hardie in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party , and disaffiliated from it...

The London School Board implemented a fair wages clause for the award of contracts, as a result of pressure from Labour members led by Annie Besant .