Labour Party

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...

She is not slow to take a public political stance. To her 11 million followers on Twitter , she tweeted before the 2016 referendum on Britain's  leaving or remaining within the European Union (Brexit) that...

KBG was delighted to see the Labour Party come to power in the general election of 26 July 1945. This first majority Labour government in history was to succeed in establishing the first welfare state...

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

Not long afterwards, she and her friends in London were pursuing street politics to the left of the Labour Party , like mounting a carnival float at a CND festival to represent and caricature Real...

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...

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.

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 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...

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.

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 ...

Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party . At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with...

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

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 .

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...