Independent Labour Party

Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett

Shortly thereafter, she was one of fifteen elected to the Independent Labour Party 's first National Administrative Council (NAC). She was again the only woman elected to this position. Although she remained for only one...

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

After their marriage, KBG and her husband, John Bruce Glasier , formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb . They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party

During her husband 's illness, between autumn 1916 and April 1921, KBG took over the editorship of The Labour Leader, the prime propaganda vessel of the Independent Labour Party . In this time she...

Meanwhile, KBG returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's...

KBG began writing short stories and novels in the year of her marriage, which coincided with the creation of the presses of the Independent Labour Party . She may also have been motivated to write...

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

This pamphlet employs a historically-based argument to analyse the roots of women's oppression, as well as drawing on IOF 's practical experiences as a labour activist. It is thus both practical and theoretical. IOF

IOF became a member of the Independent Labour Party in the same month as its formation, because she believed it stood for equality and opportunity for the whole race . . . women had never...

IOF was elected to the National Administrative Council of the Independent Labour Party , a position she held for four years, until April 1907.

IOF wrote her own column, Up and Down the World, in the ILP paper Leeds Forward, which displayed her talents to the full.

IOF 's important pamphlet Women and Socialism, published by the Independent Labour Party , established a theoretical reading of the connection between the labour movement and the women's movement.

Isabella Ormston Ford was a dedicated labour activist, suffragette, and anti-war advocate at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advocates her socialist-feminist ideals. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels, all...

The UDC drew together ILP socialists, liberal radicals, and suffragists. It confirmed, by resolution, the equal citizenship of men and women, and supported women's right to vote.