Labour Party

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...

AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...

Her politics remained steadily Labour . She took a public stand against the military coup in Greece in 1967 and boycotted South African produce in protest against apartheid.

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...

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...