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This book offers the first full analysis of the Social Democratic Federation's (SDF's) history and is essential reading for historians of the Labour Movement.The SDF was the pioneer of the Socialist revival in the 1880s, Britain's first avowedly Marxist party and an important component of the Communist Party of Great Britain. As such, it represents a crucial strand in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century English political history.Although critical, Dr Crick dismisses the stereotype of a sectarian and dogmatic organization attempting to force a foreign ideology onto an unreceptive audience. Blending the national picture with a detailed study of the party in Lancashire and Yorkshire, he reveals an organization whose members contributed far more to the formation of local politics than is generally realized. They produced a generation of working-class militants, pioneered forms of social protest and made available for the first time in English a number of Marxist classics

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: Regional Studies -- 1. The ILP in the North East of England -- 2. The ILP in Lancashire and the North West -- 3. The ILP and the Scottish National Question -- 4. Breaking Moulds: The Leicester ILP and Popular Politics -- Section IT: Local Study- Bradford -- 1. Late Victorian and Edwardian Bradford -- 2. The Manningham Mills Strike, December 1890 to April1891 -- 3. The Bradford ILP and Trade Unionism c.1890-1914 -- 4. War and Socialism: the Experience of the Bradford ILP 1914-18 -- Section III: Issues and Subjects -- 1. 'A Call to Arms': the Struggle for Socialist Unity in Britain, 1883-1914 -- 2. Women and the ILP, 1890-1914 -- 3. 'Trailed on the tail of a comet': the Yorkshire Miners and the ILP, 1885-1908 -- 4. Religion and the ILP -- 5. The ILP and Education: the Bradford Charter -- 6. The ILP and the Second International: the Early Years, 1893-1905 -- Section IV: Review of Literature and Records -- 1. Recent Writing on the History of the ILP, 1893-1932 -- 2. Researching the History of the ILP -- 3. The ILP: a Century for Socialism -- Index