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ILP and became
At the 1922 general election several ILP members became MPs ( including future ILP leader James Maxton ) and the party grew in stature.
In the 1970s the ILP reassessed its views on the Labour Party, and in 1975 they renamed themselves Independent Labour Publications and became a pressure group inside the mainstream Labour Party.
He refused to support many of the measures proposed by MacDonald's government and along with Maxton ( by now Wheatley's leader in the ILP ) became one of the Labour-left's leading critics.
Having been raised in the nineteenth century by Liberals also calling for Irish Home Rule, Scottish Home Rule became the official policy of the ILP, and of the Labour Party until 1958.
In 1894, Hardie became President of the new Independent Labour Party ( ILP ), and the vast majority of Scottish Labour Party members supported him.
He became secretary of the ILP in 1923 and later its chairman.
By 1938 the line of the ICO had turned toward the " centrist " position of the ILP leadership under Fenner Brockway and the need for independent factions within the party became less tenable.
It was in this mining town where Cook first became involved in politics, committing active service to the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).
The ILP subsequently became the dominant labour party in Manitoba.
John Queen, formerly of the SDPC, became ILP leader in his place.
Along with the rest of the ILP caucus, he became affiliated with the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in 1933.
In 1905 Lawson became an active speaker for the ILP, expounding socialism and the Labour Representation Committee to the miners of Durham, who had traditionally supported the Liberal Party.
He became well-known around the county, as a speaker for both the ILP and the union.
Philip Snowden, the evangelical ex-member of the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) became a rigidly orthodox Chancellor of the Exchequer, while the next two prominent members of the party, Jimmy Thomas and J. R. Clynes, became Colonial Secretary and Lord Privy Seal respectively.
Fenner Brockway, ILP leader, was chairman of the Bureau for most of this period, while in 1939, Julian Gorkin of the POUM became its secretary.
With the decline of the ILP, Hunter became a Trotskyist and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party ( UK, 1944 ) in which he played a leading role in its final period.
Lawrence also became active in Manitoba's Independent Labour Party ( ILP ), and was first elected to the provincial legislature under its banner in the 1932 general election.
Within the ILP, the RPC became increasingly seen as Communist entryists, and aroused strong feelings which led in 1934 to a split in the party as some of their opponents, led by John Middleton Murry and Elijah Sandham, left to form the Independent Socialist Party.
However, Smillie became convinced that he would be of most service at the front and persuaded McNair to let him sign up when the ILP contingent came over.
The situation for the members of the ILP contingent in Spain was made extremely uncomfortable by the attacks on POUM and it became more so as the Communists banned the ILP's Spanish ' brother party '.

ILP and parliamentary
After helping her husband with another unsuccessful parliamentary campaign, Pankhurst faced legal troubles in 1896 when she and two men violated a court order against ILP meetings at Boggart Hole Clough.
At the 1931 general election the ILP candidates refused to accept the standing orders of the parliamentary Labour Party, resulting in them standing without official Labour Party support.
Lee forged a parliamentary reputation as a left-winger, allying herself to Maxton and the other ILP members.
Most of these Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ), including parliamentary leader Fred Dixon, were part of the exodus from the DLP to the ILP later in the year.
The CCF was formed to expand the parliamentary left's support base beyond the urban working class, and many in the ILP were suspicious of this.
Farmer, who had led the ILP parliamentary group since 1935.
Initially, this was due to a local split in the Winnipeg labour movement -- the regional Dominion Labour Party had been taken over by rightist elements, and the parliamentary labour caucus had retaliated by creating a separate ILP organization.

ILP and left
He left the ILP because of its opposition to the war and adopted a political position of " revolutionary patriotism ".
In addition to cutting its ties with the Second International, the 1920 Annual Conference of the ILP directed its executive to contact the Swiss Socialist Party with a view to establishing an all-inclusive international which would join the internationalist left wing socialist parties with their revolutionary socialist brethren of the new Moscow international.
For the duration of the second Labour government ( 1929 – 31 ) 37 Labour MPs were sponsored by the ILP and they provided the left opposition to the Labour leadership.
As in 1914 the ILP opposed World War II on ethical grounds and turned to the left.
Prominent figures such as Henry Hyde Champion, Ben Tillett, Jim Connell and George Lansbury, all left the SDF for the ILP.
A motion by the left wing to oppose continued unity negotiations with the ILP was roundly defeated, as were other motions to advance an explicitly radical programme, such as one proposal calling for establishment of socialist dual unions and another which would have banned SDF members from joining other political organizations.
In 1911 this idea came to realisation when a Socialist Unity Conference was held, bringing together representatives of the SDF, the left wing of the ILP, the network of clubs associated with The Clarion newspaper, and various local socialist societies.
When many of his fellow ILP Clydesiders left the Labour Party, Maclean remained a Labour MP.
Kirkwood's earliest political involvement was through his trade union, the Associated Society of Engineers, and the Socialist Labour Party, which he left in 1914 to join the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).
However, when the ILP, with the support of James Maxton, decided to disaffiliate from the Labour Party in 1932 this was a step too far for Kirkwood, and he left the ILP and again took the Labour Party whip in 1932.
In 2006, several members of the ILP left to join the new centrist grouping, Kadima ; these included former Labor leader Shimon Peres, Haim Ramon, and Dalia Itzik.
Most other labour parliamentarians also left the DLP for the ILP, with Smith as the only prominent exception.
The ILP was founded in December 1920 by disgruntled members of the Dominion Labour Party, who left that organization when it was taken over by rightist elements.
Like the DLP, the ILP was a reformist labour group, and often had hostile relations with parties further to the left.
In the provincial election of 1922, the ILP had to compete with other labour candidates from both the left and the right.
The ILP has been out of line with ( or arguably ahead of ) many traditional leftist positions, for instance in its rejection of a simple " troops out " approach to the conflict in Northern Ireland, and was critical of what it saw as knee-jerk anti-Americanism on the left following the USA's reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
He left the ILP in 1932 and through the 1930s was a regular contributor to Reynolds News and the New Statesman.
On the left, the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) formed an alliance with the national Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), and contested the election as the ILP-CCF.
Though there had been five times the number of volunteers, the ILP would only accept unmarried men for its contingent and 25 men left Britain on 8 January as the vanguard of a larger force to be sent later.
However, the day after the contingent left, the British government announced that it would prosecute anyone going to fight in Spain and the ILP did not try to recruit any more volunteers.

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