Independent Labour Party

She discovered another area of discrimination when a branch of the Independent Labour Party , which invited her to decorate a hall in memory of her father, turned out not to admit women as members.

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

Several members of the Women's International League were committed suffragists, including Helena Swanwick , Maude Royden , Margaret Ashton , Kate Courtney , and Charlotte Despard . Others were IOF 's old friends from the...

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...

During the 1930s, EM was an atheist and a member of the Independent Labour Party . She later leaned more towards anarchism and pacifism. She described herself as an champion for freedom who opposed the...

EP was chosen as the Independent Labour Party candidate for the Manchester School Board; she was not, however, elected.

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

EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!

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...

At their annual conference in Cardiff, the Independent Labour Party elected EP to their National Administrative Council and advised the council to support the Women's Enfranchisement Bill.

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...

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...

When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series...

This same year the Webbs (not without some regret for the Liberals) joined the Independent Labour Party .

Through his association with the Independent Labour Party , GO served in the POUM militia, an independent Marxist organization, in Spain.