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Labour Pains

Online Resource of the Official Labour Party Archives at the People's History Museum, Manchester

  • Labour Pains: About the Project
  • Discussion
    • Reaching Out to the Electorate: Why Labour Must Choose Owen Smith
    • Between Education and Experience
    • Labour’s Crisis and the End of the Two-Party System
  • Scholarship
    • The Festival of Labour, 1962
    • A Short History of Intra-Party Tensions and Divisions, from Cole to Corbyn
  • Archive
    • The Choice for Britain – Stafford Cripps (Socialist League Pamphlet: “Capitalism in Crisis” Forum Series No. 4, 1933
      • What Happened in 1931: A Record – Sidney Webb (Fabian Tract No. 237, March 1932)
    • National Executive Committee’s List of Proscribed Organisations c. 1935 [LP/GS/ILP/34-5]
    • Is This Socialism? – John Strachey (Fabian Tract, No. 290, October 1951)
      • Leisure for Living – Labour Party Cultural Policy Document (October, 1959)
        • The Labour Pains Group
    • Can Labour Win? – Anthony Crosland (Fabian Tract No. 324, April 1960)
      • Keep Left – By a Group of Members of Parliament (New Statesman Pamphlet, May 1947)
      • Contact
        • How to Contribute
          • Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation (April 1945)
          • ‘Where? Five Views on Labour’s Future’, Fabian Tract, No. 320 (November, 1959)
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Reaching Out to the Electorate: Why Labour Must Choose Owen Smith

1st September 2016 by Pancho Lewis
Pancho Lewis
Over the past week and a half ballot papers have begun to arrive through the letterboxes of Labour party members. Who we choose as our next leader will have far-reaching consequences for the party and the Left more broadly. To me there are voices on both sides of the leadership…
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2015-07-20 12.30.05

Between Education and Experience

9th August 201615th November 2016 by Tom Dowling
Tom Dowling
The intellectual must work within a narrow ridge between academic hubris on the one hand; and on the other false humility, the abasement of the intellect before working-class experience, which compromises not only our own intellectual integrity, but also our own ideas. [1] So advised the historian and campaigner E. P.…
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Labour’s Crisis and the End of the Two-Party System

28th July 201628th July 2016 by Jeremy Gilbert
Jeremy Gilbert
A Party in Crisis The Labour Party is facing the greatest crisis in its history. Nine months after the historic election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership, a disastrously botched coup attempt saw 75% of the Parliamentary Labour Party united in a failed attempt to dislodge him, by passing a…
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"The Labour Party would not be what it is - maddening, perhaps, but also capable of arousing strong positive emotions - if people not only with widely differing views but also with widely differing analyses of episodes in the Party's history did not come together as fellow members."

Gerald Kaufman, 1967.

About

  • Labour Pains: About the Project
  • The People’s History Museum’s Labour Party Archive
  • How to Contribute

Recent Posts

  • The Festival of Labour, 1962
  • Reaching Out to the Electorate: Why Labour Must Choose Owen Smith
  • Between Education and Experience
  • The Future Work of the Parliamentary Labour Party: An Agenda for Discussion – Tony Benn & Eric Heffer, June 1979 (LP/MANIF/5)
  • Labour’s Crisis and the End of the Two-Party System

Discussion

  • Reaching Out to the Electorate: Why Labour Must Choose Owen Smith
  • Between Education and Experience
  • Labour’s Crisis and the End of the Two-Party System

Scholarship

  • The Festival of Labour, 1962
  • A Short History of Intra-Party Tensions and Divisions, from Cole to Corbyn

Archive

  • What Happened in 1931: A Record – Sidney Webb (Fabian Tract No. 237, March 1932)
  • The Choice for Britain – Stafford Cripps (Socialist League Pamphlet: “Capitalism in Crisis” Forum Series No. 4, 1933
  • National Executive Committee’s List of Proscribed Organisations c. 1935 [LP/GS/ILP/34-5]
  • Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation (April 1945)
  • Keep Left – By a Group of Members of Parliament (New Statesman Pamphlet, May 1947)
  • Is This Socialism? – John Strachey (Fabian Tract, No. 290, October 1951)
  • ‘Where? Five Views on Labour’s Future’, Fabian Tract, No. 320 (November, 1959)
  • Leisure for Living – Labour Party Cultural Policy Document (October, 1959)
  • Can Labour Win? – Anthony Crosland (Fabian Tract No. 324, April 1960)

Labour Pains Stories

  • Labour Pains Stories

Labour Pains Interviews

  • The Labour Pains Interview

Labour Pains Timeline

  • Labour Pains Timeline

Recent Comments

  • Gareth Owen on Keep Left – By a Group of Members of Parliament (New Statesman Pamphlet, May 1947)
  • Lawrence Black on The Festival of Labour, 1962
  • Alan Pavelin on The Festival of Labour, 1962
  • Ieuan on Reaching Out to the Electorate: Why Labour Must Choose Owen Smith
  • Stephen Flaherty on Labour’s Crisis and the End of the Two-Party System

Further Links

  • The Labour Party
  • People’s History Museum
  • University of Sheffield
  • Labour Together
  • Compass
  • Labour List
  • Momentum
  • History & Policy
  • New Statesman

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About Us

  • Who We Are
  • Department of History, University of Sheffield
  • People’s History Museum
  • Arts & Humanities Research Council

Contact Us

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