Socialist leaders and trade unionists like Hardie worked to organise socialist and labour groups across the country into a national party. Photograph of the National Council of the ILP, 1899-1900.

It played a noteworthy role in major industrial struggles and within the Labour Party, especially the movement ... for a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. In November 1958, the ...

First, that the party isn’t, and has never been, a socialist party – it’s a “Labour” party formed by, and of, the union movement. The best and the worst of Labour’s history has been ...