Raising the Red Flag is a stirring exploration of the origins of the British Marxist movement, from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party.
It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919.
The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst's Workers' Socialist Federation.
Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.
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"An invaluable contribution to the literature on the British left, especially those in the Marxist tradition, before, during and after World War One." Alex Snowdon, Counterfire "A riveting history of British communism between the Second International and interwar period." Vik Chechi-Ribeiro, rs21
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List of Figures
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Introduction
1 Mr Hyndman versus Comrade Engels: The Birth of the Social Democratic
Federation
1The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation
2From the Socialist League to the Independent Labour Party
2 The Labour Party Question: Labourism, Leftism, and the Second
International
1The Russian Influence
2The Labour Party and the Second International
3 Britain in Crisis: Labours Great Unrest and the Revolutionary Left
1Realignment on the Left and the British Socialist Party
2The Second International Steers towards the Labour Party
3The Rise of the Revolutionary Left
4The SLP and Revolutionary Syndicalism
5Beyond Suffragism
4 August 1914: British Marxists in the Face of War
1The BSP and SLP and the Test of War
2The Anti-war Left
3Revolutionary Opponents of War
5 The Clyde Turns Red: John Maclean and the Enemy at Home
1The War on the Home Front
2The Easter Rising and the British Left
3Nashe Slovo, the BSP and Revolutionary Internationalism
4The Zimmerwald Debate in Britain
6 Lads Like Me Had Whacked the Bosses: The Coming of the Russian
Revolution
1Repression and Revolt
2Follow Russia! The Leeds Convention
3Labourism Responds to the Russian Revolution
4Bolshevism and the British Left
7 1919: The Question of Power
1Are You Ready to Take Power?
2The Police Strikes
3Leadership, the Lefts and the Left
4Racist Scourge in Europe
5Irelands Tragedy, Labours Disgrace
8 Between Labour and Bolshevism: Towards A Communist Party
1Towards Unity and the Labour Party?
2The Coming of the Communist International
3Britain and the Amsterdam Bureau
4The Fate of John Maclean
9 Long Live the Communist Party! Building a British Section of the
Communist International
1The Second Congress of the Comintern
2The Birth of the Communist Party of Great Britain
3The Unification Conference
4A Stillborn Party?
Conclusion
In Praise of Learning
Appendix 1: Timeline
Appendix 2: Figures
Bibliography
Index
Tony Collins is Emeritus Professor of History at De Montfort University. He has published extensively on working-class culture and sport, including Sport in Capitalist Society and Rugby League: A Peoples History.
