History of the Labour Party

A History of the Labour Party (UK) in response to the "Against the Odds" or "Fighters and Believers" party broadcast. Music is Hymn of the Sky by Celestial Aeon Project from their album Mind's Eye (available free under Creative Commons).

For more info see
http://libcom.org/library/labouring-vain
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/aug09/page10.html

Please note

We know the Labour Party was founded in name in 1906 but the Labour Representation Committee was founded in 1900

We know the 1916 government was a coalition rather than a Labour government proper, but nevertheless Labour MPs backed the troops suppressing the rising

We know Lenin probably had his own agenda but his analysis is worth quoting

We know Michael Foot and Tony Benn asked for the naval action to be halted, but nevertheless this was after they supported the Falklands war in the beginning as a means to undermine the Argentine junta dictatorship

We know that Kinnock was equivocal about the miners strikes in 1985 but nevertheless supported the conservative strike breaking

We know the points are selective but nevertheless represent only the tip of the iceberg (we haven't mentioned the Korean War for example)

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