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Encyclopedia > Independent Socialist Party

The Independent Socialist Party (ISP) was a former political party in the UK. It was formed in 1934 as a breakway from the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1934 in protest at the increasing power of the Revolutionary Policy Committee within the ILP. The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Revolutionary Policy Committee (RPC) was a faction within the former political party Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom. ...


The ISP was led by Elijah Sandham, a former ILP MP who had been Chairman of the Lancashire Division of the ILP. The Lancashire ILP newspaper Labour's Northern Voice also supported the ISP. Outside of Lancashire the ISP was supported by the literary critic John Middleton Murry and his Adelphi magazine - and a small ISP based community was founded around his East Anglian home to show the socialism as a living entity. John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 - 1957) was an English author and writer. ...


The ISP was socialist and resolutely anti-war, but was firmly anti-communist.


It failed to gain substantial support after it formation, and following the death of its founders in the 1950s the party wound itself up.



Reference Gidon Cohen (2003) 'The Independent Socialist Party' in Gildart, Howell and Kirk (eds) Dictionary of Labour Biography


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Independent Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1518 words)
The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom.
The party was formed as a consequence of the Manningham Mill strike in Bradford on January 14, 1893 making it one of the earliest democratic socialist political parties operating in the United Kingdom.
The relationship between the ILP and the Labour Party was characterised by conflict.
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In 1898 the Social Democratic party was formed by a group led by Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger.
In 1919 this faction withdrew from the party, thereby substantially weakening it, and formed the Communist party of the United States.
It is a member of the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists, and has 12 members in the European Parliament.
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