The 1854 Labour Parliament. Is it a model for 2021? Socialist history seminar 24th May 5.30pm
The 1854 Labour Parliament was held in Manchester.
It was neither like a Labour Party Conference or a TUC Congress, taking place before either existed.
The moving spirit was the leader of post-1848 Chartism and ally of Marx and Engels, Ernest Jones. The Parliament was focused around one of the best known nineteenth century industrial disputes, the 1854 Preston Lock-Out, which features in Dickens Hard Times.
Yet the Labour Parliament was not about trade union struggle, although it welcomed trade unionists, or about political representation in the Commons. Rather it sort to organise to find a way to change the world in favour of ordinary people.
Seminar Details
Monday 24th May at 5.30pm when Simon Hannah will speak on the Labour Parliament of 1854. Zoom details can be accessed at this link(click the Book Now link):
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