Seminar Monday 20th January 2025 In Person, Room 301 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1. 5.30pm. In person. Please book at this link as space is limited: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/raising-red-flag-rethinking-roots-british-communism
Tony Collins will talk about his new book which re-examines the rich and complex roots of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Using a range of original sources, he will investigate how the young CPGB was shaped by the experiences of the Social Democratic Federation, the Socialist Labour Party and the Workers’ Socialist Federation during the years of war, intense class struggle, and the rise of Labourism before 1920. Rather than being an imposition from Moscow, he will argue that the CPGB was an organic development of the British left, something that was both its strength and its weakness.’
The seminar is organised by the Socialist History Seminar at the IHR and the London Socialist Historians Group. Contact Keith Flett @kmflett
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