Seminar Monday 2nd June 2025
Recording of seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/r314vuCqiGRCezS5C1Fz3HFxWuNc8j4mti3dHZr84CCYb8cWMcAwIKBYlpezZw23.1wrEXKu97FfakN6h
Tony Collins talked 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 investigated 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 argued 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 @keithbeard.bsky.social
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