The International Faith - Labour's Attitudes to European Socialism, 1918-39

List of contents

1. Strike for Peace: The British Labour Movement and the International Federation of Trades Unions. 2. Paths of European Unity, 1918-33: The Labour Party and the Labour and Socialist International. 3. The Fascist Challenge, 1933-39: The Labour Party and the Labour and Socialist International. 4. The International Faith: Subject and Special Interest Groups. 5. ‘Arise ye Starvelings’: The Language of Internationalism. 6. ‘Matters Affecting Women’: International Contacts between Women, Young People and Cooperators.

Summary

First published in 1998, illuminating the principles and practices which impelled British Labour’s international attitudes, this book focuses on relationships between social democratic and communist organisations in the troubled scene of Europe between the wars.

Additional text

'...a working-class internationalist culture flourished in [the 1930s] and it is this culture, poised as it was between hope and apprehension, that Christine Collette captures so effectively in her carefully researched and well-illustrated monograph.' Labor History, Vol. 40, No. 3 'Collette admirably conveys the spirit of the period, when a horror of war, faith in the Bolshevik revolution, and opposition to Fascism inspired in groups of working people...a vision of a new international community...' International History Review, Vol. XXI, No. 3 'This book provides an excellent source for an important and under-researched subject.' Labour History Review, Vol. 64, No. 3 'Collette sheds light on a neglected topic, and does so with élan...a work of considerable quality... should be required reading for all those who are interested in British politics, the British left, and nationalism and internationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 11

Product details

• Authors: Christine Collette, Collette Christine
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138345102
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34510-2
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 237 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Political Parties, Europe, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Political ideologies and movements, Political parties and party platforms