The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933-45Scolar Press, 1995 - 380 Seiten This is a pathbreaking book, essential reading for students of interwar political and social history. Previous histories of the period have underestimated the crucial role which Communists played in trade union organisation from top to bottom. Despite its relatively small size the Communist Party occupied a strategic place in the trade union movement: the leaders of the movement, notably Ernest Bevin, refused to acknowledge this at the time. Thanks to her extensive research and numerous interviews, and to the 'opening of the books' of the Communist Part, Nina Fishman has been able to uncover a fascinating story, one which official Communist historians have never told, and which other historians could only recount in fragments. The main protagonists are the Communist Party General Seretary, Harry Pollitt, and the Editor of the Daily Worker, Johnny Campbell. The book brings to vivid life the work of activists on the shop floor and in the coalmines during the Depression and the Second World War. The book includes the first comprehensive analysis of Communist activity in key sectors of the British economy, notably in engineering shop stewards' movements and among London busmen. It concludes with an authoritative review of Communists' part in the British war economy and a vigorous challenge to the conventional wisdom about the effect of Communist Party changes of line on the war on activists' abilities to incite and lead strikes. |
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... tactical line ' , opposing its neglect of ' the mobilising of the valuable existing Party forces for the independent ... tactics ' at the end of April when , only weeks after the 13th Party Congress , Peter Zinkin seized the opportunity ...
... tactical line ' , opposing its neglect of ' the mobilising of the valuable existing Party forces for the independent ... tactics ' at the end of April when , only weeks after the 13th Party Congress , Peter Zinkin seized the opportunity ...
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... tactics which Pollitt and Campbell were now able to urge on their members without qualification might seem ' reformist ' to superficial observers . Pollitt declared : In the Trade Union movement when we are defeated by majority votes in ...
... tactics which Pollitt and Campbell were now able to urge on their members without qualification might seem ' reformist ' to superficial observers . Pollitt declared : In the Trade Union movement when we are defeated by majority votes in ...
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... tactics which was remarkable for the disappear- ance of rank - and - filism . In fact , the meeting appeared to have been a model of constitutional militancy . It had been agreed that while strike action was necessary on some occasions ...
... tactics which was remarkable for the disappear- ance of rank - and - filism . In fact , the meeting appeared to have been a model of constitutional militancy . It had been agreed that while strike action was necessary on some occasions ...
Inhalt
Practical Reality | 107 |
Fighting the War on Two Fronts | 251 |
The Shopfloor War Economy 19391945 | 284 |
Urheberrecht | |
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accepted action activity aircraft appeared ASSNC August battle became become Bevin branch British busmen campaign collective Comintern Communist Party conference Congress continued Convention Council CPGB Daily Worker delegates demands developed District Committee economic struggle elected employers engineering established evidently Executive factory February fight Fishman forces gained Government Harworth Horner important increased industrial inside interest Interview issue January joined Labour lead leaders leadership London loyalism March mass meeting membership MFGB militant miners move movement Nevertheless observed October officials organisation organization Party activists Party Centre Party members Party's political Pollitt and Campbell position practical pressure production Propellor Rank and File rank-and-file recruiting remained reported result revolutionary Secretary September shop stewards shopfloor South Wales stewards strike success TGWU tion trade union union activists united front unofficial vote wages West Young Zinkin
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