The Spanish Civil War And The British Labour Movement

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521393331
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement written by Tom Buchanan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a mass of documentary material to provide a major reinterpretation of British labour's response to the Spanish Civil War. It challenges the view that the labour leadership ' betrayed' the Spanish Republic, and that this polarised the movement along `left' versus 'right' lines. Instead, it argues that the overriding concern of the major leaders was to defend labour's institutional interests against the political destabilisation caused by the conflict, rather than to defend Spanish democracy. Although the main advocates of this position were trade union leaders associated with the labour right such as Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin, the book argues that their dominance reflected the centrality of the trade unions to labour movement decision-making rather than the abuse of union power to achieve political goals.

Author : Lewis Mates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857716948
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Civil War and the British Left written by Lewis Mates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the British left's support for the anti-Franco cause 'the most outstanding example of international solidarity in British history'? Here Lewis Mates considers this claim and argues that support for the anti-Franco cause was varied and multi-faceted. He analyses the 'Aid Spain movement': activities undertaken at grassroots level in support of the Spanish Republic. He explores the nature of grassroots support, its extent and depth, the motivations of activists, the institutions they operated through, and importantly, the role and impact of ideas on activism. Those within the British Left who did not embrace the Republic's cause are also examined as are the consequences of these divisions for the labour movement at its different levels from grassroots to national.Mates provides new perspectives on an important period of twentieth-century British history, contributing to debates about the nature of the British left, grassroots activism and popular political engagement in a contradictory epoch.

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521455695
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Spanish Civil War written by Tom Buchanan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interpretation of a foreign conflict that has had a greater impact on modern British politics than any other.

Author : Lewis H. Mates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755620258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Civil War and the British Left written by Lewis H. Mates and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Was the British left's support for the anti-Franco cause 'the most outstanding example of international solidarity in British history'? Here Lewis Mates considers this claim and argues that support for the anti-Franco cause was varied and multi-faceted. He analyses the 'Aid Spain movement': activities undertaken at grassroots level in support of the Spanish Republic. He explores the nature of grassroots support, its extent and depth, the motivations of activists, the institutions they operated through, and importantly, the role and impact of ideas on activism. Those within the British Left who did not embrace the Republic's cause are also examined as are the consequences of these divisions for the labour movement at its different levels from grassroots to national.Mates provides new perspectives on an important period of twentieth-century British history, contributing to debates about the nature of the British left, grassroots activism and popular political engagement in a contradictory epoch."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : K. W. Watkins
Publisher : Abbey Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain Divided written by K. W. Watkins and published by Abbey Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641366
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain written by Tom Buchanan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between Britain and the Spanish Civil War. This book explains the war's legacy and longer-term impact on Britain, and presents a chronological progression from the Civil War to the post-war Franco era. It also provides a discussion of the importance of loss and memory.

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Labor and the American Civil War written by Philip Sheldon Foner and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Collette
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429795971
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Faith written by Christine Collette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Peace and disarmament were the first priorities, giving way to the fight against fascism after 1933; the Spanish Civil War was the watershed when disarmament ceased to be a tenable option. Against this background, contacts made with the Labour and Socialist International and the International Federation of Trades Unions are considered and the distinctive approaches of women and young people are discussed. The history of these formal organisations is balanced by an account of the wide-ranging contacts of the broad Labour Movement in fields such as sport, education, Esperanto, music and art. Its protagonists’ belief in international socialism is seen to be a faith which survived fascism and war, and continued to give hope for the future. This book will be of interest to students of Labour history and politics, as well as international and European studies.

Author : CHRISTINE. COLLETTE
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138345102
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Faith written by CHRISTINE. COLLETTE and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Peace and disarmament were the first priorities, giving way to the fight against fascism after 1933; the Spanish Civil War was the watershed when disarmament ceased to be a tenable option. Against this background, contacts made with the Labour and Socialist International and the International Federation of Trades Unions are considered and the distinctive approaches of women and young people are discussed. The history of these formal organisations is balanced by an account of the wide-ranging contacts of the broad Labour Movement in fields such as sport, education, Esperanto, music and art. Its protagonists' belief in international socialism is seen to be a faith which survived fascism and war, and continued to give hope for the future. This book will be of interest to students of Labour history and politics, as well as international and European studies.

Author : Angela Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134471068
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Women and the Spanish Civil War written by Angela Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues, such as the nature of memory and the role of women within the public sphere. The extent to which women engaged with this cause surpasses by far other instances of female mobilization in peace-time Britain. Such a phenomenon therefore can offer lessons to those who would wish to encourage a greater degree of interest amongst women in political activities today.