Communists and Labour Ñ The National Left-Wing Movement 1925Ð1929

Communists and Labour Ñ The National Left-Wing Movement 1925Ð1929The National Left Wing Movement (NLWM), set up by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 192526 to pull the Labour Party rank and file towards Communist politics, was one in which Marxists worked in a largely open fashion to promote specific programmatic principles. This publication sheds new light on how the early CPGB approached its work inside the Labour Party and points to a more variegated picture of the CPGB in the mid to late 1920s as

The National Left-Wing Movement (NLWM), set up by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1925Ð26 to pull the Labour Party rank and file towards Communist politics, was one in which Marxists worked in a largely open fashion to promote specific programmatic principles.

This publication sheds new light on how the early CPGB approached its work inside the Labour Party and points to a more variegated picture of the CPGB in the mid-to-late 1920s as still capable of producing rational and principled responses to the class struggle Ñ albeit, in the case of the NLWM, partially flawed and unsuccessful ones.

The NLWM had another goal forced upon it of protecting Communists and their sympathisers from a Labour leadership intent on expelling and disaffiliating such elements in a pursuit of respectability. This monograph seeks to qualitatively measure the impact of that disaffiliation process on the CPGB, the NLWM and Labour sympathisers.