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The British left (or The Left in Britain) can refer to multiple concepts. It is sometimes used as shorthand for groups aligned with the
History
Notions of socialism in Great Britain have taken many different forms from the
Historical
- 2010 United Kingdom student protests[5]
- Battle of Cable Street[6]
- Bloomsbury Socialist Society
- Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group
- Chartism[7]
- Communist Party of Great Britain
- Diggers[8]
- Miners' strike (1984-85)
- Occupy London[9]
- Peasants Revolt[10]
- Peterloo Massacre[11]
- Bloomsbury Socialist Society
- UK Uncut
Contemporary
- Black Lives Matter[12]
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament[13]
- Enough is Enough[14]
- Extinction Rebellion[15][16]
- Just Stop Oil[17]
- People's Assembly Against Austerity
- Squatting
- Stop the War Coalition[18]
- Trade unionism[19]
Key figures
The following is a list of figures considered[by whom?] significant for the British Left.
Activists
- Bob Crow[20]
- Claudia Jones[21]
- Mick Lynch[22]
- Len McCluskey[23]
- Albert Meltzer[24]
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Arthur Scargill[25]
Journalists
Politicians
- Diane Abbott
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford[29]
- Tony Benn[30][31]
- Aneurin Bevan
- Richard Burgon
- Andy Burnham[32]
- Barbara Castle[33]
- Jeremy Corbyn[34]
- Michael Foot
- George Galloway
- Keir Hardie
- Eric Heffer[35]
- Ian Lavery
- Clive Lewis
- Ken Livingstone[36]
- Caroline Lucas[37]
- Rebecca Long-Bailey
- John McDonnell[38]
- Dennis Skinner[39]
- Zarah Sultana
- Ellen Wilkinson[40]
Thinkers
- Tariq Ali
- Perry Anderson
- Gurminder K. Bhambra
- Terry Eagleton
- Mark Fisher[41]
- Paul Gilroy
- Stuart Hall[42]
- David Harvey
- Christopher Hill[43]
- Eric Hobsbawm
- John Holloway
- Ralph Miliband
- William Morris[44]
- Rajani Palme Dutt
- James Schneider
- Ambalavaner Sivanandan
- E. P. Thompson
- Raymond Williams[45]
Left-wing electoral organisations active in Britain
The largest political party associated with the British left is the centre-left
The second largest party on the British left, by membership, is the centre-left
The other three political parties on the left and with representation in parliament are the centre-left Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) of Northern Ireland; the centre-left Plaid Cymru (who are only active in Wales) and Sinn Féin, also from Northern Ireland. The SNP has 45 MPs, Plaid has three MPs, the SDLP have two MPs, and Sinn Féin has seven, but the latter party does not sit in Westminster as it refuses to take the parliamentary Oath of Allegiance. In total the British left therefore have 248 out of 650 MPs.
Labour Party
The biggest party on the political left in the United Kingdom in terms of members and representation is the Labour Party, which was founded as the
When Ed Miliband was elected as Leader of the Labour Party in 2010, he announced the abandonment of the New Labour agenda, and promised to return to socialism,[51] clamp down on tax avoidance, introduce a wealth tax in the form of a mansion tax, raise income tax for high earners, and break up the banks.[52] The party was subsequently criticised by some, including Blair himself, as straying leftwards from the centre ground of British politics,[53] and that Miliband was a more traditional left-wing politician.[54] Others disputed this view, and put Labour's loss at the 2015 United Kingdom general election down to the party being too right-wing.[55][56]
Labour's status as a socialist party has been disputed by those who do not see the party as being part of the Left,
Internal groups
- Campaign for Labour Party Democracy
- Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance
- Labour Representation Committee
- Momentum
- Open Labour
- Socialist Campaign Group
Magazine support
Green Party of England and Wales
In 2015, the membership of the Green Party of England and Wales quadrupled, and its support in national opinion polls sextupled.[75] Several factors contributed, including the collapse of the Lib Dem vote, the influence of social media and greater awareness among younger people about the rise of other left-wing parties in Europe such as: Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece, as well as a rise in anti-austerity movements across the UK and Europe.[76] Other factors included the Scottish independence referendum, which proved to be an inspiration for a new kind of politics. Other key factors had been the contrast in conferences of the Green Party and Labour in September 2014, and the media exclusion of the Greens during and following their successes at the European elections; a petition against the media blackout of the Green Party reached 260,000 signatures.[77]
The party also received a significant spike in membership during January 2015 following
In the 2019 general election, the Green Party increased their vote share by 65% to 2.7%.[81] In the 2021 United Kingdom local elections, the party made a net gain of 91 council seats, taking its national total to a record 444.[82] As with Labour, the status of the Greens as a party of the political left has been disputed.[83]
Internal groups
- Green Left
Workers Party of Britain
The Workers Party of Britain (WPB) was formed in December 2019.[84] It is a socialist and socially conservative party.[85] Its leader George Galloway became the Member of Parliament for Rochdale in the 2024 Rochdale by-election.[86]
Other organisations
The now defunct Respect Party (formed in 2004), which at one point had the support of other left groups (such as the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Resistance) and some electoral success, lost its last local councillors in 2014[87] and its sole MP George Galloway - who was also the party leader. Respect disbanded after twelve years, on 18 August 2016.[88]
The
A new party,
The Communist Party of Britain (CPB), is a split from (and effectively the political successor to) the historical Communist Party of Great Britain, once the largest British far-left organisation.[96] In 2017, the CPB announced that it would field no candidates at that year's general election, and give support to Labour instead.[97]
Some small left and far-left parties continue to contest elections independently, such as the Socialist Party of Great Britain (the oldest extant left-wing political party, having formed in 1904). Other parties and groups are electorally inactive, renounce participation in elections,[98][99][100] or work unofficially in support of, or advocate a vote for, the Labour Party.
Electorally active parties
- Alliance for Green Socialism[101]
- Communist League[101]
- National Health Action Party[102]
- Socialist Equality Party[101]
- Socialist Labour Party[103]
- Socialist Party of Great Britain[104]
- Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
- Transform
- Workers' Revolutionary Party[105]
Entryist groups within Labour Party
Parties working within Transform
Parties working within TUSC
- Socialist Party (England and Wales)
- Socialist Party Scotland
- Socialist Workers Party [in Scotland only[107]]
Others
- Alliance for Workers' Liberty
- Anarchist Federation
- Communist Party of Britain
- Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
- Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
- Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
- Communist Workers Organisation
- International Socialist League
- New Communist Party of Britain
- Revolutionary Communist Group
- Revolutionary Communist Party[108]
- Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
- Socialist Alternative
- Socialist Resistance
- Solidarity Federation
- Spartacist League
- Workers' Fight
- Workers' Power[109]
Active only in Scotland
- Republican Communist Network
- Scottish Greens
- Scottish National Party
- Scottish Republican Socialist Movement
- Scottish Socialist Party
- Socialist Party Scotland
Active only in Wales
- Plaid Cymru
- Wales Green Party (semi-autonomous within Green Party of England and Wales)
Local parties
- Old Swan Against the Cuts
- Lewisham People Before Profit
- Mebyon Kernow (only active in Cornwall)
- West Dunbartonshire Community Party
Media and culture
The following is a list of media organisations and other progressive British cultural outputs explicitly associated with the Left.[110]
Comics
- Frankie Boyle[111]
- Steve Coogan[112]
- Eric Idle
- Nish Kumar[113]
- Stewart Lee[114]
- Josie Long[115]
- Alexei Sayle[116]
- Linda Smith (comedian)[117]
- Mark Steel
Events
- Durham Miners' Gala[118]
- Glastonbury Festival[119]
- Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival
- The World Transformed[120]
Film
Television
Theatre
Independent news sources
- Byline Times (founded 2014)
- Evolve Politics (founded 2015)
- Left Foot Forward (founded 2010)
- Morning Star (Independent since 1945 but Britain's Road to Socialism, the programme of the CPB, underlies the paper's editorial stance)
- New Statesman (founded 1913)[126]
- Novara Media (founded 2011)[127]
- Red Pepper (founded 1995)
- The Canary (founded 2015)
- The Guardian[128]
- Tribune (magazine)[129]
Journals
Online content creators
Music
- Rock Against Racism
- The Left Field
- Red Wedge[135]
- Crass Records
- Attila the Stockbroker[136]
- Billy Bragg
- Brian Eno[137]
- Chumbawamba[138]
- The Clash[139]
- Crass[140]
- Ewan MacColl[141]
- Gang of Four
- Linton Kwesi Johnson[142]
- Loyle Carner
- Pink Floyd[143]
- Pulp
- Roy Bailey (folk singer)[144]
- Sam Fender[145]
- John Lennon[146]
- The Redskins[147]
- Thom Yorke
Literature
- W. H. Auden[148]
- Edith Nesbit[149]
- George Orwell[150]
- Michael Rosen[151]
- H.G. Wells[152]
- Oscar Wilde[153]
- Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
- The Making of the English Working Class
- The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Publishing Houses
- Pluto Press
- Manifesto Press
- Verso Books
Publications affiliated to political organisations
- Emancipation and Liberation (Republican Communist Network)
- News Line[154](WRP)
- Scottish Socialist Voice[155] (SSP)
- Socialist Appeal[156] monthly newspaper by a group of the same name
- Socialist Resistance[157] periodical by a group of the same name
- Socialist Standard[158] (SPGB)
- Socialist Studies[159] quarterly journal by a group of the same name
- Socialist Worker/Socialist Review[160] (SWP)
- Solidarity[161] (AWL)
- The New Worker[162](NCP)
- The Socialist[163](SP)
- Weekly Worker[164] (CPGB-PCC)
- World Socialist Web Site[165] (SEP)
Think tanks
- Compass ThinkTank[166]
- Centre for Labour and Social Studies: CLASS
- Institute for Public Policy Research[167]
See also
- Anarchism in the United Kingdom
- Another Europe Is Possible
- Anti-austerity movement in the United Kingdom
- Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom
- Bookmarks
- Bread and Roses Award
- Bright Green
- Broad Left
- Compass
- Convention of the Left
- Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty
- Far-left politics in the United Kingdom
- Gay Left
- History of socialism in the United Kingdom
- History of trade unions in the United Kingdom
- Levellers
- Liberation Left
- List of left-wing publications in the United Kingdom
- List of political parties in the United Kingdom
- List of trade unions in the United Kingdom
- Marx Memorial Library
- National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
- New Labour
- New Left
- Peace and Justice Project
- Republicanism in the United Kingdom
- Revolting Prostitutes
- Socialist Alliance
- Socialist Campaign Group
- Socialist Students
- The Left Field
- Trade unions in the United Kingdom
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Further reading
- Murray, Andrew (October 2019). The Fall and Rise of the British Left. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78873-513-1.
- Schneider, James (September 2022). Our Bloc: How We Win. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-83976-850-7.
- Leys, Colin; Panitch, Leo (May 2020). Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78873-834-7.