The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: Socialists, Liberals and the Quest for Unity, 1884 1939

By David Blaazer

This study explains why the British Labour Party's left supported the unsuccessful campaign for the formation of a Popular Front of the Labour, Liberal, and Communist parties in the late 1930s. The support of the Labour left for the campaign has often been seen as a result of Communist manipulation but here Dr. Blaazer explains it by reassessing a sixty-year period in the progressive tradition in British politics. He argues that the left emerged from that tradition, and that its support for a Popular Front was entirely consistent with the practice and ideas of British progressives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521521157
• ISBN13: 9780521521154
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"