The Socialist Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation by James Connolly, Neil Maclean and SDF
The British SLP adopted the familiar "arm and hammer" of its American namesake as its official logo.
Radical Irish labour leader James Connolly was an important figure in the formation of the British SLP.
The SLP was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution and lost a group of its members to the new Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920.
The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. The party first gained prominence whe
Socialist Labour Party (UK, 1903)
…distributor of Marxist literature in Great Britain. It has been noted that "there can have been scarcely a single person involved in the foundation of the Communist Party of Great Britain who was not, at some time, influenced by the SLP and its literature." In 1905 in the United States there was established the Industrial Workers of the…
The CPGB's General Secretary, Harry Pollitt, gives a speech to a large crowd outside the British Museum in support for the Aid to Russia Fund, 1941
CPGB poster supporting the British war effort against Nazi Germany during WWII
Harry Pollitt gives a speech to workers in Whitehall, London, 1941
William Alexander, representing to Politburo of the CPGB receives applause from the Presidium of the Fifth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, East Berlin, 16 July 1958.