Independent Labour Party

group and political party

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The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority. A sitting independent MP and prominent union organiser, Keir Hardie, became its first chairman. The party was positioned to the left of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Representation Committee, which was founded in 1900 and soon renamed the Labour Party, and to which the ILP was affiliated from 1906 to 1932. In 1947, the organisation's three parliamentary representatives defected to the Labour Party, and the organisation rejoined Labour as Independent Labour Publications in 1975.

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This plaque marks the site of The Labour Institute Peckover Street. On January 16th 1863 this building was the base from which the Inaugral Conference of the Independent Labour Party was organised.

36 Peckover Street, Bradford, United Kingdom where it organised (1863)