The Revolutionary Communist Group – for an anti-imperialist movement in Britain

The history and politics of the labour aristocracy in Britain

RCG education programme

The discussion material for this short course is the Second Edition of Labour: a party fit for imperialism by Robert Clough. The recommended format is a six-part reading group, following the reading guide below.

Copies of the text are available to buy here (where you will also find a video interview with the author): www.revolutionarycommunist.org/pub/84-publications/3943-labour-party-fit-for-imperialism

You can join an FRFI reading group by contacting your local RCG branch here: https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/branches

READING GROUP

Labour: a party fit for imperialism by Robert Clough

FIRST SESSION

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction to the First Edition

Part One: The foundation of the Labour Party

Appendix: Lenin on ‘the bourgeois labour party’

SECOND SESSION

Part Two: The Labour Party and British imperialism 1900-45

THIRD SESSION

Part Three: Labour and the reconstruction of the imperialist order 1945-51

Part Four: Labour and British imperialism since 1951

FOURTH SESSION

Part Five: Labour and the working class 1918-45

Part Six: Labour and the working class 1945-97 

FIFTH SESSION

Part Seven: Labour in government 1997-2010

Part Eight: Towards the 2015 general election

SIXTH SESSION

As the Second Edition of Labour: a party fit for imperialism was published in 2014 we recommend, by way of a postscript, the following two FRFI articles dealing with Jeremy Corbyn’s brief leadership of the Labour Party and the changing character of the working class electorate:

FRFI 279, December 2020/January 2021, ‘The rise and fall of Corbynism’, Robert Clough:

https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/britain/labourtrade-unions/6073-the-rise-and-fall-of-corbynism

FRFI 274, February / March 2020, ‘General election 2019: The legacy of Thatcherism’, Robert Clough: https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/britain/labourtrade-unions/5790-general-election-2019-the-legacy-of-thatcherism

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