The Political Trajectory of J.T. Murphy

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J. T. Murphy was one of the most important worker-intellectual figures of early twentieth-century British labor history. Using completely new and previously unpublished material (from the British Communist Party’s archives and the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Recent History in Moscow), this book not only tells the fascinating story of Murphy’s political trajectory, but also provides a critical re-examination of the historical and social significance of the early British revolutionary movement in which he played such a prominent role. "Darlington adeptly details the formation and intricacies of Murphy’s political thought... and rightly acknowledges Murphy’s contribution to the British Labour movement."—Labour History Review Title Page Contents Abbreviations Chronology Preface and Acknowledgements Photographs 1: The Early Years in Sheffield, 1888-1917 2: The Shop Stewards’ Movement, 1917-1919 3: Towards Bolshevism, 1919-1920 4: The Communist Party and the Labour Movement, 1920-1926 5: The Comintern and Stalinism, 1926-1928 7: Towards Left Reformism, 1932-1936 8: Popular Frontism and Re-appraisal, 1936-1965 Conclusion Notes Index