Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): support of Lloyd George and the Liberals for the Kerensky government in Russia (W-3, W-6 to W-7); scepticism of some socialists about parliamentary democracy, in contrast to Ramsey MacDonald’s view (W-3 to W-5); growth in anti-war feeling from around 1916 (W-8 to W-9); opposition to Bolshevik revolution among Scottish working-class arising from strong support for Liberal Party’s recent progressive measures (W-10 to W-11); disagreement in the Independent Labour Party about whether to join the Communist International in 1918 (W-12); ‘Hands off Russia’ campaign against Winston Churchill’s policy of armed intervention to support anti-Bolshevik forces (W-13 to W-17); opposition in 1917-1918 to conscription of single engineering workers proposed in the Manpower Bill, including carrying of an anti-war resolution at meeting in St Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow (W-18 to W-21, W-23 to W-24); encouragement for socialists from reports of unrest in the German and British armies in 1918 (W-25).
27 pages
Open
Recording at 842/8.
English
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