Call for contributions – special issue of Socialist History on:
The British Labour Movement and Internationalism
In this era of Brexit, the British Labour Party and the wider labour movement face the twin challenges of globalised capitalism on the one hand, and an upsurge in backward-looking nationalism on the other. Siren voices call on Labour to embrace one side or the other. In this context it seems more necessary than ever to re-examine the internationalist tradition within British labour and democratic movements over the preceding two centuries.Socialist History, the journal of the Socialist History Society, is planning a special issue, to appear in spring 2020, on ‘the British Labour Movement and Internationalism’. This issue will be guest-edited by Duncan Bowie, and we are seeking contributions of between 6000 and 10000 words on any aspects of British Labour and Internationalism in historical perspective.
Themes for contributions may include, but are not limited to:
Nationalism and internationalism within the British labour movement
The British labour movement and national identity
British Jacobins and the French Revolution
Chartist Internationalism
British trade unionists and republican exiles in the 1850s to 1870s
British radicals and socialists and international peace movements
ILP, SDF and the Second International pre WW1
British socialists and the second and third internationals in the inter-war period
British socialists and communists and anti-fascism in the 1930s
British Labour, the reconstitution of the Labour and socialist International and the Cold War
British socialists and decolonisation/pan-Africanism
Labour and the European Union/European socialism
British socialists and the rise of the right in Europe and beyond in the 2010s: lessons from the past
British socialists and international solidarity, women’s or youth movements
Proposals for contributions, in the form of a synopsis of no more than 500 words, should be sent to Duncan Bowie on
duncanbowie@yahoo.co.uk
by 30 September 2019. For details about
Socialist History and its submission guidelines, please visit our webpage on
https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/socialist-history
. Please note that articles in
Socialist History are refereed before publication, and that acceptance of a proposal does not imply any automatic undertaking to publish the ensuing article.
