... and jobs. Invariably the close relationship between the CSJ and Campaign for Democracy in Ulster (CDU) was compromised by the presence of right-of-centre individuals involved in the Dungannon-based organisation. The Northern Ireland Labour Party's (NILP) close ties to the British Labour Party (BLP) were...

... the party hierarchy could not contain the sectarian cancer from spreading throughout some of its local branches. The NILP failed to carry its broader cross-sectarian support-base with it after the election. George Chambers thought that British Labour had made life increasingly difficult for the NILP...

... the NILP and British Labour Party (BLP) deteriorated to an all-time low in the years immediately following the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) strike. By the mid-1970s the NILP's political fortunes had taken a dramatic downswing. The Campaign for Labour Representation (CLR) consistently lobbied the BLP...

...The Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) maintained a pragmatic stance in the face of violent provocation. The NILP, although ‘always very deeply committed to the link with the British Labour Party’, suffered in the early 1970s because of ‘the incautious speeches of Harold Wilson and other people...

... and the making of the contemporary British Labour Party. The book represents a significant departure in analyses and explanations of both the problems and demise of post-war social democracy and decline of ‘Old’ Labour and the origins and roots of ‘New’ Labour....

... in the British Labour Party. bi partisanship British Labour Party BLP Conservative Party Direct Rule Faulkner Brian Heath Edward Internment IRA The Irish Times partition issue unemployment Wilson Harold Crumlin Road prison Kard Frank McKee Billy paramilitarism Provisional IRA sectarianism...