Labour History Review Volume 87 (2022), Issue 3 has now been published.

This issue sees the publication of Greg Billam’s ‘‘Uncomradely and Un-communist’: Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia Debate, 1947–1948’, which was the winner of the Labour History Review Essay Prize in 2022.

The article delves into the content of the debate between the two parties– which until now has been dealt with only in passing – illuminating the differences in ideological direction. It is also argued that the accusations of Marxist impurity and sectarianism demonstrate the policing of international communist debate, and the embryonic ‘national roads to socialism’ policy. Read more.

In ‘The First International Seen from the Periphery: The Portuguese Case (1871–1876)’, João Lázaro discusses the influence the Spanish workers’ movement had in the creation of the Portuguese section of the First International (the International Working Men’s Association) and the political struggles faced by the First International in Portugal. Read more.

And in ‘Peadar Ó Maicín, the Irish Left and the Irish Language’, Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh examines the involvement of Peadar Ó Maicín (1878–1916) in the Socialist Party of Ireland/Cumannacht na hÉireann from 1909. It discusses the part played by the Irish language in Ó Maicín’s initial development of a class consciousness; its role in finally converting him to socialism; and his pivotal part in ensuring that the name, programme, and propaganda of the new party would be in Irish as well as English. Read more.

The issue includes book reviews by Edda Nicolson, Colin Heywood, Stefan Berger, Ben Curtis, Mike Mecham, Hazel Perry, Daniel Frost and Jim Tomlinson. Read more.