People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any France state institutionsstate 7 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 5 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 3 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1

All 20 affiliations

Austria

Austria state institutionsstate 1

Belgium

Belgium state institutionsstate 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

France

France state institutionsstate 7 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 3

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 5 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 2

Italy

Italy state institutionsstate 1

Mongolia

Mongoliastate 1

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1 Democratic Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 2
Position
Any Non-Bolshevik socialists 1
Citizenship
Any United Kingdom 1
Background
Any United Kingdom 1
Era(set)
Any

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 3 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2 Scholars of this history1892–현재 2
Labour Party (United Kingdom) The age of the Internationals and empires 1820–1917 Clear all
GlossaryLabour Party (United Kingdom)

Keir Hardie

Keir Hardie
Labour Party (United Kingdom) Non-Bolshevik socialists United Kingdom Scotland 1856–1915 ○ Pneumonia

Former miner who founded the British Labour Party and opposed the First World War to the end, urging an anti-war general strike

Elected to Parliament in 1892 after organising miners, Hardie helped lead the Independent Labour Party and the new Labour movement. At the outbreak of the First World War, he campaigned against the conflict.

Born into poverty in Scotland and working in the pits from about the age of ten, he rose as a miners’ organiser to become in 1892 the first working-class member of parliament. He founded the Independent Labour Party in 1893 and became Labour’s first parliamentary leader in 1906, supporting women’s suffrage and Indian self-rule. At Copenhagen in 1910 he proposed a general strike in the arms industries to prevent war. He attended the Brussels Bureau meeting of July 1914 and opposed the war until his death in 1915.

Career timeline
  • 1881Led the first strike of Lanarkshire miners.
  • 1892Elected for West Ham as an Independent Labour candidate and entered Parliament.
  • 1893Helped form the Independent Labour Party and was elected its first chairman and leader.
  • 1906Elected Labour leader in the House of Commons; resigned in 1908.
  • 1914–1915Campaigned as a pacifist against the First World War.