List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Mr Hyndman versus Comrade Engels: The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation 1 The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation 2 From the Socialist League to the Independent Labour Party2 The Labour Party Question: Labourism, Leftism, and the Second International 1 The Russian Influence 2 The Labour Party and the Second International3 Britain in Crisis: Labour's Great Unrest and the Revolutionary Left 1 Realignment on the Left and the British Socialist Party 2 The Second International Steers towards the Labour Party 3 The Rise of the Revolutionary Left 4 The SLPand Revolutionary Syndicalism 5 Beyond Suffragism4 August 1914: British Marxists in the Face of War 1 The BSPand SLPand the Test of War 2 The Anti-war Left 3 Revolutionary Opponents of War5 The Clyde Turns Red: John Maclean and the Enemy at Home 1 The War on the Home Front 2 The Easter Rising and the British Left 3 Nashe Slovo , the BSPand Revolutionary Internationalism 4 The Zimmerwald Debate in Britain6 'Lads Like Me Had Whacked the Bosses': The Coming of the Russian Revolution 1 Repression and Revolt 2 Follow Russia! The Leeds Convention 3 Labourism Responds to the Russian Revolution 4 Bolshevism and the British Left7 1919: The Question of Power 1 'Are You Ready to Take Power?' 2 The Police Strikes 3 Leadership, the Lefts and the Left 4 Racist Scourge in Europe 5 Ireland's Tragedy, Labour's Disgrace8 Between Labour and Bolshevism: Towards A Communist Party 1 Towards Unity . and the Labour Party? 2 The Coming of the Communist International 3 Britain and the Amsterdam Bureau 4 The Fate of John Maclean9 'Long Live the Communist Party!' Building a British Section of the Communist International 1 The Second Congress of the Comintern 2 The Birth of the Communist Party of Great Britain 3 The Unification Conference 4 A Stillborn Party? Conclusion In Praise of Learning Appendix 1: Timeline Appendix 2: Figures Bibliography Index.