Labor leader

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The Labor Leader was a socialist newspaper in the United Kingdom and the central organ of the Independent Labor Party (ILP).

The Labor Leader emerged in 1888 from the monthly newspaper The Miner , which was aimed at Scottish miners and was the central organ of the Scottish Labor Party . With the affiliation of the party to the ILP in 1893, the Labor Leader became the official newspaper of the ILP and appeared weekly.

The editor-in-chief of the Labor Leader was James Keir Hardie until 1904 , followed by John Bruce Glasier , who was able to continuously increase the circulation in the first decade of the 20th century. At the beginning and during the First World War , the newspaper took a negative attitude towards the war.

After the World War, the newspaper was renamed New Leader . It remained true to its concept of high quality journalism and differed from the second major newspaper of the British labor movement, Justice, by its lack of sectarian positions, following the line of the ILP as a party of a gathering movement of often rival trade unionists and socialists. It was able to attract many prominent authors, among them personalities of the labor movement such as Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald or Philip Snowden , who wrote a regular column. Even George Orwell wrote for the newspaper.

After another renaming to Socialist Leader in 1947, the paper was renamed back to Labor Leader in 1975, the year the ILP joined the Labor Party again . The newspaper appeared again as a monthly until 1986.