Common Wealth Party information

The Common Wealth Party (CW) was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom with parliamentary representation in the House of Commons from 1942...

Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties had agreed an electoral truce, the Common Wealth Party refused to accept this. The local CW Party had six members and soon...

This article lists the Common Wealth Party's election results in UK parliamentary elections. F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections...

Communist Unity (1963–c. 1972) Common Wealth Party (1942–1945) Communist Party of Great Britain (1920–1991) Communist Party of South Wales and the West of...

Independent Progressive advocating a Popular Front, then for the Common Wealth Party, and then again as an Independent Progressive. Born at Westbury,...

Guard during the Second World War and was one of the founders of the Common Wealth Party. Tom Wintringham was born 1898 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He was educated...

members of the British Common Wealth Party in 1942, having previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP). He joined the Labour Party in 1945 and was later...

phrase (the common-wealth or the common wealth – echoed in the modern synonym "public wealth"), it comes from the old meaning of "wealth", which is "well-being"...

late 1930s. During the Second World War, she joined Common Wealth, an idealistic socialist party to the left of Labour, which had been set up by Sir Richard...

The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service (or Common Wealth Awards) were created under the will of the late Ralph Hayes, an influential American...

Unionist Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and its forerunners, the Liberal Unionist Party, the various National Liberal parties, National...

Ferguson, 1952) Royal Commonwealth Society, An Uncommon Association, a Wealth of Potential: Final Report of the Commonwealth Conversation (London, Royal...

left-wing 1941 Committee and were founders of its successor, the Common Wealth Party. However, Kitty strongly disagreed with leading member Richard Acland...

Worcestershire for Common Wealth, an idealistic socialist party generally regarded as to the left of Labour. Although there was no Labour Party candidate, Donnelly...

was elected as a wartime MP for the Common Wealth Party. He was later a co-founder of the pacifist Fellowship Party. Loverseed was born in Downham, Norfolk...

political party in Australia Common Wealth Party, a defunct political party in the United Kingdom Commonwealth Land Party (UK), a defunct political party in...

15th Baronet, Member of Parliament and one of the founders of UK's Common Wealth Party Richard Acland (bishop) (1881–1954), British soldier and Anglican...

Unionist Party (in Scotland) 1945: Common Wealth Party 1935: National Labour Party 1931: Scottish Prohibition Party 1918: Irish Parliamentary Party (aka Irish...

art-school education for industrial apprentices, and was a founder of the Common Wealth Party in 1942. His social circle included a group of Birmingham artists...

Disarmament. The party was founded on 11 June 1955, following an independent anti-H Bomb candidature by John Loverseed, a former Common Wealth Party Member of...

a National Independent candidate. Candidate had defected to the Common Wealth party. Seat had been won by National Labour in a by-election. Nigel Colman...

with permanent nerve damage. After the war, Checkland joined the Common Wealth Party and stood unsuccessfully in Sheffield Ecclesall at the 1945 general...

the city's first woman mayor. Soon afterwards, she defected to the Common Wealth Party, for which she stood in the 1943 Ashford by-election, taking 30.3%...