What Would Keir Hardie Say?
Exploring Hardie's vision and relevence to 21st Century politics
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About the Book:
My work has consisted of trying to stir up a divine discontent with wrong. - KEIR HARDIE
Has the Labour Party stayed true to Hardie's socialist ideals and vision?
What would Hardie make of the recent developments in Scottish politics?
If he were active today, what would Keir Hardie say about attacks on welfare; trade union rights; immigration; privatisation; European Union; the economy?
A passionate leader who fought for justice, Keir Hardie, founder and first leader of the Labour Party, was a stringent critic of the world he saw around him. A socialist, a trade unionist and above all an agitator, he gave unstinting support to the women’s suffrage movement and risked all in his commitment to anti-imperialism and international peace.
Now, 100 years after Hardie’s death, editor Pauline Bryan gathers together essays from writers, trade unionists, academics and politicians to reflect on Hardie’s contribution and what it means today.
About the Author:
PAULINE BRYAN, Baroness Bryan of Partick, is a Scottish writer and socialist campaigner. She was nominated for a life peerage by the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, in May 2018.
Bryan is part of the Red Paper Collective, a group of Labour activists who aim to provide an alternative from the perspective of the Labour movement to the ‘sterile nationalist vs. unionist debate’ around the Scottish independence referendums. In a review of Neil Findlay’s book, Socialism & Hope: A Journey Through Turbulent Times, Bryan wrote that the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party ‘was a lifeline for the left. It rebuilt friendships and enthusiasm... By the 2017 election, we saw the beginnings of a renewed Scottish Labour Party and a renewed activist base who, regardless of what their MPs and MSPs thought, were committing themselves to a radical Labour Party’.
Bryan is a founding member of the Keir Hardie Society, and was the editor of the 2015 book What Would Keir Hardie Say?. She is also a founding member of the Campaign for Socialism.