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The Plebs' League established the Plebs Textbook Committee, which was responsible for the collective publishing of several of their books after 1921. These were attributed to "communal production" rather than individual authors.
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who challenged the lecturers' opposition to Marxism. In the 1907–8 academic year, Ablett began leading unofficial classes in Marxist
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Phillips, A. and Putnam, T., ‘Education for Emancipation: The Movement for Independent Working-Class Education 1908-1928’,
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McIlroy, J., ‘Independent Working Class Education and Trade Union Education and Training’ in Roger Fieldhouse (ed.),
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A mixture of students and former students at Ruskin founded the Plebs' League in November 1908, also launching the
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During 1909, student agitation for Marxism continued at Ruskin. The students were supported by the Principal,
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By 1910, the Plebs' League was active in South Wales, Lancashire and Scotland. Activists included
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The Search for Enlightenment: The Working Class and Adult Education in the Twentieth Century
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was a British educational and political organisation which originated around a
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Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940
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Outline of European history from the decay of feudalism to the present day
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Samuel, R., “British Marxist Historians, 1880-1980: Part One”,
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British political and educational organisation 1908 to 1926
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Archive of 26 issues from February 1915 - January 1917
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Political organisations based in the United Kingdom
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Index

Plebs League
Marxist
Noah Ablett
miner
Rhondda
Ruskin College, Oxford
political economy
Ebby Edwards
Independent Labour Party
Independent Working Class Education
syndicalist
Dennis Hird
Central Labour College
A. J. Cook
William Mainwaring
Mark Starr
John Maclean
De Leonism
Socialist Labour Party
Communist Party of Great Britain
National Council of Labour Colleges
1926 United Kingdom general strike
Henry Lyster Jameson
Japanese
William McLaine
J. F. Horrabin
Maurice Herbert Dobb
Arthur Woodburn

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