The forgotten Keir Hardie
Keir Hardie (1856-1915), was first elected to Parliament as a labour and socialist MP in 1892, helped set up the Independent Labour Party in 1893, and was a founder of the Labour Party. He died in 1915. Sylvia Pankhurst, who had been Hardie's lover, argued in this 1921 article that Hardie was always a class struggle politician and more influenced by Marx than many would have credited.