Independent Labour Party

Independent Labour Party
Abbreviation	ILP
Founder	Keir Hardie
Founded	1893
Dissolved	1975
Preceded by	Scottish Labour Party Bloomsbury Socialist Society Scottish United Trades Councils Labour Party
Merged into	Labour Party
Succeeded by	Independent Labour Publications (pressure group inside the Labour Party)
Headquarters	Mentmore Terrace, London (till 1964)
Newspaper	Labour Leader
Ideology	Democratic socialism Centrist Marxism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Labour Party (1906–1932)
International affiliation	International Working Union of Socialist Parties International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
Politics of the United Kingdom Political parties Elections

The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates. A sitting independent MP and prominent union organiser, Keir Hardie, became its first chairman.

The party played a key role in the formation of the Labour Representation Committee, to which ILP members Hardie and Ramsay MacDonald were delegates at its foundation in 1900.^[1] The committee was renamed the Labour Party in 1906, and the ILP remained affiliated until 1932. In 1947, the organisation's three parliamentary representatives defected to the Labour Party, and the organisation joined Labour as Independent Labour Publications in 1975.