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The forward march by Sir Richard Acland (First published 1941)
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The forward march by Sir Richard Acland (First published 1941). A5, Hard cover, 158 pages. Cover bit worn - top spine. Book inside in good readable condition. Name of previous owner in front of book.
Richard Acland's Forward March - published in 1941, with a remarkably dull cover - was a key step in the foundation that year of Common Wealth, a radical (slightly libertarian) party which went on to win a series of wartime Parliamentary by-elections.
Acland was a Liberal MP and a Christian progressive who allied with the author J.B. Priestley and a former communist Tom Wintringham to set up Common Wealth. It was a remarkable phenomenon but collapsed very quickly with the return to peacetime politics. The last vestiges of the party survived into the 1990s.
