ABSTRACT
If this ethical foundation made for the overall cohesion of the movement's ideology in these years, however, the reality was that within the infrastructure there existed a diversity of both practical and theoretical tensions which, under the pressure of short-term electoral failure and intense opposition from the system it was worKing against, were to fragment the movement and make the comprehensive attainment of its ideals impossible. The Clarion provides a good vantage point from which the historian can see these tensions, which are reflected not only in its relationships with other points of the matrix - The Clarion and Keir Hardie's Labour Leader never quite saw eye to eye, for example19 - but also within its own stances and ideological complexion.
