ABSTRACT
The New Statesman was the only political weekly published during the General Strike in May 1926. Dame Margaret Cole sided with Clifford Allen, Noel Brailsford and the other ex-Union of Democratic Control (UDC) intellectuals who wanted to make the Independent Labour Party (ILP) an essentially policy-making body, sacrificing its street-corner Socialism to its political aspiration. In the second half of the 1920s his mind turned more and more to alternative propagandist and policy-making bodies, operating under a Labour umbrella, but it took the trauma of 192931 to bring about the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda (SSIP) and the New Fabian Research Bureau (NFRB). Cole of course could always fall back on the convenient assumption that a future post-capitalist society would speedily eliminate unemployment. The Nation, the Liberal Summer School and the Liberal Industrial Inquiry (LII) together set the agenda with regard to lowering unemployment.
