Workers' Provisional Government of Britain

The Workers' Provisional Government of Britain was a short lived unrecognized socialist state which existed in Britain during the British Civil War of 1926-1932. The government was promogulated within the principles of the 1928 Cardiff Declaration, issued after the second meeting of the General Conference of Worker's Councils, Soldiers, and Trade Unions in Cardiff.

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Background
Following the outbreak of fighting in 1927 the British socialists had formed spontaneous self governing socialist entities, such as the Cardiff Commune or Birmingham Council Republic and other revolutionary British states.

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Cardiff Conference
Main article: Cardiff Conference

Eventually in 1928 the self governing states all sent delegates to Cardiff, the home of the first socialist territory in the Revolution, and formed a government uniting the vast interests of the movement. Leading the convention was noted theorist R. Palme Dutt, who attempted to sway the conference to a pro-Soviet direction, although he would be challenged by Labour politician Arthur Henderson and Philip Snowden of the Independent Labour Party. Due to an inability to resolve the Soviet Question, the convention decided to discuss the issue again once victory had been achieved.

Attending the conference were members of the Labour Party, Independent Labour Party, Socialist Party of Britain, and the nascent Communist Party of Great Britain. Members of the MacDonald government, such as Arthur Henderson, were also in attendance.

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Cardiff Declaration
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Inkpin government
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Henderson government
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Political structure
Outlined in the Cardiff Conference, the function of the new government would be through a multiparty socialist democracy. The executive would be constituted in a presidency, who would be a member of the People's Congress and whose cabinet would be made up of members of the Congress, selected through a confirmation vote.