Abstract
The Northern Ireland Labour Party's (NILP) Constitutional Convention manifesto made clear the party's belief in the British connection. It advocated a strong local Executive presiding over departmental committees in which Protestants and Catholics would ‘share responsibility’. The relations between the NILP and British Labour Party (BLP) deteriorated to an all-time low in the years immediately following the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) strike. By the mid-1970s the NILP's political fortunes had taken a dramatic downswing. The Campaign for Labour Representation (CLR) consistently lobbied the BLP to organise in Northern Ireland. The final years of NILP are elaborated. Even though the NILP did not officially wind up its operations until as late as 1987, it had effectively ceased to exist with every new plume of smoke that bellowed over the Belfast skyline in the 1970s.
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