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BETWEEN 1880 AND 1920 THE DOMINANT ideology of independent working-class politics east of the Rockies was labourism, a brand of reformism which resembled but remained distinct from other ideological currents on the Canadian left. It was the political expression of skilled workers, who set out to win over wider support in the working class. It remained, in essence, a form of working-class liberalism, which had existed as Radicalism on the left wing of the Liberal Party but which took on an independent life in Canadian politics as industrial conflict heated up. For a brief period at the end of World War I, labourists allied with Marxist and ethical socialists to produce the visionary political dimension in the unprecedented post-war upsurge of the Canadian working class. The political movement and its ideology quickly declined in the early 1920s, however, along with the craftsworkers who had propelled it for half a century. ENTRE 1880 ET 1920, LE COURANT IDEOLOGIQUE dominant de l'action politique de la classe ouvriere a l'est des Rocheuses fut le travaillisme, un courant reformiste qui, quoiqu'il ressemble a d'autres courants ideologiques de la gauche canadienne, n'en reste pas moins different. Il est l'expression politique des travailleurs de metier qui cherchent a gagner le support de l'ensemble de la classe ouvriere. Il reste, en essence, une variete du liberalisme qui a anime la classe ouvriere et qui est present aussi comme groupe radical parmi l'aile gauche du Parti liberal. Mais a mesure que les conflits industriels ont pris de l'ampleur, ce courant s'est affirme comme mouvement autonome en politique canadienne. Pour une breve periode, a la fin de la Premiere Guerre, les travaillistes se sont rallies aux marxistes et aux socialistes utopiques. Ils ont elabore un projet politique d'avenir a un moment ou la classe ouvriere a connu une poussee revolutionnaire sans precedent. Cependant, ce mouvement politique et son ideologie ont decline rapidement au debut des annees vingt, tout comme les ouvriers de metier qui l'animaient depuis un demi siecle.
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