Labour Left Out

Author : Gabriel Pogrund,Patrick Maguire
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473582835

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Left Out by Gabriel Pogrund,Patrick Maguire Pdf

'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim Shipman A blistering narrative exposé of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated. * A Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and i Newspaper Book of the Year * Left Out tells, for the first time, the astonishing full story of Labour's recent transformation and historic defeat. Drawing on unrivalled access, this blistering exposé moves from the peak of Jeremy Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer. It reveals a party at war with itself, and puts the reader in the room as tensions boil over, sworn enemies forge unlikely alliances and lifelong friendships are tested to breaking point. This is the ultimate account of the greatest experiment seen in British politics for a generation. 'Gripping... Every bit as good as people say' Guardian 'Reads like a thriller...told with panache and pace' Financial Times 'The definitive post-mortem of the Corbyn project' Sunday Times

Author : Patrick Seyd
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013314490

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The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left by Patrick Seyd Pdf

Author : Simon Hannah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Right and left (Political science)
ISBN : 074534559X

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A Party with Socialists in it by Simon Hannah Pdf

Author : Jonathan Davis,Rohan McWilliam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526151448

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Labour and the Left in The 1980s by Jonathan Davis,Rohan McWilliam Pdf

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about political leadership, economic alternatives, gay rights, the miners' strike, the Militant Tendency and the politics of race. The book also situates the crisis of the left in international terms as the socialist world began to collapse. Tony Blair's New Labour disavowed the 1980s left, associating it with failure, but this volume argues for a more complex approach. Many of the causes it championed are now mainstream, suggesting that the time has come to reassess 1980s progressive politics, despite its undeniable electoral failures. With this in mind, the contributors offer ground-breaking research and penetrating arguments about the strange death of Labour Britain.

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0241470943

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This Land by Owen Jones Pdf

On 12th December 2019, the Left died. That at least was the view of much of Britain's media and political establishment, who saw the electoral defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party as the damning repudiation of everything it stood for. Yet, just over four years previously, the election of Corbyn as Labour leader seemed like a sea-change in politics- reanimating not just a party in apparently terminal decline but a country adrift, with a transformative vision based on a more just, more equal society and economy. In this revelatory new book, Owen Jones explores how these ideas took hold, how they promised to change the nature of British politics - and how everything then went profoundly, catastrophically wrong. Why did the Left fail so badly? Where, in this most critical of times, does that failure leave its values and ideas? Where does it leave Britain itself?

Author : Judith Stepan-Norris,Maurice Zeitlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052179840X

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Left Out by Judith Stepan-Norris,Maurice Zeitlin Pdf

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Author : Roy J. Adams,Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780886274696

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Labour Left Out by Roy J. Adams,Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Pdf

Reports on the failure of Canadian governments to protect and promote the collective bargaining rights of both unionized and non-unionized workers in the country.

Author : Giles Udy
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785902659

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Labour And The Gulag by Giles Udy Pdf

The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era in Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain. In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to work in labour camps. Subjected to appalling treatment, thousands died. When news of the camps leaked out in Britain, there were protests demanding the government ban imports of timber cut by slave labourers. The Labour government of the day dismissed mistreatment claims as Tory propaganda and blocked appeals for an inquiry. Despite the Cabinet privately acknowledging the harsh realities of the work camps, Soviet denials were publicly repeated as fact. One Labour minister even defended them as part of 'a remarkable economic experiment'. Labour and the Gulag explains how Britain's Labour Party was seduced by the promise of a socialist utopia and enamoured of a Russian Communist system it sought to emulate. It reveals the moral compromises Labour made, and how it turned its back on the people in order to further its own political agenda.

Author : Leo Panitch,Colin Leys
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788738521

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Searching for Socialism by Leo Panitch,Colin Leys Pdf

A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn’s rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party, driven by a groundswell of popular support particularly among the young, was met at the time by a baffled media. Just where did Jeremy Corbyn come from? In Searching for Socialism, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys argue that it is only by understanding Corbyn’s roots in the Bennite Labour New Left’s long struggle to transcend the limits of “parliamentary socialism” and democratise the party, as a precondition for democratising the state, can you understand his surge to become leader of the party. Closely analyzing the forces inside the party aligned against Corbyn’s leadership, Panitch and Leys explain what happened between the validation of the Corbyn project in the 2017 election, while advancing an ambitious programme of democratic socialist measures unmatched anywhere since the 1970s, and the electoral defeat amidst the Brexit conjuncture of 2019. They argue that while this defeat marked the farthest point to which the generation formed in the 1970s was able to carry the Labour new left project, it seems unlikely that the new generation of activists will quickly see any other way forward than continuing the struggle inside the Labour Party, so as to fundamentally change it. In the face of the contradictions being generated by twenty-first-century capitalism, and the need for discovering and developing new political forms adequate to addressing them, this book is required reading for democratic socialists, not just in Britain but everywhere.

Author : John Golding
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785900334

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Hammer of the Left by John Golding Pdf

"We went into the general election with an unelectable leader, in a state of chaos with a manifesto that might have swept us to victory in cloud cuckoo land, but which was held in contempt in the Britain of 1983." It is said that those who do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them, and though Golding was describing the Labour Party of the early 1980s, he could just as easily have been talking about its situation today. A lurch to the left and a party in turmoil — the ascension of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader will, for many, trigger only unhappy memories of the dark days of the 1970s and '80s, when the party was plagued by a civil war that threatened to end all hopes of re-election. In that battle, moderate elements fought the illiberal hard left for the soul of Labour; that they won, paving the way for later electoral successes, was down to men and women like John Golding. In this visceral, no-holds-barred account, Golding describes how he took on and helped defeat the Militant Tendency and the rest of the hard left, providing not only a vivid portrait of political intrigue and warfare, but a timely reminder for the party of today of the dangers of disunity and of drifting too far from electoral reality.

Author : Lewis Goodall
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780008226701

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Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party by Lewis Goodall Pdf

A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain. ‘Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now’ Emily Maitlis ‘Hugely illuminating, thought-provoking and moving in its seriousness and optimism’ Lord Andrew Adonis

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520282025

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Born Out of Place by Nicole Constable Pdf

Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.

Author : Ben Pimlott
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1977-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521214483

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Labour and the Left in the 1930s by Ben Pimlott Pdf

The 1930s was the 'Red Decade' of literary imagination. Yet there has seldom been a time when the influence of the British Left has been at a lower ebb.

Author : Denis MacShane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1910461539

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Must Labour Always Lose by Denis MacShane Pdf

Denis MacShane has seen and been on every part of the Labour Party over the last 50 years. He has fought, lost and won elections to the Commons, local government and the trade union movement. One unique insight he has comes from 15 years work with trade unions and progressive political movement in Europe and overseas. His book is personal, political and full of insights. Much of the European left is down and out and Labour must avoid that fate. I hope Labour Party members debate without rancour or sectarian anger what needs to be done. This book is a good starting point. Polly Toynbee, journalist Denis MacShane has had a colourful, often controversial life as a journalist-politician in Labour over many years, standing for Parliament in 1974 and being the best Europe Minister of any government until the calamity of Brexit struck. His account of why Labour is so good at losing elections is fascinating reading. What to do to get Labour back into power is a central question if we don't want to live in a one party state Steve Richards, journalist and presenter Since 1970, Labour has won power in just 4 of the 14 general elections. This angry, passionate book asks why Labour is so good at losing elections and so unhappy and edgy when it does win. Denis MacShane joined the Labour Party in 1970, and has held every office at local party level. He stood for the Commons aged 26. He served as an MP for 18 years and was Minister of State for Europe. He draws on experience, meetings with Labour leaders from Jim Callaghan to Jeremy Corbyn, and his personal diaries kept when in the Commons as he tries to answer the question: Why is Labour so keen on fighting internal battles and so useless at winning power? Denis MacShane's book is full of observations that are witty, personal, and exasperating. They offer insights and pragmatic guidance. Based on the hard lessons he's learned, MacShane offers twelve pragmatic suggestions for turning Labour into a party of power as well as protest.

Author : Roger Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527505529

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Narratives of Delusion in the Political Practice of the Labour Left 1931-1945 by Roger Spalding Pdf

"This book sets out a challenging re-interpretation of the politics of Labour's left-wing. It shows how the Left developed a range of simplistic, self-sustaining narratives, rather than supported analyses, to guide its actions in the aftermath of the political crisis of 1931. This approach, it is argued, persisted down to the opening years of the present century; its employment in part explaining the decline of the pre-Corbyn Left.The narratives developed by the Left reflected a belief in the existence of a working class waiting to be led in a radical direction. The leading figures of the Left often had limited direct contact with working people, but, within their narratives, the responses of their target audience were predictable and automatic. The Left created an idealised working class that behaved as the Left wished. In addition, the book questions the popular view, often enhanced by biographers of many of these Labour Left leaders."