[PDF file]: […] Unsurprisingly, it has not been reviewed in the mainstream media.1 So be it. In these tumultuous times, who is interested in the story of how the current Labour leader was propelled into office? More people I suspect are now more interested in how soon he will be propelled out of office. Having said that, […]
[PDF file]: […] equivalent of Janis Joplin but never enjoyed comparable success. 5 Peter Hain had, originally, been a very active (and visible) campaigner for the Liberal Party but joined Labour in 1977. 6 Jenner organized a set of festivals in Hyde Park in the late ‘60s and initially managed The Pink Floyd. He also thought Strummer […]
[…] broke up as it lost state support in the era of detente in the 1970s. In the context of a counter-movement against detente, former intelligence officers and labour activists attempted to develop an epistemic community around a theory of intelligence that would provide a basis for renewed state support for political warfare. This theory […]
[PDF file]: […] the rich, rather than a mass participation event. In the early 1950s, three million people were Conservative Party members, while more than a million belonged to the Labour Party. Now, the two main parties can count barely 600,000 members on their books combined. (p. 139) Once again, he seems to have a somewhat rosy […]
[PDF file]: […] Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right Oliver Eagleton London: Verso, 2022, £12.99, p/b John Booth First impressions can mislead, but the more I discovered here about Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer the more I became convinced that my hunches based on personal glimpses of him were correct. I saw him initially when as […]
[…] voice pointing out that his apparent aim of rebuilding the US manufacturing economy behind tariff walls is not a million miles from the central idea in the Labour Left’s Alternative Economic Strategy of the 1980s.1 In the USA domestic manufacturing is around 10% of the economy. In the UK around 9%. Both countries went […]
[…] our own; we do not see what we are not already predisposed to see.’ 36 The wrong kind of member The EHRC report on anti-semitism in the Labour Party found . . . not very much;37 what they did find hinged on debatable definitions of anti-semitism; and most of it was the responsibility of […]
[…] force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the event of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in Lobster 81. In that piece, I quoted a section […]
[…] force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the even of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in Lobster 81. In that piece I quoted a section […]
[PDF file]: […] in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion and toughness in the ‘war on terror’, is a longstanding member of Labour Friends of Israel.) Then turn to The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and read this about Israel’s economic trajectory in the past five years: ‘Much of […]
