[…] about them. This is not the first attempt by Sanderson to get his story out. He began while still in prison in 1991, working with the Stockton Labour MP Frank Cook and academic Peter Smith.3 They both died before the job was done. Then he worked with a TV producer, a Cook Report alumnus, […]
[…] of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is lower than in the 1950s, and lower than in countries including France, Italy and the United States. The economy is growing.3 […]
[PDF file]: That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the […]
[…] is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of it, involves complicated work […]
[PDF file]: […] about them. This is not the first attempt by Sanderson to get his story out. He began while still in prison in 1991, working with the Stockton Labour MP Frank Cook and academic Peter Smith.4 They both died before the job was done. Then he worked with a TV producer, a Cook Report alumnus, […]
[PDF file]: […] on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive Liberal Party general election manifestos after 1929 and became the predominant (though not the only) politico-economic discourse in the Labour Party from 1935 until 1997. It went into eclipse during the era of ‘New Labour’ (barring a brief revival in 2008-10) but was rehabilitated during the […]
[PDF file]: How New Labour stopped listening to the voter and why we need a new politics Deborah Mattinson London: Biteback, 2010, £17.99 People, Politics and Pressure Groups: Memoirs of a lobbyist Arthur Butler Hove: Picnic Publishing, £12.99, 2010 Tom Easton Deborah Mattinson is just one of the many early enthusiasts for what became New Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of it, involves complicated work […]
[…] Brown? How the dream job turned sour Edited by Colin Hughes London: The Guardian, 2010, £8.99 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British […]
[…] who knows how many were active? Even so, did the other members of the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union itself really have another 180,00 agents? *new* Labour Together The group which funded Keir Starmer’s run at the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour Together, was discussed in Lobster 88.5 The essential Open Democracy […]
