[PDF file]: […] or the Second Red Scare, the purge began well before Senator McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) attained prominence. The expiration of wage and price controls imposed during WWII led to labour demands for wage increases, which met with violent resistance by employers and hence increased industrial action by unions. Employer organisations combined to advocate strong anti-union legislation, […]
[PDF file]: […] Century Alwyn Turner London: Profile Books, 2021, £20, h/b Dan Atkinson On March 20 1976, in the immediate wake of Harold Wilson’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Central Council about ‘a little piece of advice’ she had given him the previous week. ‘Go’ I said, ‘and go […]
[…] been given free rein to pontificate on the issues of the day, with very little examination of his own record in office. Let’s not forget that New Labour did little to change the Thatcherite political settlement, continuing the drive to privatisation and maintaining the radical taxation regime the Tories had introduced. Top rates of […]
[…] been given free rein to pontificate on the issues of the day, with very little examination of his own record in office. Let’s not forget that New Labour did little to change the Thatcherite political settlement, continuing the drive to privatisation and maintaining the radical taxation regime the Tories had introduced. Top rates of […]
[PDF file]: […] I actually think it’s corrupt’. He writes of how ‘the Board of Deputies of British Jews had an open webcast with their Chairman Jonathan Arkush, in which Labour MP Louise Ellman says I must not be an FCO minister’. This was before his appointment was even announced. What was taking place was ‘the most […]
[…] needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc of history may be long, or 3 4 5 […]
[…] needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, or 3 4 5 2 uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc of history may be […]
[PDF file]: […] quickly, it appears to be the massed ranks of Parliament rallying behind the new Prime Minister. A closer inspection shows that Churchill’s main supporters are from the Labour Party, with all the prominent Conservatives being in the second or third rows, if they are identifiable at all. The UK opposition Some of the surgery […]
[PDF file]: […] the Guardian (19 March 2011), ‘Thatcher papers reveal how she stoked rightwing rebellion in war against “wets”’, notes that Thatcher’s private secretary, Ian Gow MP, met with Labour MP Neville Sandelson, six months before Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose […]
[…] in 1977 but had been forgotten. See . 4 1 lose. They would not defeat the British state.5 This was clear to the rest of the British labour movement’s leaders and, in part, explains the reluctant support for the NUM by the TUC, most individual member unions and the Labour Party. The Ridley Plan […]
