[…] Lords but was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly opposing NATO’s bombing of Serbia. In September 2015 Skidelsky endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, writing in The Guardian: Corbyn should be praised, not castigated, for bringing to public attention these serious issues concerning the role of the […]
[PDF file]: […] Foot was also living rent free in a cottage on Beaverbrook’s Cherkley estate. Foot thought all this showed what a nice chap the reactionary and ferociously anti- Labour Beaverbrook was. But its more likely was that he saw the Labour Left as worth covertly supporting because it might help divide the Labour Party in […]
[PDF file]: […] largely monopolised by British producers; full mobilisation of all the nation’s military and industrial resources for war would both necessitate economic planning and create a demand for labour which would swing the balance of power on the factory floor in favour of the trade unions. At home, Britain would be transformed into a semi-socialist […]
[PDF file]: […] other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge of the political – as opposed to ideological – antecedents of Thatcherism is inadequate. On page 222, for example, he writes […]
[…] other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge of the political – as opposed to ideological – antecedents of Thatcherism is inadequate. On page 222, for example, he writes […]
[…] other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge of the political – as opposed to ideological – antecedents of Thatcherism is inadequate. On page 222, for example, he writes […]
[PDF file]: […] capitalist states. Progressive politicians in these countries have no adequate answers and are reduced to complaining about governmental incompetence and technical glitches. (Just look at the British Labour Party’s response to the situation.) They have not grasped that the system is in need of much more than the equivalent of a good service, MOT […]
[PDF file]: […] the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds and ends crop up. The latest […]
[PDF file]: […] War’ meant for anyone except the white middle-class and the ruling elite, the suppression of demands for peacetime economic justice. As Tony Benn, the recently deceased UK Labour politician, once said: after the war people asked, if we could organise fullemployment for war, why couldn’t we organise fullemployment for peace?4 This question was answered […]
[PDF file]: […] State: How America Runs Britain Angus Hanton London: Swift Press, 2024, £25.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b John Booth A 10-minute drive from the North Queensferry home of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the second-largest Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the United Kingdom. Long in the planning during New Labour’s years in government, its 1.5 […]
