[…] but having received about 30% of the votes cast in the elections of 1974 and 76, they hardly had a mandate for revolution. But the little that Labour and the unions did deliver was too much for the middle and upper classes. A more equal society means the prosperous lose more via taxation. He […]
[PDF file]: […] on repetition. The makers of a certain washing powder used to irritate me enormously with their TV commercials – the same thing, over and over again. The Labour Party were guilty of this too, in the 1997 general election, when they introduced the ‘pledge card’ with five key pledges. John Prescott, for example, would […]
[PDF file]: […] shrugged off as summarily dismissed. How Keynesianism was abandoned in 1976 by Dennis Healey and Jim Callaghan (under pressure from the IMF), and the complicity of the Labour Party, unable or unwilling to counter the monetarist mumbo–jumbo, is described in Davis’ first chapter. Those who have read accounts of this period will have further […]
[PDF file]: […] He appeared to be advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] to over 12 per cent of the workforce by 1986, along with social disorder and bitter class conflict, were still traumatic). Thatcherite reforms sought to weaken organised labour but empower the City through the famous ‘Big Bang’ of 1986, which led to the internationalisation the financial sector – in so doing enabling it to […]
[PDF file]: […] supposedly happened in the 70s and 80s, quoting Callaghan as saying in his memoirs that he lost in 1979 because ‘the tide of history had turned against Labour’. This is self-serving. Callaghan lost because he didn’t go to the polls in the autumn of 1978, when strongly advised to do so. Had he done […]
[…] links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.7 ’ I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has […]
[PDF file]: […] USA in the 1930s. What becomes clear is that, while sections of the US capitalist class had no problem with using some of these groups against the labour movement, they never had any intention of subordinating themselves to them. A strong fascist state, indeed a strong domestic state of any description, was never and […]
[PDF file]: […] and he underplays the extent to which some of the participants in the drama, notably Pincher and D-notice Committee secretary Lohan, were motivated by hatred of the Labour government. Prime Minister Wilson knew this, which explains his (failed, disastrous) attempt to tackle them head-on. And it really wasn’t, as he has it, ‘the British […]
