A Party with Socialists in It
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A Party with Socialists in It

A History of the Labour Left

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A Party with Socialists in It

A History of the Labour Left

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*A Guardian Book of the Day*

The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benn's famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.'

For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation and struggle. However, has it ever truly been on the side of the workers? Where do its interests really lie? And can we rely on it to provide a barrier against right-wing forces?

Simon Hannah's smart and succinct history of the Labour left guides us through the twists and turns of the party, from the Bevanite movement and the celebrated government of Clement Attlee, through the emergence of a New Left in the 1970s and the Blairism of the 1990s, to Corbyn's defeat and his replacement by Keir Starmer.

This new edition is updated throughout, with a new final chapter and conclusion bringing the story up to date.

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Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780745345598
Edition
2
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Political Parties
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword to the Second Edition by Nadia Whittome MP
  6. Foreword to the First Edition by John McDonnell MP
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Divided Beginnings
  9. 2 Second Time as Disaster
  10. 3 The Age of Consent
  11. 4 The Civil War
  12. 5 ‘Though Cowards Flinch…’
  13. 6 The Broad Church Collapses
  14. 7 The Single Idea
  15. 8 The Corbyn Supremacy
  16. 9 ‘From Ancient Grudge Break to New Mutiny…’
  17. Conclusion: ‘Where Civil Blood Makes Civil Hands Unclean…’
  18. Notes
  19. Index