[PDF file]: Bad News Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David Miller London: Pluto Press, 2019, p/b £14.99, h/b £75.001 John Booth Perhaps it was inevitable that the September launch of this book on Labour Party strife during its annual conference in Brighton […]
[PDF file]: Who pays the piper? Funding the Labour Party Colin Challen When Jeremy Corbyn vacated the leadership of the Labour Party – even after a bruising general election in 2019 – the party was left with around £13 million in the kitty. In the years that followed that balance was gradually whittled away, until the […]
[PDF file]: Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party Colin Challen I feel compelled to respond to John Booth’s excellent article on ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party. I write as one who has 35 years membership of the party, most of which years were spent as a Labour Councillor, an employed organiser of the party and latterly an […]
[PDF file]: Labour, Corbyn and anti-semitism John Booth Anyone reading and hearing about Labour’s annual conference in Brighton might have thought it riven by yet more acrimonious controversy over antisemitism. From The Guardian to the Daily Express and the broadcast journalists in between that was the big story for those critical of the party under […]
[…] by Ernie Roberts, 13-15 High St, St. Mary Gray, Orpington,BR5 3NL. £6.95 (including p and p) This is a self-published memoir by the recently deceased, former left-wing Labour MP: meetings I went to, strikes I was involved in, campaigns I conducted – dull stuff for the most part (or the texture of real life […]
[…] first inkling of this was in September 1951. One of de Courcy’s publications had published some smear material about Hugh Dalton, curiously enough, who had been a Labour Cabinet minister and who had been linked to the scandal surrounding the Lynsky Tribunal. At the same time there was another smear campaign against John Strachey, […]
[…] of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and civilians in Britain during the First World War – David Englander – in British Society for the Study of Labour History, Volume 52, No.1, 1987 The Ideology of the British Right, 1918-39 G.C. Webber – Croom Helm, London 1987 Ideological Hegemony and Political Control: the sociology […]
[…] and the attack on dictators is even-handed to include Castro, Mugabe and Chavez alongside Pinochet and other hate figures of the Left. Furthermore, many of the New Labour foreign policy elite cut their student teeth on campaigns against ‘fascist’ dictators and would have had a sympathetic ear from State Department officials who disapproved of […]
[…] to be drawn up and included in statute (6). I will sum up this section by saying that the period of change from the older industrial and labour intensive means of production to the new, high technology and labour atomised means, has been characterised by a series of industry-based mass struggles between labour and […]
[…] against the minority in employment. I welcome that, but if it is good enough for Northern Ireland, why do the British Government do everything possible to prevent Labour councils in Britain that wish to adopt similar policies from ending discrimination against minorities in Britain? We shall not be able to unite the people of […]
