[PDF file]: […] Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I first came across it in The Open Conspirator, a book about preWW2 Labour Party activist and pacifist Clifford Allen.11 But searching for that I noticed that H. G. Wells had written something called The Open Conspiracy12 and Garrick Alder […]
[…] Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I first came across it in The Open Conspirator, a book about preWW2 Labour Party activist and pacifist Clifford Allen.11 But searching for that I noticed that H. G. Wells had written something called The Open Conspiracy12 and Garrick Alder […]
[PDF file]: […] the Second World War the state controlled everything: capital movements, production and trade. Of necessity a version of the producers’ alliance sought by some sections of pre-war labour, capital and state, was formed. Cooperation rather than conflict was the model chosen for total war, a lesson not lost on the wartime generation of politicians […]
The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences. ‘The Conservatives are the party for the City. We […]
[PDF file]: The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences: The Conservatives are the party for the City. We […]
[PDF file]: […] probably longer than usually accorded to a backbench MP. The accounts were clear that he was independently minded and latterly something of a rogue elephant on the Labour benches. Perhaps they could have paused to reflect on how much he had achieved by the time he was thirty-five: brought up by a single parent […]
[PDF file]: […] left Oxford to take US scholarships, returning with the neoliberal, neocon attitudes which outfitted them nicely to be spear carriers in the stage army that became New Labour. Miliband went into the think-tank world before No 10 and then the ultra-safe seat of South Shields, deep within New Labour’s North-East redoubt. Balls, with no […]
[PDF file]: […] because Smith clearly had an interesting life. Red Dan He came from a strongly nonconformist and left of centre family, his father being active in the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in the early 1900s. By 1936 T Dan had joined him, moving rapidly to a significant position in the hierarchy of this small party. […]
[PDF file]: […] largely formulated along a US model.1 Haseler formed the SDA in 1975 with the distanced help of Brian Crozier, with the intention of drawing votes from the Labour Party up to the 1983 election. In a letter to The Times, Crozier alluded to his previous attempt at the creation of an antiLabour party backed […]
[PDF file]: […] Palestine Solidarity Hil Aked London and New York: Verso, £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-765-9 John Booth My only direct experience of the Friends of Israel network was as a Labour party member. It came during the 2017 general election campaign when I tried to volunteer in one of the Tory-held marginal constituencies that had to be […]
