[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]: […] 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]: Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered Robin Ramsay I write this as a member of ‘old Labour’, and like others of that ilk, I am looking for a way out of the present farce-cum-nightmare of a Labour Party lead by a tiny group of not very bright Thatcherites.(1) To understand where we are […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: The Lexit delusion Scott Newton The question of Britain’s relationship to the EU has been a real problem for the Labour Party since the 2016 referendum. Does its result offer the British Left a great opportunity to break free from the restrictions which come with membership of the organization and tie the nation to […]
[PDF file]: […] the British League for European Freedom’s “purely political work” (whatever that means) to the formation of Common Cause.20 Dr. C. A. Smith, former Chair of the Independent Labour Party, was Secretary of Common Cause from 1954-5621 (21), presumably from its inception, apparently in 1952: a piece in The Times announced Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and […]
[PDF file]: […] Thatcher coming in gave them carte blanche to get up to all sorts of things. We heard whispers that some of these people were trying to destabilise Labour before the Tories got back in.’ We’ve been here before. Back in the late 1970s, the people gathered round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals […]
