[PDF file]: […] Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to lose power.2 A Conservative win would have lead to Neave – who wanted to replace the Callaghan/Mason policy of containing and marginalizing the […]
[PDF file]: […] been deriding only a few days, let alone weeks, earlier. In a way their experience was a more vivid, concentrated and dramatic version of what happened to Labour after Neil Kinnock embraced the liberal rather than the social-democratic path to ‘modernisation’ after 1987. Maybe the result of the 1979 election was the watershed here […]
[PDF file]: […] property relations and education guaranteed the reproduction of the system. Known in Marxist literature as a ‘comprador class’, it would tend to welcome the inward investment and labour which facilitated a lop-sided national development privileging its own extensive economic interests.5 Money, the greater part of it from London, therefore flowed into extractive and agricultural […]
[PDF file]: […] this, all political parties continue to follow the example of Boris Johnson and assert that they can have their cake and eat it. Those who think the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an exception should look at his interview with Robert Peston.16 In my view this is no time for equivocation. We are […]
[PDF file]: […] about his fellow correspondents in Berlin and the various proprietors they worked for. Certainly, Rothermere seems to have been the worst, although Clement Attlee did apparently describe Lord Beaverbrook as ‘the only evil man I ever met’. (p. 121) John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.
[PDF file]: […] American reformers raised inheritance taxes to prevent the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy, and engaged in massive trust-busting. Modernising urban-planning systems could lower housing costs, and deregulating labour markets would help create good jobs for “excess” elites. David Goodhart in his TLS review15 refers to the cleansing effect of the extermination of a the […]
[…] recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front. 19 6 kind of bagman for the CIA front, the International Rescue […]
[PDF file]: […] that they knew each other; but it is said that they were ‘old friends’. In 1997, Barak had arrived in London as the leader of Israel’s beleaguered Labour Party, seeking help to win the 1999 election. With the aid of Blair’s experts in Millbank, he won and remained prime minister for two years. After […]
[PDF file]: […] starting to fracture yet. The Christian Right resolutely stands by Trump for the time being. John Newsinger is the author of many books, most recently All Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments.
[PDF file]: […] — the precursor to the Cuba embargo — US domestic and foreign policy have been consistently, even fanatically, driven by the imperative to keep its African slave labour force isolated from 1 Horne (2014), p. 170 2 At and . the rest of the world.3 The US regime has pursued a wide range of […]
