Labour and the Left in the 1980s Pevná vazba
Labour and the Left in the 1980s Pevná vazba This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. There…
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Labour and the Left in the 1980s Pevná vazba
This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. There are articles about political leadership, economic alternatives, gay rights, the miners' strike, the Militant Tendency and the politics of race. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis.
Many of the causes it championed are now mainstream, suggesting that the time has come to reassess 1980s progressive politics, despite its undeniable electoral failures. The book also situates the crisis of the left in international terms as the socialist world began to collapse.Tony Blair's New Labour disavowed the 1980s left, associating it with failure, but this volume argues for a more complex approach. With this in mind, the contributors offer ground-breaking