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Labour and the Left in the 1980s

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This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.

Inhaltsverzeichnis










Foreword by Peter Tatchell
Introduction: new histories of Labour and the left in the 1980s - Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam

Part I: The crisis of the Labour Party
1 Retrieving or re-Imagining the past? The case of 'Old Labour', 1979-94 - Eric Shaw
2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s - Martin Farr
3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties - Paul Bloomfield
4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s - Richard Carr

Part II: The British Left in a global context
5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika: Labour and the Soviet influence - Jonathan Davis
6 The international context: end of an era - John Callaghan

Part III: Currents of the Wider Left
7 Militant's laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the Thatcher government - Neil Pye
8 'Fill a Bag and Feed a Family': the miners' strike and its supporters - Maroula Joannou
9 'Race Today cannot fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s - Robin Bunce
Index

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Jonathan Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Anglia Ruskin University

Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University

Zusammenfassung

Explores the aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. This book also situates the crisis of the left in international terms as the socialist world began to collapse.

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