Fightback! - Labour''s Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s

Informationen zum Autor Dianne Hayter is a member of the Labour Party's NEC, former General Secretary of the Fabian Society and former Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party Klappentext This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability Zusammenfassung This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party! weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981! successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1: BACKGROUND1. Introduction2. The scene the right facedSection 2: EVENTS & ISSUES3. 1981 Deputy leadership contest4. 1983 Leadership election5. Militant6. OMOV - One Member One VoteSection 3: GROUPS7. Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, 1974-19838. Labour First9. St Ermins Group - the background10. St Ermins Group11. Labour Solidarity Campaign12. Forward LabourSection 413. Reviewing 1974 to 198814. Epilogue - from 1988 to 2004

Product details

• Authors: Dianne Hayter
• Assisted by: John Callaghan (Editor), Steven Fielding (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2005
• EAN: 9780719072710
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7271-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Critical Labour Movement Studi; Critical Labour Movement Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education