Party With Socialists in It - A History of the Labour Left

A smart and succinct history of the Labour left

List of contents

Foreword to the Second Edition by Nadia Whittome MP

Foreword to the First Edition by John McDonnell MP

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1. Divided Beginnings

2. Second Time as Disaster

3. The Age of Consent

4. The Civil War

5. 'Though Cowards Flinch...'

6. The Broad Church Collapses

7. The Single Idea

8. The Corbyn Supremacy

9. From Ancient Grudge Break to New Mutiny...

Conclusion: ...Where Civil Blood Makes Civil Hands Unclean

Notes

Index

About the author

Simon Hannah is a writer, activist, and trade unionist living in South London. He is an assistant branch secretary in UNISON and has written several books, including A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left, which was a Guardian Book of the Day.
Nadia Whittome is Labour MP for Nottingham East. On her election in December 2019 at the age of 23, Whittome became the youngest MP in the House of Commons. She is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs.
John McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician first elected in 1997, who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020, in the later years under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Sitting on the left of the party, he served as chair of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament and the Labour Representation Committee as well as the Public Services Not Private Profit Group. In 2024 he was suspended from the party as a result of voting to scrap the two child benefit cap.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Hannah
• Assisted by: McDonnell John (Foreword), Nadia Whittome (Foreword)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780745345574
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4557-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, 21st Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political parties and party platforms, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)