ABSTRACT

The election of the most left-wing Labour Party Leader since 1945, followed by the Party's third consecutive general election defeat and the ongoing cultural divisions around Brexit present an ideal opportunity for a thorough re-evaluation of the state of the Party within its broader ideological and historical context.

This second edition of this highly respected book analyses the current developments and places them in their historical setting through a clear three-part framework of Ideological Positions, Struggles and Commentaries.

Thoroughly updated and featuring contributions by leading academics and politicians, it continues to represent one of the most ground-breaking and thorough analyses of Labour's political thought in a generation and will be of key interest to scholars, students and observers of British Politics, British History, Party Politics, and the Labour Party.

part 1|74 pages

Positions

chapter 1|14 pages

The Old Left

chapter 2|13 pages

Labour’s New Left

Then and now

chapter 3|15 pages

The Centre 1

chapter 4|18 pages

The Old Right

chapter 5|13 pages

The Progressives

part 2|107 pages

Struggles

chapter 6|21 pages

Culture and character

chapter 7|13 pages

Social class

chapter 8|14 pages

Gender politics

chapter 9|14 pages

Political economy

chapter 10|16 pages

Sovereignty and the state

chapter 11|13 pages

European integration

chapter 12|15 pages

Defence

part 3|18 pages

Commentaries

chapter 13|5 pages

The Old Left

The Bevanites

chapter 14|3 pages

The New Left

Daring to be a Daniel

chapter 15|2 pages

The Centre

The need for unity

chapter 16|4 pages

The Old Right

Promoting growth and tackling globalisation

chapter 17|3 pages

New Labour