Labours Old And New: The Parliamentary Right Of The British Labour Party 1970-79 And The Roots Of New Labour (critical Labour Movement Studies)
by Stephen Meredith /
2008 / English / PDF
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This study attempts to understand the complex transition from
so-called "Old Right" to "New Right" or "New Labour," and
locates some of the roots of the latter in the complexity,
tensions, and fragmentation of the former during the "lean"
years of social democracy in the 1970s. The analysis addresses
both the short- and long-term implications of the emerging
ideological, organizational, and political complexity and
divisions of the parliamentary Labour right and Labour
revisionism, previously concealed within the loosely adhesive
post-war framework of Keynesian reformist social democracy. It
establishes the extent to which "New" Labour is a legatee of at
least some elements of the disparate and discordant Labour
right and tensions of social democratic revisionism in the
1970s.
This study attempts to understand the complex transition from
so-called "Old Right" to "New Right" or "New Labour," and
locates some of the roots of the latter in the complexity,
tensions, and fragmentation of the former during the "lean"
years of social democracy in the 1970s. The analysis addresses
both the short- and long-term implications of the emerging
ideological, organizational, and political complexity and
divisions of the parliamentary Labour right and Labour
revisionism, previously concealed within the loosely adhesive
post-war framework of Keynesian reformist social democracy. It
establishes the extent to which "New" Labour is a legatee of at
least some elements of the disparate and discordant Labour
right and tensions of social democratic revisionism in the
1970s.
