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The Introduction establishes the themes of the volume but also makes an argument about how the history of Labour and the left in the 1980s might develop. It surveys the challenges for the left in the age of Thatcherism, interpreting them from the perspective of long term trends in the history of Labour and class politics in the twentieth century but also within the global context. The Introduction makes the case that the left was not an irrelevant force and that it played a major role in constructing the political and social arguments of our time.
Keywords: Labour Party, the international left, socialism, social movements, political culture, identity politics, print culture, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock
Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781526106438 |
Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781526106438.001.0001 |
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