Labour and the left in the 1980s - by Jonathan Davis & Rohan McWilliam (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Why did the British Labour Party and the wider left fail to defeat Thatcherism in the 1980s? Has the time come to view the 1980s left in new ways? This pioneering volume is the first to explore progressive politics in the decade that profoundly shaped the way we live today.<br /> <br /> This was the era of Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Tony Benn, the Militant Tendency, the miners' strike, <em>The Boys from the Blackstuff</em> and tabloid attacks on the 'loony left'. The political failures of this period led Labour to spend the years from 1979 to 1997 in the political wilderness and forced the party to remake itself in the form of Tony Blair's New Labour. However, this volume argues that the 1980s was in fact a very creative time for the left, which championed feminism, racial equality, environmentalism and gay rights. Causes that were once associated with the counter-culture became mainstream. If the right won the economic arguments, the left helped set the social and moral agenda of the twenty-first century. Leading scholars illuminate the conflicts over ideas, leadership and political identity as neo-liberalism challenged the social democratic order. <br /> <br /> The book contains a foreword by iconic political activist Peter Tatchell, who reflects on the struggles of those years and their relevance for politics today. <em>Labour and the left in the 1980s </em>will be read by all interested in modern British politics and history and by anyone concerned with the future of progressive ways of living.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Why did the British Labour Party and the wider left fail to defeat Thatcherism in the 1980s? Has the time come to view the 1980s left in new ways? This pioneering volume is the first to explore progressive politics in the decade that profoundly shaped the way we live today. This was the era of Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Tony Benn, the Militant Tendency, the miners' strike, <i>The Boys from the Blackstuff</i> and tabloid attacks on the 'loony left'. The political failures of this period led Labour to spend the years from 1979 to 1997 in the political wilderness and forced the party to remake itself in the form of Tony Blair's New Labour. However, this volume argues that the 1980s was in fact a very creative time for the left, which championed feminism, racial equality, environmentalism and gay rights. Causes that were once associated with the counter-culture became mainstream. If the right won the economic arguments, the left helped set the social and moral agenda of the twenty-first century. Leading scholars illuminate the conflicts over ideas, leadership and political identity as neo-liberalism challenged the social democratic order. The book contains a foreword by iconic political activist Peter Tatchell, who reflects on the struggles of those years and their relevance for politics today. <i>Labour and the Left in the 1980s </i>will be read by all interested in modern British politics and history and by anyone concerned with the future of progressive ways of living.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>This volume is a reappraisal of the 1980s as not a time of political failure but also 'a creative decade for the left. Victories may have been few but there was no lack of energy' (p. 2). It claims that if the right won the economic argument of this period, the left helped set the social and moral<br>agenda of the twenty-first century. - Eleanor Lowe, Queen Mary University of London, Twentieth Century British History <br><p></p><br>An illuminating book and always a serious one, offering the reader a number of full and useful discussions. - Trevor Harris, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, Cercles Revue <br><p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Jonathan Davis is Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Anglia Ruskin University <p/>Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University<br>
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