1 hr 3 min
Searching for Socialism: In and Against the Party with Leo Panitch and Jon Trickett The World Transformed
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Labour's 1983 election campaign was notoriously dubbed 'the longest suicide note in history'. It opened the way not only for a decade of Thatcher's brutal policies, but also for a sharp turn to the right in the Labour party itself.
The idea that a left-wing program could never win an election became sacrosanct with the 1997 'New Labour' landslide.
🎤 Leo Panitch and Jon Trickett MP discuss what was new Labour's path to power, within the party and the country? How did the left respond and organise in and against the party during this time?
Labour's 1983 election campaign was notoriously dubbed 'the longest suicide note in history'. It opened the way not only for a decade of Thatcher's brutal policies, but also for a sharp turn to the right in the Labour party itself.
The idea that a left-wing program could never win an election became sacrosanct with the 1997 'New Labour' landslide.
🎤 Leo Panitch and Jon Trickett MP discuss what was new Labour's path to power, within the party and the country? How did the left respond and organise in and against the party during this time?
1 hr 3 min