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Bristol University Press Rebuilding Social Democracy: Core Principles for the Centre Left
Publishing rationale • Following on from Hain’s Back to the Future of Socialism this Insight brings together the work and ideas of the Social Democratic Philosophy Group to rethink the basic principles of the Left • It will bring the intellectual depth needed to policy and political discussions that are so topical at the moment given the Corbyn election. • As a short it can be published quickly and in time for Labour Party Conference in September to influence the debates there. • All authors are leading academics in the field and combine academic rigour with political activism. Unique selling point: This book is the first attempt by a group of academic scholars to seriously rethink the basic values of the left in a generation in the belief that that is the only way for the Labour Party to break out of the intellectual vacuum in which it has become trapped.
£12.66
Biteback Publishing John Smith
An extremely timely reevaluation of the lost Labour Prime Minister. The man who set the course for the last Labour government, and in whom many see the future of the next.
£20.09
Biteback Publishing Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot - Reappraising Peter Shore
Peter Shore worked under Hugh Gaitskell, serving in successive Labour Cabinets under first Harold Wilson and subsequently James Callaghan. He wrote the 1964, 1966 and 1970 general election manifestos for the party and stood in both the 1980 and the 1983 party leadership elections. He would go on to be known as one of the Labour Party's most important thinkers. He had a long political career at the upper levels of the Labour Party and was close to successive leaders. Despite this, he was also independent minded, as evidenced by the 1976 IMF crisis and his long-standing opposition to European integration. As well as this key debate, the authors also address crucial issues within the Labour movement, from macroeconomic management to the extent to which the party can be a force for socialism. This remarkable new study offers a comprehensive and timely reappraisal of the man and his record, examining the context within which he operated, his approach and responses to changing social and economic norms, his opposition to Britain's membership of what is now the EU, and how he was viewed by peers from across the political spectrum. Finally, it examines the overall impact of Peter Shore on the development of British politics. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of political theory, and from Shore's own contemporaries, this book is an important new assessment of one of Labour's most interesting political thinkers in twentieth-century British politics.
£20.09
