Crosland and New Labour
Crosland and New Labour

Author: Dick Leonard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1349271241

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How much does Tony Blair owe to Anthony Crosland? The author of The Future of Socialism , who died suddenly as Foreign Secretary in 1977, remains the major philosophical inspiration and reference point for the left. To what extent is New Labour fashioned in Crosland's image? What can the Blair government learn from his writings and ministerial achievements? An all-star cast of sixteen authors examine Crosland's legacy in political theory and political practice and point to numerous ways in which his message remains relevant to policy-makers today. The contributors include Gordon Brown, Roy Hattersley, Michael Young, Raymond Plant, David Lipsey, Brian Brivati and Tony Wright. Susan Crosland contributes a moving postscript.

The Future of Socialism
The Future of Socialism

Author: Anthony Crosland

Publisher: Constable

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1472112199

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The 50th anniversary edition of the book that changed English Politics. With an Introduction by Gordon Brown. It is impossible to think of the intellectual landscape of Britain today without recognising the power of Crosland's The Future of Socialism in all aspects of the political debate. Still relevant 50 years after it was first published, Crosland's masterwork was a radical reworking of the role of the post-war Labour Party. This book sets out the philosophy for the New Labour project and also contains the key for reviving the fortunes of the Party of the future. Also included is a piece by Dick Leonard, Crosland's Personal Private Secretary and who knew the radical philosopher well, and an afterword from Susan Crosland.

Anthony Crossland
Anthony Crossland

Author: Kevin Jefferys

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781842752227

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Anthony Crosland was the leading exponent of moderate socialism in the era before New Labour. This biography, based on private papers and interviews with friends and colleagues, provides a fully-integrated account of his writing and political career.

The Crosland Legacy
The Crosland Legacy

Author: Patrick Diamond

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2016-07-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1447324730

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In Crosland's Legacy, noted political writer Patrick Diamond explores the contemporary impact of Anthony Crosland's writings on the British Labour Party, in particular through his work The Future of Socialism, published nearly sixty years ago. Despite widespread questioning of many of Crosland's assumptions alongside obvious and important changes in British society and the economy since The Future of Socialism was published, Diamond argues that Crosland continues to serve as a key intellectual reference point for today's Labour Party. In making the claim that "socialism is about equality," Crosland set the context for debates that bridge Gaitskell's Labour Party in the 1950s and the development into New Labour headed by Blair, Brown, and Miliband. This book will examine Crosland's intellectual legacy as manifested in the debates of today's Labour Party.

The Conservative Enemy
The Conservative Enemy

Author: Anthony Crosland

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Labor member of Parliament outlines a program of radical Left-wing reform.

Friends and Rivals
Friends and Rivals

Author: Giles Radice

Publisher: Little Brown GBR

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780316855471

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In the 1976 Labour Party leadership election following Harold Wilson's surprise resignation as Prime Minister, the then Foreign Secretary Jim Callaghan was Wilson's favourite to succeed him. The main candidate of the Left was Michael Foot. The three most prominent standard bearers of the modernising tendency inside the Party were Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland. All three had been exact contemporaries at Oxford University and each had more in common than separated them. Yet they could not get together and sort things out between them - and Callaghan won. Giles Radice's elegantly written comparative biography of a group is an analysis of how the combined overall achievement of the three amounts to less than it might have been - how friendship and mutual rivalry, despite individual eminence and brilliance, are corrosive and damaging forces.

Back to the Future of Socialism
Back to the Future of Socialism

Author: Hain, Peter

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1447321677

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What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around our politics and media? Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until the global banking crisis. Now Peter Hain presents an evidence-based case for a radical alternative to the neo-liberal economic agenda. A substantial new Afterword outlines what the Labour Party needs to do following the 2015 UK General Election to win again by returning to its core values of decency, social justice, equality and prosperity for all. A rousing alternative to the neoliberal, right-wing orthodoxy of our era, Hain’s book is now even more essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the left.

The Purple Book
The Purple Book

Author: Robert Philpot

Publisher: Biteback Publishing

Published: 2011-09-23

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1849542104

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The Labour Party is at a crossroads. Following its ejection from government, the reasons behind Labour's defeat have been hotly debated - but where to go from here? On the benches of opposition, with ample opportunity to consider how best to travel the path back to power, leading Labour figures are delving into the party's revisionist tradition to find an answer. The challenge now is how to return to the party's core principles, and it is to this challenge that The Purple Book offers a first contribution. With a foreword by Ed Miliband and contributors including both shadow and former ministers, new MPs and senior councillors, the book presents fresh policies for Labour's revival. Calling for a progressive agenda with, at its heart, a redistribution of power to individuals and local communities, The Purple Book draws on lessons from Labour's past and looks firmly to the future. Exploring the issues that the party must tackle in order to reshape the political debate, it seeks to reframe New Labour for the twenty-first century.

New Labour's Pasts
New Labour's Pasts

Author: James E. Cronin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1317873920

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Where other books are either highly partisan dismissals or appreciations of the Third Way, or dull sociological accounts, this book gets behind the clichés in order to show just what is left of Labour party ideology and what the future may hold. New Labour has changed the face of Britain. Culture, class, education, health, the arts, leisure, the economy have all seen seismic shifts since the 1997 election that raised Blair to power. The Labour that rules has distanced itself from the failed Labour of the 70s and 80s, but the core remains. Labour remains gripped by its own past - unable and unwilling to shed its ties to the old Labour party, but determined to avoid the mistakes of which lead to four electoral defeats between 1979 and 1992. Cronin covers the full history of the party from its post war triumph through decades of shambolic leadership against ruthless and organised opposition to the resurgent New Labour of the 90s that finally took Britain into the new millennium.

New Labour, Old Labour
New Labour, Old Labour

Author: Kevin Hickson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1134381611

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This book, written by a distinguished selection of academics and commentators, provides the most detailed comparison yet of old and new Labour in power.