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The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From Benn to Blair

The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From Benn to Blair

by Colin Leys (Author), Leo Panitch (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

This is an account of the Labour Party between 1972 and 1997. It criticizes Tony Blair's new Labour orthodoxy as not only abandoning a commitment to social reform, but also as having rewritten Labour history. The authors argue that this period spawned a new Labour Left , a viable radical alternative which was deteated only by an over-dependency on parliamentary channels. Both the Old Labour centre-right and the Labour Left have been derided as dinosaurs and has-beens , while the period from the early 1970s to Blair's ascendancy has been dismissed as one of division, incompetence and failure. Leo Panitch is the author of Working-Class Politics in Crisis . Colin Ley is the author of The Rise and Fall of Development Theory and Politics in Britain .

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 29 Aug 1997
ISBN 10: 1859841090
ISBN 13: 9781859841099

Media Reviews
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have written a book whose significance extends far beyond the specific case of the British Labour Party. -- Critical Sociology . .. a brilliant refutation of New Labour's version of history. With an impressive range of evidence, careful analysis and a theoretical framework, [Panitch and Leys] have provided a highly readable and committed book ... recommended for everyone who really wants to understand the politics and recent history of the Labour Party. -- Contemporary Politics . .. a rich and immensely enjoyable narrative, full of detail about the trajectory taken by Labour over the last quarter-century. -- Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Colin Leys is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, Canada. His previous books include Politics in Britain, The Rise and Fall of Development Theory and, with Leo Panitch, The End of Parliamentary Socialism. Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University. Editor of The Socialist Register for 25 years, his many books include Working Class Politics in Crisis, A Different Kind of State, The End of Parliamentary Socialism, and American Empire and The Political Economy of Global Finance.