Index

 
Abse, Leo 71, 75, 78
Adams, Gerry 205, 207
affluent socialism 123, 124, 128
AIDS/HIV 2, 77
Ali, Tariq 74
Allaun, Frank 48
Alternative Economic Strategy 11, 30, 31, 49, 53, 95, 132
Ambrose, Jean 193
Anderson, Joe 166
Apartheid (South Africa) and anti-apartheid 13, 14, 199
Arbatov, Georgy 119
Archer, Peter 73
Attlee, Clement xii, 8, 10, 14, 50, 60, 93
 
Band Aid 2
Bank of England 93, 106
Banks, Tony 76
Beese, Barbara 193
Belchem John 155
Bellos, Linda 78, 194
Benn, Tony (Anthony Wedgwood Benn) x, xiv, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 36, 44, 46, 59, 75, 125
Berlin Wall 1, 113, 116, 127, 129
Bermondsey by-election (1983) x, 73–5
Bernstein, Eduard 127
Bevin, Ernest 13
Birchall, Tommy 155
Black Liberation 192, 206
Blair, Tony 7, 17, 18, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 75, 84, 91, 95, 100, 101, 106, 143, 165, 206
Blue Labour 84–5
Blunkett, David 32, 37, 182
Bond, Sampson (Sam) 159
Bowker, Mike 118, 120
Bragg, Billy 4
Brandt, Willy 119, 127
Brezhnev, Leonid 118, 121, 126
Bright, Graham 80, 83
British Black Panther movement 192, 193
Brooke, Stephen 72, 79, 80
Brown, Archie 115, 127
Brown, George 71
Brown, Gordon 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 206
Buckley, William F. 47
Bush, President George H. W. 12
Byrne, Tony 162
 
Cairns, David 84
Callaghan, James (Jim) 5, 10, 13, 44–62, 136, 153, 154, 197
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) 4, 5, 15, 118, 137, 138, 175, 178
Campbell, Beatrix 2
Cameron, David 15
Carter, President Jimmy 47, 138
Castle, Barbara 9, 71
Chamberlain, Neville 50
Chapple, Frank 47
Charter 15, 88
Chartism 3
Chernenko, Konstantin 118–21
Chernyaev, Anatoly 122
Clarke, Charles 118, 122
Clarke, John 85
class, social (class structure and class politics) x, 3, 8–11, 15–18, 30, 71, 77, 80, 82, 84, 85, 104, 120–2, 124, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 145, 152, 153, 161, 163, 174, 180, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197
Cold War 3, 13, 19, 113, 118, 119, 133, 137, 138
Communist Party of Great Britain 2, 116, 178, 180, 181, 185
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) 113–20, 122, 123, 127, 128
consensus politics, post-war x, xii, 3, 69, 85, 135, 197
Conservative Party x, xi, 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 35, 37, 50, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 69, 70, 72, 73, 76–84, 123, 134, 139, 172, 177, 178, 151, 152, 153, 156, 158, 159, 161, 163
consumerism 6, 9, 121, 124, 126
Cook, Betty 184
Cook, Robin 32, 120
‘convergence’ 103, 114, 115, 116, 120, 122, 123, 128
Corbyn, Jeremy xii, 3, 18, 19, 32, 40, 41, 75, 92, 95, 166
Craigie, Jill 73
Crewe, Ivor 73
Crick, Michael 152
Cronin, James 36
Crosland, Tony (Anthony) 7, 9, 30, 71–3, 84
Cunningham, Jack 79, 165
Curran, James 74
Currie, Edwina 84
 
Davies, Sam 155
Deane, Jimmy 155
Delors, Jacques 12, 139, 143
democratic socialism 7, 116, 117, 123–5, 127, 128, 142, 155, 160
Deng Xiaoping 13, 115
Desai, Meghnad 101
designer socialism 6
development state 7, 30, 32, 33
Diamond, Patrick 85
disarmament see nuclear weapons
Disraeli, Benjamin 50
Dobson, Frank 71, 85
Dhondy, Farrukh 19–23, 201, 205
Drucker, Henry M. 28, 39
Dubček, Alexander 121
Duncan, Peter 114
 
Eastern Europe 13, 98, 116, 122, 129, 143, 145
Eatwell, John 34, 101, 102, 105
economic liberalism 6, 15, 19, 69, 70, 121, 140, 142, 143–4, 146, 206
Edwards, Nicholas 103
Ellman, Louise 160
Elton, Ben 17
Empire, British 16
European Economic Community (EEC)/Common Market 5, 11, 12, 18, 32, 34, 53, 57, 60, 83, 141–2, 153, 166
European Investment Bank 94, 98
Evans, Moss 52
 
Fabian Society 12, 29, 37
Falklands War 10, 15, 55, 139, 174
feminism xi, xiv, 2, 4, 11, 14, 73, 81, 85, 181, 184–5
Field, Frank 46
Flynn, Paul 99
Fogarty, Liam 153, 158
Foot, Michael 2, 4, 5, 10, 16, 36, 44, 45, 50, 58, 73, 75, 91, 96–8, 106, 118, 138, 156
Fowler, Norman 163
France 132, 133, 134, 135, 139, 140, 142
Franklin, Stanley 54
Frost, Diane 152, 161
 
Gaitskell, Hugh 9, 10, 49, 50, 56
Galbraith, John Kenneth 16
gay rights 14, 69–80
General Strike (1926) xi, 6
Gerasimov, Gennady 121
Gilmour, Alan 81
Gladden, Roy 165
Gladstone, William E. 48
glasnost’ (openness) 126
globalisation 7, 11, 113, 115, 120, 123, 128, 129, 142, 143–4, 152
Golding, John 152
Gorbachev, Mikhail 2, 13, 113–29, 138
Gould, Bryan 7, 31–4, 36, 99, 102, 105
Gould, Joyce 152, 180
Gould, Philip 26, 27, 29, 35, 37, 56, 57, 60
Grant, Bernie 59, 79
Grant, Ted 155, 157
Greater London Council (GLC) x, xi, xiv, 2, 14, 71, 76–8, 81–2, 161, 182, 197
Greece 132, 134, 135, 141
Green Party 2, 18
Greenaway, Harry 82
Greenham Common peace camp 4, 13, 14, 183
 
Hall, Stuart 4, 15, 28
Hamilton, John 156, 157, 159
Hardie, James Keir 17
Hare, David 2, 17, 60
Harris, José 123
Hassan, Leila 193, 194, 199–200, 201, 205, 206–7
Hattersley, Roy 7, 31, 36, 37, 47, 53, 57, 72, 74, 75, 98, 104, 105
Hatton, Derek 2, 151, 156, 158–60, 163, 164–5
Hayward, Ron 48, 157
Healey, Denis 5, 36, 45–7, 52, 54, 56–7, 60, 75, 118–20
Heffer, Eric 49, 52, 56–7, 117
Heseltine, Michael 154
Hewitt, Patricia 49, 61, 78, 118
Hilton, Denis 39
Hobsbawm, Eric 3, 26, 136
Hodge, Margaret 78
Holland, Stuart 95
homosexuality see gay rights
Hooton, Peter 162
Howe, Darcus 192–4, 196–206
Howe, Geoffrey 154
Howell, Denis 82
Hudson, Hugh 55
Hughes, David 157
Hughes, Simon 73
Humane Democratic Socialism 123, 127, 128
Hyman, Peter 38
 
immigration 16, 73, 84, 139, 140, 197
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 5, 96, 136, 144
internationalism 3, 98, 115
Irish Republican Army (IRA) 75, 205
Italy 96, 98, 121, 122, 133, 134, 135
 
James, C. L. R. 192–8, 201–6
James, Sian 184
Jacques, Martin 28
Jeger, Lena 71
Jenkin, Patrick 159–60, 163
Jenkins, Clive 46, 47
Jenkins, Peter 48
Jenkins, Roy 4, 10, 46, 71–3, 83
Johnson, Linton Kwesi 193, 195, 200, 206
Jones, Oliver 124
Jones, Tudor 123, 126
Joseph, Keith 96, 162
 
Kaldor, Nicholas 101
Kaufman, Gerald 1, 47, 202
Kendall, Liz 40
Kennedy, Malcolm 160
Kenny, Michael 85
Keynes, John Maynard 1, 6, 19, 30, 31, 33–5, 115, 132–3, 136, 146
Kilfoyle, Peter 152
King, Anthony 73
Kinnock, Neil 3–6, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 30, 31, 44, 46, 50, 55, 58, 73, 75, 83, 84, 90–1, 95, 98–106, 113–29, 138, 157, 164–6, 180, 187
Knight, Jill 79
Knight, Ted 161
Kohl, Helmut 134, 141
 
Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights 72, 73, 182
Labour Co-Ordinating Committee 37
Labour councils 78, 79, 151–66
Labour governments 1, 8, 9, 10, 30, 34, 47, 69, 72, 83, 84, 117, 136, 153
Labour and international affairs 12–14, 113–131, 132–148
labour movement (including trade unions) 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10–12, 15, 16, 27, 29, 35, 44, 45, 53, 82, 120, 122, 155, 164, 172, 174, 175, 177–80, 182, 184, 186–7, 197
Labour Party xii, xiii, xiv, 1–22, 25–43, 44–68, 69–89, 90–109, 113–31, 132–6, 138, 140, 143, 145, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 166, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184–5
black and women's sections 11
conference 4, 29, 48
leadership 5, 9, 44–62, 74, 75, 79, 126, 157, 159, 164–5
see also individual party leaders
parliamentary Labour Party 5, 44, 48, 70, 81
Labour voters 9, 54, 77, 78, 85, 121
Labour Weekly 49
labourism 29, 37
Lansbury, George xii, 74
Lawrence, Ivan 76
Lawson, Nigel 57, 96, 143–4, 177
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners x, 182
Letwin, Oliver 161
Leys, Colin 123
Liberal Party (after 1988 the Liberal Democratic Party) 1, 6, 9, 15, 46, 73, 74, 75, 79, 84, 152, 161
liberalism 4, 14, 69–85, 206
see also economic liberalism
Limehouse Declaration, the 90
Livingstone, Ken xi, 2, 14, 17, 19, 53, 58, 71, 77, 81, 104, 182, 205
Liu, James 39
Liverpool City Council 151–66
'loony left' 1, 4, 14, 49, 70, 77, 79
Luckock, Paul 160
 
MacDonald, James Ramsay 165
Mackley, Simon 84
Macmillan Gap, the 92, 94, 96–7, 101, 102, 105
Major, John 1, 18, 55
Mahoney, James 29
Mandela, Nelson 13–14
Mandelson, Peter 26, 35, 37, 40, 51, 53, 55, 101, 157
Mao Zedong (Tse Tung) 13
Marquand, David 69
Marren, Brian 152
Marxism 11, 12, 17, 37, 69, 114, 116, 133, 140
Marxism Today 3, 7, 15, 122
Marwick, Arthur 77
Maxwell, Robert 16
McGahey, Mick 181
Mellish, Robert 73
Miliband, Ed 166
Militant and Militant Tendency 4, 5, 16, 31, 32, 38, 49, 50, 57, 74, 75, 90, 99, 116, 151–66
miners' strike x, 5, 10, 31, 38, 50, 56, 75, 158, 172–7, 179, 187
Minkin, Lewis 27, 36
Mitchell, Austen 47, 72, 120
Mitterand, President François 115, 134, 145
Momentum 166
Morgan, Kenneth O. 73
Morning Star 122, 181, 182
Morrell, Frances 78
Morrison, Herbert 80, 157
Mortimer, Jim 58
Mulhearn, Tony 151, 155, 156, 161, 165
Murdoch, Rupert 1, 6, 16
 
Naden, Gwendoline 78
National Coal Board (NCB) 172, 173, 177
National Enterprise Board 91, 94, 95
National Investment Bank, the (NIB) 91, 92, 94, 96–106
nationalisation xii, 8, 9, 11, 27, 29, 36, 37, 38, 50, 72, 77, 90, 97, 99, 100, 117, 123, 126, 139
NATO 13, 118, 119, 137, 138, 141
neo-liberalism see economic liberalism
New Labour 7, 8, 11, 15, 18, 19, 25–41, 53, 84, 92, 106, 123, 143, 165, 166
New Right 12, 69, 96, 113, 120, 122, 140, 142
New Statesman 6, 15, 16, 142
News on Sunday 1, 16
North, Peter 152, 161
Northern Ireland 14, 15, 72, 205
nuclear power 2, 174
nuclear weapons (and disarmament) x, xiv, 2, 5, 6, 13, 14, 52, 58, 90, 118, 120, 122, 126, 127, 137, 138, 139, 175, 178
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 172–6, 180–7
New Cross Fire 197–9, 202
 
O’Grady, John 73
‘Old Labour’ 7, 8, 18, 25–41, 166
Orme, Stan 180
Owen, David 47, 48, 71
 
Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) 132, 134, 141
Parkinson, Michael 152
Parris, Matthew 82
Parshin, Lev 118
Pelling, Henry 120
perestroika (restructuring) 113–14, 115, 119, 121, 123, 127, 128, 129
Petley, Julian 82
Phillips, Trevor 202
Pimlott, Ben 114
Policy Review (Labour Party 1987–88) 3, 6, 13, 30–5, 37, 53, 103–4, 123–5, 127
Poll Tax (community charge) x, 4, 161
Ponomarev, Boris 119
Powell, Enoch 11
Pravda, Alex 114
Prescott, John 32, 106
Purton, Peter 73
 
Race Today and Race Today Collective 192–206
racism 4, 140, 193, 199, 202
Radice, Giles 90, 104, 106
Randall, Nick 37
Reagan, President Ronald 12, 13, 59, 113, 118, 120, 134, 136–41, 144
Red Wedge 2
republicanism 15
Richardson, Jo 75
Robertson, Geoffrey 82
Robertson, George 118, 120
Roderick, Eddie 156
Rodgers, Bill 52
Roper, John 52
 
Salter, Afred 74
Sandle, Mark 127
Sayle, Alexei 17
Scargill, Arthur 2, 35, 50, 56, 173, 177, 179–81, 184
Scottish politics 15, 181
Sen, Mala 193
Section 28 (Local Government Act 1988) x, 14, 69, 79–80, 84
sexuality 3, 14, 69–80
Shearman, Peter 118, 120
Shore, Peter 46, 47, 48, 49
Short, Clare 14, 81
Sinowatz, Alfred 118
Smith, Chris 2, 76
Smith, Clarissa 81
Smith, John 33–7, 57, 62, 102, 104
Snell, Bill 156
social democracy 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 19, 37, 55, 90, 92, 113, 114, 115, 118, 121, 127, 128, 129, 132–3, 135, 142, 195, 196
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 1–6, 10, 16, 52, 72–3, 75, 78, 83, 85, 116, 134
socialism as political doctrine xi, 2, 4, 7–13, 15, 37, 55, 57, 71, 72, 76, 113–17, 121–5, 127–9, 135, 140–2, 151–2, 155, 160, 181
see also designer socialism
Socialist Party of Spain (PSOE) 134, 141
Socialist Workers Party 18, 116, 155
Soviet Union (USSR) 2, 3, 10, 12, 13, 113–23, 125–9, 137–40, 145
Soviet socialism 13, 114–16, 122, 125, 127–9
Spain 132–4, 141
Spitting Image 2, 55, 75
Stanbrook, Ivor 83
Steel, David 46–7
Strategic Defence Initiative (‘Star Wars’) 13, 118, 120
Stokes, Donald 91, 106
Straw, Jack 76
Sun, the 1, 14, 16, 18, 54, 77, 81, 179
Suslov, Mikhail 119
Sweden 98, 105, 115, 133, 135, 138
Swift, Jonathan 54
 
Taaffe, Peter 151, 155, 157, 161
Tatchell, Peter x–xii, 73, 74, 75
Taylor, Matthew 27
Tebbit, Norman 76, 83
Thatcher, Margaret and her governments (1979–90) xii, 6, 10–11, 13, 15–16, 18, 51, 57, 69, 77–8, 82–3, 90–1, 94–6, 98, 102, 114–15, 120, 128, 134, 136–41, 143–5, 151–4, 156, 158–61, 163–5, 172–4, 176–7, 187, 197
Thatcherism as political doctrine x, xi, xiii, 1–5, 7, 9–12, 15, 28, 70, 113, 120–3, 125, 128, 152, 197, 206
Thornton, Glenys 78
Tillett, Ben 17
Todd, Ron 124
Toynbee, Polly 78, 81–2
trade unions see labour movement
Tribune 16, 47, 52, 56
Tuffin, Alan 57
Turner, Alwyn 74, 82
 
Ullman, Tracey 55
unemployment xiv, 1, 5, 12, 15, 27, 35, 50, 90, 94, 105, 133, 135–6, 139, 141, 144–5, 153–7, 163, 176
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) 12, 84
 
valence politics 91, 99–100, 106
Veber, Aleksandr 114
‘video nasties’ 70–1, 80–3
Vinen, Richard 79
Wainwright, Hilary 53, 175
Walker, Alexander 80–1
Wardell, Gareth 82
Weeks, Jeffrey 69
Weir, Stuart 15
Wellbeloved, James 75
West Germany 133, 135, 137, 138, 141–2, 144
Westlake, Martin 122
Whitehead, Alfred North 83
Whitehouse, Mary 69–70, 80
Williams, Charles 98, 106
Williams, Ian 157
Williams, Len 48
Wilson, Harold 9–10, 52, 59, 60, 71, 72, 85, 94, 102, 120, 153
Wistrich, Enid 81
Wogan, Terry 51
women's politics see feminism
Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) x, 174, 181–5
Worcester, Bob 56
working class see class, social (class structure and class politics)
 
Zagladin, Vadim 119
Zotov, Aleksandr 114