Contents

Notes on contributors 

Foreword by Peter Tatchell 

Preface 

Introduction: new histories of Labour and the left in the 1980s 

Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam

Part I: The crisis of the Labour Party

1 Retrieving or re-imagining the past? The case of ‘Old Labour’, 1979–94 

Eric Shaw

2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s 

Martin Farr

3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties 

Paul Bloomfield

4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s 

Richard Carr

Part II: The British left in a global context

5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika: Labour and the Soviet influence 

Jonathan Davis

6 The international context: end of an era 

John Callaghan

Part III: Currents of the wider left

7 Militant's laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the Thatcher Government 

Neil Pye

8 ‘Fill a bag and feed a family’: the miners’ strike and its supporters 

Maroula Joannou

9 ‘Race Today cannot fail’: black radicalism in the long 1980s 

Robin Bunce

Index