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Paul Anderson journalist: LABOUR'S UNION PROBLEM
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Friday, 7 February 2014. Paul Anderson, Tribune. Column, 7 February 2014. Labour’s relationship with the trade unions has always been a problem. Union barons became fixtures in Labour politics, controlling local parties through their surrogates in much of the country and wielding decisive influence over the party conference – and between conferences they ran the National Executive Committee. Much more important, however, was the impact of the collapse of union membership during the 1980s and 1990s. T...
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Reasons to be Impossible: January 2004
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Reasons to be Impossible. A down at heels balls to the wall communist blog so ultra left even Pannekoek's mother wouldn't recognise it. Be reasonable, demand the impossible. Thursday, January 29, 2004. News reaches us of a revolt in Iran. To be sure, it is a congenial revolt, within the established political elite, but a revolt nonetheless. The BBC. People attempting (though failing) to organise public meetings in support of war. That passivity and acquiescence doesn’t just occur in tyrannies, and that a...
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Next Left: January 2012
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012. European Court of Human Rights: Worth fighting for? In his speech today in Strasbourg, David Cameron has argued Britain must use its chairmanship of the European Court of Human Rights to reform the court. A move likely to appease the eurosceptic wing of his party, Cameron’s call is one which paints the ECHR as overly interventionist and an unwelcome party in national legal proceedings. But is this really the case? Shows that in reality, only 3% of cases the court considers reg...
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Next Left: May 2012
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Monday, 14 May 2012. Next Left is closing down. With the launch of our new Fabian website. Next Left will be closing down soon. This new site includes our new online version of the magazine Fabian Review. Where we'll be publishing political news, policy analysis, book reviews and Fabian history as well as featuring contributions from Fabian Society members. Check out our new site at www.fabians.org.uk. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to Next Left - a Fabian Society blog. Next Left is closing down.
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Next Left: Budget 2012: The case for investment
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012. Budget 2012: The case for investment. Politics is the enemy of good fiscal and growth policy. This dynamic reveals itself in the tough times rather than the fair. The worst thing you can do if you want to support both short and medium growth is eliminate expenditures on investment. And yet, when you have to reduce a deficit that is exactly what gets cut first. Would make sense to enable this investment to be channelled into our infrastructure needs as soon as possible. An invest t...
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Next Left: March 2012
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012. Budget 2012: The conclusions. Andrew Harrop, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, gives his response to the chancellor's budget statement this afternoon. This is a budget of reheated Thatcherism. The Chancellor has unveiled a £5,000 annual Easter present for anyone earning a quarter of a million pounds, while keeping quiet about his real-terms cuts to tax credits and the minimum wage. Britain is becoming a more unequal country under Mr. Osborne. George Osborne’s stealt...
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Next Left: Budget 2012: The conclusions...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012. Budget 2012: The conclusions. Andrew Harrop, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, gives his response to the chancellor's budget statement this afternoon. This is a budget of reheated Thatcherism. The Chancellor has unveiled a £5,000 annual Easter present for anyone earning a quarter of a million pounds, while keeping quiet about his real-terms cuts to tax credits and the minimum wage. Britain is becoming a more unequal country under Mr. Osborne. George Osborne’s stealt...
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Next Left: Next Left is closing down...
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Monday, 14 May 2012. Next Left is closing down. With the launch of our new Fabian website. Next Left will be closing down soon. This new site includes our new online version of the magazine Fabian Review. Where we'll be publishing political news, policy analysis, book reviews and Fabian history as well as featuring contributions from Fabian Society members. Check out our new site at www.fabians.org.uk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Next Left - a Fabian Society blog. The World After Bush.
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Next Left: Part-time Parliament a loopy idea
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Friday, 24 February 2012. Part-time Parliament a loopy idea. This week Jack Straw proposed abolition of the European Parliament. Richard Howitt MEP, Chair of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and speaker at this weekend's ' Social Europe: Worth Fighting For. Conference gives his response. The politicians of that era I have talked to, speak with affection about the bars and nightspots of Strasbourg, but not of any political achievements in going there. And that was before the European Parliam...
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Next Left: Millande? Hollaband? Why Labour must get off the sidelines on Europe
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Thursday, 23 February 2012. Why Labour must get off the sidelines on Europe. Fabian Society General Secretary Andrew Harrop writes for Next Left ahead of this weekend's Social Europe: Worth Fighting For? With the European right rallying behind Nicolas Sarkozy for the upcoming French presidential election, Ed Miliband must now move Labour away from the sidelines and offer similar support for socialist candidate Francois Hollande. To get yours please visit the Fabian Society website. As with all Fabian Soc...