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Labour's Civil Wars
How Infighting has Kept the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done About It)
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Labour's Civil Wars
How Infighting has Kept the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done About It)
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A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party's perpetual internal divisions.
The biblical adage that "if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand" remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. When a party is riven with division, the public does not know what it stands for. Though both major UK parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, the Labour Party has been more prone to damaging splits. The divide exposed by the Corbyn insurgency is only the most recent example in almost a century of destructive infighting. Indeed, it has often seemed as though Labour has been more adept at fighting itself than in defeating the Tory party. This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party's course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.
The biblical adage that "if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand" remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. When a party is riven with division, the public does not know what it stands for. Though both major UK parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, the Labour Party has been more prone to damaging splits. The divide exposed by the Corbyn insurgency is only the most recent example in almost a century of destructive infighting. Indeed, it has often seemed as though Labour has been more adept at fighting itself than in defeating the Tory party. This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party's course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halfpage
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Why Labour is Given to Civil Wars
- 2. Government or Opposition: The 1931 Split and the Fall of Ramsay MacDonald
- 3. Revisionists versus Fundamentalists: Gaitskell and Bevan at War 1951–64
- 4. The Bennite Revolt and the Birth of the Social Democratic Party: Healey, Benn, and Jenkins 1964–87
- 5. New Labour at War: Blair and Brown’s Dual Premiership 1997–2010
- 6. The Left Insurgency, Corbyn’s Leadership, and the Succession of Keir Starmer
- 7. Conclusion: The Way Ahead
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index