New Historical Express

Category: labour history

Archives, Digital humanities, history from below, labour history

Talk: The Opportunities and Limits of Digital Radical Archives (video)
Announcements, Blairism, British far left, British History, Jeremy Corbyn, Journal articles, labour history, New Labour, Party manifestos, Tony Blair, UK Labour Party, Uncategorized

New article on Corbyn and the historical context of the 2017 Labour manifesto
British far left, British History, Communist Party of Great Britain, International communist movement, labour history, National Left-Wing Movement, Trade unions, UK Labour Party, Uncategorized

New book: ‘Communists and Labour: The National Left-Wing Movement 1925-1929’ by Lawrence Parker (with extract)
Conservatives, Elections, Harold Wilson, labour history, Tories, UK Labour Party, Uncategorized

‘Who Governs Britain?’: The last time the Tories called a snap election…
1968, Aboriginal activism, Announcements, Australian history, Australian Labor Party, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Contemporary history, labour history, Maoism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, New Left, Peace movement, protest, Socialist Party of Australia, Trade unions, Tribune, Trotskyism, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Whitlam Government, Women’s liberation

Forthcoming volume: The Far Left in Australia since 1945
Archives, British History, Contemporary history, Criminal justice system, Criminology, crowd control, Government inquiries, Hillsborough, Home Office, labour history, Law & order, Macpherson Report, Margaret Thatcher, Miners’ Strikes, National Archives (UK), Orgreave, Police violence, Policing history, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Riots, Scarman Report, State violence, Thatcherism, Tories, Trade unions

Orgreave is not merely history, but an important historical incident that needs to be fully investigated
A. Sivanandan, Anti-Nazi League, Anti-racism, Black sections, British ‘race relations’, British far left, Commission for Racial Equality, Communist Party of Great Britain, Grunwick, Indian Workers Association, labour history, Marxism Today, New Times, Racial discrimination, Stuart Hall, Trade unions, TUC, UK Labour Party

After Grunwick: Trade unions and anti-racism in the 1980s
British far left, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain, Daily Worker/Morning Star, Elections, Entryism, International Marxist Group, IS/SWP, Jeremy Corbyn, labour history, Marxism, Marxism Today, Marxism-Leninism, Militant/Socialist Party, New Labour, New Left, Seamus Milne, Stop the War, Trade unions, UK Labour Party

Corbyn, Labour and the limits of the British far left