New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall New Cloth First Edition A look at the labour party, and the changes in the party, as it moved to the left many years ago!

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback First Edition Examines Labour's move to the left in the late 1970s.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Fine Hard Cover First Edition Examines Labour's 13 years in the political wilderness and its attempts to remodel itself into a governing party. Gaitskell He was born in London, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1927. He first became interested in politics as a result of the General Strike of 1926, and lectured in economics for the Workers' Educational Association to miners in Nottinghamshire. In the 1930s he was an academic at University College London, where he headed the Department of Political Economy. He also worked as a tutor at Birkbeck College. Gaitskell witnessed firsthand in Vienna the political suppression of the Marxist-oriented social democratic workers movement by the conservative Engelbert Dollfuss's government. The event made a lasting impression, making him profoundly hostile to conservatism but also making him reject as futile the Marxian outlook of many continental social democrats. This placed him in the socialist revisionist camp. Because of his misfortune in never becoming prime minister, and the great capacity many considered that he had for the post, Hugh Gaitskell is remembered largely with respect from people both within, and outside of the Labour Party. He is still regarded with affection even among Labour's left-wing, including Tony Benn, who in particular contrasts his stand on the Suez Crisis to that of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, on the war in Iraq. Rare.

Revisionism in the British Labour Party 1951-64.Hardback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition,no dust jacket,286pages. 600g ISBN: