Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies

Fightback! tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, previously overshadowed by the left for a decade and weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, fought back organisationally to regain control of the party by 1985. This led to the production of a National Executive Committee supportive of Neil Kinnock, ready to expel Militant, introduce...

With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely...

Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984–85 by Jim Phillips is finally available in paperback. This book deeply analyses the 1984-85 miners' strike with a focus on its critical Scottish dimensions, particularly the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike commenced in Scotland, where workers defended the moral economy of the coalfields and resisted pit...