PTO Extra! What was New Labour? w/ Jeremy Gilbert
Added 2022-05-09 12:08:05 +0000 UTCThe 2nd of May marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of New Labour's coming to power and the election of Tony Blair as prime minister. Jeremy Gilbert returned to PTO to talk about how he viewed the New Labour project at the time, and about how the Blairites succeeded in winning support within the party, despite a distinct lack of enthusiasm for their neoliberal policy agenda. We also talked about why Jeremy disagreed with Stuart Hall's analysis that saw New Labour as a hybrid project - containing both neoliberal and social democratic threads. And finally, Jeremy explained why, in spite of the defeat of the Corbyn project, he believes the broad left is in a much stronger position than it was a decade ago.
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Thanks, I'll put that to Jeremy.
Politics Theory Other
2022-05-11 12:51:19 +0000 UTCJust a small point: Cooper does not argue Hayek et al were inherently socially conservative: her book is about the Chicago School esp. Becker and Friedman and their ‘alliance’ with neocons, the two converging at the issue of family responsibility
majjj
2022-05-11 10:47:11 +0000 UTC
