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Parliamentary Affairs 2007 60(2):363-369; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm002
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T H Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism

New Labour's Old Root: Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History 1931–1997s

Fightback! Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s

Eric Shaw

M. CarterT H Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism, Imprint Academic 2003, 223 pp., hb, £25.00.

P. DiamondNew Labour's Old Root: Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History 1931–1997s, Imprint Academic 2004, 264 pp., hb, £17.95.

D. HayterFightback! Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s, MUP, 2005, 211 pp., Pb, £14.99.

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All these three books, in their various ways, seek to cast light on the origins and character of New Labour. The two theoretical books—by Carter and Diamond—differ considerable in shape and purpose. Carter's has its origins in his doctoral dissertation and much of it is devoted to exploring the role played by T. H. Green's idealism in shaping the philosophical basis of New Liberalism and ethical socialism. Diamond's book is an edited compilation containing extracts of works from those he sees as key revisionist thinkers, ranging from Douglas Jay, Tony Crosland, and Hugh Gaitskell to David Marquand, Giles Radice and Roy Hattersley—to name but a few. Dianne Hayter's ‘Fightback!’, in contrast, is about politics in the raw: the struggle by Labour's right to recapture control of the party.

Each of the authors, it is worth noting, have practical experience of Labour party politics: Matt Carter as a former General Secretary . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The roots of ‘New Labour’ in revisionism?
 

   The roots of New Labour in ethical socialism?
 

   New Labour and old right?
 

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