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Fightback! : Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s - Dianne Hayter

Fightback!

Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s

By: Dianne Hayter, Steven Fielding (Editor), John Callaghan (Editor), Steve Ludlam (Editor)

Paperback | 8 September 2005

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This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, trumped 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, producing an NEC supportive of Neil Kinnock and ready to expel Militant, introduce One-Member-One-Vote and return the party to electability. It describes the Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, Labour Solidarity, Forward Labour and the all-important but secret St Ermins Group of senior trade unionists, each of which strove to ensure that the party represented Labour voters and trade union members. Written by an insider, it draws on extensive interviews with all the key players and unique access to private papers and closed archives to explain how the moderates triumphed over the hard left. -- .

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"Dianne Hayter was on the inside of efforts to shift the balance of power in the Labour Movement from the time that they started in the early 1980s. With that advantage, she provides a lucid analytical account of the purposes and several of the personalities that pursued change with a mixture of care and cunning and--sometimes--ruthlessness. It is a story worth telling, told with authority and candour."--Neil Kinnock, Labour Party Leader in the 1980s.

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