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current political events, history and philosophy, all from a socialist perspective.
On this site you will find selected articles,reviews and comment, taken from our magazine.
The Labour and Trade Union Review is not affiliated to any political party, but is an
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Editorial ,
October
2009
Jack Jones, Trade Unionist
The life of Jack Jones, trade union leader and socialist, who died on 21 April 2009, will be commemorated at a special event in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 5 October 2009. The Labour & Trade Union Review welcomes this occasion to pay tribute to a man who dedicated his life to the struggle for equality and justice for all working people; a man who never forgot his humble beginnings in Liverpool. Remembering vividly the era of ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
October
2009
Minterism – the Self as Perfection
H. G. Wells is often very foolish. Particularly in Mr Britling Sees It Through, where he showed an enthusiasm for Britain\'s decision to continue World War One to the bitter end, when it might easily have ended as a draw in 1915, a settlement Germany favoured at the time. But Wells also had his good moments too, and just in Science-Fiction visions. Among other things he was a friend of Henry James, who viewed Wells as a fellow-novelist of ...
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Christopher Winch ,
April
2009
Inequality and Well-being. ‘Feel-good’ Politics or Socialism?
The ‘happiness agenda’ was taken up a few years ago by some Blairites and by Cameron, but the fashionable concern with GNW (Gross National Well-being) is likely to bring up political consequences that are most unwelcome to both Cameroons and Brown and this point needs to be pressed home vigorously. A few years ago, one of Cameron’s advisors ventured into controversial territory, arguing that the Churchillian idea of a welfare safety net is no ...
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David Morrison ,
April
2009
On British “success” in Iraq
“Tony Blair, I\'m afraid, would never accept that our foreign policy actually had any impact on radicalization. …That\'s clearly rubbish.” (Lord West)Lieutenant-General John Cooper used to occupy a small office in the vast new US Embassy in Baghdad, as the (British) deputy commander of the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I). The US had always accorded Britain this honour, as the second largest contributor to the occupation forces, though ...
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Editorial ,
April
2009
Living on the Edge - Should the Banks be Allowed to Die?
One of the difficulties in making sense of the extraordinary economic events that unfold on a daily basis is the fact that we live in a situation where reliable information is hard to come by. Nowhere is this more true than of the banking system, at the heart of the current crisis. However a picture is gradually beginning to emerge of a banking system in the US and the UK which is more or less bankrupt. A major problem however is that nobody ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
April
2009
Life as a burden on money
Strictly speaking, capitalism ended in the 1930s and 1940s. It ended because it had damaged the advanced economies that had created it. The alternatives of Fascism and Leninist Communism had achieved fast economic growth and full employment when the West was mired in the Great Depression. Roosevelt\'s New Deal is commonly supposed to have been an escape, but strong ideological opposition to Roosevelt\'s socialist solution looked likely to ...
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Brenden Clifford ,
March
2009
Keynes in Crisis
Whatever Keynesianism means—and I don’t know that it means anything very definite—capitalism has been Keynesian for about 60 Years.It is too long since I read Keynes for me to be able to argue this in any detail with reference to his writings. I don’t feel inclined to read him again. There is too much of English utilitarian philosophy as made pretentious by Bloomsbury about him. I can only go by the impression he left with me when I read ...
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Editorial ,
March
2009
Nearer the Abyss
Both in the US and the UK the banking crisis continues to worsen. Meanwhile the non-banking economy continues to decline with no sign of respite. The Brown government is seemingly paralysed, its only plan seeming to be the day to day rescue of banks while at the same time avoiding their nationalisation. It seem that, like the US government they will do anything to avoid nationalising the banks, dreading being called ‘socialist’ or worse as a ...
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Peter Whitelegg ,
March
2009
The Last Resort
The Armani clad bankers at this years World Economic Forum at Davos made a sobering sight. Shuffling dejectedly from one seminar to another, attempting to find some light at the end of the tunnel, only to find more bankers shuffling in the opposite direction not having found any. Davos 2009 is a far cry from the Davos of 2008. In 2008 all the major Banks and finance houses sent large delegations for the annual capitalist jamboree. Lehman ...
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Speech ,
March
2009
The Winter of Discontent – 30 Years ago. 22nd January 2009
BBC Today Programme, John Humphreys interviewed Rodney Bickerstaffe, an official in NUPE at the time, and later its General Secretary, and Will Hutton, chief executive of the Work Foundation.JH The Winder of Discontent began 30 years ago today with the first public sector day of action. At the time Alan Fisher, then General Secretary of the public sector workers union NUPE, was asked whether the strike would bring down the Labour ...
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