The return of 'neoliberalism as usual' will go nowhere
A new biography of a man who was arguably Labour’s most antisemitic leader has provoked something of a discussion about the roots of imperialist ideology in the British Labour movement. The twice turncoat Lord Adonis, now readmitted to the parliamentary Labour Party after a mid-career defection to the Coalition Liberal Democrats which torpedoed a Labour election bid, is the author of Ernest Bevin, Labour’s Churchill. Bevin was a key figure in the building of the Transport and General Workers Union and was minister in the wartime Churchill government and in the postwar Labour administratio...
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