What's Wrong With Labour

What's Wrong With Labour?
by Paul Allender

This is a critique of the Labour Party from the independent left that draws upon academic analysis and extensive practical experience of the labour movement. It provides a characterization that accounts for the party’s ineffectiveness during the Twentieth Century.
The author shows that in major cities - Sheffield is cited here by way of example - the Party has completely failed to protect people from the effects of de-industrialization and has been spectacularly unsuccessful in providing alternative means of employment.
Contents: The Nature of the Labour Party; a review of the literature of labourism; a brief history of the Labour Party; the Party, and Movement’s, response to economic restructuring - the record in Sheffield; Conclusion: the logic of labourism accounts for its failure. ‘New Labour’ old wine in ‘New’ bottles.

An incisive and timely discussion. Anyone concerned about our present predicament will benefit from reading it. - David McLellan, formerly Professor, Politics Dept., University of Kent