Labour Party's Political Thought

GEOFFERY FOOTE

'an extremely welcome and useful book...the best available text in the field.' - Gregory Claeys, Albion 'A comprehensive encyclopaedia of the ideology of the British Labour Movement...What emerges is by far the clearest account I have ever read of its strengths and weaknesses.' - Tony Benn, MP

• Foreword - Acknowledgements - PART 1: LABOURISM AND THE LABOUR PARTY - Introduction - PART 2: THE FORMATION OF BRITISH SOCIALISM - Marxists, Fabians and Ethical Socialist: The Traditions of British Socialism - The Emergence of British Socialism - R.H. Tawney and the Philosophy of British Socialism - PART 3: THE FORMATION OF CORPORATE SOCIALISM - The Syndicalist Challenge - G.D.H. Cole and the Guild Socialist Response -The ILP and the Keynesian Challenge - The Emergence of Corporate Socialism - PART 4: THE REVISIONIST CHALLENGE - The Revisionist Forerunners - The Revisionist Heyday - Revisionism in Crisis - PART 5: THE CHALLENGE OF THE LEFT - The Bevanite Left - The Challenge of the New Left - The Bennite Left - The Emergence of 'New Labour' - Chronology - Index