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Against the general backdrop of depressing economic developments and political realignments, the New Democratic Party and the National Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) are intensifying their cooperative electoral efforts. The Congress is preparing to commit an unprecedented number of staff people and field organizers to the NDP for the 60 days prior to election...
...first step toward the concentration camp! He seriously misjudged the wishes of the country. There was a more radical mood, created largely by the war, and this, in addition to the obvious failings of the previous system, meant that the introduction of the welfare state found widespread acceptance. The Labour minister of health, Nye Bevan, was initially faced with opposition by 90 per cent of the British Medical Association. They even attempted to strike, but eventually this opposition disappeared due to a series of compromises. This included the continuation of a small private sector, which shares a great many...
...critics, who find the challenger "impudent," "self-advertising" and full of "melodramatic fantasies." Rowse counters in iambic pentameter, by cursing "the blinkered outlook of academics." His most persuasive replies, however, are a series of militant books about the Elizabethans, and The Annotated Shakespeare. There he dissects Love's Labour's Lost to find fresh evidence that Shakespeare penned his own droll self-portrait as Biron and modeled Biron's dark lady, Rosaline, on Emilia Lanier. Further clues are on the way. This month, when Rowse visits the U.S., he will bring with him a sheaf of newly...
This recognition of weakness in the structure sparked off the "Great Debate" over education, instigated by Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan two years ago. Central to many widespread demands are calls for greater emphasis on applied science and the production of engineers, technologists, etc., from the universities--which may seem innovative. But in other demands for "commoncore" curricula in both secondary and higher education--minimum standards of literacy and numeracy as opposed to flexible choice--the English tendency to conservatism in education is manifest. Many academics still complain that too few students are brought up on the classics...
Gordon Marsden is a Kennedy Scholar from England studying at Harvard, and a member of the British Labour Party-based Fabian Society International Bureau...