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...William Corbett, Daryl Glaser, Doug Hindson, Mark Swilling, "Regionalisation, Federalism and the Reconstruction of the South African State," South African Labour Bulletin, 10, (5), March-April, 1985; Swilling, ibid...
Still, he says that the biggest enemy is not Thatcher but apathy. In an effort to combat indifference in the U.K., Bragg helped form Red Wedge, a loose coalition of various music-makers and comics that has toured Great Britain in support of the Labour Party. Along with groups like the Housemartins, Style Council and the Blow Monkeys, Bragg traveled in the Red Wedge Battle Bus doing benefit shows, press conferences and general rabble-rousing in order to stir up the youth vote. Not quite the entourage of your typical rock star...
...Spartacist League/U.S., the American section of the International Spartacist tendency, protested British Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock during his American tour last week. both in Cambridge and Washington, D.C. At Harvard's Kennedy School, Dec. 2, we gave her Majesty's opposition the welcome he deserved, under the slogan "Protest Strikebreaker Kinnock." In solidarity with the British miners, whose strike Kinnock helped to break, we sought to expose his role as a labor-faking, class betrayer of workers and Celtic people, particularly during the miners' bitterly fought 12-months long battle against Thatcher's government. Kinnock endorsed racist cop terror...
...keen insights into daily human experience. Aside from a solid mystery, A Taste for Death is an effective psychological exploration of post-war British culture. James investigates the social mores of a defunct nobility and the predicaments of the working class, as well as the poltical attitudes of radical Labour extremists...
...English government believe that a member of the House of Lords should not be a minister or member of the cabinet, let alone Prime Minister. Carrington often comes up as the prime counterexample to the demand of constituency for high-ranking ministers. In one famous episode, the Labour leader in the House of Lords (at a time when Carrington was Tory leader) was debating the abolishment of the House with a left-wing opponent at the Oxford Union, and one of the leftist's most effective arguments for the abolition of Lords was that it would allow Carrington...