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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825361503321

Autore

Benn Tony <1925-2014, >

Titolo

Free radical : new century essays / / Tony Benn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2004

©2003

ISBN

1-282-01407-2

9786612014079

1-4411-6560-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

941.086

Soggetti

World politics - 1995-2005

Great Britain Politics and government 1997-2007

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; 1 Old Labour; 2 New Labour; 3 Rallies, Dissent and Democracy; 4 September 11 and its aftermath; 5 Foreign Affairs and Defence; 6 Trade Unions and Privatization; 7 Miscellany; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 2001, Tony Benn, one of the most influential socialist politicians in Europe, retired from the British House of Commons after almost 50 years in politics, to 'devote more time to politics'. One of the ways in which he carried out his resolution was to write a series of weekly columns for the Morning Star, a British socialist daily newspaper.These columns reflect the breadth of Benn's political concerns, covering both domestic and international politics, and the best of them have been collected here. Benn writes with a controlled passion about the Labour party (old and new), the threats to d