Labour & Trade Union Review - Topics

List of topics: #Britain in Europe, #China, #Education, #Economies and Taxation, Housing, #Iran and Islam , #Iraq and the new world order, #Labour, Law and Constitutions, #Left, #Miscellaneous, #NHS,   #Poverty, #Socialists  in Retrospect, #State power and riots, #Radicalism, #Russia, #Tories, #Unemployment, #Welfare, World Politics

Labour and Trade Union Review, Index Page, Labour and Trade Union Review, 1987 to 1991

Welfare State -  The freeze on Child Benefit (1988)., Labour and Family Policy,  How Thatcher boosted Welfare dependancy, Back to Bedlam: the abuse of "community care",

NHS -  NHS, how the Tories misslead with arguments about supply and demand, Why the old NHS was good value for money

Education - Who controls education (in 1987), The Education Reform Act of 1988,

Housing -  Socialism and Home Ownership. Why homelessness in a rich society,

Unemployment and poverty -  Hidden History - Labour Camps in Britain, Unemployment, the human cost  And from Problems of Socialism and Capitalism, The Irish Famine, a Victorian "ethnic cleansing"

Law and constitutions - Does the Left benefit from the British Monarchy?, The Constitution of Eire, Prostitution and the law, Socialism and the English Revolution of 1688,

State power and civil protest - How the Church of England failed to fight racism, Race - Trickles of Blood, Socialism and the English Revolution of 1688,  Evil in return - the Poll Tax riots,,

Tories - Thatcherism - coming apart at the seams, Thatcher: how 'Snooty Roberts' became the Iron Lady, Spies and "Spycatcher", Thatcherism versus Toryism (or, Does Society Exist),  How Thatcher boosted Welfare dependancy,

Labour party - John Prescott speaks (back in 1990), New Labour anticipated,  Neil Kinnock and Nuclear Weapons (1987), How fear of Corporatism sabotaged Socialism, Labour and Family Policy, Kinnock & Productive Socialism,  Eric Heffer on the Labour Party in 1991, Labour's leadership and its roots in student politics, Eric Heffer, book review by Dick Barry,

Trade Unionism - Bill Morris interview, the role of Trade Unionism in the 1990s, The TUC - from power to oblivion

Socialists in Retrospect - Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton,

Radicalism in History - Paine, Burke and the French Revolution.  The Communist Manifesto and "bourgeoise" democracy

Left - Labour and Nuclear Weapons (in 1987)  How Eric Hobsbawn guided the Left into a blind ally , The CP and the electricians in the 1950s - letter, The New Left and May 1968,

Britain in Europe - Your money or your sovereignty?,  And from Problems of Socialism and Capitalism, Goldsmith on Europe and Shareholder power

China China,from Red Guard to Old Guard, Tiananmen - for Mao and Liberty?, Nations In Conflict - includes China/Taiwan, Hong Kong (what should have been done),

Iran and Islam -  Islam and British Multiculturalism.  Why 'Satanic Verses' are no joke to Muslims, Khomeini's place in world history,

Iraq and the New World Order - Murder in Mesopotamic - Bazoft and Iraq, Murder in Mesopotamia - Internationalism or barbarism?, Was the Gulf War about International Law?,  The New World Order in 1991,

Russia -  Russia, the Labour Party and Nuclear Weapons (in 1987), Perestroika in 1988 , What we thought of Gorbachev back in 1990, Russian Roulette - how the West mishandled the disintegration of a superpower,

World politics - Nations In Conflict (Israel/Palestine, China/Taiwan, Transcaucasia, Fiji), Vietnam - triumph and tragedy (loosing the peace in Cambodia), Algeria (1989). And from Problems of Socialism and Capitalism,  The New World Order and Irrational rationalism

Economies and Taxation -   Objecting to the Poll Tax (in 1988),  Inflation as Loadsamoney,  Evil in return - the Poll Tax riots, Friedrich List and the 19th century economic alternative, Your money or your sovereignty?

And from Problems of Socialism and Capitalism,  Between Karl Marx and Adam Smith: the legacy of Friedrich List, The Industrial Revolutionaries (how capitalism goes on subverting itself), The benefits of unfree Markets, and Socialism or accountancy?.  Also Goldsmith on Europe and Shareholder power

Miscellaneous - Does pornography cause rape?, The French Peasantry (Film review of Jean de Florette), Electrictiy Privatisation (1988 plans), Bevin Society Policy Statement, In Defence of PornographyThe rights of beast and love of nature, Hunter gatherers in a world of machines

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List of topics: #Britain in Europen, #China, #Education, #Economies and Taxation, , Housing, #Iran and Islam , #Iraq and the new world order, #Labour, Law and Constitutions, #Left, #Miscellaneous, #NHS, #Poverty, #Socialists  in Retrospect, #State power and riots, #Radicalism, #Russia, #Tories, #Unemployment, #Welfare, World Politics,

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