Giddens distances from New Labor

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Jul 30 23:15:48 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> said:


> Unfortunately, I forgot to bring a tape to the studio, so the show
> was lost to the ozone. Benn argued that the reason he's leaving
> parliament (after 52 years) when his term expires in 2002 is that he
> thinks more can be done organizing and agitating outside government,
> which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of big money. When people say
> that, I always wonder when it wasn't. . .

Wasn't there a time within his very long living memory when the British Labor Party was actually controlled by the unions?

Michael

__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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