On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, James Heartfield wrote:
> The key to that moment was that it was that young people were not just
> against capitalism, they were disappointed with the dreary years of Jim
> Callaghan's Labour government, which summed up the end of the road for
> statist Labourism, too.
Can you recommend anything to read that does a good job of summing up the attitudes and reality of that era from a left POV? I was recently trying to explain it to a youngster who mistook a series of photos of Northern England in the 1970s for "the bleakness of Thatcherism." I was trying to sum up that this was a different bleakness, and the more I thought, the more I realized I'd better go learn more details myself.
Michael