Dianne Hayter Articles

I am biased on Europe: born, postwar, in a divided Germany. Educated in a Britain outside of the common market, seeing a terrifying wall built in Berlin. Helped set up the European Trades Union Congress as we joined in 1973, bringing non-communist trade union bodies...

Thirty years after Neil Kinnock’s Bournemouth speech, Robert Philpot recalls the fight to save the Labour party from the hard left In September 1985, two years after Neil Kinnock was elected its leader in the wake of the devastating landslide defeat which saw Margaret...

Lessons for today from Fightback! Fightback! Labour’s Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s, by Dianne Hayter, tells the story of the ‘stayers’. Of those who remained in the party after the Social Democratic party split of 1981, and with courage and determination...

Neil Kinnock did not do it alone —Peter Mandelson’s deservedly warm description in the last issue of Progress of Neil Kinnock’s fight to rescue Labour in the 1980s omitted one vital ingredient – the role of the unions in the fightback. They proved pivotal in turning...