revisionism Articles

Labour conference could be about policy, not procedure In his book, The Road to Brighton Pier, the political writer Leslie Hunter describes the atmosphere inside a Labour party languishing in opposition, and riven with factional animosity, in the months leading up to...

In 1977, an article by Anthony Arblaster declared the death of Labour's revisionist movement. He made a case which looks obvious with hindsight (and with just a hint of familiarity today). The modernisers' agenda was being hampered, he said; by political and personal...

Labour revisionism takes on both leftwing orthodoxy and the destructive potential of capitalism, writes Gregg McClymont Each generation must overturn the conventional wisdoms of the last. In social democracy this process for more than a century has been called...

I saw my first Apple Macintosh in 1986, at the Salford University Students’ Union. It had been purchased to allow ‘desk-top publishing’ of the student newspaper. It was kept in a special room – The Mac Room – into which only a select band were allowed, as long as they...