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British Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organizations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society.
The years of the long post-war boom, 1945-70, have been seen as the ‘Golden Age of social democracy’. Yet even during this quarter century Labour and social-democratic parties were more often in opposition rather than government. Only in Scandinavia did social democracy achieve – for a time – a predominant position.Read on ...
Speaker Dr Evan Smith
The years of the long post-war boom, 1945-70, have been seen as the ‘Golden Age of social democracy’. Yet even during this quarter century Labour and social-democratic parties were more often in opposition rather than government. Only in Scandinavia did social democracy achieve – for a time – a predominant position.