Let's get in a time machine and go back forty years to the Labour Party of the 1980s and see...
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The first two years after Labour lost to Margaret Thatcher in 1979 saw all out war in the party. And...
In 1979, Iran had a revolution against the rule of the autocratic Shah that many on the Left hoped would...
Pictured here are my membership cards for the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) and the Labour Party Young Socialists...
In 1983, Thatcher called a general election. The Tories had been in power since 1979 and had gone through a...
In my first year at university, I ran for the welfare officer position in the student union at Liverpool Uni....
Quite a few left wing firebrands from the 1970s and 1980s have now been forgotten. Who can remember Red Robbo,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9gFoe64cz8 1979 was a pivotal year for world politics - only rivalled by 2016 with the election of Donald Trump...
In 1981, the Jobs Express train chugged across Britain crammed with jobless youngsters. At every stop, there would be a...