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Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
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Socialist Renewal
Socialist Renewal grew out of the discussions around Labour's abandonment of Clause Four, in 1995. A general invitation was issued to socialist authors to write for us. A dozen pamphlets and half a dozen books followed. They probed the transport crisis in Britain, common ownership, pensions and national insurance, the rights of the unemployed, as well as the threat to peace posed by Nato's expansion. Many of the early criticisms of New Labour in opposition have proved only too well-founded by the experience of New Labour in government.
The first series launched the Socialist Renewal Series and is being added to the website.
The second series of Socialist Renewal pamphlets sought to re-open the space for socialist discussion, and provide a platform for the different views which are developing in response to the continual bad news from New Labour.
The third series of Socialist Renewal pursue this project and continue to probe the inadequacies of New Labour and propose constructive alternatives. We received a number of exciting proposals which helped to clarify the arguments which were developing on the Left.
The first book of the fourth series proposes a broad social and political alliance to promote significant changes of policy in the societies which compromise the enlarged European Union.
The fifth series includes one of our best sellers New Labour's attack on Public Services by Dexter Whitfield.
A sixth series has now begun.
Further titles challenge the privatisation of air traffic control and make the case for returning the railways to public ownership; address the crisis in education with the privatisation of local education authorities and business influence on the curriculum; expose the ruination of much of higher education and set out an alternative vision for universities and colleges; and examine the continuing crisis in the health service. We shall also be publishing an analysis of New Labour's economic policy, and initiate a discussion of their foreign and security policies.
Is Socialism Inseparable from Common Ownership?
G. A. Cohen
new series 1
Welfare Reform: Means-tested versus Universal Benefits.
John Grieve Smith
new series 2
The Captive Party: How Labour was taken over by Capital.
Michael Barratt Brown
new series 3
Towards a More Equal Society.
David Donnison
new series 4
Third Way ... Where To?
Ken Coates & Michael Barratt Brown
new series 5
Safety First?: Did the Health and Safety Commission do its Job?
Christopher Gifford
new series 6
The Captive Local State.
Peter Latham
new series 7
Public Services or Private Profit?
Dexter Whitfield
new series 8
Straw Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy
Jack Straw's Briefing with a response by Ken Coates
new series 9
The Flame Not the Ashes
Lionel Jospin
new series 10
The Third Way... or Feeding the Fat Cats
Michael Barratt Brown
third series 1
Physician, Heal Thyself: The NHS Needs a Voice of its Own
Duncan Smith
third series 2
Opening and Innovation
Partito Rifondazione Comunista
third series 3
Railtracks in the Sky
Peter Reed
third series 5
Power & Ownership
The Swedish Left Party
third series 6
Tony Blair: The Old New Goes to War
Ken Coates
third series 7
Ken Coates
third series 8
Redistribution A Silent Counter-Revolution?
Michael Barratt Brown
Together for a Different Europe
Manifesto of the European Left
fourth series 2
The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
Michael Barratt Brown, Edward S. Herman & David Peterson
fourth series 3
Robin Blackburn, André Brie MEP, Ken Coates, Christina Beatty and Stephen Fothergill.
fourth series 4
Michael Barratt Brown
fourth series 5
Ken Coates
fourth series 6
Tony Bunyan
fourth series 7
The full final and definitive
Judgment of Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC
fifth series 1
Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
Edited by Ken Coates and Tony Topham
fifth series 2
fifth series 3
New Labour's attack on Public Services
Dexter Whitfield
fifth series 4
Nuclear Reactors: Do we need more?
Christopher Gifford
fifth series 5
Arguments from the Red Paper, recalled by Socialist Renewal and updated by Michael Meacher.
Sixth series 1
The War on Freedom and Democracy
Ed. by Tony Bunyan
A subscription to Socialist Renewal:
Sixth series costs £20
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Bulk copies of this, and subsequent pamphlets are available from:
Socialist Renewal,
Russell House,
Bulwell Lane,
Nottingham.
NG6 0BT
England
price £15 for ten copies, £8 for five copies (post free).
