When the Labour Party fought its first general election its banners proclaimed "VOTE for the LABOUR PARTY the hope of the WORKER.
"SOCIALISM - A system of govemment that will make poverty impossible"
Now, 100 years after that historic meeting in Farringdon, what have we got? Not socialism but capital. ism, apparentiy triumphant. Why is this?
Labour has been in government five times - in governDespite decisive majorities in 1945 - and again in 1997, it only tinkered with the capitalist system.
To Labour's leadership. from Kamsay mactionald in 1920s to Attlee, Wilson, Callaghan and Blair, what matMacDonald held the office the Tories' iron master, Stanley Baldwin, who pulled the surge approved of Mac Donald - and he enioved risqué joke sessions with right wing union leader Jimmy ently gets along very well with Tony Blair.
lony Blair has gone one bel ter than MacDonald, transforming the Labour Party into a more efficient Conservative Party.
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