One of the seminal texts of the British New Left Leo Panitch
Parliamentary Socialism presents a detailed and scholarly record of the
Labour Party's thinking and of its role in British politics from 1900
until the 1960s. A postscript reflects on the period of Harold Wilson's
Labour government from 1964 to 1970. Reviewing the book on first
publication in 1961, Michael Foot described it as 'the most important
contribution made for many years to the study of the way the Labour
Party works'. Contents includes: Labour in Parliament; Labour in the
First World War; Parliamentarism versus Direct Action; From Opposition
to Office; The General Strike; The Challenge of Appeasement; The Climax
of Labourism; The Sickness of Labourism Ralph Miliband (1924-1994) was
one of the key intellectual figures of the British New Left. He was the
founder of the Socialist Register and author of Marxism and Politics,
The State in Capitalism Society (new edition published 2009) and
Socialism for a Sceptical Age. He taught for many years at the London
School of Economics before taking up the Chair of Politics at the
University of Leeds. He subsequently taught at Brandeis in Boston, York
University in Toronto and the Graduate Centre of the City University of
New York.
