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Scholar of the Labour party, its constituent trade unions and how they voted at the annual conference Lewis Minkin at the launch of his book Exits and Entrances at the Labour party conference, Brighton, 1997 Lewis Minkin at the launch of his book Exits and Entrances at the Labour party conference, Brighton, 1997
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Mon 5 Apr 2021 13.19 EDT
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In a past that was another country the annual Labour party conference was a significant gathering. Its set-piece debates were often truculent and sometimes sulphurous. The political analyst Lewis Minkin, who has died aged 84, was a perennial spectator. His interest lay not so much in the public spectacle as in its backstage hinterland.
Socialism, nationalism and Ireland
Before and during the Second International there were many different approaches to the questions of socialism and nationalism. In Ireland James Connolly banked on nationalists taking a positive attitude towards the cause of labour. In his next article Marc Mulholland will look at Ireland’s conservative revolution
The liberal republicanism coming out of the French Revolution had generally aimed for a radical reconfiguration of Europe’s boundaries. The old dynastic states, jerry-built constructions assembled by conquest and inheritance, should be replaced by ‘nation states’, which would meld together pan-class ‘communities of fate’, built upon common language, ethnicity and historical experience.