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Neither within nor beyond the Left in Britain has there been as vigorous or intensive a debate as in West Germany over the relationship between the labour movement and the ‘new social movements’.1 This reflects the fact that the new social movements have not captured as broad a mass basis in Britain as in West Germany or had as great an impact on British, as on West German, politics. It also poses a problem for the author of a paper of this nature, as no comprehensive research has yet been carried out in Britain on the triangular relationship between the Labour Party, the trade unions and the new social movements. The thoughts on this issue outlined in this paper are limited mainly to the period since Labour’s election defeat in 1979 and to the party’s links with the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). The focus of the paper is on the social-structural (‘personnel’), institutional and programmatic aspects of the interconnections between the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party), on the one hand, and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the new social movements, on the other.
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Webber, D. (1984). Interconnections between Labour Party, Trade Unions and “New Social Movements”. In: Falter, J.W., Fenner, C., Greven, M.T. (eds) Politische Willensbildung und Interessenvermittlung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14338-3_36
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