Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' One Sunday recently while staying in London, I took a stroll in the gardens of Temple, the insular clod of quads and offices between the Strand and the Embankment.
It's kind of a luxury rent-controlled ghetto for lawyers and barristers, and there is a beautiful tailors, a fine chapel, established by the Knights Templar (from which the compound takes its name), a twee cottage designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a rose garden; which I never promised you. My mate John and I were wandering there together, he expertly proselytising on the architecture and the history of the place, me pretending to be Rumpole of the Bailey (quietly in my mind), when we spied in the distant garden a hunched and frail figure, in a raincoat, scarf about her head, watering the roses under the breezy supervision of a masticating copper. "What's going on there, mate?
" John asked a nearby chippy loading his white van. "Maggie Thatcher," he said. Thatcher, Blair et les défaites de la gauche britannique. Leçons du « néogramscisme » « Thatcher est morte, vive le thatchérisme !
», semblent s'écrier les élites néolibérales, au pouvoir ici et ailleurs, de droite comme de "gauche". Evidemment, nous ne pleurerons pas pour notre compte celle qui – outre son soutien sans faille au général Pinochet et sa responsabilité dans la mort de Bobby Sands et de ses camarades – fut « le premier ministre le plus diviseur et destructeur des temps modernes » (Ken Loach). Mais il importe avant tout d’analyser le thatchérisme et son emprise contemporaine, pour en tirer des leçons politiques ; c’est à cela que s’emploie Fred Falzon dans l'étude que nous publions ici. Initialement parue en 2009 dans la version imprimée de Contretemps, elle porte sur les graves défaites subies par la gauche britannique, toutes tendances confondues, sous les gouvernements de Thatcher puis Blair.
De manière rétrospective, le thatchérisme apparaît comme la première vague d’une déferlante néolibérale qui s’est abattue, depuis, sur l’Europe et le monde. Thatcher years in graphics. Click through to see some of the social and economic changes in Britain during the Thatcher era, 1979-90.
Britain began to consume more luxury goods as the service sector boomed and parts of society became wealthy. The 1980s saw a pit closure programme which sparked a year-long miners' strike. From 1979 council tenants were given the right to buy their homes. It was a hugely popular policy. Average income rose during the 1980s but so did inequality.
Air travel became cheaper and an increasing number of people chose to holiday abroad. The Tale of Mrs. Thatcher and the UMSU. The Tale of Mrs.
Thatcher and the UMSU Posted on 10 April 2013 by The Bucket Editorial Peter Green Ah student politics, where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. Until you insult the dead to impress your friends and someone picks up the phone the the Herald Sun. Let’s be honest, as students, we don’t expect much from student unions. Let’s put aside for a moment what they actually did, except to note that it was about as far from the purview of a university student union as it is possible to imagine. There are many reasons to dislike Mrs. Margaret Thatcher dies: latest. VersoBooks.com. So they win again.
If anything is to be taken from the miserable time we endured last week, it must be to learn some lessons about how the enemy operates. It couldn’t have worked much better from their point of view. A series of punitive attacks on the poorest and most vulnerable in society ended up being simultaneously cloaked and justified by the brazen hijacking of an appalling, aberrant act of violence. Thatcher's Dead But Thatcherism Thrives. Thatcher, the ALP & the dregs of neoliberalism. If there’s one thing the entire Australian Left agrees on right now it’s that “Thatcherism was a very bad thing”.
But beyond that, it may be appropriate to ask what exactly it is that people think was a bad thing. The answer to that question rests on one’s interpretation of what exactly was going on in the high neoliberal period of the 1980s, and what followed it. There is an uncomfortable fact that many local progressives are also trying to dance around, one that impacts on their view of the domestic political situation.
That fact is that the highpoint of the ALP’s federal political success with the Hawke and Keating governments shared much of its DNA with Thatcher’s neoliberalism, here understood as a political project to shift the balance of forces in the class struggle towards capital, and thereby enact a historic redistribution of wealth and power upwards. Margaret Thatcher: 'Ding Dong!' sing the foes of Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher: a lady loved and loathed From world leaders to locals, it seems everyone has an opinion of the late former British PM Margaret Thatcher. 9, 2013 USUALLY, when a public figure dies, even their staunchest enemies briefly suspend hostilities in respect for the dead.
Thatcher described Nelson Mandela as a 'terrorist'. I was there. Margaret Thatcher, between myth and politics. Above: Margaret Thatcher greeting curious Moscovites gathered in Moscow during her visit to the Soviet Union in March 1987.
Photo: Daniel Janin/ AFP First published 12 January 2012.