The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited.
** Guardian Politics Book of the Day**For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation and struggle.
In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "e;associative democracy"e;; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self-governing associations.