Narratives of Delusion in the Political Practice of the Labour Left 1931-1945

Roger Spalding sets out a challenging re-interpretation of the politics of Labour's left-wing.

He shows how the Left developed a range of simplistic, self-sustaining narratives, rather than supported analyses, to guide its actions in the aftermath of the political crisis of 1931.

This approach, it is argued, persisted down to the opening years of the present century; its employment in part explaining the decline of the pre-Corbyn Left.