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Dr. Peter Latham is a sociologist and former researcher at the London School of Economics. He then taught housing policy to students working in the public sector – when he was Secretary of Lewisham Trades Council and a lay activist in the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education – before becoming a full-time official in the University and College Union. From 1999 to 2006 he was Treasurer and then Secretary of the Labour Campaign for Open Local Government. His previous publications include The Captive Local State: Local Democracy under Siege (2001) and New Labour’s US-Style Executive Mayors: the Private Contractors’ Panacea (2003). He is also a member of the Communist Party of Britain’s Economic Committee, the Labour Land Campaign and Croydon Trades Union Council’s Executive Committee.

1 J. Kingdom, 2003, p. 17.

2 Ibid.

3 J. Harvey and K. Hood, 1958, p 11. During the cold war Roger Simon (1913-2002) and Noreen Branson (1910-2003) – both Communist Party members – wrote under the pseudonyms James Harvey and Katherine Hood.

4 R. Miliband, 1984, p. 15.

5 Ibid., p. 16. Harold Laski (1893-1950) was a left-wing Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. He was elected to the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee from the Constituency Section every year from 1936 until 1948. John Gollan (1911-1977) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1956 to 1976.

6 Miliband, 1984, p. 131.

7 J. Dearlove and P. Saunders, 2000, p. 384.

8 For an earlier abbreviated version of this Chapter see Latham, 2009a, pp.16-18. Subsequent chapters discuss in detail all the examples given in this Chapter.

9 K. Marx, 1894b, p. 803.

10 T. Tant, 1999, p. 109.

11 See Chapter 1 ‘The Meaning of Dialectics’ in B. Ollman, 2003.

12 K.R. Popper, 1980. Popper had summarised his views on dialectic in an article that was first published in 1937 and subsequently republished as a chapter of his book Conjectures and Refutations, 2002, pp. 419-451.

13 M. Cornforth, 1977, p. 86. Maurice Cornforth (1909-1980) was the main Communist Party philosopher in Britain in the years after World War II.

14 B. Groisman, 2008, p. 7. Berry Groisman is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Computation, part of the University of Cambridge, and based within the Department for Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

15 Tant, 1999, pp. 123-4. See also T.S. Kuhn, 1970 and J. Glieck, 1988.

16 M. Dobb, ‘Marxism and the Social Sciences’. This essay was first delivered as a contribution to a symposium on the topic at the University of Cambridge in 1942, and then published in revised form in The Modern Quarterly in 1948. Maurice Dobb (1900-1976) was the leading British Marxist economist of his generation and a Communist Party member. I have used the version republished in Monthly Review Press, September 2001, which is now online.

17 J. Hutton, ‘Foreword’ to the Julius Report, July 2008.

18 K. Marx, 1873, p. 22.

19 Dobb, 1948.

20 Ibid.

21 K. Marx, 1845, p. 5.

22 Ibid., ‘Preface’, para 11.

23 Dobb, 1948.

24 T. Knight, 1981, p. 16. Ted Knight is a member of Croydon Trade Union Council’s Executive Committee and CTUC’s delegate to the Labour Representation Committee.

25 K. Orr, 2005, p. 309. Examples of the ‘Judas’ interpretation, according to Orr, include A. Pollock et al, 2001 and P. Latham, 2001. Kevin Orr is Director of the Centre for Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Hull Business School.

26 Orr, 2005, p. 316.

27 Department for Communities and Local Government, 2008e.

28 Orr, 2005, p. 316.

29 For an earlier abbreviated version of this Chapter see Latham, 2009a, pp.19-23.

30 J.A. Chandler, 2008, p. 360.

31 Quoted in A. Pratchett Martin, 1893, p. 262.

32 J. S. Mill, 1975, p. 375.

33 Ibid., p. 377.

34 J.A. Chandler, 2008, p. 362.

35 Ibid. See also T.H. Green, 1931.

36 B. Bosanquet, 1888, p. 286.

37 L.T. Hobhouse, 1904, p. 149.

38 See A. de Tocqueville, 1994, pp. 66-7.

39 Cited in Chandler, 2008, p. 364, p. 371.

40 G.D.H. Cole, 1932.

41 J.R. MacDonald, 1909, p. 91.

42 S. Webb and B. Webb, 1975, p. 213.

43 Ibid., p. 211, p. 244.

44 N. Branson, 1979, p. 53, p. 80.

45 L. Batson, 2000, p. 454.

46 C. R. Attlee, 1937, p.169.

47 G.D.H. Cole, 1947, p. 45.

48 Ibid., pp. 46-7.

49 G.D.H. Cole, 1948[a], p. 198.

50 H. Morrison, 1949, p. 111.

51 L.J. Sharpe, 1970, p. 174. See also L.J. Sharpe, 1965. Sharpe used the term ‘syndicalism’ to refer to what he saw as the increasing dominance nationally of professional groups over service delivery.

52 C. Stoney, 1998, p.6.

53 J.A. Chandler, 2001, p. 190.

54 Ibid.

55 G. Stoker, 1989, p. 159.

56 A. Cochrane, 1991, p. 290.

57 A. Sayer, 1989, p. 666.

58 J. Stewart and K. Walsh, 1992.

59 Cited in C. Stoney, 1998, op. cit., p. 8.

60 HM Treasury, 1991, p. 22.

61 J.A. Chandler, 1991, p. 22.

62 N. Ridley, 1988.

63 C. Stoney, 1998, p. 9.

64 See Audit Commission, 1985, 1987, and 1989; and Local Government Management Board, 1992 and 1993.

65 A. King, 2007.

66 P. Feldman, 2008b.

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid.

69 J.A. Chandler, 2008, op. cit., p. 355.

70 R.A.W. Rhodes, 1996, p. 507.

71 Ibid.

72 G. Jones and J. Stewart, 1983. George Jones is Emeritus Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and John Stewart is Emeritus Professor of