Are Trams Socialist?

Author: Christian Wolmar
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
ISBN: 1907994580
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded as minnows compared with their ‘big beast’ colleagues in other ministries. Successive governments have barely attempted to get to grips with the challenge of getting people around efficiently and safely while limiting the environmental damage caused by transport. In this entertaining polemic, Christian Wolmar, an author and journalist who has written about transport for over two decades, explains why politicians have not addressed the crucial issue of balancing transport needs with environmental considerations. Instead, they have been seduced by the popularity of the car and pressure from the car lobby, and they have been sidetracked by dogma. Solutions are at hand – and successful examples can be seen elsewhere in Europe – but courage and clear thinking are needed if they are to be implemented.

European Socialism, Volume I

Author: Carl Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520373200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1200

Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS)

Author: Tauri Tuvikene
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351190334
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation. As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and hybridity, this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of urban research—transport, green spaces, and water and heating provision. Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book covers examples from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Tajikistan, and India. It provides original insights into the infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for scholars, planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural and social anthropology, and urban studies.

British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914, Volume 4

Author: Deborah Mutch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040250033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Socialism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain was a highly literate movement. Every socialist group produced some form of written text through which their particular brand of politics could be promoted. This edition collects serialized fiction and short stories that have not been published since their original appearance.

Journal of the Amalgamated Society of ...

Author: Amalgamated Society of Tailors, Tailoresses and Kindred Workers
Publisher:
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Category : Tailors
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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The Way

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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Socialism in Local Government

Author: W. G. Towler
Publisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Printed in Great Britain. This book is, so far as the author is aware, the first systematic effort to deal with the invasion of British local government by the forces of modern socialism. cf. Prefatory note.

British Socialism

Author: J. Ellis Barker
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 540

Book Description

Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism

Author: Rob Sewell
Publisher: Wellred Books
ISBN: 1900007983
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Book Description
Germany 1918-33 was one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Following the revolution in Russia, the German workers and soldiers attempted to seize power in November 1918. Unfortunately, the revolution was betrayed by the Social Democratic leaders. Further revolutionary convulsions rocked Germany from 1919 to 1923. By this time, a mass Communist Party had been formed, but following advice from Zinoviev and Stalin, a classical revolutionary opportunity in 1923 was missed. This was a blow, not only in Germany, but internationally. The German defeats served to strengthen the grip of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia. This resulted in zig-zags of policy between opportunism and ultra-leftism, which paved the way for the ‘Third Period’ with the Social Democrats regarded as the main enemy. With the rise of fascism, Leon Trotsky described Germany in 1931 as “the key to the international situation”. “On the direction in which the solution of the German crisis develops will depend not only the fate of Germany herself (and that is already a great deal), but also the fate of Europe, the destiny of the entire world, for many years to come,” he explained. Trotsky called for a United Front against fascism, but this was rejected by the Stalinists. This paved the way for the victory of the Nazis, leading to the Holocaust and the Second World War with its 55 million dead. In this book, Rob Sewell argues that all this was not inevitable, and analyses those events, drawing out the lessons for today.

John Wheatley, Catholic Socialism, and Irish Labour in the West of Scotland, 1906-1924

Author: Gerry C. Gunnin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429809999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
First published in 1987. This examination of the career of John Wheatley indicates the way in which one Irishman – reared among Liberal and Radical coal miners and taught by Roman Catholic priests and nationalist leaders to regard obedience to the Catholic Church and promotion of Home Rule as the vital interests for Irish Catholics – became a Socialist and adapted his Radical political views and devotional Roman Catholic convictions to a Parliamentary and Catholic Socialism. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of British and Labour history.