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A World to Win: Parliamentary Socialism w/ Andrew Murray

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace talks to Andrew Murray, former chair of the Stop the War Coalition, former chief of staff at the Unite trade union, and former advisor to Jeremy Corbyn. We discuss his forthcoming book, Is Socialism Possible in Britain? Reflections on the Corbyn Years, which examines the Corbyn moment within the long history of the Labour Party.


A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of A World to Win. This week I talk to Andrew Murray,

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the former chair of the Stockton War Coalition, former Chief of Staff at Unites and a former

0:22.7

adviser to Jeremy Corbyn. We discuss his book is Socialism possible in Britain, Reflections

0:29.3

on the Corbyn years, which very much does what it says on the tin, but also looks back

0:34.3

over the longer history of the Labour Party and situates the Corbyn moment within that.

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We discuss all of that this week. As always, thank you so much to all of our patrons

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who make this show possible. If you want to become a patron, we really need your support

0:50.3

to carry on bringing you the show. Please do sign up at patreon.com slash a world to

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win pod. There's a link in the description. If you want to support the show in another way,

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please do share this episode or other episodes on social media, tagging at a world to win

1:05.2

pod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to another episode of A World

1:16.0

to Win. I am here with Andrew Murray to talk about his book is Socialism possible in Britain,

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Reflections on the Corbyn years. How are you doing today, Andrew? Yeah, I'm great. Thanks,

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Grace. Good to be with you. Good. It's great to have you here. I really enjoyed the book.

1:32.0

Obviously, encourage listeners to go ahead and read it. It kind of reminded me, particularly

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the early chapters of Ralph Miliband's study of Labour, Parliamentally Socialism, and

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it's very useful because that only goes up to the 60s. So yeah, it's very interesting

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to have that kind of history of Labour and Labourism and the different currents within

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it and put so succinctly as well. I'm just going to kind of take us through some questions

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that really follow the frameworks out by the books and we'll kind of go through historically.

1:58.5

And at one point, you talk about the ILP and you said that it's mantra might have been

2:03.1

the only way as ethics, which I thought was a very funny and being very insightful. What

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