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Social movements and the right. Left and right. Left. Right. Liberal through conservative to nationalist Anti state intervention Concerned about crime Concerned about immigration Anti EU UK: Conservatives + some Liberals. Socialist to liberal Pro state intervention - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Social movements and the right
Left and right
Left• Socialist to liberal• Pro state intervention• Suspicious of or anti
capitalism• Strong human rights• Multi cultural• UK: Labour and Social
Democrats + some Liberals
Right• Liberal through conservative
to nationalist• Anti state intervention• Concerned about crime• Concerned about
immigration• Anti EU• UK: Conservatives + some
Liberals
Europe
• Taken into EEC by Ted Heath, Conservative• Under Thatcher Tories move to the right
pushed by think tank:– Privatisation– Big Bang– Sale of Council housing– Anti-Unions: Miners’ strikes– Suspicious of Europe: downfall of Thatcher after
Howe’s speech
Immigration
• Starts with Empire Windrush June 1948 Jamacia, 493
• Pakistani immigrants from 1950s– Slough– Bradford– Midlands
• Ugandan Asians 1972: 27,200
Social movements: Tilly
• “Sustained, organised, public effort, making collective claims on target authorities.”
• “Special-purpose associations and coalitions, public meetings, solemn processions, vigils, rallies, demonstrations, petition drives, statements to and in public media, and pamphleteering.”
National Front
• Formed 1967• Amalgamation of racist, nationalist and neo-Nazi
splinter parties• Small cells: policy directed from the centre• Support: White working class fearing immigration; neo
fascists• Policies:– Dan on immigration; forced repatriation– Anti-Semitic: Critical of accepted history of Holocaust
• Tactics: demos and ballots: no wins
Enoch Powell (1912-1998)
• 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech: response to Race Relations Act 1968 banning discrimination:– As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I
seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the 20th century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now.
Speech
• Quoted anonymous woman in Wolverhampton who was the only white in the street and refused to let to non-whites
• Mass demonstrations of support: London dockers, Smithfield market porters etc
• 1973 West Bromwich election• Lewisham and other demos
John Tyndall: 1934-2005
BNP
• Formed 1982 as amalgamation of splinters• Led by Tyndall to 1999 then Griffith• Voluntary emigration• Anti EEC/EU• Concern about rise of muslins• Cannot be members of the police or prison services• Argues with other nationalist parties about
nationalism: eg English Democrats
BNP: English Democrats not a nationalist party
2009 two seats in the European Parliament through proportional representation
Took over BNP from Tyndall in 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iKfrY9l2kY
Easy and lazy labels for NF and BNP
• Nazis• Fascists• Racists• Responses to a confused and threatened
identity:– British, English– White– Nationalism
UKIP
• Founded 1993 in response to Maastricht treaty of the EU
• Conservative Party then in turmoil over Europe
• No MPs, 3 Peers, Ramsey Cambridgeshire, 12 MEPs
• Refuses membership to ex-BNP members
Rotherham and UKIP
• Labour-run Council• Care family 7 years experience• 3 children of East European background• Taken from them after 8 weeks because of
UKIP membership• Watch out for Rotherham by-election• Some Tories calling for election pact with UKIP
The Tea Party
• New York Times: "The Tea Party agenda is not well defined, though it is anti-government, anti-spending, anti-immigration and anti-compromise politics.“
• USA exceptional national organised around free enterprise, free play of markets and small government vs European-style statist policies
What is the Tea Party?
• Grass-roots, outsider, non-party, authentic, decentralised, leaderless movement that influenced the 2010 mid-term elections which the Republican Party was trying to co-opt
• or• False social movement manipulated by
wealthy individuals and organisations
Trio of issues
• Founding Fathers: what did they mean to do?• Constitutionalism: reign in government• Free markets• Then fears of– Debt– Socialism– Un-constitutionalism
DiMaggio
• “The central tenets driving local Tea Party meetings [in the Chicago area] were so uniformly consistent across all the levels I observed that it is difficult to conclude that they are manifestations of a bottom-up, decentralised, and diverse movement.”
• Claim of 5% turnover to Tea Party rallies exagerated: 0.0008%
FreedomWorks
• Third wave after Reagan and Contract with America
• Anti rent companies• Support for Ohio govenor• Train Tea Party activists• SuperPAC 2011: to empower the leaderless,
decentralized community of the tea party movement as it continues its hostile takeover of the GOP establishment.
Tea Party Nation
• Coordinator of local Tea Party groups• Founder supports property ownership as
requirement to vote• Limited success of first convention• Second abandoned as little support• Formed SuperPAC
Tea Party Patriots
• Proposes Second contract with America• Clashes with Tea Party Nation
Our Country Deserves Better
• PAC• Strong Palin supporter
Roles and impact of the Tea Party
• To de-toxify the Republican Party after GB Jr:– Iraq war– Deficit
• To raise the campaign against ObamaCare• To get out the vote for the mid terms• To push the Republicans into a non-compromise position
over taxes and spending so creating the fiscal deadlock• To push the 2012 Republican presidential candidates to
the right in the primaries• To get out the vote in 2012
De-toxify the Republicans
• The Bush positions forgotten• A new agenda emerges• Links to the success of Reagan and the failure
of Ginrich
Raise the campaign against ObamaCare
• A steady focus• Raises fear of socialism and European style of
government• Points to UK’s NHS: but other models such as
France• US life expectancy low: 42nd in world• Healthcare 18% of GDP in private hands: $2.5
trillion
Get out the vote for the mid terms
• Very successful• Tea Party caucus in Congress
Push the leadership into non compromise
• Very successful
Push Republican primaries right
Get out the vote in 2012
• Failure• Obama campaign focused on swing states:
uses masses of data to target specific demographics