| Description | Various texts and notes for 'May Day Manifesto' including typescript and handwritten texts and notes: foreword; 'The New Imperialism'; Labour government and new left, annotated; 'Manifesto', 'The politics of manifesto', 'The manifesto: politics and organisation', and 'A May Day Convention'; 'Debt, Imperialism, the Cold War', the British economy and politics, May Day, foreign policy, democracy and parliament, the Labour Party; manifesto and new left; notes on new left and manifesto; re 'The New Imperialism'; politics, paginated; politics, paginated; 'The Cold War', annotated; 'The Economic Position of the Labour Government, 1964-1967' by Michael Barratt Brown; newspaper cutting from 'Morning Star', 27 Nov 1967, with annotation; the Cold War, the British economy and politics, May Day, foreign policy, democracy and parliament, the Labour Party, economics; photocopied text '8 Work', '5 Social Realities', '6 Poverty', '9 Social Poverty', '10 Education, Housing and Health', with annotations; education, May Day Manifesto, 'War and Peace', politics, 'The Bearings of Change', 'Britain as a Capitalist Economy' by Michael Barratt Brown; 'Poverty Today'; 'Socialist Strategy and Capitalist Practice'; 'Debt, Imperialism, the Cold War'; 'The New Imperialism'; 'The Power of Trade'; 'The International Firm'; 'The Effects of Aid'; 'Changes in the Third World'; 'Elites and Armies'; 'There Are Alternative Policies' including cut copy of 1967 New Left May Day Manifesto, copy of Beyond the Freeze: A Socialist Policy for Economic Growth [1966], copy of People & Politics [1967]; loose papers, newpaper cuttings re [National Convention of the Left and May Day Manifesto]; Newspaper cuttings, copies of 1967 New Left May Day Manifesto, and notes with plans and text 'Work', 'Poverty and Inequality', 'Social Realities', 'Real Improvement', 'The Myth of the End of Poverty', 'Capitalist Practice and Socialist Strategy', 'Strategy for the Ideologising Socialist Intellectual', 'Capitalist Practice'
Agendas, minutes and other papers for May Day Committee
Other papers including flyer for 'May Day Manifesto', includes 'reflections on the conference' by EP Thompson, 5 Nov 1967, and letter from Ferdinand Alpaerts, 1 May 1967
For correspondence see Thompson, Clark, Hall, Rustin, Arblaster, Kluggman, Gervasi |