The Fall and Rise of the British LeftThe remarkable advance of Corbynism did not emerge from nowhere. It is the product of developments in socialist and working class politics over the past forty years and more. The Thatcher era witnessed a wholesale attack on the postwar consensus and welfare state, through a regime of deregulation, attacks on the unions, privatisations, and globalisation. However, at the same time, there existed a persistent resistance to the growing powers of neo