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New Labour's anti-socialism: New Labour's attempt to synthesise progressive politics with the global market is collapsing into new experiments in social authoritarianism.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: New Labour's anti-socialism: New Labour's attempt to synthesise progressive politics with the global market is collapsing into new experiments in social authoritarianism.(Against the Current)(social policy of Labour Party)

Article Excerpt
If a liberal is a conservative who's never been mugged, then at some point during the past decade or so New Labour was done over. Launching a five-year government law and order strategy in July 2004--no doubt with an eye on the 5 May General Election --Tony Blair explained that New Labour would end 'the 1960s social-liberal consensus on law and order' (Guardian 19 July 2004).

New Labour's favourite weapons in this new offensive in the culture wars are Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, or ASBOs as they're affectionately known.

Introduced as part of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, ASBOs can be taken out against people--including children as young as ten years of age--who act in an 'anti-social manner', broadly defined as 'a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as himself'.

ASBOs require police intervention to...

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