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The New Left encouraged free use of drugs and free sexuality--and (much to the dismay of their elders), long hair styles for men. They found their uniforms in working class clothes such as [[T-shirts]] and jeans. Some joined hippie communes where everything was shared in common; most folded after a few months.
The New Left encouraged free use of drugs and free sexuality--and (much to the dismay of their elders), long hair styles for men. They found their uniforms in working class clothes such as [[T-shirts]] and jeans. Some joined hippie communes where everything was shared in common; most folded after a few months.
===Britain===
[[Harold Wilson]], on becoming prime minister in 1964, tried to bypass old doctrinal arguments by harnessing nationalized industry to ideas of scientific modernization. But his government was a great failure, not least in its relations with the trade unions, the linchpin of the party since its founding. Wilson represented the older traditions of the Labour Party and never understood the emerging "New Left" with new social roots, new ideas and new styles of political behaviour in the late 1970s. Following the disillusion and demoralization of traditional Labour Party activists with Wilson's government, a more radical and well-educated local Labour leadership appeared at the local level. This bred much disillusionment and launched a new left-wing socialism in the 1970s. The Labour government of 1974-79 added to this division. The left-wing pressure reached its climax in the early 1980s when Conservative [[Margaret Thatcher]] was in power but resulted only in heavy defeats for Labour in 1983 and 1987. The general impression in 1989 is of a loss of political and intellectual confidence, with British socialism trapped between a cherished past and an uncertain future.<ref> Kenneth O. Morgan, ''Britain since 1945: The People's Peace'' (2001)</ref>
The Labour Party became a strong proponent of New Left ideas of social reform. Under Wilson in the late 1960s, abortion and homosexuality were decriminalizes, the death penalty abolished and divorce was made easier. Unease from a perceived large number of immigrants from Commonwealth countries also led to four Race Relations Acts, all of which were passed under Labour governments.
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