But Friday in Wales was all about Labour celebrating a series of famous victories.
Yet, paradoxically, those same media organs that lambast the globalisation of labour celebrate the globalisation of capital.
Indeed, New Labour celebrated the anniversaries of the 1945 election and the National Health Service as part of its inheritance, while being too embarrassed to celebrate the party's own centenary.
If New Labour's leaders had taken steps to rein in corporate greed and used the tax system to counter ballooning inequality, politicians like Duncan and Hutton – who instead recently demanded that Labour celebrate "huge salaries" – might have more credibility.
Continually pacing the stage of a room in the Royal Festival Hall, where Labour celebrated victory in 1997, Mr Brown evoked the giants of the party's past to try and persuade Mr Corbyn's army of idealists that power was as important as principles.
By Shantha Bloemen World Day Against Child Labour, celebrated on 12 June, this year highlights the continuing challenges to eliminating the worst forms of child labour, with a focus on exploitation of girls.
By Sam Taylor and Sarah Crowe World Day against Child Labour, celebrated on 12 June, this year highlights the continuing challenges to eliminating the worst forms of child labour, with a focus on exploitation of girls.
By Farida Ayari This year's World Day against Child Labour, celebrated on 12 June, highlighted the continuing challenges to eliminating the worst forms of child labour, with a focus on exploitation of girls.
As the labour movement celebrates this milestone in the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, it is also faced with an inquiry into bigotry closer to home: the Chakrabarti report.
With the London result dramatic, but easily written off as a special case – thanks to the peculiar chemistry of two opposing personalities, one more popular than his party, the other much less – Miliband and Labour could celebrate having passed what US politics would call a threshold test, clearing a hurdle essential if Labour is, once again, to be a plausible contender for government.
