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Cover 1 Half Title, Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of contributors 8 Acknowledgements 12 List of abbreviations 14 Introduction: The far left in Britain from 1956 18 1. Engaging with Trotsky: the influence of Trotskyism in Britain 40 2. The New Left: Beyond Stalinism and social democracy? 62 3. Narratives of radical lives: the roots of 1960s activism and the making of the British left 79 4. Marching separately, seldom together: the political history of two principal trends in British Trotskyism, 1945–2009 97 5. Opposition in slow motion: the CPGB’s ‘anti-revisionists’ in the 1960s and 1970s 115 6. Dissent from dissent: the ‘Smith/Party’ Group in the 1970s CPGB 132 7. British anarchism in the era of Thatcherism 150 8. Jam tomorrow?: Socialist women and Women’s Liberation, 1968–82: an oral history approach 170 9. Something new under the sun: the revolutionary left and gay politics 190 10. ‘Vicarious pleasure’?: The British far left and the third world, 1956–79 207 11. Anti-racism and the socialist left, 1968–79 226 12. Red Action – left-wing political pariah: some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance 246 13. Anti-fascism in B

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Author

Smith, Evan;Worley, Matthew

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847799227

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science