Against the grain : The British far left from 1956 /: The British far left from 1956. (2014)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Against the grain : The British far left from 1956 /: The British far left from 1956. (2014)
- Main Title:
- Against the grain : The British far left from 1956
- Further Information:
- Note: Evan Smith, Matthew Worley.
- Editors:
- Smith, Evan
Worley, Matthew - Contents:
- Introduction: The far left in Britain from 1956 – Evan Smith and Matthew Worley; PART I: Movements; 1. Engaging with Trotsky: the influence of Trotskyism in Britain – John Callaghan; 2. The New Left: beyond Stalinism and social democracy? – Paul Blackledge; 3. Narratives of radical lives: the roots of 1960s activism and the making of the British left – Celia Hughes; 4. Marching separately, seldom together: the political history of two principal trends in British Trotskyism, 1945–2009 – Phil Burton-Cartledge; 5. Opposition in slow motion: the CPGB’s ‘anti-revisionists’ in the 1960s and 1970s 98 – Lawrence Parker; 6. Dissent from dissent: the ‘Smith/Party’ Group in the 1970s CPGB – Andrew Pearmain; 7. British anarchism in the era of Thatcherism – Rich Cross; PART II: Issues; 8. Jam tomorrow? Socialist women and Women’s Liberation, 1968–82: an oral history approach – Sue Bruley; 9. Something new under the sun: the revolutionary left and gay politics – Graham Willett; 10. ‘Vicarious pleasure’? The British far left and the third world, 1956–79 – Ian Birchall; 11. Anti-racism and the socialist left, 1968–79 – Satnam Virdee; 12. Red Action – left-wing pariah: some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance – Mark Hayes; 13. Anti-fascism in Britain, 1997–2012 – David Renton; Index
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Subjects:
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
- Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781847799227
1847799221 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.705118
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