A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party's The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party's The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)
- Main Title:
- A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party's The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s
- Authors:
- Smith, Evan
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: In recent years, one of the most controversial stories on the British left is the trajectory of the far left Trotskyist group, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) to the libertarian/contrarian online publication Spiked!, via the magazine Living Marxism . The evolution of the RCP into Spiked! has been explored somewhat by journalists, but it has yet to be explored in depth by historians. This paper argues that in the history of the RCP, The Red Front is an often overlooked turning point for the party towards rejection of conventional left thinking in the 1990s and eventual rejection of Marxist politics.
- Is Part Of:
- Contemporary British history. Volume 37:Issue 1(2023)
- Journal:
- Contemporary British history
- Issue:
- Volume 37:Issue 1(2023)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 37, Issue 1 (2023)
- Year:
- 2023
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2023-0037-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 89
- Page End:
- 127
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-02
- Subjects:
- Revolutionary communist party -- the red front -- living marxism -- spiked -- British left -- trotskyism
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Periodicals
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals
941.085 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/AllIssues/ingenta;jsessionid=47ed8t3n14knr.circus?journal=pubinfobike://fcp/cbh&startyear=2003 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13619462.2022.2142780 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1361-9462
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 3425.175950
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