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Against the grain : the British far left from 1956 / edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right and left (Political science)--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Socialism--Great Britain--20th century.
- Socialism.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 'Against the grain' is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together leading experts on British left-wing politics to examine issues of class, race and gender from 1956 to the present day.--Page [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the far left in Britain from 1956 / Evan Smith and Matthew Worley
- Engaging with Trotsky : the influence of Trotskyism in Britain / John Callaghan
- The new left : beyond Stalinism and social democracy? / Paul Blackledge
- Narratives of radical lives : the roots of 1960s activism and the making of the British left / Celia Hughes
- Marching separately, seldom together : the political history of two principal trends in British Trotskyism, 1945-2009 / Phil Burton-Cartledge
- Opposition in slow motion : the CPGB's 'anti-revisionists' in the 1960s and 1970s / Lawrence Parker
- Dissent from dissent : the 'Smith/Party' group in the 1970s CPGB / Andrew Pearmain
- British anarchism in the era of Thatcherism / Rich Cross
- Jam tomorrow? Socialist women and Women's Liberation, 1968-82 : an oral history approach / Sue Bruley
- Something new under the sun : the revolutionary left and gay politics / Graham Willett
- 'Vicarious pleasure'? The British far left and the third world, 1956-79 / Ian Birchall
- Anti-racism and the socialist left, 1968-79 / Satnam Virdee
- Red action : left-wing political pariah : some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance / Mark Hayes
- Anti-fascism in Britain, 1997-2012 / David Renton.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847799227
- 1847799221
- 9781847799234
- 184779923X
- OCLC:
- 980836572
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