In Solidarity, under Suspicion : The British Far Left From 1956.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Daniel.

Contributor:

Daniel Frost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--Great Britain.

Radicalism.

Communism--Great Britain.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A collection of original research on far-left groups and activists in Britain from the 1950s onwards, focusing in particular on themes of international solidarity, British Black Power, experiences of policing and surveillance, and relationships to the Labour Party.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Against the State

Undercover policing of the left, 1968-82: subversives under the lens

'Secret and delicate sources': British Black Power, counter-subversion and undercover policing

Shot by both sides? The foundation of the Institute for Workers' Control and its critics on the left and right

From the SLL to the WRP: violence, gender and the perils of Leninism

Anti-statism and the trajectory from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked

Worlds transformed

Trades councils and the December The Sixth Group: trade unions and the 'unofficial' radical left in the early 1970s

'Organising to win': Big Flame and workplace interventions, 1970-73

Socialist-feminist revival in the Merseyside Women's Liberation Movement: new priorities, strategies, spaces and solidarities after 1978

'Black and white, unite and fight'? Black Power and the British radical left, 1965-79

Beyond borders

'Let the people of Malaya rule their own country!': The Communist Party of Great Britain's solidarity campaign with Malaya

British Maoists, China and the Cold War in the 1970s

British Marxism and the coup in Chile

Difficult solidarities: the Irish diaspora and the British left during the Northern Ireland conflict

Breaking and entering

From rupture to retreat: Black Power and the rise of Black Marxism in twentieth-century Britain

Inside out, outside in: the IMG's changing attitudes towards the Labour Party and entryism

Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour

Researching left-wing activism (after 1956) during and after Corbynism

Index.

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ISBN:

9781526179609

OCLC:

1539300098