AGAINST THE GRAIN: The British far left from 1956

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Acknowledgements

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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: 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 political pariah: Some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance: Mark Hayes

13. Anti-fascism in Britain, 1997–2012: David Renton

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