Against the grain : the British far left from 1956 /
'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 ge...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- AGAINST THE GRAIN: The British far left from 1956; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 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-Cartledge5. 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 Birchall11. 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; Index.