Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Revolutionary vanguard or agent provocateur 11
7. 2 Not that serious? 30
8. 3 Protest and survive 48
9. 4 Anti-apartheid solidarity in the perspectives and practices of the British far left in the 1970s and 1980s 66
10. 5 ‘The merits of Brother Worth’ 88
11. 6 Making miners militant? 107
12. 7 Networks of solidarity 125
13. 8 ‘You have to start where you’re at’ 144
14. 9 Origins of the present crisis? 163
15. 10 A miner cause? 182
16. 11 The British radical left and Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’ 201
17. 12 The point is to change it 218
18. 13 The Militant Tendency and entrism in the Labour Party 238
19. 14 Understanding the formation of the Communist Party of Britain 258
20. Index 277