Smith / Unknown / Worley Against the grain

The British far left from 1956
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84779-923-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

The first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Smith, Evan

Worley, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 98 – 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 pariah: some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance – Mark Hayes
13. Anti-fascism in Britain, 1997–2012 – David Renton
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith Evan:
Matthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of ReadingWorley Matthew:
Evan Smith is a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of International Studies at Flinders University, South AustraliaMatthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading