Below is the list of contents, which is a veritable smorgasbord of left trainspotterly goodness. The bloke who wrote chapter four sounds familiar too.
AGAINST THE GRAIN: THE BRITISH FAR LEFT FROM 1956 (Manchester University Press, 2014)
Evan Smith & Matthew Worley (eds)
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 pariah: Some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance
Mark Hayes
13 Anti-fascism in Britain, 1997–2012
David Renton
When I was Culture Editor at Red Pepper I had to write these tiny little 100-word pieces bigging up some magazine or film or happening or whatever. Mostly nobody paid much attention to them (even the readers, I suspect). The only time one of them got the red pencil was the month when I plugged Red Action (the well-known newspaper). As the man says, they really were a social piranha.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed they had a culture editor!
ReplyDeleteWhen i was in my 20s i can remember thinking - red action. cool.
ReplyDeleteJihad really is that simple.