Smith – Worley, eds. Against the Grain. The British Far Left from 1956.

Contents

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