Militant
eBook - ePub

Militant

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Militant

About this book

When it was originally published in 1984, Michael Crick's treatise on the Militant tendency was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism, and although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn can be attributed more to the phenomenon of 'Corbynmania' than to hard-left entrism, to some within the party, Crick's ground-breaking book must seem like a lesson from history.Updated and expanded, Crick explores the origins, organisation and aims of Militant, the secret Trotskyite organisation that operated clandestinely within the Labour Party, edging out adversaries at grass-roots level and recruiting people to its own ranks, which, at its peak in the mid-1980s, swelled to around 8, 000 members. Whilst eventually most of its leaders were expelled, it caused damaging rifts within the party and closed the door to Downing Street for almost a generation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface and Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword
  6. 1: ‘I Call This an Outrage’
  7. 2: The Permanent Revolutionary
  8. 3: The Liverpool Connection
  9. 4: Enter Militant
  10. 5: Policies and Perspectives
  11. 6: Operation Icepick
  12. 7: The Organisation
  13. 8: Militant’s Money
  14. 9: Militant Abroad
  15. 10: The Militant Life
  16. 11: The Sacrificial Lambs
  17. 12: Militant Merseyside
  18. 13: Hatton’s Army
  19. 14: The Tendency Tacticians
  20. Conclusion: Neil Kinnock’s Falklands
  21. Afterword
  22. Appendix 1: Militant Candidates Standing for the Labour Party National Executive, 1971–83
  23. Appendix 2: Militant Candidates in Elections
  24. Appendix 3: The Militant Leadership
  25. Appendix 4: The Constitution of the Revolutionary Socialist League/Militant (1962)
  26. Appendix 5: The Constitution of the Committee for the Workers’ International (CWI) (1974)
  27. Appendix 6: The Growth of Militant Membership, 1965–86
  28. Notes and References
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index
  31. Copyright