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