Waiting for the Revolution

Evan Smith is a Visiting Adjunct Fellow in the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University, South AustraliaMatthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading

• Introduction: The continuing importance of the history of the British far left – Evan Smith and Matthew Worley 1 Revolutionary vanguard or agent provocateur: students and the far left on English university campuses, c. 1970–90 – Jodi Burkett2 Not that serious? The investigation and trial of the Angry Brigade, 1967–72 – J. D. Taylor3 Protest and survive: the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Labour Party and civil defence in the 1980s – Jacquelyn Arnold4 Anti-apartheid solidarity in the perspectives and practices of the British far left in the 1970s and ‘80s – Gavin Brown5 ‘The Merits of Brother Worth’: the International Socialists and life in a Coventry car factory, 1968–75 – Jack Saunders6 Making miners militant? The Communist Party of Great Britain in the National Union of Mineworkers, 1956–85 – Sheryl Bernadette Buckley7 Networks of solidarity: the London left and the 1984–85 miners’ strike – Diarmaid Kelliher8 ‘You have to start where you’re at’: politics and reputation in 1980s Sheffield – Daisy Payling9 Origins of the present crisis? The emergence of ‘left-wing’ Scottish nationalism, 1956–79 – Rory Scothorne and Ewan Gibbs10 A miner cause? The persistence of left nationalism in postwar Wales – Daryl Leeworthy11 The British radical left and Northern Ireland during ‘the Troubles’ – Daniel Finn12 The point is to change it: a short account of the Revolutionary Communist Party – Michael Fitzpatrick13 The Militant Tendency and entrism in the Labour Party – Christopher Massey14 Understanding the formation of the Communist Party of Britain – Lawrence ParkerIndex