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Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956, bringing together young and established academics and writers to discuss the realignments and fissures that maintain leftist politics into the twenty-first century. The two books endeavour to historicise the British left, detailing but also seeking to understand the diverse currents that comprise ‘the far left’. Their objective is less to intervene in ongoing issues relevant to the left and politics more generally, than to uncover and explore the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups, activists and struggles. To this end, the book will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in British politics.
Author(s): Evan Smith, Matthew Worley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 296
City: Manchester
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Revolutionary vanguard or agent provocateur
2 Not that serious?
3 Protest and survive
4 Anti-apartheid solidarity in the perspectives and practices of the British far left in the 1970s and 1980s
5 ‘The merits of Brother Worth’
6 Making miners militant?
7 Networks of solidarity
8 ‘You have to start where you’re at’
9 Origins of the present crisis?
10 A miner cause?
11 The British radical left and Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’
12 The point is to change it
13 The Militant Tendency and entrism in the Labour Party
14 Understanding the formation of the Communist Party of Britain
Index
