Against the grain

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 98 - 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 pariah: some observations regarding ideological apostasy and the discourse of proletarian resistance - Mark Hayes 13. Anti-fascism in Britain, 1997-2012 - David Renton Index