Waiting for the revolution : the British far left from 1956 / edited by Evan Smith, Matthew Worley.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 19, 2018)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

A companion piece to 2014's Against the grain, this collection of essays explores trajectories in the British far left from 1956 to the present day.

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