New Historical Express

I am excited to announce that the hardback edition of our edited volume, In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 has been published by Manchester University Press. You can order it here.

The hardback edition is quite pricey so please recommend it to your library. If you do want a copy of your very own, you can use the code ‘EVENT30’ to get a 30 per cent discount.

A more affordable paperback edition will follow in the next 18-24 months.

Here is the table of contents:

Introduction Studying the far left in Britain after ‘Generation Left’ – Daniel Frost & Evan Smith

Against the State
1 Undercover policing of the left 1968-82: subversives under the lens – Chris Brian
2 ‘Secret and Delicate Sources’: British black power, counter-subversion and undercover policing – Rosie Wild & Eveline Lubbers
3 Shot by both sides? The foundation of the Institute for Workers’ Control and its critics on the left and right – Ieuan Franklin and Alan Tuckman
4 From the SLL to the WRP: violence, gender, and the perils of Leninism – Aidan Beatty
5 Anti-statism and the trajectory from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked – Evan Smith

Worlds transformed
6 Trades councils and The December The Sixth Group: trade unions and the ‘unofficial’ radical left in the early 1970s – Hazel Perry
7 ‘Organising to win’: Big Flame and workplace interventions 1970-3 – Kerrie McGiveron
8 Socialist-feminist revival in the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement: new priorities, strategies, spaces and solidarities after 1978 – Rachel Collett
9 ‘Black and white, unite and fight’? black power and the British radical left, 1965-79 – Alfie Hancox

Beyond borders
10 ‘Let the people of Malaya rule their own country!’: The Communist Party of Great Britain’s solidarity campaign with Malaya – Armand Azra bin Azlira
11 British Maoists, China, and the Cold War in the 1970s – Neil Redfern
12 British Marxism and the coup in Chile – Owen Dowling
13 Difficult solidarities: the Irish diaspora and the British left during the Northern Ireland conflict – Jack Hepworth

Breaking and entering
14 From rupture to retreat: black Power and the rise of black Marxism in 20th century Britain – Azfar Shafi & Ilyas Nagdee
15 Inside out, outside in: the IMG’s changing attitudes towards the Labour Party and entryism – Nicolas Sigoillot
16 Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour – Alfie Steer
17 Researching left-wing activism (after 1956) during and after Corbynism – Daniel Frost

You can still get the other two volumes in the series, Against the Grain and Waiting for the Revolution, from the MUP website too.