This collection contains two boxes of publications related to Militant Labour and Socialist Party issues in the later half of the twentieth century. The majority of the publications are based on issues in the labor movement in England and are published in England or Wales.

The Militant tendency was an interest group within the British Labour Party based around the Militant newspaper that was first published in 1964. It described its politics as descended from Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. Between 1975 and 1980, attempts to expel the Militant group were rejected by the Labour Party's National Executive Committee, which appointed a Militant member to the position of National Youth Organizer in 1976. In 1983, the five members of the "Editorial Board" of the Militant newspaper were expelled from the Labour Party. Between 1989 and 1991, Militant led the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation's non-payment campaign against the Community Charge (poll tax). In 1991, Militant decided by a large majority to abandon the Labour Party, although a minority stayed in the Labour Party. The majority changed its name to Militant Labour and then in 1997 to the Socialist Party.

2 boxes

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