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| | Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the opinion of the Labour leaders, Militant's support for Mahmood confirmed that Militant was a separate political party. | | | The tendency left the Fourth International formally after the Eighth World Congress in 1965. | | | The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, accused of entryist tactics. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_Tendency
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| | Socialist Solidarity Network - Articles |
| | In our opinion, the Militant theory of the Labour Party, nationalisation as the key criterion of the nature of the state, the Enabling Act and Proletarian Bonapartism are all linked together. | | | The SWP is today the supreme example of this type of approach (despite having rejected it in its early history). |
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http://www.socialistsolidarity.com/docs_mil_ph.htm
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| | Ted Grant |
| | This was the high point of the Militant tendency. | | | In the past, his method and orientation, which are rooted in Trotsky's approach, served to make the tendency a major factor in British politics. | | | Towards the end of the year, a row erupted over the election of the Group's leadership, where slanders were circulated about Ralph Lee. |
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http://www.engels.org/ted_grant/biografia/biografia.htm
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| | How the Militant was Built – and How it was Destroyed |
| | A Militant supporter, Derek Hatton, was elected Deputy Leader of the Council. | | | This was the cement that had kept the Tendency together through the most difficult circumstances. | | | I first met Ted Grant in July 1966 at a YS summer school in Swansea, and joined the tendency soon afterwards at the age of 14. |
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http://www.marxist.com/Europe/militant40yrs.htm
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 12 1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton |
| | Mr Kinnock feared the Labour-controlled council was harming the party's image and his attempts to win a general election. | | | The decision came after a day of frantic legal attempts by Militant supporters to prevent the hearing from going ahead. | | | In 1982 it was judged to have broken party rules, paving the way for the purge of 1986. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/12/newsid_2511000/2511839.stm
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| | Socialist Party Australia - SP responds to Tony Blair's desperate slurs against the 'Militant Tendency' |
| | The Socialist Party, formerly Militant tendency, has slammed Tony Blair's disgraceful slurs, allegedly made at a meeting of the Cabinet last week, comparing Islamic extremism to Militant's role in the Labour Party in the 1980s. | | | SP responds to Tony Blair's desperate slurs against the 'Militant Tendency' | | | Socialist Party Australia - SP responds to Tony Blair's desperate slurs against the 'Militant Tendency' |
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http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=787
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| | This unprecedented victory (still unrivalled anywhere in Europe) led to social consequences, which were extraordinary for one municipality. | | | Their decision to root themselves in the Labour Party at last bore fruit. | | | Three of its members were elected as MPs, clearly stating their allegiance to the paper. |
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http://www.le-militant.org/engdeutch/militantlabour.htm
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| | Innuendo, falsehoods and character assassination - Indymedia Ireland |
| | Inspired by the personal (boring) example of Ted Grant “Militant bored for socialism”. | | | I was compelled
to sleep on the floor of a supporter in Balham, South London
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60690
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| | Forty Years of Fighting For Socialism The Socialist 9 October 2004 |
| | This in turn led to mass action that compelled Thatcher, the fountain head of world reaction at the time, to retreat. | | | For instance, in 1968 we managed to get three million votes for a resolution demanding the nationalisation of the "top monopolies". | | | The expulsions of Militant's leaders and supporters did not, however, cower us. |
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http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2004/365/mp6.htm
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| | Telegraph Opinion Blair's Militant Money Tendency destroys his credit |
| | It was an open tirade by a senior Labour official, to the effect that Number 10 is running a party within a party: a Militant Tendency of money-men. | | | Chief among those is Lord Levy, a man of charm and financial acumen who happens to be Mr Blair's tennis partner and Middle East envoy. | | | The whiff of venality suddenly mingled with the fumes of serious internal conflict. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/03/19/do1901.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/19/ixportal.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Militant |
| | Militants occur across the politicalal spectrum, including white supremacists, separatists, abortion opponents, and environmentalists. | | | The term "militant state" colloquially refers to a state which holds an aggressive posture in support of an ideology or cause. | | | The RSL soon became known as the Militant Tendency after the name of the newspaper. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/M/MI/MIL/Militant
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| | Jim Higgins: Locusts - Cankerworms - Caterpillars |
| | This was indeed a profound insight and became dignified by the title the Changing Locus of Reformism. | | | His Lenin bore an uncanny resemblance to Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts. | | | I yield to no one in my distaste for that truly dreadful man Gerry Healy but for a brief year or so in the late 1950s he was the most serious exponent of revolutionary politics in Britain. |
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http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/otherdox/whatnext/higgins.html
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| | Militant Tendency |
| | A number of senior Militants were expelled from the party in 1986, amid much legal conflict. | | | The contested deselection of the incumbent member of Parliament Frank Field as Labour candidate for Birkenhead, Lancashire, in 1990 led to renewed allegations of Militant infiltration of the Labour Party. | | | In the mid-1980s the Labour Party considered it to be a separate organization within the party and banned it. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004827.html
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| | Militant |
| | At the outset there were a number of leading supporters, based in London, who constituted the National Editorial Board (NEB), who held positions of authority and respect within Militant’s ranks. | | | However, with the decision to publish Militant, it was also decided that I be moved from Merseyside to London to become the paper's full-time Editor. | | | Decisions, including the one which led to the publication of Militant, were determined democratically by committed supporters. |
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http://www.militant.org.uk
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| | Militant Labour seek regroupment around Scargill |
| | This was graphically underscored in the hostile reaction of much of the audience to the contribution by Julie Hyland, ICP Assistant National Secretary - the first speaker in the brief discussion. | | | The ICP attended the Forum meeting to raise the principled political issues involved in reorienting the workers' movement. | | | When NUM President Arthur Scargill suddenly split from the Labour Party and announced his intention to form a Socialist Labour Party, Militant Labour enthusiastically supported his call. |
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http://www.socialequality.org.uk/elect97/militant/ssagroup.htm
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| | Blair likens Islamic extremism to Militant Tendency - Indymedia Ireland |
| | At last week's cabinet meeting, Mr Blair likened Islamic extremism to the Trotskyist Militant Tendency that infiltrated Labour in the 80s, and argued it was only when the party recognised the depth of the infiltration that a tough counter-strategy was implemented. | | | The Militant tendency to which Blair referred was always opposed to terrorism and attracted a lot of criticism from the left (or ultra left) because of their attitude towards the IRA. | | | "The Militant tendency to which Blair referred was always opposed to terrorism and attracted a lot of criticism from the left (or ultra left) because of their attitude towards the IRA." |
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71004&fontsizeinc=2
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| | Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Parties |
| | Formerly known as "Militant Labour" and "Militant tendency" which led the anti-Poll Tax movement. | | | Until recently the SWP had not run candidates in elections since the 1970s. | | | Descended from the tendency led by Gerry Healy who was expelled in the 1980s. |
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http://www.bush2004.com/directory/politics/Socialism/Parties
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| | Marxism and the British Labour Party: Note on the Militant Tendency |
| | It did not suffer any major splits in its ranks from the birth of the Militant newspaper in 1964 until the ‘Open Turn’ of 1991. | | | While Ted Grant was respected by the supporters and leadership of Militant it had been evident for some time that his best days, particularly on the public platform, were behind him. | | | Marxism and the British Labour Party: Note on the Militant Tendency |
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http://www.marxist.net/openturn/intro/11.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Sport Breaking news Comment: How sport discovered its militant tendency |
| | Contrary to all appearances, it seemed there was a new generation of militant British trade unionists out there in Tony Blair's Britain. | | | Long dismissed as selfish individualists only concerned with their own appearance fees, PBs or image rights, Britain's sportsmen have shown this year that they are connected to an older and more collective-minded tradition. | | | We discovered that their leaders met for a monthly conspiracy session over a bowl of goulash in the Gay Hussar restaurant in Soho, long a favourite of left-wingers with appetite (which explains why Harry Kewell was never a regular). |
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http://sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,10488,1110668,00.html
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| | Tendency, mcbain - Judaism's Democratic Tendency |
| | tendency vs. possibility (190 of 554) tendency vs. possibility apotheon | | | My life has the tendency to fall apart when I' | | | Tendency for the German context where it, as well as James, Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to “Facing Reality” |
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http://mcbain.siteslinks.com/sil/mcbain-tendency.htm
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| | The Scottish debate: Militant Tendency |
| | Those who joined Militant at the time were becoming members of a revolutionary party. | | | The British section had a clear position on the question of the state during its period of entrism. | | | Militant had a clear position on the role of the state and the necessity of an extra-Parliamentary mass movement to bring about socialist change. |
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http://www.marxist.net/scotland/aug2000/CWI/4.htm
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 27 1985: Kinnock moves against Militant |
| | Labour's national executive made the decision to ban him as a result of his Militant Tendency membership and because the investigation had accused him of manipulating local party rules. | | | Neil Kinnock's triumph over Militant opened the way for a reformed New Labour and election to government for the first time in 18 years in 1997. | | | The radical socialist was later tried in court for corruption and fraud but was acquitted of all charges. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_2528000/2528725.stm
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| | Scottish Socialist Party history, 2005 conference report and Revolutionary Platform plans |
| | Lenin was excused by Militant members, who said that he thought that his dictatorial rule was only a temporary measure, needed because of the invasion from about 20 other countries, the civil war and the failure of the revolution to spread. | | | Margaret Thatcher’s second major defeat – and the one that brought her down as Prime Minister – was also due to Militant. | | | The Chair of the Scottish (and All Britain) Anti-Poll Tax Federation was Militant member Tommy Sheridan. |
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http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/ssp2.htm
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| | Brief History of the Marxist Tendency |
| | This group was formerly known as The Militant tendency. | | | This led to an internal crisis, especially after the defeat in the 1979 elections. | | | This was possible because the bureaucracy of the labor organizations was becoming relatively free of any control on the part of the ranks of the movement. |
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http://www.socialistappeal.org/faq/brief_history.html
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| | Interview to Lines by Ketheshwaran (Kethesh )Loganathan |
| | However, the militant youth movement with a strong egalitarian and ideological content soon became subordinated to the compulsions of Tamil Resistance in the face of increasing state repression. | | | The above combination of the ideological and direct militant actions was also seen as a threat by the traditional parliamentary political parties (i.e. | | | There were instances where the TULF were seen to be collaborating with the State to contain the militant tendency, while at the same time engaging in high voltage nationalist rhetoric and propaganda. |
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http://www.lines-magazine.org/textmay03/Kethesh.htm
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| | Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Organizations |
| | This group, which does not currently run candidates in elections, is affiliated with the World Socialist Movement, a Marxist, non-Leninist, organization. | | | Publishers of "Justice" a newspaper for "Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism," Socialist Alternative is a Marxist tendency active in the Labor Party and in the trade union and student movements among others. | | | This group is in sympathy with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) and identifies with the minority tendency within the USFI. |
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http://www.bush2004.com/directory/politics/Socialism/Organizations
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| | Telegraph News |
| | Howard 'is facing his own militant tendency in UKIP' | | | Mr Howard sought to assert his authority last night by removing the party whip from the Earl of Shrewsbury, a fifth Conservative peer who publicly endorsed UKIP. | | | In the 1980s Labour suffered years of turmoil as the leadership waged war against Militant, a hard-Left faction that was eventually expelled. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/04/nvote04.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/04/ixnewstop.html
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| | Irish Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Irish Militant Tendency was the Irish section of the Committee for a Workers International in the 1970s and 1980s when it practiced entrism in the Irish Labour Party. | | | After being expelled from Labour the group formed what is now the Socialist Party. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Militant_Tendency
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| | Socialism Today - Prudence with Balls? |
| | The expulsion between 1985 and 1987 of the leaders of the struggle in Liverpool led to a further general election defeat in 1987. | | | He subsequently wrote in his Observer column that the Labour leaders should not be concerned about Militant because their leaders were ‘old’. | | | He falsely claims that "in the long run, Labour gained from the tough stand taken against the anti-democratic and potentially revolutionary Militant Tendency". |
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http://www.socialismtoday.org/81/brown.html
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| | Media Monitor - The Nation Of Islam And Violence - November 12, 2002 |
| | Later, leader Louis Farrakhan admitted Muhammad was a member. | | | Louis Farrakhan, now the leader of the Nation of Islam, made headlines on a 60 Minutes by appearing to suggest that his rhetoric may have contributed to the assassination. | | | The Nation of Islam has its own interpretation of Islam and what analysts call a "strong militant tendency." In 1965, Malcolm X, who had left the organization, was gunned down and murdered by members of the group. |
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http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A589_0_2_0_C
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| | Leninism, Communism, Socialism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism in England and Wales |
| | They continue to be led by the founding father of Militant, Ted Grant, who continues to lead their international, the Committee for a Marxist International (CMI). | | | This symbol indicates a faction's participation in the | | | After expulsions forced the Militant Tendency (now SPEW) out of the Labour Party, some who didn't want to regroup outside it carried on within Labour as Socialist Appeal. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mgekelly/lenin
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| | Find in a Library: The Militant Tendency : Trotskyism in the Labour Party |
| | The Militant Tendency : Trotskyism in the Labour Party | | | Find in a Library: The Militant Tendency : Trotskyism in the Labour Party | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/3da7440df24f6aee.html
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| | Socialism: History |
| | thirty two years of militant, now the socialist, paper of the socialist party, with links to the socialist party. | | | Online library of historical data on marxism and the revolutionary working class. |
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http://politicssocialism.info/index.php/History
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| | It became infamous in some circles when the Merseyside Branch gave evidence against the Militant tendency in an internal investigation into the Labour Party in Liverpool. | | | The supporters of the Militant Tendency in the constituecy went to work for more politically acceptable candidates elsewhere on Merseyside ! | | | I failed to be selected as a parliamentary candidate for the 1992 and 1997 elections - probably as well as I suspect I am not quite to the taste of some people these days! |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chrischeetham/politics1.htm
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| | We in the Socialist Party have often been accused by members of various Leninist parties and groups, from the defunct Communist Party to the nearly defunct Militant Tendency, of being irrelevant, and not being, like them, in the vanguard of the working class. | | | Certainly we are not "in the vanguard", have no intention of being; as this could not lead to the establishment of a world socialist society. | | | Our case against capitalism is not a moral one – morals are constantly changing – but putting the socialist alternative to workers and it being up to them to do something about it. |
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http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/jan02/letsjan.html
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| | Quaequam Blog! » Militant tendency |
| | “We haven’t got a Clause Four, Militants or rot at the core of the party,” he says. | | | […] Rereading that 2001 BBC interview with Mark Oaten I linked to previously, some of the other bits are actually more revealing and important given the current context, than that silly Militant quote. | | | According to Oaten, the Lib Dems lack the symbolic dragons that Labour leaders have in the past found useful to slay… |
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http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/?p=195
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| | Subject: RE: Paul Heaton on New Labour and our Bill I assume Heaton is referring to Red Wedge, and somehow sees Billy supporting this as being some sort of agreement with Kinnock's expulsion of the Militant Tendency. | | | Tom At 09:53 30/06/98 +0100, you wrote: >I assume Heaton is referring to Red Wedge, and somehow sees Billy supporting >this as being some sort of agreement with Kinnock's expulsion of the >Militant Tendency. | | | Politically he is a waste of space, and this kind of outburst is the equivalent of Mel B announcing she is an anarchist. |
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http://www.things.org/music/billy_bragg/digest_archives/v01.n2090
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - militant definition |
| | Directly or via French < Latin militant-, present participle of militare "be a soldier" < milit- (see military)] | | | Click here to search all of MSN Encarta | | | Search for "militant" in all of MSN Encarta |
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http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/militant.html
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