Forty years ago, I was engulfed in the heady politics of Liverpool as the city fought a vigorous campaign against the Thatcher Tory government. Spearheading that campaign, adding ideological rigour, was the Militant tendency, a Marxist-Leninist organisation of which I… Read More ›
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British communist hostility to Polish migrants
If you think the far Right is tough on migrants today, it’s worth looking back at how British communists talked about Polish exiles at the end of the Second World War. The language was hostile and uncompromising. But why were… Read More ›