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	Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, accused of entryist tactics.
		The Militant, who claimed to be nothing more than readers of a newspaper, were alleged to be members of a Leninist political party, with an elected central committee and an internal regime based on democratic centralism.
		Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press, although most of the councils attacked as 'loony' were in fact influenced by the soft-left ideas of Tribune.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Militant_Tendency (1104 words)

	ipedia.com: Militant Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Militant can refer to any individual that is engaged in warfare, a fight, combat, or generally serving as a soldier; moreoften it is used in the context of journalism as a neutral term for violent actors who do not belong to an established military.
		Militant, othertimes, can be used to mean any individual that is engaged in warfare, a fight, combat, or generally serving as a solider serving as a soldier.
		Militant is often used in relation with Palestinians who express intentions to commit, or support, violent actions (which include attacks on Israeli soldiers and Israeli civilians) on behalf of Palestinian nationalism, and statehood or in attempts to anhillilate Israel (the term guerrilla has also been used).
	www.ipedia.com /militant.html (990 words)

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		This long-term “entrism” within the labour movement is the trademark of Militant, which considered that the rest of the left had completely failed and had degenerated into “sects on the fringe of the workers’ movement”.
		Even if Militant supporters no doubt thought of themselves as the authentic continuation of the 4th International, their approach was much more open as is shown by the name they chose: Committee for a Workers’ International.
		Militant was notable for its serious attitude to organisation but also for the importance it gave to the theoretical education of its members.
	www.le-militant.org /engdeutch/militantlabour.htm (1079 words)

	Socialist Solidarity Network - Articles
		The Scottish leadership of Militant were the first on the far left to see the potential of the non-payment campaign; it put the Scottish organisation on the map, particularly through the role of Tommy Sheridan as the best known leader of the whole movement.
		In fact the Militant scenario was one variant, one theoretical possibility in the curve of development, but justified in a way which didn't take account of the profound changes in the relationship between the social democratic parties and the mass of the working class which has taken place since the 1930s.
		Militant's self-identity was that of the Marxist tendency, excluding all others from that label, an absurd proposition at the end of the 20th century.
	www.socialistsolidarity.com /docs_mil_ph.htm (6728 words)

	Forty Years of Fighting For Socialism \| The Socialist 9 October 2004
		David Beckham was accused of leading a "millionaire militant tendency" - a contradiction in terms - after England's football team refused to speak to the press following a recent international match because of what they considered unfair criticism of their previous performances.
		ABOVE ALL, Militant was launched at just the right time, in the mid-1960s, when a revival was taking place amongst young people and workers, which culminated in the explosive events of the late 1960s.
		Labour MP and Militant supporter Terry Fields, who was heroic both in the Liverpool battle and in the poll tax struggle - as were Labour MPs Dave Nellist and Pat Wall, the latter tragically dying during this battle - went to jail on behalf of the working class and in defence of this struggle.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2004/365/mp6.htm (1934 words)

	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 1991 a Militant Tendency candidate openly contested the Liverpool (Walton) by-election with the official Labour candidate and in 1996 Militant remained influential in the city.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004827.html (303 words)

	Militant
		The Militant began building a worker's international in 1975, and today the Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), which fights for socialism in 35 countries world wide.
		Written by Peter Taaffe and published in 1995, The Rise of Militant is the first real account of Militant, its ideas, organisation and the role of prominent public figures associated with it, written by its leading exponent for over40 years.
		In the course of such movements the ideas of Militant, which have already given a glimpse of what is possible for the British working class, will become the political weapons through which the labour movement and the working class will carve out a new world.
	www.militant.org.uk (2773 words)

	The Militant and Liverpool City Coucil
		Socialist Party members (then Militant supporters) argued at the time that Livingstone and other GLC leaders needed to develop a strategy to mobilise mass opposition to the Tories.
		Militant supporters wrote a section of the 1981 GLC manifesto which pointed out that Tory governments don’t listen to pleas, only to pressure.
		But this is the only one which gives an authentic account of how Militant played such a prominent role in Liverpool in the 1980's and the successful battle to defeat the Poll Tax.
	www.militant.org.uk /Liverpool.html (998 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Our History
		Ted Grant was the founder and political leader of the “Militant Tendency”, which haunted the Labour leadership, and was eventually expelled along with the Militant editorial board in 1983.
		When the Majority of the Militant leadership in 1991 pushed for a break with the Labour Party an intense debate opened up within the ranks of the Tendency (see Forty years ago the Militant was launched – How the Militant was Built – and How it was Destroyed).
		A comrade who was actively involved in building the Militant in the 1970s and 1980s recounts his experience, how he became disillusioned by the changes in the internal regime, how the tendency he had joined was transformed into something else.
	www.marxist.com /ourhistory.asp (1134 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party history, 2005 conference report and Revolutionary Platform plans
		The Militant Tendency was a revolutionary socialist organisation that infiltrated the Labour Party to try to convert it into a genuine socialist party (although it was believed within the organisation that that would never be possible and that it would be necessary to lead a split-off from Labour at some point in the future).
		Militant’s growth due to entrism was largely a result of leading the Labour Party Young Socialists for several years – until it was closed down by the Labour leadership.
		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.
	www.socialiststeve.me.uk /ssp2.htm (4860 words)

	Militant Tendency - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although, as socialists they did not really share the same analysis of much of the rest of the Labour Party, they were a visible component of that coalition.
		Militant reacted to the continued witch hunt by standing Lesley Mahmood as a candidate against Kilfoyle in the 1991 Knowsley parliamentary by-election, giving the Labour Party the further excuse to extend its purges.
		By the beginning of the 1990s Labour policy was so far removed from its former socialist content that in 1991 the Millitant Tendency felt the need to form themselves into a separate party, first calling themselves Militant Labour (and in Scotland, Scottish Militant Labour) and latterly in England the Socialist Party.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Militant_Tendency (1008 words)

	Militant Labour seek regroupment around Scargill
		The Militant tendency was formed in 1957 as an entrist group within the Labour Party.
		By the early 1990s a majority tendency within Militant were forced to acknowledge that the Labour Party had become alienated from the broad mass of workers and youth and carried out a split to launch Militant Labour.
		Even so, Militant Labour's declared aim was to build up a mass movement to put pressure on the Labour Party from outside and create the conditions where they could re-enter and win it back for the working class.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /elect97/militant/ssagroup.htm (1848 words)

	How the Militant was Built – and How it was Destroyed
		Militant’s growing influence in the Labour Party was considered by the strategists of Capital as the most dangerous to the capitalist system.
		The tendency seemed to be continually on a war footing, leaping from one action to the next, one court case to the next, and one confrontation with the bailiffs to the next.
		The attack on Militant was really the first step in a sustained and orchestrated offensive against the left wing of the Labour Party and was part of an attempt on the part of the ruling class to regain control over the Labour leadership and turn it into a tool in its hands.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/militant40yrs.htm (10757 words)

	The Scottish debate: Militant Tendency
		In the mid-1980s in particular, many workers joined Militant under the impression that it was the left wing of the Labour Party" (paragraph 136-137).
		After unfavourably comparing the political consciousness of the Militant membership to the Scottish Socialist Party, the International Socialist Movement majority comrades then go on to imply that this was because of the programme advocated by the British section.
		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.
	www.marxist.net /scotland/aug2000/CWI/4.htm (1367 words)

	Interview to Lines by Ketheshwaran (Kethesh )Loganathan
		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.
		A; As I had mentioned in my response to the previous question, the origins of the Tamil militant movement, stemming from extreme youth alienation, was typically fired by idealism based on egalitarianism and selflessness.
		In addition to Tamil nationalist sentiments, youth militancy was also fuelled by the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideology, which was prevalent even before the 70s, as well as the increasing influence of liberation theology from Latin America and the national liberation struggles in Africa and Indo-China.
	www.lines-magazine.org /textmay03/Kethesh.htm (2259 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party: Note on the Militant Tendency
		The Militant was unique of all groups on the far left during the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
		It is this which distinguished Militant from all other "Marxist" groups, during the course of the Liverpool struggle and also in the poll tax battle.
		The Militant Tendency’s orientation within the British Labour Party provided revolutionary socialists with a whole range of tools with which to "translate" Marxist theory into "programme, strategy and tactics" in a way which related to ordinary working class people in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/intro/11.htm (768 words)

	The world's top militant tendency websites
		Militant had a period of steady growth and splits throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s.
		The strong links between the Militant base of Liverpool and Northern Ireland also ensured that the Labour Party of Northern Ireland (which was not linked to the mainland Labour Party) was strongly influenced by Militant.
		Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press.
	www.websbiggest.com /dir-wiki.cfm?cat=militant_tendency&tab=discuss (527 words)

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		In fact, the Militant scenario was one variant, one theoretical possibility, in the curve of development, but justified in a way that didn't take account of the profound changes in the relationship between the social democratic parties and the mass of the working class which have taken place since the 1930s.
		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 by a failure to grasp the centrality of the self-organisation and self-activity of the working class, and an economistic conception of the struggle for power.
		But often their fate was to be isolated or marginal in the developments of the British labour movement, dominated by the dead hand of the labour bureaucracy on the one hand, and by the Stalinists on the other.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue15/Hearse.htm (6451 words)

	Ted Grant
		Our tendency had consistently opposed the political position of Pablo and the leadership of the United Secretariat, as they were called after the fusion of 1963.
		By 1970, the tendency won a majority on the national leadership of the Labour Party Young Socialists, and we started a campaign to build up the youth organisation.
		The Militant tendency had become a household name and had grown rapidly in numbers and influence.
	www.engels.org /ted_grant/biografia/biografia.htm (3969 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 12 \| 1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton
		They failed, and the outspoken 38-year-old was found guilty of membership of the Militant Tendency and of manipulating the rules of the district Labour Party.
		Further disciplinary hearings are due to take place, in what supporters of Militant are describing as a "witch-hunt" of socialists within the party.
		Militant, a faction inside the Labour Party advocating Trotskyist policies, emerged in the 1970s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/12/newsid_2511000/2511839.stm (431 words)

	Jim Higgins: Locusts - Cankerworms - Caterpillars
		By foresight or good luck, the growth of trade union militancy developed at the same time as the growth within the Young Socialists slowed down and, with the aid of IS theory on the rank and file.
		This was hardly the result that had been planned and the dubious benefits of a handful of extra members was made entirely nugatory by the time expended in rehashing old disputes, a pastime that Sean enjoyed immensely and indulged in at tedious length.
		After the unravelling of the fusion with the Trotskyist Tendency in 1971 tolerance of any form of dissent was increasingly harshly treated and all too often a desire to carry on a discussion beyond Cliff’s patience was seen as a particular case of dissension.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/otherdox/whatnext/higgins.html (4794 words)

	Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Parties
		Formerly known as "Militant Labour" and "Militant tendency" which led the anti-Poll Tax movement.
		Part of the "International Socialist Tendency" which is a loose grouping of organizations espousing the general line of the SWP and the theories of Tony Cliff.
		Descended from the tendency led by Gerry Healy who was expelled in the 1980s.
	www.bush2004.com /directory/politics/Socialism/Parties (628 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Breaking news \| Comment: How sport discovered its militant tendency
		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).
		While industrial disputes have foundered miserably almost everywhere else, this year on the sports field the nation's finest have discovered a rich vein of militancy which has put the rest of the workforce to shame, and confirmed our sporting angry brigade's right to be regarded once more as role models for the next generation.
		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.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,10488,1110668,00.html (1604 words)

	Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Organizations
		The ISO was part of the International Socialist Tendency until its expulsion in 2001.
		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.
		The ICU is the international tendency led by the French Marxist group Union Communiste which is better known by the name of its publication Lutte Ouvriere.
	www.bush2004.com /directory/politics/Socialism/Organizations (1798 words)

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