Division British communism? Televising the decline of the Communist Party of Great Britain

Buckley, Sheryl Bernadette

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“…Members such as John Saville and EP Thompson left to form a more autonomous Marxist group, which centered on the journal the New Reasoner, which later evolved into the New Left Review. 48 Throughout the 1960s, the Left in Britain continued to fragment, with trade unions staying away from the CPGB and forging their own independent paths. 49 With the 1979 revolution, the struggles of Iran were imposed onto this fragmented landscape, resulting in the polarization of opinions and attitudes toward the Tudeh.…”

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Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s

Razak¹

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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In 1983, the arrest of Noureddin Kianouri, the first secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran came as a shock to the international community. In a letter of condemnation, communist parties from Indonesia to Jamaica pledged solidarity with their Iranian comrades. The optimism initially brought by the 1979 revolution was severely reversed and the suppression of the Iranian Left by the Islamic government was regarded as an attack on the international Left. A significant voice of opposition came from Britain, with the Communist party of Great Britain (CPGB), the British Labor party, the trade unions and solidarity groups coming out in full support of the Tudeh and to take on the cause of Iran as their own. Although interest had existed since the 1940s, it was the 1979 revolution that firmly placed the Tudeh within the discourse of the British Left, energizing the movement and solidifying its internationalist credentials. Similarly, for the Tudeh, which had become side-lined in Iranian politics and had lost members to more radical strands of the Iranian Left, the attention it received helped renew its activism and sense of purpose.

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Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s

Razak¹

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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“…Only the third part is available today, but the film is a unique real-time demonstration of how modern political party machines work. See Buckley (2014) for some limited treatment of the documentary, unfortunately failing to reflect on its lasting significance as a landmark in documentary film-making.…”

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Althusser and Marxist Theory (1975): A document

Beilharz

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Tribe³

2023

Thesis Eleven

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The year 1975 -five years before the arrival of Thesis Eleven. Ten years after the first, French appearance of Reading Capital. Three years after the appearance of the Australian revolutionary Marxist journal Intervention. Althusser was a big deal for the English-speaking left. We all read Althusser, at least in our innocence.Althusser was an effective absence from the history of Thesis Eleven. Our people were drinking elsewhere. Maybe the timing was fortunate. Alastair Davidson, our mentor, had essayed Althusser in detail in the pages of Arena in 1969, and became his friend later in life. But he also taught us that structuralism was a language to be learned, more than a practice to be preferred. It might change the way intellectuals think, but you were not obliged to join the tribe. Theories were like languages.What was the fuss about? Some of the issues arising can be detected in perusing the text that follows. It represents Macintyre and Tribe's intervention in the culture of the university and the party. What was the fuss about Althusser? In retrospect, it is difficult to tell, though it now seems clear that the Althusserian adventure helped provide the younger hotheads with a new vocabulary for revolution. Althusser carried a formidable theoretical apparatus. Social formation, mode of production, overdetermination, symptomatic reading, problematique and so on. Take that!

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Division British communism? Televising the decline of the Communist Party of Great Britain

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Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s

Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s

Althusser and Marxist Theory (1975): A document

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