Introduction Studying the far left in Britain after ‘Generation Left’ – Daniel Frost & Evan Smith

Against the State
1 Undercover policing of the left 1968–82: subversives under the lens – Chris Brian
2 ‘Secret and Delicate Sources’: British black power, counter-subversion and undercover policing – Rosie Wild & Eveline Lubbers
3 Shot by both sides? The foundation of the Institute for Workers’ Control and its critics on the left and right – Ieuan Franklin and Alan Tuckman
4 From the SLL to the WRP: violence, gender, and the perils of Leninism – Aidan Beatty
5 Anti-statism and the trajectory from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked – Evan Smith

Worlds transformed
6 Trades councils and The December The Sixth Group: trade unions and the ‘unofficial’ radical left in the early 1970s – Hazel Perry
7 ‘Organising to win’: Big Flame and workplace interventions 1970–3 – Kerrie McGiveron
8 Socialist-feminist revival in the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement: new priorities, strategies, spaces and solidarities after 1978 – Rachel Collett
9 ‘Black and white, unite and fight’? black power and the British radical left, 1965–79 – Alfie Hancox

Beyond borders
10 ‘Let the people of Malaya rule their own country!’: The Communist Party of Great Britain’s solidarity campaign with Malaya – Armand Azra bin Azlira
11 British Maoists, China, and the Cold War in the 1970s – Neil Redfern
12 British Marxism and the coup in Chile – Owen Dowling
13 Difficult solidarities: the Irish diaspora and the British left during the Northern Ireland conflict – Jack Hepworth

Breaking and entering
14 From rupture to retreat: black Power and the rise of black Marxism in 20th century Britain – Azfar Shafi & Ilyas Nagdee
15 Inside out, outside in: the IMG’s changing attitudes towards the Labour Party and entryism – Nicolas Sigoillot
16 Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour – Alfie Steer
17 Researching left-wing activism (after 1956) during and after Corbynism – Daniel Frost