The History of British Trotskyism to 1949

by
Martin Upham
September 1980

 

Preface            

I.         Introduction : Trotsky and the British Labour Movement in the 1920s.

PART ONE (1929 - 1938)
II          Organised Trotskyism to the Formation of the British Section (1929 - November 1931).

III        The British Section of the Left Opposition (November 1931 - December 1933)

IV        The Marxist Group in the I.L.P. (1933 - 1936).

V         The Communist League and the Marxist League,  January 1934 - October 1937.

VI        Trotskyism and British Responses to the Moscow Trials, 1936 - 1938.

VII       The Bolshevik-Leninists and the Militant Group (1934 - 1937).

VIII    Unity, 1936 - 1938.

PART TWO (1938 - 1944)

IX        Applying the Military Policy : 1938 - 1941.

X         The R.S.L. in Unity and Disunity (September 1938 - March 1944).

XI        The Growth of Workers International League and its Industrial Agitation (1938 - 1944).

PART THREE (1944 - 1949)

XII       The RCP and the Fourth International (1944 - 1947).

XIII      Trotskyism in Practice (The RCP 1944. - 1947).

XIV     Last Rites (The RCP 1947 - 1949).

XV       Conclusion.

APPENDICES
A         A Note on British Trotskyists and Spain.

F          Trotskyism and the I.L.P.