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The New Vanguardists: an analysis of Militant Tendency and its involvement in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s A PhD Thesis by James Ferguson, June 2021 Keele University. 1 CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview 1.1 Militant Tendency 21 1.2 Militant dominate the Liverpool Labour Party in the 1970s and 1980s 22 1.3 Trade unions and Militant 23 1.4 Pluralist Society and Militant 23 1.5 The Militant Administration of the Liverpool City Council 24 1.6 Literature Review 26 1.7 Rationale 38 1.8 Aims and Objectives 39 2 Chapter 2 Methodology 2.1 The Single Case Study 41 2.2 The Interview 42 2.3 Elite Interviewing 43 2.4 Key Informants 44 2.5 Interview Technique 45 2.6 Testing the Interview 45 2.7 The consent process for interviews. 46 2.8 Research Questions 47 2.9 Ethical Issues 48 3 Chapter 3 Trotskyist Ideology 3.1 Trotskyism 52 3.2 Trotsky and his role in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia 52 3.3 The Kronstadt Mutiny 53 3.4 Trotsky in exile and the creation of the Fourth International 58 3.5 Trotsky advocates Entryism 61 3.6 British Trotskyism 62 3.7 Entryism 66 3.8 Collective Entryism 72 3.9 Dual Loyalty Entryists 73 3.10 Individual Entryism 75 3.11 Partial Entryism 77 3.12 Vanguardism 78 3.13 Early Vanguardism 82 4 3.14 The New Vanguardists 84 3.15 Militant and Vanguardism 86 3.16 New Vanguardism and secrecy, the Blackburn mole 89 3.17 Democratic Socialism as opposed to Vanguardism. 97 5 Chapter 4 The British Labour Party and the Rise of the Left 4.1 Labour Party’s Constitutional Weaknesses 104 4.2 Factions in the Labour Party 115 4.3 The CLPD and the reaction from the LSC 116 4.4 The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy 116 4.5 Tony Benn’s leadership of the left and his relationship with Militant 119 4.6 The Labour Solidarity Campaign 124 4.7 Mandatory re-selection creates constituency faction fighting 126 4.8 The St Ermins Group 127 4.9 The St Ermins Group and Militant 130 4.10 St Ermins Group support Kinnock for Leader 132 4.11 The Fabian Society 133 4.12 Tribune 136 6 4.13 The Underhill Report,1975 137 4.14 Militant’s reaction to critical reports of its Labour party membership 143 4.15 Militant consolidates within the Labour Party 144 4.16 Militant’s membership growth 145 4.17 Militant’s Wembley Conferences 148 4.18 Militant moves their Rally to the Albert Hall 149 4.19 Summary of Militant’s Growth in Membership 149 4.20 Militant’s Regional Strength (Appendix 5) 150 4.21 Militant’s strength by parliamentary constituency during 1984/5 151 4.22 Reasons for the Growth of Militant, a View from Peter Taaffe 151 7 THE CASE STUDY Chapter 5 Militant take control of the Liverpool District Labour Party 5.1 Background 154 5.2 Liverpool DLP Meetings Transformed into a Soviet by Militant 155 5.3 External Dissent from Militant Policies 160 5.4 Internal Dissent from the Liverpool Labour Left 163 5.5 Dissent from the Communist Party of Great Britain 166 5.6 Dissent from the Liverpool Liberal Party. 167 5.7 The Use of Patronage 168 5.8 Overt Patronage 168 5.9 Hidden Patronage 170 5.10 Militant’s creation of a new form of Industrial Relations 171 8 5.11 Duality of Power. 172 5.12 Militant’s Political Programme 186 The Liverpool City Council Budget Confrontation 5.13 The background to the 1984/5 Liverpool City Council budget 189 Factors which accentuated Liverpool’s budget problems parts 5.14-5.19 5.14 Unemployment 192 5.15 Historically Low spending by previous Liberal administrations 192 5.16 Dual Denominational Educational Provision 196 5.17 General Educational Over Provision 198 5.18 Backlog of Housing Repairs 198 5.19 Summary of Liverpool’s Historic Budget Problems 199 5.20 The background to the 1984/5 Liverpool Budget 200 5.21 The Background to the 1985/6 Liverpool Budget confrontation 201 5.22 The reaction of the National Labour Party 204 5.23 The reaction of Central Government 205 9 5.24 Reaction of Media and Militant’s relationship with it. 211 5.25 Militant Brinkmanship 214 5.26 The Collapse of the Strategy 217 5.27 The 1985 Labour Party Conference and its Aftermath 228 The National Labour Party Inquiry into the Liverpool District Labour Party 5.28 Background 233 5.29 Statement of Pat Ferguson Regarding Meetings of the Liverpool District Labour Party 237 5.30 Statement by Jane Kennedy NUPE Delegate to the DLP 240 5.31 Interview with Irene Buxton 241 5.32 The Inquiry’s Remit 246 5.36 The Size of the Investigation 247 5.37 The Inquiry Report’s findings 247 5.38 The Minority Report’s Findings 258 5.39 The Response of Tony Mulhearn, President of the DLP 260 10 5.40 The DLP and its Management of Dissent 263 5.41 The Appointment of Sam Bond 264 5.42 The Stonefrost Report 268 5.43 The Mass Redundancies of the Council staff 270 The National Labour Party hold Disciplinary Hearings for 16 members of the Liverpool District Labour Party 5.54 Background 274 5.55 The Disciplinary Charges against Tony Mulhearn, Chair of the DLP 275 5.56 Summary of transcript of the hearing against Tony Mulhearn before the NEC of the Labour Party 283 11 Chapter 6 Militant split and form the Socialist Party and Disband Militant 6.1 The Causes of the Split in Militant 295 6.2 The Formation of the Socialist Party and the disbanding of Militant 301 12 Chapter 7 CONCLUSIONS 7.1 Research questions 304 7.2 Main Research Question 304 7.3 Subsidiary Research Question 1 316 7.4 Subsidiary Research Question 2 318 7.5 Subsidiary Research Question 3 321 7.6 Subsidiary Research Question 4 324 7.7 Subsidiary Research Question 5 326 7.8 Subsidiary Research Question 6 329 7.9 Subsidiary Research Question 7 331 13 APPENDICES The Appendices are an additional separate document with separate numbering. Appendix 1. Minutes of Militant meetings in Blackburn and Preston Appendix 2. Underhill Report Appendix 3. The Labour Party and the New Left, Fabian Tract 477 Appendix 4. Militant’s national membership growth Appendix 5. Militant’s membership distribution by region based on Militant’s published targets Appendix 6. Militant’s strength in Parliamentary constituencies Appendix 7. Labour Party NEC Inquiry Report into the Liverpool DLP Appendix 8. Interview by the Inquiry Team with Irene Buxton Appendix 9. Stonefrost Report Appendix 10. Minority NEC Inquiry Report into the Liverpool DLP 14 Appendix 11. Disciplinary Charges against Tony Mulhearn, President of the Liverpool DLP by the NEC Appendix 12. Transcript of the Disciplinary Hearing of Tony Mulhearn by the NEC Appendix 13. Transcript of an Interview with David Blunkett, 2014 Appendix 14. Transcript of an interview with David Blunkett, 2019 Appendix 15. Transcript of an interview with Graham Burgess, 2019 Appendix 16. Transcript of an interview with Peter Creswell, 2019 Appendix 17. Transcript of an interview with Liam Fogarty, 2019 Appendix 18. Transcript of an interview with Derek Hatton, 2019 Appendix 19. Transcript of an interview with Peter Kilfoyle, 2019 Appendix 20. Transcript of an interview with Neil Kinnock, 2019 Appendix 21. Transcript of an interview with David Robertson, 2019 Appendix 22. Transcript of an interview with Clare Short, 2018 15 Appendix 23. Transcript of an interview with Michael Storey, 2018 Appendix 24. Transcript of an interview with Peter Taaffe, 2018 Appendix 25. Transcript of an interview with Ian Williams, 2019 Appendix 26. Prominent persons mentioned together with a short biography. Appendix 27. Chronology of Events Appendix 28. Index of Abbreviations in the 1970s and 1980s Appendix 29. Ethical Approval 16 The New Vanguardists: an analysis of Militant Tendency and its In- volvement in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s ABSTRACT The case study describes and analyses the taking of power by a Trotskyist entryist group in the Liverpool Labour Party and subsequently Liverpool City Council in the 1980s. The case study looks at the model of a vanguardist party and how it takes power and then how it exercises and retains power in a pluralist society. It analyses the confrontation between the Conservative Government led by Margaret Thatcher and the Militant led Council. Militant claimed that it was a second opposi- tional front along with the miners’ strike, both ending in failure in 1985. The conclu- sions are a critique of how the leadership of the national Labour Party failed to con- struct political boundaries thus allowing Militant to grow unchecked, reaching a mem- bership of approx. 8,000 before action was taken against it. A selected number of members of Militant were expelled and together with others left the Labour party in 1991. Militant then operated as an independent organisation in various forms until 1997 when it created the Socialist Party of England and Wales and renamed its pa- per “The Socialist”.
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