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'Preparing for Power' - by Jack Hepworth (Paperback)

Name: 'Preparing for Power' - by Jack Hepworth (Paperback)
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This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives.
About the Author: Jack Hepworth is Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History at the University of Oxford, UK.
288 Pages
History, Europe

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About the Book

This book is the first comprehensive account of the Revolutionary Communist Party and its successor organisations and networks.

Book Synopsis

This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives. Although the RCP existed for barely two decades, it left a curiously lasting impact on British politics, and its legacies have provoked bewilderment, suspicion, and animosity.
Formed as the Revolutionary Communist Tendency in 1978, the RCP represented a distinct and often controversial offshoot of the Trotskyist left. Campaigning principally around 'unconditional support for Irish freedom' and anti-racism, RCP cadres expounded an independent revolutionary politics to supersede capitalism. In the 1990s, however, the RCP leadership ruefully declared that the working class had suffered an historic defeat, and the party dissolved in 1996.
Combining wide-ranging archival research and twenty-four life-history interviews with former activists, Preparing for Power examines ideological continuity and change among the ex-RCP milieu. Explaining the party's key ideas, their evolution, and their retrospective contestation, Jack Hepworth analyses the RCP's trajectory in a broader political context. In doing so, Hepworth illuminates a network which has been the subject of considerable media sensation and polemical attention.

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"Based on extensive documentary and archival research as well as detailed interviews with key activists, the book is a compelling account of one of the far left's most unusual organizations ... I would thoroughly recommend it." --Socialist History

About the Author

Jack Hepworth is Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History at the University of Oxford, UK.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)

Weight: .89 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 288

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: Europe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Theme: Great Britain, 20th Century

Format: Paperback

Author: Jack Hepworth

Language: English

Street Date: March 20, 2025

TCIN: 1011630042

UPC: 9781350242401

Item Number (DPCI): 247-29-9819

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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