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newishpuritan's review
3.0
I read most of this but skipped a couple of chapters on finance and internal organisation, etc.
Crick has got good value for money out of this book, having managed to get it published three times. Its account of all the ins and outs in the relations between the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front in UK hard-left politic of the 70s is frankly tedious (I can only imagine how tedious it must have been to actually care about such meaningless distinctions), but its account of Militant at work in Liverpool in the mid-80s is a useful corrective to the pious Marxist platitudes of Peter Taafe's Liverpool: A City that Dared to Fight.
Crick has got good value for money out of this book, having managed to get it published three times. Its account of all the ins and outs in the relations between the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front in UK hard-left politic of the 70s is frankly tedious (I can only imagine how tedious it must have been to actually care about such meaningless distinctions), but its account of Militant at work in Liverpool in the mid-80s is a useful corrective to the pious Marxist platitudes of Peter Taafe's Liverpool: A City that Dared to Fight.
sianami's review
4.0
Rather dry in places but overall a readable and highly interesting account of the saga of Trotskyist infiltration of the Labour Party. Most intriguing to me the passages explicitly comparing Militant to a religious cult.
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