More Shopping OptionsClass Against Class is the first major study of the Great Britain's Communist Party (CPGB) between the First and Second World Wars. Matthew Worley looks at their adoption of a militant "class against class" strategy in their struggle to win the hearts and minds of the British working class. However, it is often said that this technique cut the CPGB's ties with other left-wing parties and alienated support from the wider Labour movement. Worley's revisionary study is based on newly unearthed material from the CPGB's archive that indicates that the party did not lack support or influence.
Matthew Worley is Lecturer in History at the University of Reading.
" This fascinating and thorough-provoking book closely analyses the CPGB's policies between 1926 and 1932."--Will Podmore, UNISON Journal, Tribune, Morning Star and the Voice of Unions
Introduction: Toward the Third Period * Shifting Sands: The Communist Party and the Third Period in Context * Communists Under Fire: The Need for Change? * A New Line for a New Period * Comrade Against Comrade: The CPGB in Crisis: The Party at Work II * Forging a Communist Culture: The Party at Work II * Excesses, Ambiguities, Reappraisal * Crisis and Insurgence: The Third Period Justified? * Conclusion: The Third Period Reassessed
