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Militant Tendency

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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BBC, Newsnight: "Militant", 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/58
Scope and Contents

Unaltered viewing copy.

Dates: 1985
Conditions Governing Access: Access copy on video.
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BBC Radio 2, Jimmy Young Programme: interview with Robert Kilroy-Silk, 1986-07-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/27
Scope and Contents

Interview on Kilroy-Silk's decision to resign as a Labour MP following his fight against Militant in his Liverpool constituency.

Dates: 1986-07-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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BBC Radio 4: The World at One and World This Weekend, 1990-12 - 1991-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/143
Scope and Contents Includes: BBC Radio 4 World at One programme interviews with Roy Hattersley [Labour spokesman on home affairs] and John Patten, Minister of State, Home Office, on law and order policy, and an interview with Frank Field on the National Executive Committee enquiry into Birkenhead [Merseyside] and Militant; BBC Radio 4 The World This Weekend programme report on a speech by NK at the Local Government conference in Nottingham, 1991, looking ahead to the next General Election, and also a report on...
Dates: 1990-12 - 1991-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Channel 4 interview with NK on Militant, 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/87
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

Dates: 1986
Conditions Governing Access: Access copy on video.
 Sub-Series

Militant, 1981 - 1991

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/5
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on action taken by the party leadership against the hard-left Militant Tendency (formerly the Revolutionary Socialist League), based in Liverpool.

Dates: 1981 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings, 1984-09 - 1984-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/9
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: the miners’ strike; attempts to expel a member of Militant from the party; NK’s visit to the Soviet Union and talks with President Konstantin Chernenko on nuclear disarmament; disruption in Parliament from the hard Left; talks between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Libya; Shadow Cabinet elections.

Dates: 1984-09 - 1984-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings, 1985-09 - 1985-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/18
Scope and Contents

Labour Party press cutting service cuttings on the Party Conference, particularly: votes on a reimbursement of National Union of Mineworkers’ funds confiscated during the miners’ strike; NK’s speech against Militant and Liverpool City Council; NK’s success against the Left.

Dates: 1985-09 - 1985-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings, 1985-10 - 1985-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/19
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Militant and Liverpool City Council; Derek Foster’s election as Labour Chief Whip; protests against Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council, London, following his remarks about the Tottenham riots; NK’s success against the Left at the Party Conference.

Dates: 1985-10 - 1985-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings, 1985-10 - 1985-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/20
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; clashes between NK and Norman Tebbit, Conservative Party chairman; the Tyne Bridge by-election, Newcastle; Militant and Liverpool City Council; the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM).

Dates: 1985-10 - 1985-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings, 1986-01 - 1986-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/21
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the Fulham by-election, London; Labour’s pledge to create a million more jobs; NK’s visit to the Broadwater Farm estate, Tottenham, London, with Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council; the debate between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on the Westland affair.

Dates: 1986-01 - 1986-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings, 1986-04 - 1987-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/22
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: NK’s visit to the United States, Dec 1986; expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the launch of the Freedom and Fairness campaign; Britain’s support for an American bombing raid on Libya; the Fulham by-election, London.

Dates: 1986-04 - 1987-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Press cuttings: Party general and political general, 1984-09 - 1986-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/11
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Militant in Liverpool; the 1984 Party Conference; the Fulham by-election [London], 1986; the Brecon and Radnor by-election, [Wales], 1985; the miners’ strike; reselection of parliamentary candidates.

Dates: 1984-09 - 1986-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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Elections 4
Coal Strike (1984-1985) 3
Crime prevention 1
East West relations 1
Employment 1