Militant Tendency

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Britain) a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party

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Militant Tendency - a Trotskyist political organization in Great Britain set up in 1964 inside the Labour Party

party, political party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"

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The struggle that the Militant Tendency took on was heroic and was a bright shining beacon of how councils can defeat disaster capitalism and do what simply needs to be done in order to prevent further decline.

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He was expelled from the Labour Party in 1986 for being a member of Militant Tendency, a Trotskyist entryist group which breached the party's constitution.

The tweet that got Derek Hatton suspended from Labour after 48 hours; Controversial figure being investigated for 2012 comment

But a Labour source said: "He is not currently other members of Trotskyite group known as the Militant Tendency were widely blamed for making the party unelectable during Kinnock's tenure.

HARDLINER HATTON REJOINS LABOUR

I was a member of Militant Tendency at that time and employed in the civil service and active in the trade union CPSA.

South Wales Echo letters: Friday, July 27, 2018; Your letters to the South Wales Echo

The militant tendency the speciality of the 60s' anti-war demonstrations is absent from today's anti-war movement.

Past in Perspective

Bumbling Boris Johnson is clearly worried he has been eclipsed by the Brextremist zealot heading the Tories' Militant Tendency, a fanatical European Research Group of ideological obsessives straining to push Britain off a no-deal European cliff.

Mogg is Labour's dream Tory chief; Stalking the corridors of power

In a previous life it operated as Militant Tendency and wrought great damage on Labour in the 1980s.

Looking leftwards

Not until Labour rid themselves of this pressure group, as they did with Militant Tendency, another insidious group, will they be able to govern properly.

New danger of Labour rule; LETTERS

He was removed from the party in 1991 for his links to the hard-left Militant Tendency group.

Ex Labour MP Nellist failed in bid to rejoin

Trotskyist groups like the Socialist Party of England (formerly known as Militant Tendency) are succeeding in infiltrating the Labour Party through Momentum.

Struggle for heart and soul of party

They slam Corbyn's supporters for personal attacks on those who speak out against him while they in turn characterise the grass roots group Momentum inspired by the Labour leader as Militant Tendency reborn.

Jeremy Corbyn is not the problem for the Labour party; Mike Kelly: Critics blame Corbyn for all Labour ills yet they are the ones most responsible

Meanwhile, Derek Hatton and Tory Mulhearn, who as members of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency in the 1980s,unsuccessfully attempted to hijack the Labour Party, must be ecstatic but green with envy, at the ease with which the hard-left have seized control of Her Majesty's opposition, some 30 years later.