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Militant Tendency

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noun

  1. a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party

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He is also likely to face questions over reports that Derek Hatton - the face of the hard-left Militant Tendency group in the 1980s - had had his application to rejoin the party approved.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2019

Kinnock made the redundancy notices the centrepiece of his attack on the Militant Tendency at the 1985 party conference.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2014

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