Militant Tendency
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Politically, he briefly backed the Trotskyite Militant Tendency in his youth.
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He is backed by the Socialist Party, a successor organisation to the Trotskyite Militant Tendency, and is not expected to come close to winning.
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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.
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The Militant Tendency, which emerged from a Trotskyite group called the Revolutionary Socialist League, held key positions in the Liverpool Labour Party as it battled the Conservative Thatcher government in the 1980s.
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He said Mr Foot was not as left wing as Mr Corbyn and had tried to expel members of the left-wing Militant Tendency from the party.
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