{"product_id":"9781350242371-preparing-for-power","title":"‘Preparing for Power’","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Revolutionary Communist Party and its Curious Afterlives, 1976-2020\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive account of the Revolutionary Communist Party and its successor organisations and networks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives. Although the RCP existed for barely two decades, it left a curiously lasting impact on British politics, and its legacies have provoked bewilderment, suspicion, and animosity.\u003cbr\u003eFormed as the Revolutionary Communist Tendency in 1978, the RCP represented a distinct and often controversial offshoot of the Trotskyist left. Campaigning principally around ‘unconditional support for Irish freedom’ and anti-racism, RCP cadres expounded an independent revolutionary politics to supersede capitalism. In the 1990s, however, the RCP leadership ruefully declared that the working class had suffered an historic defeat, and the party dissolved in 1996.\u003cbr\u003eCombining wide-ranging archival research and twenty-four life-history interviews with former activists, \u003ci\u003ePreparing for Power \u003c\/i\u003eexamines ideological continuity and change among the ex-RCP milieu. Explaining the party’s key ideas, their evolution, and their retrospective contestation, Jack Hepworth analyses the RCP’s trajectory in a broader political context. In doing so, Hepworth illuminates a network which has been the subject of considerable media sensation and polemical attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55535783313782,"sku":"9781350242371","price":99.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35042102_38e8d47b-658f-4380-9004-795ff4614e27.jpg?v=1751509298","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350242371-preparing-for-power","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}