RCT/RCP Archive

The press of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and the Revolutionary Communist Party, 1977–2000

Publications

Every title held, grouped by period and kind. What is here is what survives in the scanned collections, not always the complete run of a title.

The Revolutionary Communist Tendency, 1977–1981

Revolutionary Communist Papers

10 items · 1977–1981

The Revolutionary Communist Tendency's theoretical journal: eight issues, March 1977 to September 1981, the complete run. No. 1 is the RCT's case on the November 1976 split in the Revolutionary Communist Group, and prints the RCG majority's own documents as appendices.

Revolutionary Communist Pamphlets

11 items · 1977–1982

The RCT's numbered pamphlet series, on Ireland, racism, the Labour Party, Poland and the Falklands war, with the RCT's first pamphlets.

The Revolutionary Communist Party, 1981–2000

The Next Step

159 items · 1979–1993

The RCT's and then the RCP's paper, 1979–1993. Monthly at first and numbered consecutively; weekly from April 1985, when the numbering restarted at 1, and from 1 again each January after that.

Confrontation

3 items · 1986–1989

The RCP's theoretical journal from 1986. Three of its six issues were ever scanned, and those three are here.

Living Marxism

107 items · 1988–2000

The RCP's monthly magazine. 103 issues are held, from no. 1 (November 1988) to no. 128 (March 2000); retitled LM in 1997 (the LM masthead is on no. 98, March 1997; no. 97 is not held). The scans are held by the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line, and each issue page links to its scan there.

Books and pamphlets

20 items · 1977–1996

Books and pamphlets published by the RCP and Junius Publications, including the editions of the Preparing for Power programme.

Documents and leaflets

18 items · 1977–1996

Conference programmes, election material, statements and leaflets of the RCT and RCP, among them the RCT's open letter to the RCG of 1 February 1977 and its statement on its own split.

Campaigns

Irish Freedom

23 items · 1988–1994

The magazine of the Irish Freedom Movement, the RCP's Ireland campaign, 1988–1994.

WAR News

8 items · 1987–1992

The paper of Workers Against Racism, the RCP's anti-racist campaign.

Workers Against Racism

7 items · 1981–1984

Pamphlets and leaflets of Workers Against Racism and its local groups.

Fightback

3 items · 1993–1994

The paper of the RCP's trade union network, 1993–94.

The split of 1991–93

Analysis

6 items · 1991–1992

The journal of the group that left the RCP in the split of 1991–93, with material from its meetings.

Finding aids

Indexes

4 items · 1979–1988

Contemporary indexes to The Next Step (1979–1992) and Living Marxism (1988–1993). Use them to find an article, then go to the issue.

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