After
The Party: Reflections on life since the CPGB
Edited by
Andy Croft
Twenty
years after the demise of the Communist Party of Great Britain, eight former
members, all of whom who stayed in the party until the bitter end, reflect
here on some of the personal, political and cultural changes of the last twenty
years. The paths of Dave Cope, Andy Croft, Alistair Findlay, Stuart Hill,
Kate Hudson, Andy Pearmain, Mark Perryman and Lorna Reith have followed very
different political trajectories since 1991 - taking them into the Green Party,
the Labour Party, the CPB, SLP, Respect and no party at all. But most have
remained politically active.
Combining personal and
political history, analysis and autobiography, anecdote and argument, the
contributors consider the consequences of the CP's dissolution for British
political and intellectual life.
Contents
Andy Croft
Introduction
Mark Perryman The
Revolution is Just a T-shirt Away
Kate Hudson A Political
Error of Vast Proportions
Andrew Pearmain Towards a Marxist Theory of Love
Alistair Findlay No Future without Marx
Lorna Reith We
Will Rebuild our Country Ten Times More Beautiful
Stuart Hill The
Situation is Still as it Was
Dave Cope The Party
is Dead - Long Live the Party!
Andy Croft The
Democratisation of Everything
Andy Croft is
a poet and publisher, and author of Red Letter Days (1990), Red
Skies at Night (2003), and Comrade Heart (2003).
Reviews of After the Party:
‘warm and entertaining testimony of a small number of political activists who dared to dream of a world that was different and who refuse to see their efforts as time wasted’
John Haylett, Morning Star
‘without the CPGB, the ability to organise for a more decent, just and sustainable world has been greatly impaired’
Tim Thorne, Search Foundation
‘Review: After the Party’
Ross Bradshaw, History Workshop Online
Paperback, 224pp, All rights
L&W.
ISBN: 9781907103476
Publication date: 11 May 2012
Also available on Kindle
