In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956
By (Author) Daniel Frost
Edited by Evan Smith
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
25th February 2026
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Hardback
504
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
In solidarity, under suspicion is the successor volume to Against the grain (2014) and Waiting for the revolution (2017), complementing analysis of the far left in Britain from 1956 until the present. In addition to new scholarship on hitherto under-researched groups and movements, the volume explores recent findings from the Undercover Policing Inquiry and provides historical context for developments in the British left during and after 'Corbynism'. Chapters consider the far left's relationship to the state as well as to the Labour Party, and highlights attempts by far-left groups and activists both to intervene internationally and to transform themselves. With a range of different perspectives activist and academic In solidarity, under suspicion draws out the distinct ways that different far left groups and movements have responded to problems which remain salient today.
Daniel Frost is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Evan Smith is a Visiting Fellow at Flinders University, South Australia, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide