Neil Redfern
Biographic Data
| ID | 695902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Redfern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Redfern |
| SIGNATURE | REDFERN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Referee statement
The dataset produced by DigVentures captures the approach and outputs of the project, and demonstrates how wider engagement and participation can be incorporated into project planning at all levels as well as how this integrated approach can lead to substantial public benefits and the creation of wider public value
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Winning the Peace
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A British Version of “Browderism”
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No Friends to the Left
Influenced by developments in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the British Communist Party (CP) began to treat its rivals on the far left, principally the Trotskyists, as class rather than political enemies. Surveillance, including the maintenance of dossiers, began in 1932, but was greatly heightened in the late 1930s, as international tensions, notably the Nazi threat to the Soviet Union, increased. Less attention was paid to the Trotskyists in t…
No Lasting Peace? Labor, Communism and the Cominform
The formation of the Cominform in 1947 was a decisive moment in the Cold War. Although many rank-and-file activists in the Labor and Communist parties in Great Britain and Australia continued to cooperate with each other, the formal relationship between the two parties sharply deteriorated. In Britain, the formation of the Cominform shattered the Communist Party's hopes of post-war class peace. Communists' critical attitude to the Labour Party be…
British Communists, the British Empire and the Second World War
For a few years after its foundation in 1920 the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) attempted, energetically prompted by the Comintern, to work in solidarity with anticolonial movements in the British Empire. But after the Nazi victory in Germany the Comintern's principal concern was to defend the Soviet Union and the liberal democracies against the threat of fascism. British communists criticized the British Government for failing to defend…
Winning the Peace
During the last two years of the Second World War the Communist Party of Great Britain developed a new reformist and nationalistic strategy. The twists and turns of its development and its content show that even after the dissolution of the Comintern British Communists still looked to the Soviet party for inspiration and guidance. The Labour Party played a key role in the CP's new strategy. Though Communists argued that national unity was necessa…
Winning the Peace
During the last two years of the Second World War the Communist Party of Great Britain developed a new reformist and nationalistic strategy. The twists and turns of its development and its content show that even after the dissolution of the Comintern British Communists still looked to the Soviet party for inspiration and guidance. The Labour Party played a key role in the CP's new strategy. Though Communists argued that national unity was necessa…
A British Version of “Browderism”
In the wake of the Teheran Conference of 1943, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) adopted the political line that later became known as “Browderism.” The Party dissolved itself in favor of a loose Communist Political Association, declared an effective end to the class struggle and argued that the war-time alliance of Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States could continue into the postwar era. The political content of “Browderism” scarcely ch…
British Communists, the British Empire and the Second World War
For a few years after its foundation in 1920 the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) attempted, energetically prompted by the Comintern, to work in solidarity with anticolonial movements in the British Empire. But after the Nazi victory in Germany the Comintern's principal concern was to defend the Soviet Union and the liberal democracies against the threat of fascism. British communists criticized the British Government for failing to defend…
No Lasting Peace? Labor, Communism and the Cominform
The formation of the Cominform in 1947 was a decisive moment in the Cold War. Although many rank-and-file activists in the Labor and Communist parties in Great Britain and Australia continued to cooperate with each other, the formal relationship between the two parties sharply deteriorated. In Britain, the formation of the Cominform shattered the Communist Party's hopes of post-war class peace. Communists' critical attitude to the Labour Party be…
No Friends to the Left
Influenced by developments in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the British Communist Party (CP) began to treat its rivals on the far left, principally the Trotskyists, as class rather than political enemies. Surveillance, including the maintenance of dossiers, began in 1932, but was greatly heightened in the late 1930s, as international tensions, notably the Nazi threat to the Soviet Union, increased. Less attention was paid to the Trotskyists in t…
The Comintern and Imperialism
The Communist, Third International or Comintern was founded in 1919 by those few Marxists who believed that the old parties of the left had betrayed the working class cause by supporting their own countries, their own bourgeoisies, in the First World War. This article aims to consider to what extent the Comintern continued to uphold internationalism, concentrating on a specific aspect of the question, one that, at least in western historiography,…
Women hold up half the sky
In recognition of their vital contribution to human society, Mao remarked that “Women Hold Up Half the Sky.” But vital or not women had been oppressed since the emergence of class society. The failure of the left, including the revolutionary left, to take seriously and to combat women's oppression was a major factor in the emergence of the new women's movement out of the ideological and political ferment of “The Sixties” (ca. 1966–1979). Here, we…
Referee statement
The dataset produced by DigVentures captures the approach and outputs of the project, and demonstrates how wider engagement and participation can be incorporated into project planning at all levels as well as how this integrated approach can lead to substantial public benefits and the creation of wider public value
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