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Militant Tendency
noun
- a Trotskyist group formerly operating within the Labour Party
Example Sentences
Politically, he briefly backed the Trotskyite Militant Tendency in his youth.
He is backed by the Socialist Party, a successor organisation to the Trotskyite Militant Tendency, and is not expected to come close to winning.
The 71-year-old former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council was kicked out for belonging to Militant Tendency.
He is also likely to face questions over reports that Derek Hatton - the face of the hard-left Militant Tendency group in the 1980s - had had his application to rejoin the party approved.
The Militant Tendency, which emerged from a Trotskyite group called the Revolutionary Socialist League, held key positions in the Liverpool Labour Party as it battled the Conservative Thatcher government in the 1980s.
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