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References
- ↑ Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike. Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century. A&C Black, 2000, p155
- ↑ "A Brief Sketch of the Militant Tendency's History".
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