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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, p160
- Al Bornstein and Sam Richardson (1986), "Against The Stream" in The War and the International: A History of the Trotskyist Movement in Britain 1937-1949. London: Socialist Platform. ISBN 0-9508423-3-8
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