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- 1 2 3 4 5 List of contents of Tait & Watson Archive, University of Stirling
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- ↑ The British Revolutionary Socialist, 1934-1936, Modern Records Centre, Warwick University: "Official organ of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (British Section of the International Socialist Labour Party). Incorporating The Proletariat."
- ↑ The British Revolutionary Socialist, no.11, Aug 1934