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- ↑ John Moorhouse, A Historical Glossary of British Marxism (Pauper's Press, 1987) ISBN 0-946650-06-3
- Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, A&C Black, 2000
- David Widgery The Left in Britain 1956-1968, Peregrine, 1976
- Peter Shipley, Revolutionaries in Modern Britain, Bodley Head, 1976
