In 1969, Tony Cliff, leader of the International Socialists (which became the SWP) started worrying the party was too high falutin & middle class, so he ordered its student activists to get jobs in factories.
Some of them did!



And as for defeating the Nazis, this is how the Communist of Great Britain greeted the outbreak of the 2nd World War: https://www.marxists.org/archive/dutt/1939/11/01.htm …
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Again let’s talk about the era you were taking about not something else https://en.m..org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewisham https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Nazi_League … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Welling_riots …
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Well, I wasn't talking about the 1970s onwards... That's recent history for me. I was involved in Anti-Nazi league events, CND events, Animal Liberation stuff (to my shame), etc. Some pics here:https://goo.gl/photos/LBKd9HKnbxVkggPm9 …
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