Raymond Challinor

Raymond (Ray) Challinor is a distinguished Marxist historian of the British labour movement, particularly in the North East of England. He was a founder member of the Socialist Review group and was also a member of the group which succeeded it the International Socialists. For a period in the 1960's he was a councillor on the Labour Party ticket in which party IS was then resident.

While a member of the Socialist Workers Party, he wrote his best known work, a classic history of the Socialist Labour Party, "The Origins of British Bolshevism" (1977).

elected works/articles

*"Alexander MacDonald and the miners" (1968)
*"The Miners' Association: a trade union in the age of the Chartists" / with Brian Ripley (1968)
*"The Lancashire and Cheshire miners" (1972)
* [http://www.marxists.org.uk/history/etol/newspape/isj/1976/no085/challinor.html "Flawed Heroes"] , in "International Socialism" (book review, 1976)
*"The Origins of British Bolshevism" (1977)
*"John S. Clarke: parliamentarian, poet and lion-tamer" (1977)
*"Working class politics in North East England" (co-edited with Maureen Callcott)
*"A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England. WP Roberts and the Struggle for Workers Rights" (1990)
*"A new harmony?: Robert Owen's visit to Newcastle in 1843" (1990)
*"The struggle for hearts and minds : essays on the Second World War" (1995)
* [http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/Back/Wnext17/Mildiscp.html "Military Discipline and Working Class Resistance in World War II"] , in "What Next?" (2000)
* [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr249/challinor.htm "The Red Mole of History"] , in "Socialist Review" (2001)

External links

* [http://marxists.catbull.com/history/etol/writers/challinor/index.htm Raymond Challinor Internet Archive]
* [http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol1/no3/revslets.html#hmc "On Harry McShane"] , in "Revolutionary History"