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In British politics, left-wing faction
originally within the Labour Party, aligned
with the publication Militant. It became
active in the 1970s, with radical socialist
policies based on Trotskyism (see Trotsky),
and gained some success in local government,
for example in the inner-city area of
Liverpool. In the mid-1980s the Labour Party
considered it to be an organization within
the party and banned it. A number of senior
Militants were expelled from the party in
1986, amid much legal conflict. The contested
deselection of the incumbent Member of
Parliament Frank Field as Labour candidate
for Birkenhead, Lancashire, in 1990 led to
renewed allegations of Militant infiltration
of the Labour Party.