About this archive
An alpha, first published in October 2026.
- Militant International Review 1969–95 — 332 articles in 60 issues
What is here
Militant International Review was the theoretical journal of the Militant tendency in Britain, the Trotskyist current around the Militant newspaper and Ted Grant, which worked inside the Labour Party until the expulsions of the 1980s and from 1991 became Militant Labour. It ran from Autumn 1969 to the mid-1990s, appearing irregularly at first and then several times a year.
This archive holds 58 numbered issues, from no. 1 (Autumn 1969) to no. 61 (Summer 1995), and two special editions (Britain in Crisis and Latin America). Not held: nos. 10, 24 and 60. No. 58 was printed with the wrong number. Where an issue carries no date, the date shown is the one printed inside it or, where marked, inferred from its neighbours.
The scans
The scans are not on the Marxists Internet Archive, so they are held here: every issue and article links its PDF. Four were too large to host as they are and were recompressed for the web (nos. 1, 2, 3 and 44); the originals are kept in the Red Mole archive.
How the text was made, and how far to trust it
- The text was read with Apple’s Vision engine, column by column, in August 2026. It has not been corrected. Columns sometimes run into one another, and a headline, caption, pull-quote or byline can land in the middle of a paragraph.
- The issues were divided into articles by machine: from the contents page and its page numbers where these could be read, otherwise by finding each contents title in the text. Titles can be garbled, and some articles are cut in the wrong place. Two special editions are single articles.
- Printed lines were joined into paragraphs, and words broken at line ends rejoined. Nothing else was changed.
- A byline is shown only where one stands on a line of its own in the article’s opening; many signed articles therefore appear without one.
Good enough to read and to search, but quote from the scan, not from here. If you find a mistake, please report it.
Copyright
Copyright in each piece rests with its author. Held as part of the Red Mole archive.