Introduction1 The Communists and the colonies: anti-imperialism between the wars by John Callaghan2 'Divisions in the movement': the National Unemployed Workers Movement and its rivals in comparative perspective by Richard Croucher3 The Communist Party and the Scottish coalfield 1919-38 by Alan Campbell4 Women and communism: a case study of the Lancashire weavers in the depression by Sue Bruley5 Authors take sides: writers and the Communist Party 1920-56 by Andy Croft6 The Communist Party and the trade unions 1926-56 by Nina Fishman7 Sidestepping the contradictions: the Communist Party, Jewish Communists and Zionism 1935-48 by Henry Srebrnik8 The Communist Party and the Daily Worker 1930-56 by Kevin Morgan9 The Communist Party, production and Britain's post-war settlement by James Hinton10 West Africans and the Communist Party in the 1950s by Hakim Adi11 Communism and the New Left by Mike Kenny12 Sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll (and communism) in the 1960s by Mike Waite13 Young turks and old guard: intellectuals and the Communist Party in the 1970s by Geoff AndrewsAfterword by Eric HobsbawmNotes on contributorsArchival sources and further readingBibliography.