We address the multiple effects on LCR of the emergence of feminist and homosexual claims and struggles. We explore how the irruption of new ideas put forward by feminist women and homosexuals did provoke a not so silent revolution within the party.
First, we explore the process of unveiling of the oppression of women and homosexuals in the party and the effects it had at a meso level on the party organization, on strategic choices, and on inner conflicts. Data : party press and rich personal archives that were recently opened to us.
Second, we explore at a micro level, how concerned activists did experience alienation in LCR, hence their subsequent life course. Data: in-depth interviews.
By linking these two levels of analysis, we produce a detailed analysis of how the party gradually incorporated those issues and how, in turn, it helped transform the Trotskyist activist model of vanguard.
