When Peter Duncan arrived at the politics department of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, now Aberystwyth University, in the 1980s there was a civil war taking place in the Labour Club between adherents of the Militant Tendency and supporters of the orthodox Labour left.
His pamphlet Paved With Good Intentions: The Politics of Militant was a characteristically thorough, reasoned demolition of that organisation’s cult-like behaviour, but also an attempt to contribute to an open pluralistic Labour party of the sort that many of us hoped would emerge.
Andrew Wade
I knew Peter Duncan through what was then the Association of University Teachers. Mention of “huge ziggurats of newspapers” at his homes brought back memories of the volume of books and papers on all surfaces of his office.
Peter Mitchell
