Editing Terry Eagleton (section)

== Politics ==
Eagleton joined the Stockport [[Labour Party Young Socialists|Young Socialists]] at 16, influenced by his schoolfriend Bernard Regan. As a student at Cambridge, he was involved with the left-wing Catholic group Slant. He read Marx and Lenin in this period. Eagleton was also involved in the Cambridge Left Forum, which aimed to bring socialist in the university and local trade unionists together.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eagleton |first=Terry |title=The task of the critic: Terry Eagleton in dialogue |last2=Beaumont |first2=Matthew |date=2009 |publisher=Verso |isbn=978-1-84467-339-1 |edition= |location=London |pages=11-12, 34, 46}}</ref> At the end of the 1960s, Eagleton left the Slant group and moved to the secular, revolutionary left by joining the [[International Socialists (UK)|International Socialists]]. In the late 1970s he re-joined the Labour Party in Oxford and become a member of the Labour Committee on Ireland. In the early 1980s, he was a member of the [[Workers' Socialist League]], whose activities were centred on the car factory in [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eagleton |first=Terry |url= |title=The task of the critic: Terry Eagleton in dialogue |last2=Beaumont |first2=Matthew |date=2009 |publisher=Verso |isbn= |location=London |pages=79, 161-162 |oclc=286419940}}</ref>