London Olympics and took part in protests highlighting the Olympics' role in the gentrification of East London. In 2013, Renton was one of the many SWP members to be caught up in the "Comrade Delta" crisis. Renton supported the female complainants against Martin Smith and became a prominent critic of the SWP leadership, publicly criticising their decisions in a series of posts published on his blog, Lives; Running. In May 2014, he published a piece in the London Review of Books naming the individual who had been the police's principal suspect for the death of Blair Peach, and setting out deficiencies in the inquest which had prevented the jury from having access to findings of the police investigation in the killing. Selected publications 1990s Red Shirts and Black: Fascists and Anti-Fascists in Oxford in the 1930s. Ruskin College, Oxford, 1996. Fascism: Theory and practice. Pluto Press, London, 1999. 2000s Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the 1940s. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, 2000. Socialism in Liverpool: Episodes in a History of Working-class Struggle. Hegemon Press, 2000. (Editor) The Twentieth Century: A Century of Wars and Revolutions?. Rivers Oram Press, 2000. (edited with Keith Flett) Marx on Globalization. Lawrence and Wishart, London, 2001. (Editor) This Rough Game: Fascism and Anti-fascism. Sutton, 2001. Classical Marxism: Socialist Theory and the Second International. New Clarion Press, 2002. The Communist Party of Great Britain Since 1920. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002. (With James Eaden) New Approaches to Socialist History. New Clarion Press, 2003. (edited with Keith Flett) Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times. Zed Books, London, 2004. Sidney Pollard: A Life in History. Tauris, London, 2004. Trotsky. Haus Publishing, London, 2004. British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005. (Editor and contributor with Nigel Copsey) Colour Blind? Race and Migration in North East England. University of Sunderland Press, Sunderland, 2007. When we Touched the Sky: The Anti-Nazi League 1977-1981. New Clarion Press, 2006. CLR James: Cricket's Philosopher King. Haus Publishing, 2007. The Congo: Plunder and Resistance. Zed Books, London, 2007. (With Leo Zeilig and David Seddon) 2010s Lives; Running. Zero Books, Winchester, 2012. Struck Out: Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done. Pluto Press, London, 2012. Socialism from Below: Writings from an Unfinished Tradition. Unkant Publishers, 2013. Never Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982. Routledge, Abingdon, 2018. The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right. Pluto Press, London, 2019. 2020s Fascism: