Tuhia he whakamāramatanga mō tēnei rārangi - I uru a Jacques ki te Rōpū Kaunihera o Ingarangi i te tekau mā waru, ā, i ngā whare wānanga o Manchester me Cambridge, he tino kaha ia ki ngā tōrangapū ākonga. I te tau 1966 ko ia tētahi o ngā kaihautū matua o te Radical Student Alliance, he rōpū whakawhiti-roto o te taha maui o te pokapū e tata ana ki te 400 ngā ākonga mai i ngā whare wānanga me ngā kura nui e 108 e whai ana ki te hanga i tētahi nekeneke o ngā ākonga "ka taea te mahi tahi i runga i ngā take o te āwangawanga pāpori whānui". I Cambridge i whai wāhi ia ki te hanganga o te Uniana o Cambridge University Students. I te tau 1967 ko ia te mema o te Komiti Whakahaere o te Rōpū Communist, "tērā pea ko te mema taitamariki rawa atu i te rua tekau ma rua", a ka noho ia hei mema tae noa ki te 1991. I tino pāngia e te whakaekenga a te Soviet ki Czechoslovakia
I muri i nga huihuinga o Mei i Paris i te tau 1968, i whakaahuatia e ia ko tana "whakatupuranga torangapu", ko ia tetahi o nga kaiarahi tuatahi o te Eurocommunist, o te parirau whakarereke ranei o te roopu, i tino awe i nga mahi a Antonio Gramsci. I te tau 1976, i roto i tētahi pūrongo ki te Komiti Whakahaere o te Rōpū Kaunihera, i tohe a ia 'kāore te pakanga akomanga e whakawhāiti ana ki te pakanga ohaoha... engari he whakaaro, he ahurea hoki.' I muri mai i taua tau ano, i whiriwhiria ia, me te tikanga tawhito a George Matthews, ki te whakaoti i tetahi waahanga hou o "Te huarahi o Ingarangi ki te Socialism" (te kaupapa a te Rōpū Communist) hei whakaatu ki te 35th National Congress o te Rōpū i te 1977. I muri mai ka whakaahuatia e ia te tukanga hei 'Mexican stand-off', engari ko te awe o nga whakaaro Gramscian i kitea i roto i te tuhinga whakamutunga, i karanga mo te 'whakataetae manapori whanui' me te kii ko te nekehanga ahu whakamua e tika ana 'kaore noa... hei hononga o nga kaha akomanga... engari o etahi atu kaha nui i roto i te hapori e puta mai ana i nga waahanga o te tukino kaore i te hono tika ki nga hononga whakaputa'.