[5] Slaughter was educated at Leeds Modern School, where he excelled academically, and completed his National Service by working as a miner at the Water Haigh Colliery in Woodlesford.
[5][6] While still at school he was awarded a scholarship to study history at Downing College, Cambridge, and after transferring to social anthropology graduated with a first-class degree in 1952.
Slaughter subsequently became a lecturer and writer on sociology and Marxism, and it was while working at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford that he first became an activist with the Communist Party of Great Britain.
In 1985, Healy faced allegations of sexually harassing female members of the WRP, leading Cliff Slaughter and Michael Banda to oppose him.
[11] In 2006, Slaughter published Not Without a Storm: Towards a Communist Manifesto for the Age of Globalisation,[12] a book intended to open discussion of contemporary issues and the responsibility of socialists.
[13] Slaughter's final books were collaborative works with other socialists : Against Capital : Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency[14] and Women and The Social Revolution.
[15] The work of Cliff Slaughter is or was the central theoretical and political influence in the Movement for Socialism (MFS) [16] which is or was an occasional grouping of socialists in Britain.