Sean Matgamna: 9 books

This is the separately-published introduction to a book which, uniquely, traces the decisive political divisions within the broadly-defined Trotskyist movement by presenting key texts from both sides of the political debate as it happend. The book's overall thesis, argued in this introduction, is...

There is a quickening of life on the left. But, politically, the left is still very weak and disoriented. This book traces the turns and realignments imprinted on this left over many decades by the ascendancy of Stalinism and by the post-Stalinist global reshufflings after 1989-9. Independent working-class...

This book traces the decisive political divisions within the broadly-defined Trotskyist movement by presenting key texts from both sides of the political debate as it happened. The book's overall thesis, argued in the introduction to the printed edition, which is separately published as an ebook,...

This book surveys the history of Jewish-Arab conflict in Palestine; formulates socialist proposals towards Palestinian liberation and Jewish-Arab working-class unity; and critically discusses other responses on the left.

This book collects key texts on socialist strategy by Frederick Engels, Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Leon Trotsky, and discusses their historic context and their relevance today.

An illustrated history of Ireland, from the Viking invasions of Ireland to 1993, from a working-class socialist viewpoint.

The economic crisis of 2008 and its aftershocks cracked the mystique which the world capitalist system had built in the two decades after the collapse of Russian and European Stalinism. For the first time in 30 years the left is on the offensive in the Labour Party.  Socialism is again on...

Many socialists used to argue that a socialist revolution in Ireland would "grow out of" the Provisional IRA's war. We should understand what was wrong with that theory, rather than just quietly putting it aside.

Written by one of the few activists remaining who was part of the leading committee of the Socialist Workers Party (then called IS) in 1968-72, this book traces the history of the SWP/ IS/ SR current from its origins in 1950, and disputes many of the conventional accounts of that history.