Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
What is a peace program?
United States of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
L. Trotzky. Publ. by the Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda attached to the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Workmen's and Peasants' Government of the Russian Republic.
About the Author
Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician,...
by John Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
How can we rebel against the capitalist system? John Holloway argues that by creating, cracks, fractures and fissures that forge spaces of rebellion and disrupt the current economic order. *BR**BR*John Holloway, author of the groundbreaking Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide...
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the...
Against Capital
Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
‘The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it’. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter’s latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáros’s analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic,...
by Nikolai Bukharin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This classic volume contains Nikolai Bukharin’s 1928 treatise, “Historical Materialism”. Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888–1938) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and author. Bukharin was an important Bolshevik revolutionary, and spent six years with Lenin and Trotsky in exile. He wrote...
The H-Word
The Peripeteia of Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept,...
Gloster Javelin
An Operation History
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The RAF’s only delta-winged fighter – the Gloster Javelin was also Britain’s first true All-Weather Fighter. Based in the UK and in Germany, the RAF’s Javelin squadrons formed the front line of Britain’s air defences in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this time Javelin crews pioneered...
Malayan Emergency
Triumph of the Running Dogs 1948-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944—long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe—with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the "Wobblies", in their own words, from the opening speech at the IWW's founding convention in 1905, to the tactics of strike and sabotage which made it the most feared labor union in the US, to its role in the 1919 General Strike that shut down the city of Seattle.
Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much needed critical assessment of the Revolution's impact and legacy.
by Samuel Farber
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies...
Revolution in the Air
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968
The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from...
Painful Birth
How Chile Became a Free and Prosperous Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Painful Birth is the astounding story of how Chile narrowly escaped becoming a Leninist/Stalinist slave state in the early 1970s and over a relatively short historic period was transformed into the near paragon of freedom and prosperity that it is today. The book not only narrates the events but also...
Dragon and Kangaroo
Australia and Chinas Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right...