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It's a statement of the obvious, but revolutions change things. Most obviously a successful revolution changes the political and economi...

Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the CPGB The history of radical parties is always of interest to those trying to build radical organi...

Despite the impression given by countless Saturday afternoon war films, the Second World War and Hitler's dictatorship was ended by th...

The defeat of the British in Afghanistan in 1842 had far reaching implications. It caused shock at home - the political classes and the B...

This little book by Engels packs a hard punch. It is, in a few short pages, both a summary and a detailed explanation of the basics of Marxi...

Ever since the Russian Revolution there have been attempts to discredit those who led the revolutionary movement as being monsters, only int...

The number of books available on the Thames is immense - the bibliography of Peter Ackroyd's book contains at least 300. But it's wo...

Winston Churchill famously said that "History is written by the victors", but the story of the Chainmakers' strike shows that...

This 1984 novel by one of Science Fictions masters is a strange amalgam. It begins in 2248AD, with a revolution on Mars against the "C...

Castle Freeman's "All That I Have" is on the surface quite a simple story about a county sheriff and the places he looks afte...

This short, but impressive book is an excellent introduction to a subject that I think has been neglected somewhat by the revolutionary lef...

This is a strange novel indeed. There is much of interest within it - it's certainly the only novel I can think of that starts with a Sr...

Perhaps more than any other composer Dmitri Shostakovich demonstrates how difficult it is to seperate music from its historical period. Sho...

The massive extinction of the large mega-fauna towards the end of the last ice-age provides for a complex and surprisingly passionate debat...

Published in 2000, Jonathan Hughes' book is an excellent and important defence of Marxism in the face of its Green critics. Coming out a...

The interaction between society and the natural world should be a major preoccupation for everyone these days. The way in which humans inter...

The Prefect is another of the "Revelation Space" novels of Alastair Reynolds. Reynolds enormous output is fairly stunning - but ...

John Steinbeck's trip around the United States in the early 1960s captures beautifully a country in transition. Coming out of the Secon...

For revolutionaries who believe that there is a higher form of democracy than that of Bourgeois Parliamentarianism, what to do during electi...

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a novel whose rage still rings out fifty years after it's first publication. Post war 50s Britain ...