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Frederick Engels' book, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State was an incredible achievement. It shows Engels' ...

The church of St Peter's is surely one of the most awe inspiring pieces of architecture in the world. Whether or not you find it beautif...

The Indian Rebellion against British Rule in 1857 has had a number of interesting treatments in novel form, I think in particular of Frase...

Karl Kautsky 1854 - 1938 Karl Kautsky was the foremost intellectual leader of the Marxist movement internationally at the end of the 19t...

Subtitled, " The Case for the Socialist Workers Party ", this is a shamelessly partisan book. It's a book that argues the ca...

The Caspak Trilogy comprises three of Edgar Rice Burroughs less famous novels - The Land That Time Forgot , The People That Time Forgot and...

Robert Roberts wrote one of the all time great studies of working class life, The Classic Slum , but this short book is a truly wonderful ac...

Despite the rhetoric you hear from many of the leading politicians of the western world, and even from sections of the more liberal establi...

This Vietnam memoir follows Tim O'Brien from his basic training to his time on the front line in Vietnam. It finishes with his time in a...

Jules Verne was rather a prolific writer. Many of his novels have gone down in history as representing the hopes for a technological future....

One of the central arguments of Hassan Mahamdallie's introduction to the life and politics of William Morris, is that all to often he ...

These two essays from Chris Harman form one of the clearest and most accessible introductions to the question of history in Marxist thought ...

This is no doubt one of the classic books of working class history. First published in the early 1970s though, it's groundbreaking aspec...

The "Proud Tower" of Barbara Tuchman's title belongs to Edgar Allan Poe and from it "Death looks gigantically down"...

The sheer brilliance of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series for young adults has unjustly hidden his excellent other works. His ...

Paul Theroux's rail journeys are never less than epic. In this trip from the early 1970s, he leaves London one day, famously stating t...

People make history but the people who do so are often forgotten. Everyone learns the names of generals or kings in history, or even those...

First published in 1971, this novel must rapidly have become a classic of the Science Fiction genre. Despite some rather clunky dialogue in ...

This, the second part of Tony Cliff's four volume biography of  Leon Trotsky deals with the period that wo uld be most disputed perhaps ...

America's imperialist adventure in Vietnam shaped the world we live in today in many ways. The injustice of the most powerful nation in ...