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We Shall Be All: Chapters in the History of Working Class Scotland

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Arsy-versy World: Poems

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Dewar, Hugo

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All Power to the Soviets: Lenin, 1914-1917

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Cliff, Tony

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Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

Harman, Chris

Binns, Peter

The question of party organization has been a central concern of Marxists for more than a century.   In this book, John Molyneux examines the contributions made by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky and Antonio Gramsci.   Molyneux takes as his central theme the concern of these revolutionaries with the relationship between the party and the working class.   Following from this, he explores such questions as the independence of the party, spontaneity and class consciousness, democracy and centralism, drawing out the implications of these debates for the revolutionary socialist party today.

Marxism and the Party

Molyneux, John

Bailing Out the System: Reformist Socialism in Western Europe, 1944-1985

Birchall, Ian

In her great work, The Making of I reland and its Undoing, the only contribution to I rish history we know of which conforms to the methods of modern historical science, the authoress, Mrs, Stopford Green, dealing with the effect upon I reland of the dispersion of the I rish race in the time of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, and the consequent destruction of Gaelic culture, and rupture with Gaelic tradition and law, says that the Irishmen educated in schools abroad abandoned or knew nothing of the lore of ancient Erin, and had no sympathy with the spirit of the Brehon Code, nor with the social order of which it was the juridical expression. She says they urged the theory, so antagonistic to the immemorial lazv of I reland, that only from polluted sinks of heretics could come the idea that the people might elect a ruler, and confer supreme authority on whomsoever pleased them. In other words the new I rish, educated in foreign standards, had adopted as their own the feudal-capitalist system, of which England was the exponent in I reland, and urged it upon the Gae HcI rish. As the dispersion of the clans, consummated by Cromwell, finally completed the ruin of Gaelic I reland, all the higher education of Irishmen thenceforward ran in this foreign groove, and was coloured with this foreign colouring. In other words, the Gaelic culture of the I rish chieftainry was rudely broken ot Tin the seventeenth century, and the continental Schools of European despots implanted in its place in the minds of the I rish students, and sent them back to I reland to preach a fanatical belief in royal and feudal prerogatives, as foreign to the genius of the Gael as was the English ruler to I rish soil.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and

Labour in Irish History (Revolutionary Classics)

Connolly, James

Kieran Allen

Arguments for Revolutionary Socialism

Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo.France 1968: A general strike and factory occupations by millions of workers shake the country.Chile 1972: Workers defending the Popular Unity government set up workers’ councilsthe cordonesand demand control over production.Portugal 1974: Army officers overthrow the dictator Caetano and release an upsurge of "popular power" whichs last 18 months.Iran 1979: The viciously repressive Shah is toppled and workers set up independent councils, the shoras.Poland 1980: Demanding radical change, workers build the independent trade union Solidarity to fight for their own interests, exposing the false socialism of the Eastern Bloc.In each of these cases, the actions of workers themselves were the driving force of struggles with revolutionary potential. They demonstrate that workers can and will fight back on a mass scale.Each episode offers an inspiring glimpse of the way in which workers rise to the challenge of fighting for a better worldand pose their own alternative to the system.Although none of these struggles ultimately achieved their goals, they were "revolutionary rehearsals" that hold important lessons about the struggle for socialism under modern conditions.

Revolutionary Rehearsals

Barker, Colin

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