The Struggle for Hearts and Minds: Essays on the Second World War

Challinor, Ray

Unkant Publishers

Argumentative, contentious and thought-provoking, these collected articles invite us to critically reconnect as a diaspora to the IS tradition – not only of Cliff or Harman, but also Hallas, Kidron, Sedgwick, MacIntyre, Harris, Widgery, Higgins and many others, many unsung. This is the extension of an invitation to reconnect not as a lifeless antiquarian exercise or arrogant exclusivism but in the spirit of the critical slogan ‘the IS tradition is dead! Long Live the IS tradition!’ Jules Alford, Preface  The essays collected here were written by Socialist Workers Party (SWP) member Dave Renton in the midst of the biggest crisis in the history of that organisation. Covering topics from anti-racism and womens liberation, trade union work and the history of the SWP and its dissident tradition, Renton argues that the SWP requires a radical democratic overhaul if it is to prove 'fit for purpose' as a home to revolutionary socialists and new generations of anti-capitalists in the years to come.

Socialism from Below: Writings from an Unfinished Tradition

Politics & Social Sciences

Dave, Renton

Politics & Government

The book tells the story of the British Trotskyists as they emerged from the Second World War, and of how the group around Tony Cliff built a distinct tendency based on the theories of State Capitalism and the Permanent Arms Economy. Higgin's describes the development of this, the IS tendency from Cliff's early years in Palestine, through the 50s and 60s, down to the expulsion of the IS Opposition in the mid-70s, shortly before the International Socialists declared themselves a fully blown revolutionary party, the SWP.  The book also includes the key documents of the battle with the IS Opposition, on both sides of the debates, as well as obituaries for Jim by Roger Protz and Nigel Fountain, and a new introduction by John Game. More Years for the Locust is illustrated throughout with cartoons by Phil Evans.

More Years for the Locust: The Origins of the SWP

History

Higgins, Jim

Military

"Iancu Dumitrescu stands at the cutting edge of the whole range of new tendencies, representing a musical avant garde uncorrupted by compromise?-?in which the taste for invention merges with intellectual speculation in the philosophical sense of the word." Georges Astalos "As a creator of radical music that breaks convention, riding on the edge of the classical avant garde onto realms more closely associated with the likes of Nurse With Wound or The Halfer Trio, Iancu Dumitrescu has the talent to lure you in, mystify and startle with unnerving furiousity." Alan Freeman An indispensable guide to the music of Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, the book contains essays, reviews, press cuttings, a complete discography, and extensive interviews with both Dumitrescu and his partner, Ana-Maria Avram, and is illustrated throughout with photographs and images from throughout Dumitrescu's career.

Cosmic Orgasm: The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

A history of the Chartist insurrection of 1839, based on original sources, and especially the Chartist and radical press of the time. With its meticulous attention to detailed sources, its comprehensive scope and its exacting research, this book doesn't just address the neglect of this important episode in Labour movement history-more importantly it challenges us to think again about the revolutionary potential of the British Labour movement. John McDonnell MP, Foreword Appendices include Julian Harney's 'The Tremendous Uprising' and Edward Aveling's memoir, 'George Julian Harney: A Straggler of 1848'.

1839: The Chartist Insurrection

David Black

Chris Ford

Europe

Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage

Leslie, Esther

Arts & Photography

Robert Dellar's reminiscences impart a strange, unwholesome joy, like smoking a cig dipped in popper juice. The only response to the atrocious farce of modern life has to be this savage laughter. Out to Lunch In this incendiary slice of under-the-radar British social history we meet everyone from Ronnie Corbett to a Broadmoor inmate whose index offence was the subject of a D-Notice. Robert Dellar's anti-authoritarian and take-no-prisoners spirit of mischief makes it possible for readers of every persuasion to find something to offend their sensibilities. Simon Morris (Ceramic Hobs)

Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion

Dellar, Robert

Music

In 1850 Helen Macfarlane assumed a male avatar ('Howard Morton') and applied herself to supporting the Chartists-the first working-cłass movement to shake the British establishment. She was the first translator of Hegel into English, and the first translator of the Communist Manifesto. Her essays directly address the issues that taxed the brains of her radical readers: how come Jesus spoke for the poor yet the Bishops are swimming in money? how can genuine radicals stop interfering liberals from sabotaging the cause? But Macfarlane was wiped from history because the idea of a revolutionary 'she' did not suit the times. Dave Black's resurrection of this outstanding radical and formidable essayist and polemicist is long overdue.

Helen MacFarlane: Red Republican: Essays, Articles and Her Translation of the Communist Manifesto

MacFarlane, Helen

World

A classic in the field of mental health, one of the few credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement which retains its significance today, Psycho Politics includes scholarly appraisals of the ideas of Goffman, Laing, Szasz and Foucault and proposals for a politics of mental health which neither separates mind and body, nor abdicates responsibility for the alleviation of suffering. Sedgwick argues that mental health movements have overemphasised individual civil liberty at the expense of developing collective responsibility for mental health care. This book has wide ranging implications for political activism, social movements and the future of mental health care. This edition has a new foreword by Helen Spandler (reader in mental health at the University of Central Lancaster), Rob Dellar (founder member of Mad Pride) and Alastair Kemp (Mental Health Survivor activist) placing Sedgwick's work in context today&gt; This edition also includes for the first time the text of Sedgwick's 1983 address to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 'The Fate of Psychiatry in the New Populism'.

Psycho Politics

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sedgwick, Peter

Psychology & Counseling

Left wing anti-imperialism today exists as an immense accumulation of platitudes and stupidities-in terms of the bare facts, in terms of social reality, and in terms of the objectives lying beyond the theory. The problem goes all the way down, so that older travesties of the left's platforms are happily being travestied all over again. Consider the emergence of 'Stalinism without Stalinism'. None of its positions are associated with genuine beliefs. This book skewers all such illusions in the course of describing the real dynamics of the Syrian revolution and civil war.  Contributors include Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Javaad Alipoor, Mark Boothroyd, Jospeh Daher, Sam Charles Hamad, Shiar Neyo, Louis Proyect and Eyal Zisser.

Khiyana: Daesh, the Left and the Unmaking of the Syrian Revolution

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