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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 28 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Is Socialism Possible in Britain? Reflections on the Corbyn Years by Andrew Murray
    Is Socialism Possible in Britain? Reflections on the Corbyn Years - by Andrew Murray

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839766640 | ISBN 10: 1839766646

    The lessons of the Corbyn years for the future of left politics.   Is Socialism Possible in Britain? analyses Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as Labour leader and the prospects for parliamentary socialism in a post-Corbyn Britain. Lively and insightful, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Socialist Ideal in the Labour Party: From Attlee to Corbyn by Martin R. Beveridge
    The Socialist Ideal in the Labour Party: From Attlee to Corbyn - by Martin R. Beveridge

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780850367768 | ISBN 10: 085036776x

    Millions of people across the globe face a precarious existence because of Covid-19, climate change, and the greatest wealth inequality in a century.  In Britain, the pandemic has revealed critical failings in the social safety net, especi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism) by Oly Durose
    Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism) - by Oly Durose

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913462895 | ISBN 10: 1913462897

    Reflecting on his own landslide loss in conservative suburbia, Oly Durose asks how we can transform the urban outskirts of the status quo into centres of transformative change.  In December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the La ... more

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  • Cover image of book How I Became A Socialist by William Morris
    How I Became A Socialist - by William Morris

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788736916 | ISBN 10: 1788736915

    William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly 50 years, shows Morris as one of the most original ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
    In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings - by Oscar Wilde

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788730334 | ISBN 10: 178873033x

    Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.   In Praise of Disobedience draws on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his great ... more

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  • Cover image of book William Morris
    William Morris's Socialist Diary - by Florence Boos

    £10.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910170496 | ISBN 10: 1910170496

    William Morris was the most prominent artist and writer to embrace the new socialist movement of the 1880s. As the leader of one of Britain’s two major socialist organisations from 1885 to 1890, his personal example and dedication inspired and enco ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Day Manifesto 1968 by Raymond Williams (Editor)
    May Day Manifesto 1968 - by Raymond Williams (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786636270 | ISBN 10: 1786636271

    Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto.   Urgently relevant to current arguments about the crisis of austerity, the 1968 manifesto set out a new agenda for socialist Britain, after the failure of the postwar consensus. It sought to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red by Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, and David Berry (Editors)
    Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red - by Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, and David Berry (Editors)

    £23.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781629633909 | ISBN 10: 1629633909

    This collection reveals the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived there.   The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States by Sheila Rowbotham
    Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States - by Sheila Rowbotham

    £25.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784785888 | ISBN 10: 1784785881

    Sheila Rowbotham's Rebel Crossings tells the transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and William Bailie cross the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Sunkara (Editor), illustrated by Phil Wrigglesworth
    The ABCs of Socialism - by Bhaskar Sunkara (Editor), illustrated by Phil Wrigglesworth

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784787264 | ISBN 10: 1784787264

    Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine.  The remarkable run of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted — for the fir ... more

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  • Cover image of book The European Union and the Referendum by Socialist Resistance
    The European Union and the Referendum - by Socialist Resistance

    £5.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780902869363 | ISBN 10: 0902869361

    The in-out referendum on membership of the European Union will dominate British politics in the run-up to the vote on 23 June 2016. Right wing, xenophobic and reactionary arguments, as well as misinformation, on migration and security will be peddled ... more

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  • Cover image of book The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition... Socialism by John Nichols
    The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition... Socialism - by John Nichols

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784783402 | ISBN 10: 1784783404

    A short, sharp, irreverent rejoinder to right-wing red-baiting.  During the Cold War it became a dirty word in the United States, but socialism runs like a red thread through the nations history, an integral part of its political consciousne ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans, edited by Paul Buhle
    Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg - by Kate Evans, edited by Paul Buhle

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780999 | ISBN 10: 1784780995

    A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.  A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just ... more

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  • Cover image of book Socialism ... Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation by Danny Katch
    Socialism ... Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation - by Danny Katch

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608465156 | ISBN 10: 1608465152

    Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little more than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now. That's no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Lwy
    Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe - by Michael Lwy

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608464715 | ISBN 10: 1608464717

    Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative.  In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Lwy offers a v ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Intelligent Woman
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism - by George Bernard Shaw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847493330 | ISBN 10: 1847493335

    As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were "c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harry
    Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It - by Harry Leslie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848317369 | ISBN 10: 1848317360

    As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it... In November 2013 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution (2nd edition) by Richard Gott
    Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution (2nd edition) - by Richard Gott

    £22.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677115 | ISBN 10: 1844677117

    A revealing account of the leader at the forefront of Latin Americas socialist revolution.  The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chvez places the countrys controversial and charismatic president in histori ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mugsborough Rebel: Alf Cobb and the Struggle for Justice in Hastings by Mike Matthews
    A Mugsborough Rebel: Alf Cobb and the Struggle for Justice in Hastings - by Mike Matthews

    £9.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781873976463 | ISBN 10: 1873976461

    The new 2011 edition of A Mugsborough Rebel: Alf Cobb and the Struggle for Justice in Hastings by Mike Matthews is especially welcome, as this year is the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell, author of the famous socialist classic The Ragged Tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Writings by Chris Harman
    Selected Writings - by Chris Harman

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905192694 | ISBN 10: 190519269x

    "When Chris Harman died so unexpectedly in Cairo last November, the whole international socialist movement lost one of its most outstanding writers and theoreticians. This makes the rapid publication of this first volume of Chris's Selected Writings ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism & LGBT Liberation by Hannah Dee
    The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism & LGBT Liberation - by Hannah Dee

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905192700 | ISBN 10: 1905192703

    The Red in the Rainbow is no normal addition to an LGBT activist's bookshelf. It is a must-read for the whole movement. This is a critical weapon for LGBT activists, providing the perspective needed in an emerging movement. But it also relates this s ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Corts by Ronald Fraser
    In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Corts - by Ronald Fraser

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844675968 | ISBN 10: 1844675963

    Manuel Corts was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the Republics land reform movement, and an organizer in the farm workers unionization struggles. As Mayor of Mijas in Andalusia, he became caught up in the ferment of revolutionary Spain in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings - by Rosa Luxemburg

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745329888 | ISBN 10: 0745329888

    Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. An outstanding social and economic theorist of the twentieth century, and a dedicated political activist, she proved willing ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers
    The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party - by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141028453 | ISBN 10: 0141028459

    Everybody knows about the Provisional IRA, which perpetrated the lion's share of republican violence during the Troubles. But there was another IRA, the Official IRA: a republican-socialist paramilitary organization that played an underestimated part ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life on the Track: Memoirs of a Socialist Worker by Frank Henderson
    Life on the Track: Memoirs of a Socialist Worker - by Frank Henderson

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905192465 | ISBN 10: 1905192460

    A brilliant memoir of a rank and file revolutionary socialist.  Frank became a follower of Trotsky as a teenager (and remains so today) in the Second World War and met partisans in Italy and Greece while serving in the British Army. In the ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-first Century by Istvn Mszros
    The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-first Century - by Istvn Mszros

    £16.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781583671696 | ISBN 10: 1583671692

    A breakthrough in the development of socialist thought, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time is both a companion volume to Mszross seminal Beyond Capital and a major theoretical contribution in its own right. Mszros, one of the foremos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Socialism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Newman
    Socialism: A Very Short Introduction - by Michael Newman

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780192804310 | ISBN 10: 0192804316

    What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century? Michael Newman examines and explains the successes and failures of modern socialism by taking an international perspective - ranging from communism i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - by Robert Tressell

    £16.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007204502 | ISBN 10: 0007204507

    Originally published in 1914, is a timeless story of socialism, political awakenings and class struggle, told with a volatile mix of heartfelt rage and sly humour.   The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working m ... more

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