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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Always Red by Len McCluskey
    Always Red - by Len McCluskey

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781682193396 | ISBN 10: 168219339x

    Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.  In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee
    Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women - by Kristen Ghodsee

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839766602 | ISBN 10: 1839766603

    The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists.  Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the ninete ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change by Magid Magid
    The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change - by Magid Magid

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788702904 | ISBN 10: 1788702905

    A guide to being courageous and community-minded, and to disrupting and dismantling age-old power structures in work, life and politics, written by someone who has done exactly that.  Let's be honest. Magid Magid's story seems an unlikely one.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch
    Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists - by David Aaronovitch

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099478973 | ISBN 10: 0099478978

    In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism.  But who were they, these ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O
    Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life - by Malachi O'Doherty

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571315956 | ISBN 10: 057131595x

    How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist – in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination – into the leader of Sinn Féin, with intimate access to the British and Irish Prime Ministers and the US President? And how has he ou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Che, My Brother by Juan Martin Guevara and Armelle Vincent
    Che, My Brother - by Juan Martin Guevara and Armelle Vincent

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509517756 | ISBN 10: 1509517758

    On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fift ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
    The Long and Winding Road - by Alan Johnson

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780593076033 | ISBN 10: 0593076036

    From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain.  This third volume ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Can
    You Can't Say That: Memoirs - by Ken Livingstone

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571280414 | ISBN 10: 0571280412

    A frank, gripping and moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style and p ... more

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