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Sydney: Socialist Alliance, 2009. 1. Pamphlet. New. This Charter of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights is the Socialist Alliance’s Indigenous policy. It is a contribution to the vital job of building a more powerful movement for Indigenous rights, one that can root out injustice, discrimination, poverty and underdevelopment once and for all.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2005. 1. Pamphlet. New. In 2005, 58 Australians went to Venezuela for a first-hand look at the extraordinary revolutionary process taking place there under the leadership of the country’s president, Hugo Chavez. Socialist activist Paul Benedek was a member of this first-ever Australia-Venezuela solidarity brigade. In the midst of the 2018-19 crisis and US threats it is timely to remember this history.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2011. 1. Pamphlet. New. Capitalism’s thirst for profit is wrecking the ecosystem on which we depend. Ian Angus argues that we need an ecosocialist revolution that will stop and reverse global warming and bring humanity into harmony with the planet.

Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1981. 1. Paperback. New. The near meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979 showed people around the world the danger of this deadly energy source. This book shows that it was not an isolated incident but just the latest in decades of nuclear disasters.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2002. 1. Pamphlet. New. Terrorism is a concept much-loved by the media and government spokespeople. But they are extremely selective in the instances they choose to designate as terror. In the modern world, the wholesale state terror of the major capitalist powers is far more pervasive and on a far more massive scale than any desperate acts by small oppositional groups. This pamphlet presents a Marxist perspective on this vexed question.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2007. 1. Pamphlet. New. Two talks focused on the role of the working class in modern society. Is Australia still a class society? How can we grapple with the potential catastrophe of climate change? What role is there for working people in creating a sustainable and just society?

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2007. 1. Pamphlet. New. In late capitalist society, war and violent social conflict are endemic. The two talks presented in this pamphlet look at such vexed questions as war, pacificism and terrorism and provide a clear Marxist approach for assessing them.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2006. 1. Pamphlet. New. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and the restoration of capitalism there and in the countries of Eastern Europe, the theory of ‘state capitalism’ continues to mislead its adherents. This pamphlet presents the key arguments against this fallacious notion.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2004. 1. Pamphlet. New. This 1999 document and report of the Democratic Socialist Party provides a Marxist analysis of the change in the class nature of People’s Republic of China from a bureaucratically deformed socialist state to a capitalist one, the culmination of changes that took place in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2002. 1. Pamphlet. New. Imperialist capitalism is the dominant reality of our era: a handful of rich Western countries dominate the world and are responsible for the misery of billions of human beings. And the decisive element in this system is the United States, the world’s only superpower. Doug Lorimer traces the main features of the development of the imperialist system through the 20th century.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2017. 1. Pamphlet. New. At the end of the 19th century and in the early 1900s thousands of young women joined the Russian revolutionary movement to fight against the brutal tsarist autocracy and the harsh capitalist system which was developing. They saw achieving the liberation of women and better life for all as indissolubly bound up with socialist revolution and the building of a new society. They came to know both triumph and defeat as the first socialist revolution in history succeeded against all odds but later succumbed to a bureaucratic counterrevolution.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2016. 1. Pamphlet. New. Originally written in Venezuela in 2004, the lessons it draws and the points it makes have a widespread relevance. How might the struggle for fundamental social change progress? What sort of political instrument is needed? How should it organise its members? Marta Harnecker is a Chilean sociologist, political scientist, journalist and activist.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2010. 1. Pamphlet. New. With the return of capitalism, China today is a highly unequal society, where workers are ruthlessly exploited and lack job security, there is national oppression, severe ecological problems and heavy restrictions of democratic rights. Chris Slee surveys the scene and explains how it came about.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1998. 1. Pamphlet. New. This handbook of basic terms in Marxist economics provides an invaluable resource for undestanding the capitalist world we live in.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Pamphlet. New. In the 1920s and thirties the Russian Revolution underwent a bureaucratic degeneration. The Communist International also suffered this fate. But in its first five years, when it was still led by Lenin and his closest collaborators, it elaborated a program and strategy that incorporated the lessons of the revolutionary era. Properly understood, it remains profoundly relevant to the struggles shaking the world today.

Sydney: Socialist Alliance, 2009. 1. Pamphlet. New. Hard-hitting speeches by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and an interview with Evo Morales are the highlights of this pamphlet dealing with the 2009 Copenhagen conference on climate change. The title says it all.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2016. 2. Pamphlet. New. Widely seen as quite right-wing, Queensland also has a history of stormy class struggles and radical politics. Jim McIlroy’s pamphlet focuses on three such periods: the great shearers’ strikes of the 1890s; the Brisbane ‘Red Flag Riots’ of 1919; and the ‘Red North’ of the 1930s and 1940s when north Queensland became the strongest single base of the Communist Party.

Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1984. 1. Paperback. New. The story of an epic 1983 struggle by 700 mine workers from Tasmania’s West Coast to defend their jobs and conditions.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2018. 3. Pamphlet. New. Sets out the current views of the Socialist Alliance on the crises of capitalism and the way to overcome them. The document begins with a general outline of the nature of capitalism, continues with an outline of the development of capitalism in Australia, puts forward our perspectives on current struggles and concludes with our view of what the transition to socialism might look like.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2017. 1. Pamphlet. New. What is the road to fundamental social change? How can we win mass support for socialism? These two talks from the period of struggle against the Vietnam War in the United States make a persuasive case for changing the system and also outline a realistic approach to mobilising the mass public support necessary to achieve this.