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Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1980. 1. Hardcover. New. Brilliant and penetrating journalism dealing with a long-forgotten conflict at the start of the 20th century. Trotsky reports military matters but also the effects of the war on social conditions and popular moods, the diplomatic manoeuvring of the ‘great powers’ of Europe, and the political aims of the dynasties and cliques in Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey. A masterpiece of political journalism.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2013. 1. Paperback. New. The first systematic analysis of the political activity of the Communist Party of Australia in the trade union movement between 1945 and 1960. It The historiography of the CPA has generally focused on the industrial activity of CPA trade union members and has neglected this dimension.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2005. 1. Paperback. New. A history of the Democratic Socialist Party and the youth organisation Resistance in the tumultuous period from 1965 to 1972, when first Resistance and then the DSP developed out of the youth radicalisation and the fight against the Vietnam War. John Percy was a founder and longtime central leader of the DSP.

Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1980. 1. Paperback. New. Brilliant and penetrating journalism dealing with a long-forgotten conflict at the start of the 20th century. Trotsky reports military matters but also the effects of the war on social conditions and popular moods, the diplomatic manoeuvring of the ‘great powers’ of Europe, and the political aims of the dynasties and cliques in Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey. A masterpiece of political journalism.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2005. 1. Paperback. New. Barry Sheppard was a member of the US Socialist Workers Party for 28 years, and a central leader for most of that time. This is the first of two volumes recounting his life in the party. It is a case study of the inspiration and difficulties involved in building the nucleus of a revolutionary socialist party. This book covers the years from 1960 to 1973, the period of radicalisation known as ‘The Sixties’.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Paperback. New. Australian solidarity activists Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter spent 2006 in Venezuela working for the socialist newspaper Green Left Weekly, reporting regularly on their experiences. They interviewed dozens of leaders and grassroots activists in the popular movement.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2018. 1. Paperback. New. In the 1930s and 1940s, the ‘Red North’ — the area north from Mackay to Cairns — developed as the single strongest base of the Communist Party of Australia. It is this period which is the theme of Diane Menghetti’s pathbreaking book, originally published in 1981 and long out of print. This republication should help a contemporary national audience to understand the fact that as well as a reactionary history, northern Queensland has also had a very radical past.

In the years before its independence in 1991, Ukraine had been among the most industrialised, technologically advanced regions of the Soviet Union. Thirty years later, it was being rated by the IMF as the poorest country in Europe — its people poorer, on average, than those in many countries of the developing world. Why did Ukraine's transition to capitalism result in such disaster? Was this purely the outcome of an ill-conceived model of 'reform'? Or was capitalism itself the wrong choice? Has 'association' with the European Union provided any answers?As Ukraine battles invasion, knowing the 'back story' of its post-Soviet experience can provide a life-raft in a media space awash with simplistic propaganda.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2003. 1. Paperback. New. Presented here are Marx’s principal works on the 19th-century class conflicts in France: ‘The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850’, ‘The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ and ‘The Civil War in France’. His writings on France set out key lessons for the working-class struggle for emancipation, especially on the question of the state.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2000. 1. Paperback. New. A Marxist analysis of the breakup of Yugoslavia, in particular the wars in Bosnia and Kosova.showing the fundamental agreement between the Western powers and the former Milosevic regime during these conflicts. Karadjis shows that in neither Bosnia nor Kosova has NATO ever been motivated by concern for human rights but solely by its need to maintain Western control in an economically and politically vital region.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2001. 1. Paperback. New. The record of a political struggle in the Socialist Workers Party of the United States on the eve of World War II. At issue was the nature of the Soviet Union, Stalinism and the war aims of the US and its allies. Cannon was the founder and central leader of the SWP.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2004. 1. Paperback. New. The centrepiece of this collection is Lenin’s famous 1902 polemic, What Is to Be Done? which argues that a revolutionary party must act as a tribune of the people, striving to lead all the popular struggles of the day and generalise them into a movement for fundamental social change.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2015. 1. Paperback. New. Charts the history of the social democracy from the birth of socialist thought in the 19th century. It examines the political forces opposed to it on the left and on the right, its victory and the ‘golden years’ that followed. It then examines its surrender to neoliberal theocracy before suggesting what might constitute an anti-capitalist politics for the 21st century.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2003. 1. Paperback. New. This volume is based on the experiences of the US Trotskyist movement over 50 years: in the antifascist struggles of the 1930s and ’40s and the fight against incipient fascist ideology and groups during the Cold War; it also touches on the 1960s and ’70s, in particular the question of how to pose the struggle against fascism in regard to the issue of free speech.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Paperback. New. This volume of writings and speeches by Jim Percy, one of the founders of the Democratic Socialist Party and its longtime central leader until his death in 1992, spans the years 1980 to 1987. This was a period of considerable ferment in Australian and world politics. This collection focuses on how the party should relate to the new situation, especially on the question of left unity.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2001. 1. Paperback. New. What are the differences between anarchism and socialism? This work is organised around three major historical episodes: the struggle of the First International, led by Marx, against the anarchist currents inspired by Proudhon and Bakunin; the 1921 revolt of the Kronstadt naval base against the Soviet government, extensively used by anarchism as a point of attack against socialism; and, finally, the Spanish Revolution and Civil War of 1936-39, where anarchism, despite its mass following, failed to measure up to the needs of the struggle.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2001. 1. Paperback. New. A radical democratisation of society is at the very heart of the socialist project. In this collection of writings, V.I. Lenin, the founder and leader of the Bolshevik Party and the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, explains the class basis of democracy under capitalism and its severe inherent limitations. Lenin’s writings centre on his post-revolution polemic with Karl Kautsky, the one-time Marxist authority who opposed the revolution and the soviet form of workers’ power associated with it.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1999. 1. Paperback. New. This 1999 document of the Democratic Socialist Party provides a comprehensive overview of the ecological crisis, the various explanations advanced for it and the responses to it. The document argues strongly for a the need to build a society where people’s needs come before corporate profits and we can live in harmony the planet.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1999. 1. Paperback. New. In 1941, 28 socialists and trade union militants, mostly members of the Socialist Workers Party, went on trial in Minneapolis for their opposition to US involvement in World War II. The verbatim courtroom testimony of SWP leader James P. Cannon is a powerful defence of the ideas of socialism.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1999. 1. Paperback. New. A comprehensive introduction to the Marxist theory of history and politics.