tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298450692024-03-13T01:34:18.221-07:00Resistance BooksInternational distributor of socialist books on ecology, the Cuban revolution and other aspects of Marxist strategy and practiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-47483009736052963472011-05-12T09:10:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:37:01.974-07:00Visit http://socialistresistance.org/booksThis website is no longer being updated. Instead come and visit <a href="http://socialistresistance.org/books">http://socialistresistance.org/books</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-7320034397826926722009-04-19T00:08:00.000-07:002009-04-19T00:10:25.350-07:00New book: Socialists and the Capitalist Recession & ‘The Basic Ideas of Karl Marx’<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://socialistresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/recession-cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 314px;" src="http://socialistresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/recession-cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The credit crunch of 2008 produced an international recession in 2009. In this new book Claudio Katz and Michel Husson, both fellows of the International Institute for Research and Education, and SSP activist Raphie de Santos lead an attempt not to only to describe the present crisis, but also to understand its causes and debate socialist solutions.<br /><br />This 216-page book brings together much of the most powerful socialist analysis of the recession.<br /><br />Sean Thompson shows how neoliberal globalisation has an inbuilt tendency towards deflation. As explained in the article by François Sabado, the period since the turn of the century has been a disaster for American capitalism; first the catastrophe in Iraq and of the Bush government in general, and now an economic collapse that has completely undermined neoliberalism's 'Washington Consensus'.<br /><br />The ideologues of capitalism are on the defensive. But the Marxist explanation of the crisis has to be hammered home. Who caused this crisis? Why did it occur? What is it in capitalism that leads to the globalisation of poverty while a tiny elite become mega-wealthy? And what are possible alternatives? This book is a signal contribution to making those arguments.<br /><br />To give the socialist analysis in this book strong foundations, the book also includes ‘The Basic Ideas of Karl Marx’, an outline by Ernest Mandel of the core ideas of scientific socialism.<br /><br />The book will be launched in London next month. But you can pre-order your copy from us for the special price of £7.50 including postage inside Europe.<br /><br />The volume is also available as issue 39/40 of the International Institute for Research and Education's <em>Notebooks for Study and Research</em> (ISSN 0298-7902).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-21385357648805516682009-04-15T10:25:00.000-07:002009-04-15T10:27:55.053-07:00New book: My Life Under White Supremacy and in Exile<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://socialistresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nikano200.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 200px;" src="http://socialistresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nikano200.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Leonard Nikani's autobiography, My Life Under White Supremacy and in Exile, is the next book to be published by Socialist Resistance. These memoirs give a graphic portrayal of a black man growing up in racist South Africa. <a href="http://socialistresistance.org/?p=456"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Click here</span></a> to read about next week's London book launch.<br /><br />Leonard began to question the racist system while still at school. <a name='more'></a>As a student at Fort Hare University he became involved in the political struggle, joining the Society of Young Africa, the youth organisation of the Unity Movement of South Africa. He remained committed to the political struggle for the rest of his life.<br /><br />He exposes the policies of the ANC and the South African Communist Party in the liberation struggle, which led to their failure in government to meet the demands of the masses. Like so many other political activists he was hounded by the racists and forced into exile.<br /><br />He gives a dramatic account of a secret mission to South Africa for his organisation, and his subsequent escape to and imprisonment in Swaziland. Following his release from prison he lived in Sweden, where he remarried and had two children. He died in 1999 in Sweden.<br /><br />Editors Norman Traub and Robert Wilcox have edited the memoirs into a compelling 336 page volume, with a beautiful cover designed by Ed Fredenburgh. The book will retail for just £10 or $15 though booksellers (using the ISBN 978-0-902869-85-1).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-47235303059504049902009-01-15T04:30:00.000-08:002009-01-15T04:41:33.869-08:00Resistance now distributes Haymarket BooksThe <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/index.php?cPath=41&osCsid=0b71957cd8f243ad7474dc209dd3f222&sort=2a&perpage=9999999999999">Haymarket Books</a> list is now available from Resistance Books. <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/index.php?cPath=41&osCsid=0b71957cd8f243ad7474dc209dd3f222&sort=2a&perpage=9999999999999">Click here</a> for their full list with images and perfect formatting. Please send your cheque, payable to Resistance, to us at PO BOx 1109 London N4 2UU.<span style="font-size:78%;"> Please add 10% for postage.<br /><br /></span> <table str="" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 451pt;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="601"><col style="width: 202pt;" span="2" width="269"> <col style="width: 47pt;" width="63"> <tbody><tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl24" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">A Little Piece of Ground</td> <td class="xl25" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Elizabeth Laird</td> <td class="xl30" style="width: 47pt;" num="7" width="63"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>7 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">A People's History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' Movements and the Left 1924-2004</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Ilario Salucci</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">All Power to the Soviets</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Tony Cliff</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">China Mi?ville</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror"</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Tikva Honig-Parnass and Toufic</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Dahr Jamail</td> <td class="xl30" num="14"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>14 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Dahr Jamail</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Black Liberation and Socialism</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269"><span style="" lang="ES">Ahmed Shawki</span></td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269"><span style="" lang="ES">Blackwater: El Auge del Ejército Mercenario más Poderoso del Mundo</span></td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Jeremy Scahill</td> <td class="xl30" num="14"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>14 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Alexander Rabinowitch</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Building the Party: Lenin 1893-1914</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Tony Cliff</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Edited by Elaine C. Hagopian</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform of Revolution and The Mass Stri</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Rosa Luxemburg, Edited by Hele</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profitee</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Amy Goodman and David Goodman</td> <td class="xl30" num="28"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>28 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Exile: Conversations With Pramoedya Ananta Toer</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269"><span style="" lang="ES">Andre Vltchek, Rosie Indira, e</span></td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Friendly Fire: The Remarkable Story of a Journalist Kidnapped in</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Giuliana Sgrena</td> <td class="xl30" num="14"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>14 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">History of the Russian Revolution</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Leon Trotsky</td> <td class="xl30" num="22"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>22 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Mike Davis</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Edited by Howie Hawkins</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Intervenciones</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Noam Chomsky</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Lars T. Lih</td> <td class="xl30" num="35"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>35 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Literature and Revolution</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Leon Trotsky, Edited by Willia</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Marxism and the Party</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">John Molyneux</td> <td class="xl30" num="7"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>7 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Cultu</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Eleanor Burke Leacock</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Mike Davis and Justin Akers-Ch</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Oranges in No Man's Land</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Elizabeth Laird</td> <td class="xl30" num="7"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>7 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Party and Class</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Tony Cliff, Duncan Hallas, et</td> <td class="xl30" num="5"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>5 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Dennis Brutus, edited by Aisha</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Met</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Kevin Murphy</td> <td class="xl30" num="14"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>14 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Revolutionary Rehearsals</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Edited by Colin Barker</td> <td class="xl30" num="10"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>10 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Cam</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Camilo Mejia</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Anthony Arnove, Peter Binns, e</td> <td class="xl30" num="7"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>7 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Edited by the lavaca collectiv</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">David Cortright, introduction</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Sharon Smith</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The American Socialist Movement 1897-1912</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Ira Kipnis</td> <td class="xl30" num="14"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>14 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Ray Ginger, introduction by Mi</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Case for Socialism</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Alan Maass</td> <td class="xl30" num="7"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>7 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Comintern</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Duncan Hallas</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Communist Manifesto</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Karl Marx and Frederick Engels</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Democrats: A Critical History</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Lance Selfa</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269"><span style="" lang="ES">Alfredo Molano and Aviva Choms</span></td> <td class="xl30" num="10"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>10 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietn</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Sidney Lens, foreword by Howar</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The German Revolution, 1917-1923</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Pierre Broue</td> <td class="xl30" num="35"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>35 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918 to 1923</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Chris Harman</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Meaning of Marxism</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Paul D'Amato</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Meek and the Militant: Religion and Power Across the World</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Paul N. Siegel</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Pierre Br?ue and Emile T?mime</td> <td class="xl30" num="35"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>35 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Struggle for Palestine</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Edited by Lance Selfa</td> <td class="xl30" num="10"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>10 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Theory of Revolution in Young Marx</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Michael L?wy</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">The Women Incendiaries: The Inspiring Story of the Women of the</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Edith Thomas</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Trotsky's Marxism and Other Essays</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Duncan Hallas</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Joe Allen, foreword by John Pi</td> <td class="xl30" num="10"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>10 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Mark Steele</td> <td class="xl30" num="10"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>10 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">War Without End: The Iraq War in Context</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Michael Schwartz</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sp</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Dave Zirin</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">What is the Real Marxist Tradition?</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">John Molyneux</td> <td class="xl30" num="5"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>5 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Dave Zirin</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Iraq Veterans Against the War</td> <td class="xl30" num="11"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>11 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Richard Stacewitcz</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Women and Socialism: Essays on Women's Liberation</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Sharon Smith</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Jose Correa Leite</td> <td class="xl30" num="9"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>9 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 28.5pt;" height="38"> <td class="xl26" style="height: 28.5pt; width: 202pt;" height="38" width="269">Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global Finance</td> <td class="xl27" style="width: 202pt;" width="269">Eric Toussaint</td> <td class="xl30" num="13"><span style=""> </span>£<span style=""> </span>13 </td> </tr> </tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-72258768087879910042008-05-03T08:24:00.000-07:002008-12-11T10:12:12.756-08:00New: Cuba at Sea<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIeJLsoJjPDJMB42iTCNj4Usc7t_yP4D92RvJe7JjWjhTyxvI71GztlR2JGvmDNRQBPRZW-jwpBDtQULzGJ3He8RX12FCnTkOlA5OjpSzszjW4tTrnA5jICWKYtSsEs-ZXmX8/s1600-h/cubaatsea.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIeJLsoJjPDJMB42iTCNj4Usc7t_yP4D92RvJe7JjWjhTyxvI71GztlR2JGvmDNRQBPRZW-jwpBDtQULzGJ3He8RX12FCnTkOlA5OjpSzszjW4tTrnA5jICWKYtSsEs-ZXmX8/s320/cubaatsea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196174626018196242" border="0" /></a>Ron Ridenour, whose book 'Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads' came out in an expanded edition last year, has published a new book with Socialist Resistance: Cuba at Sea.<br /><br /><span class="TableRow">This book gives a unique view of the Cuban revolution: from the ocean, where Ridenour worked with Cuba's merchant navy.<br /><br />The only foreign writer to portray things Cuban as a volunteer merchant marine, Ron Ridenour sailed six months on five Cuban ships around the island nation delivering petroleum, and to and from Europe with container goods, to tell Cuban sailors' views of their society and the world.<br /><br />In what other socialist book can you follow the crew through a gale, catching a giant shark, struggling with a life boat gone amuck, night life ashore...?<br /><br />Thanks to photographs by Ron and his colleagues, the 108 pages of this book (plus four blank pahes for notes) are enlivened with 17 beautiful images. The images are made more powerful by the large, Crown Octavo, page sizes (twice the page size of a popular paperback). Readers of Resistance Books will already have appreciated this larger page size with our reprinting of Karl Kautsky's book.<br /><br />The book will be launched at an Oxfordshire book fair in mid-May, but is available now by mail-order. Copies cost 8 pounds, including postage, from 'Resistance', PO Box 1109. London N2 2UU.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-28769688610209418802008-02-11T04:16:00.000-08:002008-12-11T10:12:12.994-08:00Expanded second edition of Ecosocialism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_0QxRHcQlRq_m0VWIOe2I8CHoar4oJlYYPrzbKnbp4c6tQQtQ3zW7jZ6G4PWX8mozzQAAcs68zArzuFZqM7mgiiFrRq3BerJmJar1TWcnZ9YVIBP1xjBhXLnZdVGnJBu_HCxJ/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_0QxRHcQlRq_m0VWIOe2I8CHoar4oJlYYPrzbKnbp4c6tQQtQ3zW7jZ6G4PWX8mozzQAAcs68zArzuFZqM7mgiiFrRq3BerJmJar1TWcnZ9YVIBP1xjBhXLnZdVGnJBu_HCxJ/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165695956382718546" border="0" /></a>One of our best-selling books, 'Ecosocialism or Barbarism', will come out in an expanded second edition later this month. You can click on the image above to get a better look at the cover.<br /><br />The number of pages is up, to 176, and the price is down, from 10 to 6 pounds.<br /><br />A number of typographic corrections have been made in the book, and a major new section has been added: a resolution on 'Savage Capitalism' which explains the perspectives of the British ecosocialists. The draft of this resolution was <a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1311">published</a> late last year by <a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/">International Viewpoint</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-49423767221545925392008-01-09T13:20:00.000-08:002008-12-11T10:12:13.560-08:00Respect: Documents of the Crisis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHhOLeVSLNS78sdHHlMxu2bS-n77iiUdyXDHKK_w5Nwr8tSO0EbVx6krwe2ddZK_OCTZR-ZHyn7yzaPdE7rTglz50tBM_VeJgojv1jNv_0M7o4Tsj2ztgIw57cZyp1um1IOMsL/s1600-h/Respect.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHhOLeVSLNS78sdHHlMxu2bS-n77iiUdyXDHKK_w5Nwr8tSO0EbVx6krwe2ddZK_OCTZR-ZHyn7yzaPdE7rTglz50tBM_VeJgojv1jNv_0M7o4Tsj2ztgIw57cZyp1um1IOMsL/s400/Respect.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153595459352535650" border="0" /></a>Respect as it was originally constructed - as an alliance primarily between the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and George Galloway - is dead.<br /><br />Our next book explains why. Contributors to 'Respect: Document of the Crisis' include Geirge Galloway, Salma Yaqoob, Alan Thornett, Chris Harman, Andy Newman, Kevin Ovenden, John Lister, Jerry Hicks, Liam Mac Uaid, Phil Hearse, Linda Smith, 'Socialist Worker' New Zealand and Nick Wrack.<br /><br />The introduction to this 140-page book explains that "Respect stood on the gains of the anti-globalisation and antiwar movements, and on the fact that the anti-war movement had begun to build among sections of Muslim communities who had not previously engaged with British politics.<br /><br />"But the SWP is painting a dishonest picture of what lies behind the division within Respect. They claim that they are the left in the split and everyone else is on the right (or is naively misguided, which is just as insulting). They repeat their disgraceful attacks on the Scottish Socialist Party, and by implication make comparison between those who support Respect Renewal with those in Rifondazione who have backed Italian Prime Minister Prodi in sending troops to Afghanistan. Such comparisons are ridiculous.<br /><br />"Disregarding the grandiose comparisons with the splits between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks for the delusions they are, this pamphlet shows the political positions of those the SWP would paint as "the right".<br /><br />"Not all the contributions we print here are from Socialist Resistance supporters, of course. But we think and hope that by publishing this collection we can contribute to an important debate, and thus help to build a socialist alternative to the ravages of war and neo-liberalism."<br /><br />The book will be available from Socialist Resistance sellers after January 26th for 3.50 pounds or US $7. In February, the book will also be available at Amazon.co.uk and other online bookshops. Using the ISBN number, <span class="TableRow">978-0-902869-89-9, you can also order from any bookstore.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-39370307221661551772007-09-22T04:28:00.001-07:002008-12-11T10:12:13.764-08:00Rosa Luxemburg writings for just 3.25<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmILvi9TqQVl_9Hhynwt5lS0G2lpwo2hOYRQ4Zo5uVJisWI5rF9WgUoZFFcs9FG_CUpp17k0XH27bLjdMT_lmyCxkKC7K7mAt1-FVyYF-dPC_j-furSGASF98PFFhCPWIQ5tQV/s1600-h/Rosa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmILvi9TqQVl_9Hhynwt5lS0G2lpwo2hOYRQ4Zo5uVJisWI5rF9WgUoZFFcs9FG_CUpp17k0XH27bLjdMT_lmyCxkKC7K7mAt1-FVyYF-dPC_j-furSGASF98PFFhCPWIQ5tQV/s320/Rosa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112989189005876418" border="0" /></a>We've just taken delivery of a <a href="http://store.doverpublications.com/0486447766.html">new</a> 240-page selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings.. Dover have the edition on sale and, even after the bulk shipping costs are added in, we are still able to sell the book for less than four pounds. It's 3.25 if you buy it from us face-to-face in London, and a pound more if you want it by post inside Britain. Just email us a Paypal payment for 4.25.<br /><br />We're selling the book at cost, so no volume discounts are available. If you're ordering more than ten, we recommend you order direct from Dover, who sell other classics by <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2feha4">Marx, Lenin and Trotsky</a>.<br /><br />The title of the collection "'Reform or Revolution' and Other<br />Writings" comes from her best known work about which they write "This 1899 polemic by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-45256131990321956832007-09-04T02:27:00.000-07:002007-09-04T03:02:09.480-07:00Progress disrupted by KautskySocialist Resistance had its AGM last weekend; the first year of our book project was felt to have gone well. Many thanks to you, our readers, for your support.<br /><br />The incoming steering committee has just been given a report on our growing online sales, through bookshops like Amazon.com. Phil Hearse's book is our best-seller over the last three months, selling more than three times more than any other book. In the US, Celia Hart's book is selling very strongly, as is Permanent Revolution.<br /><br />However, we've found some problems in our first digital printing of Karl Kautsky's book, 'Foundations of Christianity'. Most importantly, in David Packer's afterword the footnote numbers and italics are missing.<br /><br />Luckily, we have sold fewer than a dozen wholesale, and we are withdrawing that edition from public sale. Folk can return the book to us at any time for a replacement; the major printing of the book will be out next month.<br /><br />Even large publishers have similar issues with small-scale books. Because it's important to us that readers get the most from our books, we are in the habit of making small initial runs like this to allow us to get books quickly to reviewers and activists who have an urgent need for the book. That allows us to correct, in a second edition, errors that get past our editors.<br /><br />We have started to circulate to readers a list of the corrections we are making. All the errors identified so far will be corrected in that second edition.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-11795494370217012322007-08-19T03:23:00.000-07:002008-12-11T10:12:14.496-08:00The LCR and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan: First issue of 'Notebooks of the Crab'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zONJUk-6G7ggaazzaI6AtzWNT5YqHO-vS1_2igHpWLiQDdziSA4baJWOL1hU_DKDzrFc99EQVPNMuwAKXA8eNK-a4zIKSNoNSdXxR3n86opDt4Ef9yOqrZSfzGb5ngI0WE6M/s1600-h/TargetImage.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zONJUk-6G7ggaazzaI6AtzWNT5YqHO-vS1_2igHpWLiQDdziSA4baJWOL1hU_DKDzrFc99EQVPNMuwAKXA8eNK-a4zIKSNoNSdXxR3n86opDt4Ef9yOqrZSfzGb5ngI0WE6M/s320/TargetImage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105339400202484274" border="0" /></a>Our next book will be a title in French: is the first number of <span style="font-style: italic;">Les Cahiers du crabe</span> (Notebooks of the Crab): <span style="font-style: italic;">"l'intervention soviétique en Afghanistan (1979)"</span>. The documents which are reproduced there, in a chronological order, all come from the <span style="font-style: italic;">bulletins interior</span>, known as BI, of the <a href="http://www.lcr-rouge.org/">LCR </a>(internal discussion bulletins , in theory relatively confidential) and of its publications, <a href="http://www.lcr-rouge.org/article.php3?id_article=663"><span style="font-style: italic;">Rouge </span></a>(weekly of the LCR, whose files are gradually made available in DVD), <a href="http://www.lcr-rouge.org/rubriquecco.php3"><span style="font-style: italic;">Critique Communiste</span></a> (theoretical review of the LCR), <a href="http://www.inprecor.org/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Inprecor </span></a>(International Press Correspondance, news review of the <a href="http://www.isg-fi.org.uk/spip.php?rubrique5">Fourth International</a>).<br /><br />A further set of themes "On the PCF", reproducing criticisms of the LCR on the standpoint of the Communist Party in France, is placed after the other articles. At the end of the review, a special booklet of the LCR on the question of Afghanistan, published in mid-February 1980, is reproduced just as it is (this section has the least aesthetic quality).<br /><br />The editors decided, for practical reasons (availability of the files and a number of pages of the review), to stop at the date of March 1980. However, a <span style="font-style: italic;">Critique Communiste </span>article of December 1981 gives the reader a critical review with respect to the initial position of the LCR.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Notebooks of the Crab</span><br /><br />The Notebook is published by the 'Association to safeguard of the memory of the French section of the Fourth international' (<a href="http://asmsfqi.org/">ASMSFQI</a>). It has two wishes: to save the files of this political current, by collecting them and by digitizing them, and to allow their access. With this intention, in addition to its Internet site, it publishs a review which reproduces various documents, all resulting from the French section of the Fourth international ( at different times known as the Internationalist Communist Party, communist league, and now LCR) and all related to a specific topic.<br /><br />The idea of the Notebook is this : to reproduce articles of <span style="font-style: italic;">Rouge</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">La Verite</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Inprecor</span>, extracts from discussion bulletins, and posters to allow the readers and to know reader what the internal debates of the French section of the Fourth international were and what was its public positioning on such questions. It does not have any further scientific or analytical aiming. the task of the ASMSFQI is making documents known. The Notesbooks do not aim to be a place of study or criticism. Simply they aim to be able to support certain studies, reflections, and personal training, by giving access to documents.<br /><br />The 104-page A4 book will be available in mid-September for £7, €10 or $14 from Amazon. You will be able to use its ISBN number (9780902869905) to order the book from bookstores.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-57464729593220247182007-08-10T08:19:00.001-07:002007-08-10T08:39:42.557-07:00Book list: ISBNs, authors and pricesWith the ISBN numbers given below, you can find our books in any bookstore. The prices shown below were the lowest available new prices on Amazon when we last checked.<br /><br />9780902869936, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Christianity-study-Christian-origins/dp/0902869930/ref=sr_1_2/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186759689&sr=1-2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Foundations of Christianity</span>: A study in Christian origins,</a> Karl Kautsky. $22, £11.<br />9780902869943, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Take-Power-Change-World-globalisation/dp/0902869949/ref=sr_1_1/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186759806&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Take the Power to Change the World</span>: globalisation and the debate on power</a>, Phil Hearse. $12, £6.<br />9780902869929, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Revolution-Results-Prospects/dp/0902869922/ref=sr_1_3/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186759892&sr=1-3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Permanent Revolution</span> & Results and Prospects</a>, Leon D Trotsky. $20, £9.<br />9780902869950, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Beyond-Crossroads-New-Expanded/dp/0902869957/ref=sr_1_1/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186759957&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads. New Expanded Edition</span></a>, Ron Ridenour. $14, £9.<br />9780902869967, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/MIDDLE-EAST-war-imperialism-ecology/dp/0902869965/ref=sr_1_1/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186760022&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MIDDLE EAST: war, imperialism, and ecology</span></a>, Gilbert Achcar. $26, £13.<br />0902869973, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ecosocialism-Barbarism-Michel-L%C3%B6wy/dp/0902869973/ref=sr_1_1/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186760172&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ecosocialism or Barbarism</span></a>, Jane Kelly. $14, £7.<br />0902869981, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Beyond-Crossroads-Ron-Ridenour/dp/0902869981/ref=sr_1_2/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186760222&sr=1-2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads (First edition)</span> </a>Ron Ridenour. $11, £6.<br />9780902869998, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Its-never-late-love-rebel/dp/090286999X/ref=sr_1_1/105-2364579-6397228?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186760281&sr=1-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's never too late to love or rebel</span></a>, Celia Hart. $11, £6.<br /><br />All our books are printed on archive-quality acid-free paper. Most are demy octavo, the regular paperback size. Karl Kautsky's book is textbook sized (Crown Octavo).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-39364317621691274462007-08-05T13:55:00.001-07:002008-12-11T10:12:15.423-08:00'Foundations of Christianity' is now out!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfUuSaKnoNeEbohjrajBluAOTN9QSWMc2dozXBMEcc1_mnqBbPLnWb-eWib4xGkpJmzEESkH_w4Kz6L2_sYBUDoSpf-NC5WUPOL4Rzbf-d4npZMNkCwcgkj-wgoIXnIqinWGb/s1600-h/kautsky.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfUuSaKnoNeEbohjrajBluAOTN9QSWMc2dozXBMEcc1_mnqBbPLnWb-eWib4xGkpJmzEESkH_w4Kz6L2_sYBUDoSpf-NC5WUPOL4Rzbf-d4npZMNkCwcgkj-wgoIXnIqinWGb/s320/kautsky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095323071637374242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Foundations of Christianity</span> is now on sale: online buyers can get it from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundations-Christianity-Study-Christian-Origins/dp/0902869930/ref=sr_1_2/026-1909103-8408444?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186347434&sr=8-2">amazon.co.uk</a> for £11 or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Christianity-Study-Christian-Origins/dp/0902869930/ref=sr_1_2/026-1909103-8408444?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186347434&sr=8-2">amazon.com</a> for $22 US.<br /><br />We're also very happy that many socialist organisations are showing a lot of interest in the book, including our friends at <a href="http://grenzeloos.org/">Socialistische Alternatieve Politiek</a>. Dutch readers can now get all our books from them.<br /><br />In the meanwhile, we remain interested in reading from readers and authors who have ideas about new or classic works they think we should get into print. Current suggestions include works on socialist feminism, life in Palestine's refugee camps and the evolution of Trotskyism.<br /><br />If these sound like good ideas, or of you have other ideas, then just let us know.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-12367443646762723862007-07-13T10:09:00.000-07:002007-07-13T10:20:34.810-07:00Coming soon: Foundations of Christianity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Foundationsofchristianity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Foundationsofchristianity.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>We've just completed the set-up for our next book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Foundations of Christianity</span>. Reading over Michael Lowy's introduction, it's clear that this work will be very significant, and in demand for a long time.<br /><br /><span class="TableRow">Karl Kautsky is probably the first Marxist to interest himself both in the movement and the enigmatic personality of the crucified prophet.<br /><br />His 1908 book <span style="font-style: italic;">Foundations of Christianity</span> is a rather impressive attempt at a Marxist analysis. The book is rather original, innovative and has been translated into nine languages.<br /><br />Kaustky made his <span style="font-style: italic;">Foundations of Christianity</span> into one of the most popular Marxist theoretical works. Its popular success is probably due to the interest of socialist militants to see a vision of the origins of Christianity which permits the modern workers' movement to appropriate to itself the figure of Jesus as a prophet and martyr for the proletarian cause.<br /><br />Kautsky wanted to interpret early Christianity as a precursor of the contemporary working class socialist movement. His friend, and later his opponent, Rosa Luxemburg, in an article of 1905 called “The Church and Socialism insisted that the first Christian apostles were Communists who denounced injustice and the cult of the Golden Calf". He counterposed a materialist account of the new religion against the Christian mythology and showed the capacity of the Marxist method to give an account of a complex historical process, interpreting a religious phenomenon in terms of the class struggle.<br /><br />The book is divided into four sections:<br />1) Society at the time of the Roman Empire: the slave economy, the absolutist forms of the state, the different manifestations of cultural and religious crisis.<br />2) Judaism: the class conflicts of Israelite society and the various political-religious currents (Sadducees, Pharisees, Zealots and Essene.<br />3) The beginnings of Christianity: the early Christian communities, the idea of the messianic Christ and Christian communism.<br />4) The fourth section is dedicated to the “personality of Jesus”.<br /><br />According to Kautsky, what distinguishes Jesus' messianism from the other rebellious Jewish prophets of the era - all of whom had a strictly national character - is its social character, its calling as an international redeemer. "Only the social Messiah, not the national, could transcend the limits of Judaism", survive the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem and, above all, find a hearing among the poor of all nations.<br /><br />By associating the hostility of the oppressed classes to the rich with proletarian solidarity, the messianism of the Christian communities promised the redemption of the poor, and so it could gain followers beyond the Jewish world.<br /><br />In the last analysis, Jesus, "the crucified proletarian Messiah" managed to defeat Rome and conquer the world, but in the course of this process the Christian movement suffered an "inverse dialectic": it lost its proletarian and communist character and was transformed into a state religion, under the control of a vast dominating and exploiting apparatus - the Church.<br /><br />Earlier editions of this book have been massive: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/FOUNDATIONS-CHRISTIANITY-KARL-KAUTSKY/dp/0855140216/ref=sr_1_1/104-5051458-6438342?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184346947&sr=1-1">480 pages</a>, in the case of the most recent edition. By using the larger Crown Quarto size used by many textbooks, we have been able to reduce the book to under 300 pages. That has reduced our production costs by two-fifths. As a result, the book will retail for just £12 -- rather than the £20 associated with the regular Demy Octavo size.<br /><br />We're looking forward to readers comments on the new format.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-32965854881548960052007-06-05T13:33:00.001-07:002008-12-11T10:12:15.593-08:00'Permenant Revolution' back in general distribution<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CsVaHc9ldYr7XzvbycdnoArdj-G9k8Rd8R0cpZnFx2IGUIQL7GZCCBdGmoRkHtI44DVTeXwMJ36McxSXvTwMFhf7c9gTRI2QAgOxualMiVgytrLgAXmNjWuXvbJS0fwxUA5r/s1600-h/prcover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CsVaHc9ldYr7XzvbycdnoArdj-G9k8Rd8R0cpZnFx2IGUIQL7GZCCBdGmoRkHtI44DVTeXwMJ36McxSXvTwMFhf7c9gTRI2QAgOxualMiVgytrLgAXmNjWuXvbJS0fwxUA5r/s320/prcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072681329266739362" border="0" /></a>In July we'll also be publishing Leon Trotsky's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Permanent Revolution</span> in a new edition. It will combine <span style="font-style: italic;">Results and Prospects</span>, where the theory of permanent revolution was first explored. Both works are introduced by major essays by Michael Lowy.<br /><br />We've also taken the time to update the translation a little: readers should not have to cope with old-fashioned term, such as milliard (the old term for what we now call billion).<br /><br />Now that pathfinder has taken the book off their list, we hope this bright design, new typesetting and modern introductions bring this look to a new audience.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-65310286845812457102007-06-04T02:36:00.001-07:002008-12-11T10:12:15.615-08:00Take the Power to Change the World<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSLffxDoNes-8WzEgDl-MriT3GlPwdDBsAxma8l05FDvdyNwaZNDrU-vnUobBLOlyQgvNuUJPSYerNLCpd5t30kjEMCtdrT9ShzdYhbjG2pTwxmGDfNjbnVSX0F6Z85L4YLyb6/s1600-h/New+Picture+%283%29.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSLffxDoNes-8WzEgDl-MriT3GlPwdDBsAxma8l05FDvdyNwaZNDrU-vnUobBLOlyQgvNuUJPSYerNLCpd5t30kjEMCtdrT9ShzdYhbjG2pTwxmGDfNjbnVSX0F6Z85L4YLyb6/s320/New+Picture+%283%29.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072141024372937202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Take the Power to Change the World</span>, which the IIRE is publishing jointly with Resistance, looks set to become our best-selling book yet.<br /><br />In this 144-page collection of essays, some of the world's most dynamic progressive thinkers discuss how to change the world: including John Holloway, Daniel Bensaid, and Michael Lowy.<br /><br />The Zapatista rebels and the Seattle demonstrators were the tip of an iceberg of social and political revolt against the injustices of corporate-led globalisation. It was against this background that Irish academic John Holloway, working in Puebla, Mexico, came forward with his book <span style="font-style: italic;">Change the </span><span style="font-style: italic;">World without Taking Power</span>. The book took up a phrase used by Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos, that the EZLN wanted to democratise Mexico, but did not seek to “take power”.<br /><br />The very success of Holloway’s book, the fact that it was taken the least bit seriously, came from the political conjuncture – the ‘spirit of the times’. For tens of thousands of global justice and anti-war activists, often influenced by the ideas of NGOs, the aim was precisely to make the world fairer and curb the power of the multinational corporations, but not necessarily to end capitalism as such.<br /><br />With this book, readers will see how a whole new series of experiences since the year 2000 have put Holloway's thesis to the test.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-39192212134382197392007-05-22T06:04:00.000-07:002007-05-22T06:10:36.946-07:00Expanded edition published of 'Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mjWtI5n-L._SS500_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mjWtI5n-L._SS500_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bookshops and other ditributors have reported the first sales of the new expanded edition of Ron Ridenour's book. The first edition has been one of our best-sellers, and has reached a wide audience.<br /><br />Ron has expanded the book to cover Fidel's illness, and the passage of power to a team of leading Cuban communists. The book has been expanded more than ten percent, taking it to 124 pages.<br /><br />The book is on sale at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Beyond-Crossroads-New-Expanded/dp/0902869957/ref=sr_1_1/102-3784590-7041751?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179839118&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>. and other leading online bookstores.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-39400881264688247452007-04-19T10:01:00.000-07:002007-04-19T10:04:48.679-07:00"Ecosocialism or Barbarism is the best introduction I’ve found"We've had great praise from <a href="http://climateandcapitalism.blogspot.com">Climate and Capitalism</a>, in its <a href="http://climateandcapitalism.blogspot.com/2007/04/ecosocialist-bookshelf-five.html">review of the best books</a> available for red greens:<br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><br /><span class="fullpost"><em>Ecosocialism or Barbarism</em> is the best introduction I’ve found for radicals and Marxists who want to get up to speed fast on issues facing the ecosocialist movement. The essays and articles are well written, with a minimum of abstract theorizing and a laudable focus on the need to change the world, not just interpret it.</span></blockquote><span class="fullpost"></span>The book is now our best-seller on Amazon.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-24545605430163854232007-04-05T13:39:00.000-07:002007-05-22T06:12:29.349-07:00Resistance expands list with six new booksResistance Books has agreed to produce six further books, most of which will be out between now and our AGM in September. We'd welcome readers' comments on how we should prioritize them.<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Take the power to change the world</span>. A expanded version of an <a href="http://iire.org/pamphlet_nsf_2006.html">ebook </a>produced by the <a href="http://iire.org/">IIRE</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1931-tpv/index.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Permanent Revolution</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Results and Prospects</span>. <a href="http://www.pathfinderpress.com/s.nl/sc.2/.f?search=%22permanent+revolution%22">Pathfinder Press</a> deserve kudos for keeping this book in print for so long: the volumes they sell of it must have been very small and so it's no surprise they have decided to drop it from their list. An excellent version has been prepared by <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Revolution-Results-Prospects/dp/8187879394/ref=sr_1_1/026-8726517-8524467?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175805363&sr=8-1">Kunal Chattopadhyay</a>. We hope to have more modern translation than that 1931 edition, and with essays by <a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=%22Michael+Lowy%22+%22permanent+revolution%22&submit=SEARCH">Michael Lowy</a> to introduce both these classic works.<br /></li><li>Expanded edition of <a href="http://www.ronridenour.com/books/cuba-beyond_the_crossraods-how_to_order.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads</span></a>. Ron Ridenour's books has sold well, and Fidel's illness has inspired Ron to expand his book (out in May).<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Foundations of Christianity</span></a>. This is a classic Marxist work by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kautsky">Karl Kautsky</a>, one of the most famous defenders of socialist ideas in the years before the First World War.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Militant Carworkers</span> is a condensed version of Alan Thornett's personal and political account of the struggle and <a href="http://www.llb.labournet.org.uk/1998/march/rev1.html">betrayal</a> of workers in Cowley, one of the car industry's most radical workforces, in the 1960s and 1970s. This book brings together <a href="http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=2472729&matches=3&qsort=r"><span style="font-style: italic;">From Militancy to Marxism</span></a> and <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.labournet.net/so/10cowley.html">Inside Cowley</a> (which is available <a href="http://www.isg-fi.org.uk/spip.php?rubrique16">online</a>).</li><li><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Trade Unions: A strategy for socialists</span> builds on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trade-Unions-Nineties-Andy-Kilmister/dp/1872242189">an earlier work</a> written by Andy Kilmister and Alan Thornett in 1997. This book faces the current challenges faced by working people in the context of the employers' offensive and Blair's attacks on the right to organise. It advances the strategy and demands needed to build the unions and connect up with the wiser radicalisation.<br /></li></ul>Let us know what you think!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-60548298870665049882007-03-11T13:03:00.000-07:002008-12-11T10:12:15.824-08:00Our new book<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uPxc-mUmNRKHvHSrfVPrCUJNupHrW6D4c2LGqTOzCyanb7lHEDmprKKyAe8VdFFzzevPVb5k_5jd9pbq8Bo0Y6FqxCH7_gAXNKIIuUvWmngNG6rs_HoIm2VQoRAoKvpKsrfH/s1600-h/MiddleEast.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uPxc-mUmNRKHvHSrfVPrCUJNupHrW6D4c2LGqTOzCyanb7lHEDmprKKyAe8VdFFzzevPVb5k_5jd9pbq8Bo0Y6FqxCH7_gAXNKIIuUvWmngNG6rs_HoIm2VQoRAoKvpKsrfH/s320/MiddleEast.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040760873951628818" border="0" /></a>How was Palestine destroyed? Did the great powers create Israel? Why has Lebanon suffered war after war? What role has religion played in the Middle East? When did the region become the hub of the world’s ecological crisis? If you want answers to any of these questions, then you need our new book: <span style="font-style: italic;">Middle East: war, imperialism and ecology</span>. You can buy it half price using the button at the end of this article.<br /><br />Since the Second World War, the Middle East has suffered a seemingly unending period of war, foreign domination, ecological devastation and mass resistance to the region’s ruling classes. In this book, that resistance speaks in its own words. Roland Rance and Terry Conway have gathered together some of the most powerful articles written in the last sixty years by socialist, ecologist and anti-Zionist activists across the region.<br /><br />The topics in this book include:<br /><ol><li>• The legacy of 1948, when Israel was created</li><li>• The destruction of Palestine</li><li>• Lebanon’s experience of war after war</li><li>• Iraq’s devastation</li><li>• The Zionist context</li><li>• The contradictions of religion</li><li>• What the ‘New World Order’ meant for globalisation, the environment and Zionism</li></ol>Roland Rance has been a socialist activist in Israeli, Palestinian and British politics since the 1970s. He is a former editor of <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/aic-publications/news-from-within/">News From Within</a> and Return Magazine, and is the convenor of Jews Against Zionism.<br /><br />Terry Conway is one of the editors of <a href="http://socialistresistance.net/">Socialist Resistance</a> and also of <a href="http://internationalviewpoint.org/">International Viewpoint</a>. 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Readers can now order his book <a href="http://www.ronridenour.com/books/cuba-beyond_the_crossraods-how_to_order.htm">directly from Ron</a>. It's especially good news for folk wanting to order from Denmark or the Euro-zone.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-1164114636233931022006-11-21T05:05:00.000-08:002006-11-21T05:10:51.793-08:00Now available in Italy from Libreria UniversitariaOur books are now available in Italy from <a href="http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it">Libreria Universitaria</a>.<br /><br />Celia Hart's book, <span style="font-style: italic;">It's Never Too Late to Love or Rebel</span>, is available on <a href="http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/BUS/090286999X/It_s_Never_Too_Late_to_Love_or_Rebel.htm">this web page</a> for just €15 and Ron Ridenour's book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads</span>, is on <a href="http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/BUS/0902869981/Cuba:_Beyond_the_Crossroads.htm">this page</a> at the same price.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-1163496648664693542006-11-14T01:30:00.000-08:002006-11-14T01:30:48.673-08:00"Ecosocialism or Barbarism" book announced<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1071/3790/1600/ecosocialism.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1071/3790/400/ecosocialism.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="TableRow">Ecosocialism or Barbarism explains that the twenty-first century has opened on a catastrophic note, with an unprecedented degree of ecological breakdown and a chaotic world order beset with terror and warfare.<br /><br />In this book, socialists Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone have gathered together articles from some of the world’s leading ecologists and Marxists to discuss how the profoundly interrelated crises of ecology and social breakdown should be seen as different manifestations of the same structural forces.<br /><br />Jack Kovel and Michel Löwy’s ecosocialist manifesto sets the framework for a discussion which is unfolding around the world. They argue that capitalism cannot regulate, much less overcome, the crises it has set going. It cannot solve the ecological crisis because to do so requires setting limits upon accumulation—an unacceptable option for a system predicated upon the rule: Grow or Die! And it cannot solve the crisis posed by terror and other forms of violent rebellion because this would mean abandoning the logic of empire, imposing unacceptable limits on growth and the “way of life” sustained by empire.<br /><br />In this unique volume, ecologists and socialists discuss how far the capitalist world system is historically bankrupt. Their common conclusion is that it has become an empire unable to adapt, whose very gigantism exposes its underlying weakness. It is profoundly unsustainable and must be replaced. The stark choice posed by Rosa Luxemburg returns: Socialism or Barbarism!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-1163344112588912092006-11-12T07:06:00.000-08:002006-11-12T07:08:32.596-08:00Celia's book now at Barnes & NobleCelia's book is now winning an even larger audience through BarnesAndNoble.com. You can <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780902869998&itm=7">click here</a> to see the listing.<br /><br />Barnes and Noble members can buy the book for just $12.15; quite a saving on the $15 list price.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-1162899432726372632006-11-07T03:35:00.000-08:002006-11-07T03:37:12.740-08:00Celia's book available from JapanReaders of Japanese can now buy Celia Hart's book from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/090286999X/sr=1-5/qid=1162898887/ref=sr_1_5/250-4164729-7813064?ie=UTF8&s=english-books">this website</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29845069.post-1161877181589683752006-10-26T08:27:00.000-07:002006-10-26T10:40:36.973-07:00Celebrate the launch of Ron Ridenour's new book<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6236/3189/1600/Ridenourpjg.0.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6236/3189/320/Ridenourpjg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ronridenour.com/">Ron Ridenour</a>, the celebrated writer on Cuban and Central American politics, will publish his new book, <em>Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads</em>, on November 7th. His books include Cuba: A "Yankee" Reports, Backfire: The CIA's Biggest Burn, Cuba at the Crossroads and Yankee Sandinistas. A committed revolutionary, anti-war activist, and supporter of the Cuban revolution, Ridenour's book gathers report and accounts of his extended journey in Cuba earlier this year. It has already generated widespead controversy.<br /><br />The 112 page book, which is being published by <a href="http://www.socialistresistance.net">Socialist Resistance</a>, will be launched on Tuesday 7 November at a meeting to be held at 7.30 pm in the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Sq., W1T 6AQ (Warren St., Euston or Goodge St stations). The selections below give a flavour of the book.<br /><em><br />"Regardless of whether of not Cuba has achieved socialism — it is a long process, after all — the Cuban people and its government are more than worthy of our love and support. They have done no harm to the world and they have helped many millions of people in many lands. They have held out against "the enemy of humanity" to quote from the Sandinista anthem. In so doing, they have held out hope for billions of us."<br /><br />"The main hindrance to worker control, to real socialism, is the world domination by capitalism and imperialism. The fact that the United States lays but 150 kilometers away is the greatest hindrance. I believe, however, that if the Cuban leadership had had more trust in the working class back in the mid-60s, once US military attacks were turned back and the internal counter-revolution defeated, it would have gradually turned over to the workers significant say in productive relations and in making local and national policies."</em><br /><br />The book costs £8, around 12 euro, $15 US or $20 Australian. In around a month it will be available on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. 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