The AMR is the CPA’s periodical magazine of ideas, theory, policies, experience and discussion.

In this issue – #54 – September 2011 : Remembering our history

• some thoughts on the history of the communist movement in Australia
• 60 years since the historic defeat of Menzies' Communist Party Dissolution Bill

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$17
Paper back – 184 pages

by Philip S Foner
International Publishers, New York, 1986

This is the story of May Day! – a holiday born in the USA a hundred years ago and since 1890 celebrated by working people the world over. In this short history, Philip Foner clarifies the dramatic origins of labor’s May Day and recounts many highlights of May Day celebrations through the years. Here is a story with a multitude of heroes and heroines who protest the injustices of their time as they unite to demand shorter hours of labor and a world free from imperialist war. In a stirring panorama, labor’s May Day banners affirm the struggle for a better life now and the bright promise of a future still to be won.

$10
Hard cover – 220 pages

by Nadezhda Kashina
Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1987

This book explores the aesthetic outlook of Dostoyevsky, as it found reflection in his unique literary writings. Professor Kashina concentrates on the writer’s views about art and man, and about beauty and its role in people’s lives. Dostoyevsky’s aesthetics are looked at against the background of the aesthetic theories of several of his contemporaries and predecessors in literature and philosophy. (From back cover.)

$12
Hard cover – 431 pages

Translated by Olga Shartse and Ivy Litvinov
Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1988

“Chekov’s stories, both long and short, in which there is as little sentimentality as there is moisture in an autumn leaf, these precise and accurate sketches, these graphic lessons, so indisputable in their radiant clarity, where humour is the heart’s refuge — they enter into us whether we will it or not, like the heat or cold ... . If I had not read and reread Chekov, could I ever have seen those tremendous images that are still alive in my heart? His books merged with life, life took his books by storm, the watershed between imagination and reality disappeared ... .” Elsa Triolet, writer (1896 - 1970). (From inside cover.)

$12
Hard cover – 400 pages

Translated by Kathleen Mary Cook and Ivy Litvinov
Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1990

The fifth and last volume of this selection of Chekov’s writing contains his best known dramatic works: two one-act comic sketches The Bear (1888) and The Anniversary (1891), his first full-length play Ivanov (1887) and the four masterpieces which established him as one of the greatist dramatists of all time, The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1897), The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1903). Written a century ago these plays are as fresh and spellbinding as ever. Chekov never ceases to astound and delight with his depth of psychological insight, his ability to portray the powerful undercurrents below the surface of people’s apparently humdrum lives. (From inside cover.)

New stock

• Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
• An Autobiography by Angela Davis
• The Nature of Democracy, Freedom and Revolution by Herbert Aptheker

Special offer – all three books for just $55.

$28
Paper back – 271 pages

by Angela Davis
Vintage Books, NY, 1983

An extremely interesting book on women’s issues. It contains fascinating historical background on slavery, the emancipation struggle of Black women in the US, Communist women and women’s rights. It provides an excellent insight into the links between women’s issues, racism and the class struggle. Strongly recommended to our male as well as female readers.

$28
Paper back – 400 pages

by Angela Davis
International Publishers, NY, 1974

Angela Davis describes in full the story of her life: from elementary school through to the Communist Party; from her political activity in high school to the Soledad Brothers; in hiding on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives to one of the most famous political trials of the 20th century. A powerful story, of turbulent times.

$13
Paper back – 128 pages

by Herbert Aptheker
International Publishers, 1967

Herbert Aptheker discusses the origins of the bourgeois concepts of democracy and freedom in their historical development. The first chapter deals with the ideas of John Milton, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill and democracy and class. Other chapters look at the nature of and various concepts of freedom. The final four chapters deal with aspects of revolution, including definitions, non-socialist and socialist, the questions of violence and democracy.

$28
Paper back – 238 pages

by Angela Davis
Vintage Books, 1990

“A veteran radical’s feisty views from the barricades ... Davis’s integrity here will inspire many.” – Kirkus

$35
Paper back – 427 pages

by Angela Davis
Vintage Books, 1999

“Extraordinary ... Davis has given voice to a complex feminist history that might have otherwise have eluded history.” – Newsday

$26
Paper back – 185 pages

by Louis A DeCaro Jr
International Publishers, NY, 2007

“John Brown’s Body” is a well known American marching song. It was sung during the US civil war and is still sung today by many progressive political activists. But how many people know much about John Brown’s life, his anti-slavery activities or the conditions of the time that shaped such a fighter’s thinking and determination? DeCaro’s book contains a wealth of interesting material, based on extensive research. The book contains a number of interesting illustrations.

$21
Paper back – 234 pages

by William L Patterson
International Publishers, NY, 1991

This is an absorbing story. Patterson was the son of a slave mother, a friend of Paul Robeson and founder of the Civil Rights Congress which led mass campaigns to save the victims of racial oppression. He initiated the Petition to the UN charging the US government with genocide against Black people. His rich and dramatic life, his passionate struggle for human dignity, equality and socialism, make this book thoroughly contemporary.

Temporarily out of stock
$35
Paper back – 396 pages

by The Editors of Freedomways
International Publishers, NY, 1998

Out of stock

Paul Robeson was a great sportman, orator, actor, singer, and political leader, one of the great world figures of the 20th century. Part 1 contains 16 sketches of Robeson’s life including by his son Paul Robeson Jr. Part 2 is a selection from his writings and speeches. Part 3 has tributes in poetry and prose, including by Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda and Pete Seeger. There are a number of photos, including his visit to the former Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic.

$30
Paper back – 395 pages

by John Reed
International Publishers NY

Out of stock

If you haven’t read John Reed’s classic, it is a must! Originally published in 1919, this outstanding historical document gives a first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution which opened a new era, an event that shook the world. His commitment and political understanding enabled him to understand and interpret the events and to foresee their extension. The foreword is by VI Lenin, the preface by NK Krupskaya and the introduction by noted film writer John Howard Lawson. The book formed the basis of the film REDS. If you’ve already read it or got a copy, buy one for a friend.

$20
Paper back – 197 pages

by Daniel Rubin
International Publishers, NY 2010

The book seeks to show why the influence of Marxism and socialism is growing and what value they have for the working people and the struggle for a better life. It brings together the major subjects of Marxism while dealing with contemporary developments such as the Soviet Union, Cuba and China. While making specific applications to the situation in the US, it is still very relevant to readers in Australia. The chapters cover the social ills of our time; political economy of capitalism; historical materialism; socialism and communism; getting there from here; Marxist methodology; and organisations necessary for winning progress and socialism. There is a very handy 13-page glossary explaining many of the terms used in the book. These range from the classic like surplus value, idealism, sectarianism through to the more recent financialisation and globalisation.

$19
Paper back – 168 pages

by Virginia Brodine
International Publishers, NY 2007

Looking for a Marxist approach to environmental issues? This might be the book for you. The first part of the book contains a collection of writings from newspaper columns, articles from People’s Weekly World and speeches. Part II is the text of a second edition of People and Nature Before Profits. The author recognises the important role that workers have to play on the job and in their communities to protect life on our planet, end the threat of nuclear destruction, and create a socialist economic system that does away with the profit that a very few gain from and pollutes the planet. The book can be read as a whole or by selecting chapters of particular interest.

Four great Lenin classics

If you are looking to brush up on some Lenin works check out this great deal we have on four of his classic books:

• On Imperialism and Imperialists
• What is to be Done?
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• “Left-wing” Communism, an Infantile Disorder

Special offer – all four for $25.

$8
Paper back – 174 pages

by VI Lenin
Progress Publishers

Contains 20 pieces including selections from Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism and Socialism and War; several speeches; The Growth of Capitalist Wealth; and much more. The definition and analysis of imperialism in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism stands as true today as it did when first published in 1916.

$10
Paper back – 206 pages

by VI Lenin
Progress Publishers

Essential reading for any revolutionary in which Lenin analyses the organisational principles of and the tasks facing a revolutionary party and the differences between it and a party of social reform, and struggles based on economism.

$10
Paper back – 224 pages

by VI Lenin
Progress Publishers

Another classic in which Lenin studies the speeches of delegates and the political divisions at the Second Party Congress, drawing comparisons between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks (opportunists). There are many lessons to be learnt from the ideological struggle which are relevant today.

$8
Paper back – 144 pages

by VI Lenin
Progress Publishers

Takes up important questions such as whether revolutionaries should work in reactionary trade unions, participate in bourgeois parliaments, use legal or illegal methods of struggle and other important aspects of putting Marxism into practice. “Our theory is not a dogma, but a guide to action said Marx and Engels.”

$15
Booklet – 62 pages

by Marx
International Publishers

One of the most popular capitalist myths is: “wage increases only cause prices to rise”. How do you counter this claim and the many other myths about the relationship between wages, prices and profit and the value of labour. Wage-Labour and Capital: Value, Price and Profit are very easy to read introductions to some of the most burning issues for workers to the study of political economy.

$6
Booklet – 55 pages

by Marx
Progress Publishers

That “wage increases only cause prices to rise” is still a familiar viewpoint. In the first five chapters of this pamphlet (published in 1898 from some notes found among Engels’ papers) Marx easily demolishes the arguments of “Citizen Weston”. This part of the pamphlet is now mainly of academic interest since most of Weston’s points were so crude that they are rarely heard today. From chapter VI on, however, Marx sets out in simple form his Labour Theory of Value; explains the source of rent, interest and profit and outlines both the usefulness and the limitations of trade union action.

Taken from study guide at www.worldsocialism.org.

$6
Booklet – 49 pages

by Marx
Progress Publishers

In this work Marx formulated many ideas on the major issue of scientific communism, such as the socialist revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, a period of transition from capitalism to communism, the two phases of the communist society, the production and distribution of the social product under socialism and the principal features of communism, proletarian internationalism and the party of the working class.

$8
Paper back – 144 pages

by Marx

This body of work appeared first as a series of articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung between December 1849 and November 1850. Engels "repackaged" them into a more complete book in 1895, a dozen years after Marx's passing.

In highlighting the importance of this work in the development of Marx's thought, Engels wrote: "The work here republished was Marx's first attempt to explain a section of contemporary history by means of his materialist conception, on the basis of the given economic situation. In the Communist Manifesto, the theory was applied in broad outline to the whole of modern history ... Here, on the other hand, the question was to demonstrate the inner causal connection in the course of a development which extended over some years ... to trace political events back to effects of what were, in the final analysis, economic causes."

$8
Paper back – 132 pages

by Frederick Engels

The works collected here are but a small part of what Engels wrote in connection with Marx’s Capital.

$22
Paper back – 285 pages

by Frederick Engels

Edited with an inroduction by Eleanor Leacock in which she pays partcular attention to Engels’ interpretation of the role of family in primitive society, barbarisim and civilization, and the subjugation of women in relation to the rise of class and state. Added as an appendix is Angels’ unfinished essay, “The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man”.

$20
Paper back – 155 pages

by Frederick Engels
with the collaboration of Karl Marx
Edited by Eleanor Marx

Originally apearing as a series of articles in the New York Tribune, these writings were later collected and edited by Marx's daughter Eleanor. The book has since become a classic on the German Revolution of 1848, and remains a model of the Marxist interpretation of history. It was written with the active collaboration of Marx, under whose name the articles first appeared. The present edition includes Eleanor Marx's introduction to the original English edition.

$35
Hard cover – 466 pages

Progress Publishers

This coffee table book offers over 400 pages of historic photos and graphics accompanied by an explanatory text. As Lenin said, “The name and life of Engels should be known to every worker….” And what better starting point than such a great volume of rich material.

Would make an excellent gift.

$6
Booklet – 56 pages

by Lenin
Progress Publishers

In the two articles comprising this booklet Lenin takes us through the main stages in the development of the theoretial views of Marx and Engels and dwells on their joint revolutionary activities. The articles contain a concise and at the same time profound study of Marxism and all its component parts. Lenin emphasises the creative nature of Marxism as a guide to action and its incompatibility with revisionism and dogmatism.

$6
Booklet – 22 pages

by Lenin
Progress Publishers

“The state is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another.” Lenin.

$8
Book – 134 pages

by Lenin
Progress Publishers

This book contains preparatory material for The State and Revolution.

$8
Paper back – 103 pages

by Lenin
Progress Publishers

Quote:
“As long as we are unable to disband the bourgeois parliament, we must work against it both from without and within. As long as a more or less appreciable number of working people (not only proletarians, but also semi-proletarians and small peasants) still have confidence in the bourgeois-democratic instruments employed by the bourgeoisie for duping the workers, we must expose that deception from the very platform which the backward sections of the workers, particularly of the non-proletarian working people, consider most important, and authoritative.” (page 41)

$6
Booklet – 21 pages

by Lenin
Progress Publishers

Written in 1908 for the collection Karl Mark (1818-1883) dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Marx’s death. The article deals with the problems of the struggle against revisionism, which he thought most important at the period of reactionary outburst in Russia after the defeat of the 1905-7 revolution.

$8
Paper back – 75 pages

by Lenin
Progress Publishers

The April Theses formed a programme developed by Lenin during the 1917 Russian Revolution. In these Lenin called for Soviet control of the state. When published the theses contributed to the July Days rising and to the subsequent coup d'etat of October 1917, bringing the Bolsheviks to power.

$8
Paper back – 98 pages

by Lenin

A collection of speeches given by Lenin between 1918 to 1922, taken from his Collected Works (Corrections in accordance with Fifth Russian edition).

Speeches include:

• The Chief Task of Our Day
• What is Soviet Power?
• Sovient Power and the Status of Women
• Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution

$8
Paper back – 112 pages

by Lenin

A collection of articles by Lenin taken from his Collected Works (Corrections in accordance with Fifth Russian edition).

Articles include:

• How Kautsky Turned Marx into a Common Liberal
• Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy
• Can There Be Equality Between the Exploited and the Exploiter?

$17
Hard cover – 397 pages

by Lenin

In this collection of articles and speeches, Lenin examines the nature, causes and consequences of imperialist wars.

He shows how wars were not "in defence of the fatherland", as the imperialist rulers told their people, but between preditors redividing their spoils.

$17
Hard cover – 382 pages

by Lenin

In this book Lenin examines those who are hostile towards dialectical materialism:
"All these people could not have been ignorant of the fact that Marx and Engels scores of times termed their philosphical views dialectic materialism. Yet all these people, who, despite the sharp divergence of their political views, are united in their hostility towards dialectical materialism, at the same time claim to be Marxist in philosophy!"

"... the task I have set myself in these comments is to find out what was the stumbling-block to these people who under the guise of Marxism are offering something incredibly muddled, confused and reactionary."

First Print 1947.

$24
Paper back – 130 pages

Marx, Engels, Lenin
Edited by Danny Rubin

• A handy reference on the views of Marx, Engels, or Lenin in various fields.
• Use for couses, study groups, or self-study guide on Marxism.
• From start to finish, read great political, economic, historical, and philosophic wisdom, containing myriad insights useful to any reader.

"The path to a democratic, humane, efficient socialism must begin with the strategic effort to build a broad labor-led people's coalition to politically curb and defeat the ultra-right. ... So much has changed, and yet these concepts, we could only begin to excerpt, are as vital today as ever when applied as a guide to action in the particular circumstances of the struggle in the USA for progress and socialism." – Danny Rubin, 2004

$18
Paper back – 182 pages

by Karl Marx & V I Lenin
International Publishers, 1993

Part 1 of this volume contains the complete edition of Marx’s three addresses on the Franco-Prussin War of 1870-71 and the Commune with Frederick Engels’ introduction to the German edition in 1891. Part 2 comprises Lenin’s writings on the Paris Commune. Nikita Federovsky’s essay, “Marx’s Civil War in France” as part 3 completes the volume. The editor has supplied detailed and very useful explanatory notes.

$21
Paper back – 352 pages

by William J Pomeroy
International Publishers, 1992

On May 1, 1898 a US fleet of nine warships steamed into Manila Bay in the Spanish colony. This event marked the emergence of the US on the world scene as an imperialist power. The Philippines, with all its people, became a possession of the US. This Marxist history maps out the struggle for national independence, freedom and the democratic development of the Philippines. Pomeroy and his wife Celia Mariano, a Huk leader, were deeply involved in the struggle of the Philippine people. They were captured in 1952 and served 10 years as political prisoners until pardoned after a US campaign for their release. He now lives in exile in England.

$21
Paper back – 351 pages

by Dolores Ibarruri
International Publishers, 2005

They Shall Not Pass is a most powerful and moving account of the Spanish Civil War by an outstanding, courageous revolutionary who was always at the side of workers and peasants. It tells the story of the people, the poor and exploited, their exploiters including Rio Tinto and their struggle to build a future of peace and democracy. In writing the book, she set out to “offer written testimony to the traditions of struggle of the Spanish people, and to set forth the truth about our war in answer to the lies of reactionary propaganda of yesterday and today.” Apart from being an important historical record, the book gives a valuable insight into capitalism and how it responds in times to progressive and democratic resistance, in particular, during times of economic crisis.

$16
Paper back – 180 pages

by Yuri Smertin
International Publishers, 2002

This is an extremely interesting book about a farsighted African leader with a world outlook and concept of African unity and development along socialist lines. He occupies a special place in the history of the African continent’s national liberation struggles during the 1950s and ‘60s, when African nations gained their political independence from their Western colonisers. He recognised that the struggles in Africa were part of the global anti-imperialist movement. Known as the “Father of the Nation”, Nkrumah died in exile, having been previously deposed in a reactionary coup. He left an extensive theoretical legacy. Smertin’s study of Nkrumah’s life and work explains his contribution to Ghana’s independence and development, including errors and miscalculations.

$36
Paper back– 377 pages

by Michel Chossudovsky
Publisher: Global Research, 2003

This is a second edition with valuable updates and additional chapters that not only deal with important economic questions but extremely well researched and revealing information on experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Latin America, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. Michel Chossudovsky spent considerable time researching his topics, including extensive travels in many of the countries reported on. The part on the New World Order includes coverage of the dismantling of the welfare state, narrowing of the tax base, illusory independence of central banks and the crisis of the state. If you thought the The Global Economic Crisis – The Great Depression of the XXI Century (edited by Michel Chossudovsky and Anderw Gavin Marshall) was great, then wait until you read this one. An absolute must!

$31
Paper back– 306 pages

Editors: Michel Chossudovsky and Andres Gavin Marshall
Publisher: Global Research, 2010

This just published compilation of articles by 16 researchers, analyists, authors and others on the left gives a comprehensive analysis on the present economic crisis. The book is divided into five parts: The Global Economic Crisis; Global Poverty; War, National Security and World Government; The Global Monetary System; and The Shadow Banking System.

The book is rich with detailed information that digs beneath the surface and exposes the lies and distortions of media, politicians and bourgeois economists. The language is very accessible, technical terms are explained clearly. Links are made between the economic, political, military and social developments. It exposes the myth of economic recovery, who was behind the crisis, who benefits and the horrendous impact it has had on millions of people around the world.

The chapters by Michel Chossudovsky provide an over view of the global economic crisis; global poverty and the economic crisis; and war and the economic crisis. Marshall looks at the political economy of world government; central banking and management of the global political economy; and the financial new world order – towards a global currency. Other authors include Mike Whitney, Ellen Brown, Tom Burghardt, James Petras and Bill Van Auken.

It is a must read for political activists, trade unionists, peace activists and anyone else wishing to learn more about the global economic crisis and 21st century imperialism.

$21
Paper back –110 pages

edited by Vic Williams

At a young age Monty Miller fought and was wounded in the Eureka Stockade in 1854. At 85 he was sentenced to six months hard labour for his leadership in the anti-conscription struggles in 1917. This book contains Monty’s own description of the Eureka Stockade, extracts from another work “Labor’s Road to Freedom” with an introduction by Katharine Susannah Throssell (Pritchard). There is an introduction by Vic Williams along with his poem “Are You Ready Monty Miller?” It is a first-hand account of one of Australia’s most historic events. Written in a colourful and entertaining style, you won’t be able to put it down until the end. Buy two copies – one for yourself, and one for a friend.

$15
Hard back – 280 pages
Publisher: Raduga, 1985

“Mayakovsky spoke aloud and straight about the Homeland, the Party and Humankind, choosing for this purpose words that where tender, words that rose up from the artesian wells of the heart, words of genuine love.” — Louis Aragon

$15
Hard back – 302 pages
Publisher: Raduga, 1986

“Amidst senile poetical systems with their classifications of dawns and twilights, Mayakovsky’s voice came crashing like a builder’s sledge-hammer. In the collective heart of his people the poet found source for new melodies. up to this day, the tenderness and brilliance of this remarkable poet remain a unique highlight of poetic epoch.” — Pablo Neruda, Chile

$15
Hard back – 254 pages
Publisher: Raduga, 1987

“Mayakovsky first spoke aloud and straight in the Revolution of October 1917. He spoke in the name of the Revolution, on hehalf of Soviet Russia. His heart in time with the pulse of life in the new world that was being built. Soviet Russia equipped him for his great journey, as a mother equips her son. She gave him strength, willpower. talent and a voice that could drown out a storm and easily overcome all obstacles at any latitude or longitude.” — Nazym Hikmet, Turkey.

$40

Get all three!

$21
Paper back – 81 pages

by Vic Williams

A superb collection of well known communist poet Vic William’s writings including Harvest Time, Three Golden Giants, Forgotten Men, Speak for US, I Will Make a Bowl, Salute to the Cubans, Pablo Neruda, and My Baby Cries. Vic’s poems reflect the struggles and aspirations of the working class. They deal with work, drought, economic crisis, war, internationalism, history, love and they offer hope and solutions. They are great working class poems, full of passion, strong imagery and confidence in the working class. A must on every bookshelf and a great present for anyone interested in Australian literature or who just loves good poetry.

$8.50
Paper back – 95 pages

by Mark Twain
International Publishers, NY

Mark Twain is well known for his humorous writings. There is a cloak of silence surrounding his political works. This “forgotten” work, written in support of the Congo people, is not to be found in the standard collected works. It is a biting satire fired with the hate of injustice, a historic exposé of imperialism. It roused the world to the horrors of the brutal crimes of colonisation in the Congo in the early 20th century. Mark Twain took seriously the writer’s duty to be the conscience of his time. He travelled widely, “I am an anti-imperialist,” he told the press, in 1900. “I am opposed to having the eagle put his talons on any other land.”

$26
Paper back – 158 pages

by Elly Inta

Taken from his mother at the age of six months, Des Donley became a ward of state, in and out of foster homes and then on to a Salvation Army Orphanage. At 15 he was farmed out to a family as virtual slave labour, working from 3.30 in the morning until 9 at night, sleeping in shed with a prickly straw pillow. Only at the age of 18, he ended his isolation, entered the paid workforce, found girls, dancing, music and had a few drinks. He became a union delegate, joined the Communist Party and spent a life fighting for others. The fair skinned Des was in his 60s when he learnt of his Aboriginality. He is still fighting, at the age of 94, for his stolen wages.

$12
Paper back– 108 pages

by Margaret Sharpe
Alternative Publishing Cooperative Ltd (Australia)

A delightful novel by Margaret Sharpe telling the story of an Aboriginal girl in Central Australia and her journey to Brisbane. It is revealing in its details, full of the warmth and joy of a child who gains pride in her own language, Aranda, and loves her country. There are a number of sub-themes about Aboriginal lifestyle and culture, differences between city and country life, the impact of land clearance by White settlers.

Written in the early 1980s, it is a trip down memory lane for older readers. Dr Sharpe knows her subject well. It is a book for children and adults alike. An enjoyable read.

Click here for more info.

$9
Paper back – 56 pages

by Vic Williams
Self-published

Many readers will know Vic Williams, a veteran comrade now in his 90s living in Western Australia. Vic is one of the best working class and communist poets of Australian literature. Vic’s writing comes from a lifetime of struggle and experiences, in particular in industry and on the Fremantle waterfront.

Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote: “He fuses a passionate and sensuous vision of the earth he knows and loves with thought, direct and forceful, about everyday life and work of men and women. There is, I think, a high rare quality in Victor Williams’ poetry.”

Three Golden Giants and other poems contains some of his most popular poems. The lines: I do not live with a divided heart. One love, one aim, once class my loyalty… from “The Undivided Heart” are illustrative of the direct and forceful approach. In all there are 21 poems in the booklet, including “Delegate”; “Speak for Us, Pablo Neruda”; “Along the Waterfront”; and “My Baby Cries”.

$19
Hard cover – 311 pages

by I Lavretsky
Progress Publishers

Lavretsky tells the story of the young Argentinian medical student who became a great revolutionary fighter for the liberation of the Latin American peoples. The author draws on numerous documents, press items, and notes of personal conversations with friends, relatives and comrades-in-arms of Che.

There is a wealth of photos, including a number taken in Moscow and Leningrad. The book gives great insight into many of the problems faced by Cuba following the revolution when Che was Minister of Industry and in the leadership of the Communist Party. It deals with relations with the former Soviet Union and takes the reader through to Che’s murder in Bolivia in 1967 when leading a guerrilla unit fighting for the national liberation of Bolivia.

$12
Paper back– 201 pages

by Dr Don Sloan with Paula Hartz
International Publishers, New York

Dr Don Sloan with Paula Hartz draw on real cases to provide a much-needed source of understanding of the issues involved when women are faced with an unwanted pregnancy.

The book deals with social realities, the dilemmas facing women and the barriers to choice they face, such as what happens when they do not have the money to travel when their public hospital doesn’t do abortions. “If we learn to see the aborting issue clearly – not religion but science, not ethics but rights, not sexism but equality for women – we can begin to work on the dilemma,” the book concludes.

$24
Paper back – 422 pages

by Silvia Martínez Puentes

Cuba beyond our dreams gives a comprehensive overview of the development of the Cuban socialist revolution. The publication of the book in 2005 was sponsored by the CFMEU in solidarity with the Cuban Federation of Workers (CTC).

The book starts with the Revolution and an overview of its first three decades. It covers a range of topics under the theme “Unity in Society” including the trade union movement, international solidarity, mass sparticipation in the taking of decisions. There are other chapters on science, employment, social security, health, education, culture, sports, women, the electoral system, human rights and much more.

It covers the young socialist state’s amazing achievements under difficult conditions following the demise of the socialist Soviet Union Eastern Europe and the ongoing illegal US blockade. There are detailed tables and photos on Cuba’s achievements.

The book is much more than facts and figures, raising important questions about the development of socialism, the battle of ideas, the involvement of the people in the defence of the Revolution. Culture, for example, is treated as an expression of sovereignty. It deals with the lies and aggression of the enemy, and the changes taking place in Latin America.

$19
Paper back – 384 pages

International Publishers, New York

A selection of writings from Marx, Engels and Lenin selected and edited with introductions and notes by Howard Selsam and Harry Martel. The book is devoted to selections from philosophical writings.

It covers materialism versus idealism; dialectics and the dialectical method; theory of knowledge and philosophy of science; the materialist interpretation of history; religion; and ethics. It draws on many well known writings of Mars, Engels and Lenin, is well referenced and has a bibliographical index with useful notes to anyone who is not well versed in the classics.

$29
Paper back – 173 pages

by Che Guevara, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Ocean Press

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels is one of three pieces by outstanding revolutionaries in this book. There is a preface by Adrienne Rich on Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg and Che Guevara followed by an introduction from Armando Hart.

The other two historic essays are Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg and Socialism and Man in Cuba by Ernesto Che Guevara.

$9
Paper back – 300 pages

by T Volkova & F Volkov

If you would like to understand the driving force of capitalism, how workers are exploited and the methods that corporations use to boost profits, then is a great introductory text. For those who already have some knowledge, it is still worth reading as a refresher and to fill in the gaps.

$9
Paper back – 263 pages

by A Yermakova & V Ratnikov

How often have you heard it said that the class struggle is dead, that the way forward is for workers to cooperate with employers? The book defines classes, deals with the origin and evolution of class, peculiarities of class struggle in modern times, the role of the class struggle, its various forms and moves on to the question of socialism and classless society.

$9
Paper back – 156 pages

by E Utkin

This an extremely useful book for trade unionists and anyone else interested in the origin and role of trade unions in society. It ties in with the question of surplus value and class struggle. It looks at the position of trade unions in developing and socialist countries as well as industrialised capitalist states. There is also a chapter on the international trade union movement. Published in 1988, its references to Apartheid are dated, but its contents are still relevant.

$9
Paper back – 288 pages

by D Dmiterko & V Pugachev

This is a very interesting book which starts by looking at the types of exploiter states and the essence of the bourgeois state. It devotes a chapter to bourgeois democracy, lifting many of the myths associated with the bourgeois concepts of philosophy. The following chapters deal with the struggles of the working class for working people’s power, the Marxist Leninist theory of the socialist revolution before moving on the socialist state.

$9
Paper back – 285 pages

by Ye Bugaev

Lenin wrote a great deal about the need for a party of a special type. This book examines the type of party that the working class need – its policies, functions, structures, links to the people and much more that make a revolutionary party. It also gives some insight into the Communist Party in the former Soviet Union.

$12
Paper back – 205 pages

Mikhail Gavlin & Liliya Kazakova

The book analyses current American and British theories of social revolution. It subjects to criticism the treatment by bourgeois authors of the essence and nature of social revolution and their significance in the process of society. The authors reveal the class bias of bourgeois theories, their continuity and connection with old conceptions and the general task of bourgeois social revolutions.

First published 1980, English version 1988.

$26
Paper back – 206 pages

edited by Philip S Foner

"In January, 1915, the British journal Labour Woman wrote of Clara Zetkin:

'She is Socialist in her very fibre, and she is a fighter ready to face death rather than give way in any issue of import in the people 's struggle.'

Through her journal Gleichheit (Equality), with a circulation in 1914 of 125,000 ... she was able to exert a powerful influence in the formation of socialist and communist policy on the woman question, and on the policy of a number of trade unions toward women workers ... "

Clara Zetkin called upon "the workers to throw their whole power into the struggle against imperialist wars without the slightest hesitation or reserve."

From the introduction by Philip S Foner.

$18
Paper back – 164 pages

by Michelene Wandor

As well as being a playwright for stage, radio and television, Michelene Wandor is also a poet and critic. She was Poetry Editor for Time Out from 1971-1982, and reviewed plays and books for various newspapers and journals. Her other publications include Upbeat (poems and stories, Journeyman), Understudies (on theatre and sexual politics, Methuen), and, as editor, On anthologies of plays by women, published annually.

The plays are:

• To Die Among Friends
• The Old Wives' Tale
• Whores d'Oeuvres
• Scissors
• Aid Thy Neighbour

$18
Paper back – 329 pages

by Gus Hall

Problems need not only clarifying analysis but also workable solutions, and the writings in this book by Gus Hall, General Secretary of the communist Party, USA, meet both criteria. The reader will meet a brilliant working-class intellect combining with a vast store of militant experience.

For an extract of the book see Issue 1412 of The Guardian - "But is that enough?".

Special price $9
Paper back – 202 pages

by Hannah Middleton

This is the first Marxist analysis of the history of the Australian Aborigines. It is a partisan book, carefully documented but also human and moving. The Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 60,000 years; white people for 220. In the book the balanced and cooperative nature of Aboriginal traditional society, the brutal and tragic story of white colonisation and the growth of organised black resistance to discrimination and exploitation are analysed. In the final section the place of the Aboriginal national minority in the Australian nation is shown and the role of the capitalist establishment, the media and ultra radical ideology in destroying the crucial land rights campaign and in splitting the Aborigines from their white working class allies is exposed. It ends with an assessment of the future for the first Australians and an appeal for unity in the struggle for their rights.

This book is essential reading for anyone committed to justice and equality for the Aboriginal people of Australia.

$7
Paper back – 54 pages

by Tricia Bowen

In October 2005, Feltex Carpets retrenched 165 workers from its Braybrooks site. Some had worked there for 40 years.

These are their stories - stories of shared lifetimes, families, food, friendship, injuries, jokes, fights, strikes and struggle and of many languages and cultures forging a community.

Finding the threads captures the comradeship, the wisdom and the connections of this group of retrenched Feltex workers.

$42
Paper back – 432 pages

by Joan Coxsedge

Joan did not grow up on easy street. She started life in the Depression years in Ballarat and knows what it is to be evicted and to go without. Alcohol and gambling ate up the meagre family income. This personal, lively account of her early days is a reminder to older readers of those tough times and for younger readers a powerful picture of those days and how much has been achieved since then by the labour, women’s and other social movements.

$12
Paper back – 184 pages

In the 1970s, the world community was once again confronted with the questions: is mankind threatened by a raw materials crisis?, will the world economy be able to cope with this problem in the future? There is no simple answer to these questions. The prospects for the development of the world resource situation are dependent on a vast range of objective factors and potential limitations. The efficient and mutually beneficial use of the planet's materials and resources base in the interests of the entire human race, the application of promising technologies and the exploitation of non-traditional sources of energy are the avenues that would allow mankind to view the road ahead with optimism.

Progress Publishers 1989

$11
Hard cover – 494 pages

by A P Sheptulin

An introduction to Marxist-Leninist philosophy. Here is a list of just some of the chapters:

• The Role of Philosophy in Society
• The Struggle of Materialism Against Idealism in a Pre-Marxian Philosophy
• The Revolutionary Upheaval in Philosophy Made by Marx
• Matter and Consciousness
• The Subject-Matter of Historical Materialism
• Society and Nature
• Material Production as the Basis of Society's Existance and Development
• The Role of the Masses and the Individual in History

$15
Paper back – 553 pages

by N K Krupskaya

Out of stock

Written by his wife and comrade, this is by far the outstanding biography of Lenin. Krupskaya, an active Bolshevik in her own right, came to know Lenin during the 1890s in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), where both were arrested and then exiled to Siberia. Later, during intermittent years of exile in Europe, and through the revolutionary years of 1905 and 1917 in Russia, she was his constant companion. Her life, as well as Lenin's, was so intermingled with revolutionary activity and politics that it is impossible to separate the personal from the political. Her biography is both a history of the most important revolutionary movement of the period and the story of the genius who led it to victory. These recollections were written at different times, but the present volume has her complete memoirs, including the last part dealing with the years after the October Revolution. This biography is indispensible for understanding Lenin's life and work. Fully illustrated.

$27 per volume.
Hard cover – Volume 1: 454 pages, Volume 2: 486 pages

Sub Title: Reminiscences and Refections – Volume 1 & 2

Volume 1:

Volume 2:

At all stages of the war, in strategic, tactical and organisational matters, Zhukov was already clearheaded and sharp, bold in his decisions, skilled in finding his bearings, in anticipating developments and picking the right instant for a decisive stroke. Making the most fateful decisions, he was astoundingly cool and level headed. He was a man of extraordinary courage and self-possession. I have never seen him flustered or depressed – not even at critical moments. On the contrary, at moments like that he was only more forceful, more resolute, and more concentrated.

A M Vasilevsky
from back cover Volume 2.

$16
Paper back – 232 pages

by Andrei Kortunov & Alexander Nikitin

The main questions of which the authors consider are whether the American recipes for economic, social and political development can be applied to other countries and societies; whether America can serve as an example and instructor for them; whether or not the "American model" meets the requirements of social progress; and whether it is applicable to other countries at all, or is it in need of serious reconsideration within itself.

$30
Hard cover– 400 pages

by Albert Nenarokov

This hardcover book offers 400 pages of historic photos and text, month by month throughout the year of 1917. There are many classic photos and others that are not so familiar. The text gives a blow by blow description of developments. It is a book that can be read from cover to cover or just picked up to study individual photos and sections of text.