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• Class Struggle in the Roman RepublicThe Republic was dying on its feet because its social basis had ceased to exist. This fact expressed itself in continuous political crises and convulsions in the capital, party strife, revolutions and counter-revolution…
• The History of Philosophy: A Marxist PerspectiveAlan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophical outlook, which lo…
• On Imperialist War. Selected Writings: 1This volume is a collection of Lenin’s writings on the crucial question of the position of revolutionary Marxists towards war and, more specifically, in relation to the First World War. When the war broke out in 1914, t…
• Imperialism: The Highest Stage of CapitalismDuring the First World War, Lenin found himself isolated, but he was not afraid to fight against the stream. He dedicated all his strength to educating and training the Bolsheviks on the basis of the genuine ideas of Ma…
• The Ideas of Karl MarxTwo hundred years after the birth of the great revolutionary Karl Marx, across the world, the capitalist system is in crisis and the working class are moving into action to change their lives. In ruling class circles, n…
• Understanding Marx’s Capital: A reader’s guideMarx's Capital was a book that revolutionised political economy and for the first time opened our eyes to the real workings of capitalism. It was, however, met with a wall of silence from the mainstream economists and t…
• The Classics of Marxism: Volume OneFor many decades, Marxism was declared to be dead. However, as the crisis of capitalism deepens, events are proving every day the vitality and correctness of these ideas. Scientific Socialism, as developed by Marx and E…
• On the National Question. Selected Writings: 3Tsarist Russia was a prison house of nations. A majority of the population belonged to national groups oppressed by the tsarist regime, which suppressed their languages, their religions and their cultures. The national…
• Lenin, Trotsky and the Theory of the Permanent Revolution13 reading sections
• The Civil War in FranceWritten as a series of addresses to the General Council of the International Workingmen’s Association from July 1870 to May 1871, The Civil War in France covers the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War, the fall o…
• Marxism and AnarchismThe millions of people who have come out onto streets and squares around the world in recent years to oppose the policy of cuts and austerity do not trust politicians and trade union leaders. This shows a revolutionary…
• The Revolutionary Philosophy of MarxismOn the bicentennial of his birth, Karl Marx's ideas are more relevant than ever. While he is perhaps best known for his writings on economics and history, anyone who wishes to have a fully rounded understanding of his m…
• Ted Grant: The Permanent RevolutionaryTed Grant was a well-known figure in the international Marxist movement. He had a significant impact on British politics. When he died all the most important newspapers carried extensive obituaries that recognised this…
• Ted Grant Selected Works, Vol. 1: Stalinism and the Class Nature of the Soviet UnionThe reissue of the first volume of Ted Grant's Selected Works marks a new stage in making his ideas more widely known to a new generation of Marxists. Stalinism may no longer be as pressing an issue as it was in the lat…
• What is Marxism?Socialism, since it has become a science, demands that it be pursued as a science, that is, that it be studied. — Engels In this epoch of instability, crisis, war and ever‑growing inequality, Marxism is becoming an incr…
• Bolshevism: The Road to RevolutionThere have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For the…
• China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-RevolutionThis book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese Communist Party when it took power in 1949? - What forces pushed the Mao regime, despite its explicitly class-collaborati…
• The Classics of Marxism: Volume TwoFollowing the great success of the first volume of the Classics of Marxism, a second volume is now published with five more important works. Wage Labour and Capital Karl Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital contains many impo…
• Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or BarbarismGermany 1918-33 was one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Following the revolution in Russia, the German workers and soldiers attempted to seize power in November 1918. Unfortunately, the revolution was betraye…
• Germany: From Revolution to Counter-RevolutionFrom 1918 to 1933 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others’ heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well-documented. Less well-known are the events that preceded Hitler’s rise to power. Rob Sewell give…
• History of British TrotskyismThis book is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism, written by Ted Grant (1913-2006), who shaped the course of Trotskyism in Britain for over half a century. Grant offers a detailed account of this…
• Materialism and Empirio-CriticismIn this classic text, Lenin brilliantly explains the fundamental principles of the materialist philosophy of Marxism. He defends them against idealist attacks from the subjective idealism of Machism, a philosophical tre…
• Reformism or RevolutionThe declarations of Hugo Chavez in favour of socialism have provoked an important debate in Venezuela and internationally. However some have concluded that the 'old' ideas of Marxism are no longer valid and that it is n…
• Russia: From Revolution To Counter-RevolutionThe October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and placed the working class in power for the first time. It transformed the idea of socialism from theory into practice. F…
• Anti-DühringA classic of Marxism, Anti-Dühring was highly recommended by Lenin as a ‘text book’ of scientific socialism. It was originally written as a polemic against Eugen Dühring, a German revisionist who challenged the basic id…
• Thawra hatta’l nasr! Revolution until victory! A Marxist analysis of the Arab revolutionThe Arab revolution represents a turning point in world history. This book contains a selection of the main articles on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt published on Marxist.com and socialist.net during the early mo…
• Dialectics of NatureEver since Engels' arrival in London in 1870, he was keen to write a comprehensive work on science and dialectical materialism. The notes and studies for such a work make up the present volume, originally published in 1…
• History of British TrotskyismThis book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the Revolutionary Commun…
• In Defence of MarxismThis book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky's finest classics. It is a product of a sharp polemic within the American Trotskyist movement during the period 1939-40. This was a dispute which touched on the very fun…
• In the Cause of Labour – A History of British Trade UnionismThere are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However, Rob Sewell's book is different. This book is aimed especially at class-conscious workers who are seeking to escape from the ills of the ca…
• ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An Infantile DisorderThe Bolsheviks led the workers to power in the October Revolution of 1917. To ensure its survival, they grappled with the task of spreading the revolution beyond Russia. ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Disorder was…
• The Revolutions of 1917. Selected Writings: 2Lenin’s writings from 1917 are a marvellous insight into the Bolshevik leader’s thinking in this crucial year. 1917 witnessed a series of dramatic turns that propelled the Bolsheviks, the most revolutionary party in his…
• Lenin and Trotsky – What they really stood forThe ideas of Lenin and Trotsky are without doubt the most distorted and slandered ideas in history. For more than 80 years, they have been subjected to an onslaught from the apologists of capitalism, who have attempted…
• The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa LuxemburgThis book sets out to examine Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas, not from the distorted myths about her political ideas, or solely about personal questions such as her love life, but from Luxemburg’s very own writings. It is an at…
• Class Struggles in FranceThe revolutions of 1848 which broke out across the world are among the landmark events of the nineteenth century. The experiences of this tumultuous period helped to crystallise and sharpen the ideas of Marx and Engels.…
• Marxism and the USAMarxism and the USA by Alan Woods was the first title produced by Wellred USA. The book was written at a time when George W. Bush was president, a time when many around the world – including many on the left – considere…
• My LifeSince My Life was first published it has been regarded as a unique political, literary and human document. Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, it contains the earliest authoritative account of the ri…
• The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateFirst published in 1884, The Origin of the Family is one of the most important works of Marxist theory. Basing himself on the research of anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Engels builds on his revolutionary d…
• History of the Paris Commune of 1871This book is an excellent history of the Paris Commune. Its author Lissagaray was a direct participant and fought for the Commune on the barricades. He collected testimonies from the survivors in exile in London, Switze…
• Reason in Revolt37 reading sections
• Reform or RevolutionRosa Luxemburg was one of the most important figures in the history of the international workers’ movement. Together with Lenin and Trotsky she was the outstanding representative of Marxism in the 20th century. Reform o…
• The Permanent Revolution & Results and prospectsTrotsky's theory of the permanent revolution is one of the most important additions to the arsenal of Marxism. It was first developed by Trotsky in 1904, on the eve of the first Russian Revolution. At that time, all the…
• The Revolution BetrayedThe Revolution Betrayed is one of the most important Marxist texts of all time. It is the only serious Marxist analysis of what happened to the Russian Revolution after the death of Lenin. In this book, Trotsky provided…
• Permanent Revolution in Latin AmericaThis book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price the popular masses pay for the absence of a correct revolutionary strategy. The goal of the…
• Women Family and the Russian RevolutionThe Bolsheviks came to power in a workers’ and peasants’ revolution supported by the great majority of Russian women. Abortion was legalised immediately and made available to women without charge. For the first time wiv…
• The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-LitovskTens of thousands of people beat in huge waves against the walls of the People’s Palace… The air seemed impregnated with an electric current, such as is felt at the most critical moments of a revolution. The Russian Oct…
• Spain’s revolution against Franco: The great betrayalThe story of the Spanish revolution of the 1930s is quite well known to most people on the left, but there is a surprising level of ignorance concerning the events that occurred subsequently. History did not cease with…
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution in SpainFelix Morrow's book, written in the white heat of the struggle, remains a Marxist classic on the Spanish Civil war. It is one of the clearest accounts produced of the movement of the Spanish masses, describing the event…
• The First Five Years of the Communist InternationalFollowing the October Revolution of 1917, a revolutionary wave swept across Europe. In this period, Leon Trotsky, along with Lenin, was pivotal in setting up the Third (Communist) International, which represented a worl…
• The State and RevolutionDemocracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society. The question of the state is not something that normally occupies the attention of most workers. This is no…
• Democracy, Bonapartism and Fascism: Class Struggle in the 1930sIn a word, if in the pacific and ‘organic’ period (before the war) one could still live on the revenue from a few ready-made abstractions, in our time each new event forcefully brings home the most important law of the…
• Writings on BritainTrotsky’s Writings on Britain span one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. The first decades of the 20th century were a time of crisis on all fronts for British capitalism. Britain was rapidly sinking to…
• What Is Marxism?In this epoch of instability, crisis, war and ever-growing inequality, Marxism is becoming an increasingly attractive proposition to millions of workers and young people around the world. The old mole of revolution, to…
• What is to be done?The pamphlet… outlined a broad plan of organisation in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the working of the machine…
• Ireland: Republicanism and RevolutionThe national liberation movement in Ireland stands once more at a crossroads. For thirty years, the Provisional IRA fought an armed struggle to eject British imperialism, without bringing Ireland one step closer to unif…
• The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great SlaughterOn 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of the Great Slaughter. C…