Search Results: Authors starting with B from Resistance Books

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

Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1982. 1. Hardcover. New. In 1979 the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada underwent a revolution. Here are collected some of the key speeches of its central leader, Maurice Bishop, later murdered in a counterrevolutionary coup.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2019. 1. Pamphlet. New. This pamphlet aims to explain and provoke interest in the main ideas of Marxism, but more importantly to encourage the reader to study the method of Marx and Engels and apply it to the world we are struggling to change. Author Peter Boyle has been a socialist activist in Australia since the 1970s and is a former national convenor of the Socialist Alliance.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2019. 2. Paperback. New. The inspiring story of a landmark struggle in Australia’s industrial and political history. In the 1980s, 34 mostly migrant, unemployed women took on Australia’s biggest corporation, Broken Hill Propriety (BHP), in a David-and-Goliath struggle known as the Jobs for Women campaign and eventually won.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2017. 1. Pamphlet. New. The persvasive gender inequality of modern society is not ‘natural’. In fact, the earliest human communities did not know private property, class domination the state — or the subordination of women. Frederick Engels’s pioneering 1884 work The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State, provided a sciantific explanation of the origins of women’s oppression. Recent scientific evidence enables some of the gaps in his account to be filled in and a fully coherent explanation to be developed.