Search Results: Authors starting with I from Resistance Books

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1999. 1. Paperback. New. In The State and Revolution, Lenin re-establishes the authentic teaching of Marx and Engels on the question of the state, the institution at the heart of all political struggle. He argues strongly that the capitalist state cannot be reformed but needs to be replaced by a new organ but one which will wither away as humanity advances to a happier future.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2002. 1. Paperback. New. A collection of Lenin’s major writings on the national question. National oppression and the struggle against it remains a major element of world politics today. This book is a primer on the Marxist attitude to this vexed topic.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2003. 1. Paperback. New. Centred on works and speeches by Lenin, this collection also contains a number of appendices presenting material by Leon Trotsky, from the Bolsheviks’ program, Comintern documents, and so on. The selection documents the main ideas, debates and experiences in the Soviet communists’ struggle for the emancipation of women as well as the later Stalinist counterrevolution.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1999. 1. Paperback. New. Lenin’s famous polemic argues for tactics which avoid socialists isolating themselves from the struggles of the day. He takes up such questions as participation in elections, work in conservative trade unions, whether compromises are permissible and so on.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1999. 1. Paperback. New. Written during the carnage of World War I, Lenin’s famous work was designed to show that imperialism was the essence of capitalism, not simply a policy chosen by its leaders. This modern edition contains an introduction putting the work in its historical and political context and extensive explanatory notes.

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

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

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2015. 1. Pamphlet. New. The Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution in northern Syria has attracted increasing interest and admiration around the world because of its unyielding resistance to the Islamic State, ethnic and religious pluralism, and the heavy and unprecedented involvement of women in the fighting forces. This is a primer on the Kurdish freedom struggle in Syria and Turkey.