Search Results: Authors starting with M from Resistance Books

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2002. 1. Pamphlet. New. Ernest Mandel gives a concise outline of the basic principles of Marxist political economy. The first section focuses on the labour theory of value. The second section examines the laws of motion of capitalist economy and its inherent contradictions. Finally, Mandel applies this framework to some of the basic realities of modern capitalist economy.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2003. 1. Paperback. New. Presented here are Marx’s principal works on the 19th-century class conflicts in France: ‘The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850’, ‘The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ and ‘The Civil War in France’. His writings on France set out key lessons for the working-class struggle for emancipation, especially on the question of the state.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2003. 1. Pamphlet. New. The modern Australian socialist movement has its origins in the early radical experiments of the 19th century, from the influence of the transported British Chartists, to the exiled Irish rebels, to the democratic struggles of the miners at Eureka and elsewhere. Jim McIlroy’s account sketches the history of the early socialists, their achievements and their problems, and attempts to draw some lessons from the experience of the pioneer radicals for the movement today.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2018. 1. Pamphlet. New. The Australian banking and financial system is in deep crisis. We need a major national campaign to take back the wealth that has been stolen from us over decades. A nationalised banking system could provide a massive funding base to revive the ailing public sector, including for spending on public health, education, transport, housing and sustainable energy.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2016. 2. Pamphlet. New. Widely seen as quite right-wing, Queensland also has a history of stormy class struggles and radical politics. Jim McIlroy’s pamphlet focuses on three such periods: the great shearers’ strikes of the 1890s; the Brisbane ‘Red Flag Riots’ of 1919; and the ‘Red North’ of the 1930s and 1940s when north Queensland became the strongest single base of the Communist Party.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2004. 1. Pamphlet. New. Despite the clear record of the past century and the ALP’s ever-more rightward trajectory today, some sections of the left continue to mistakenly regard the Australian Labor Party as some sort of workers’ party, albeit with a procapitalist leadership. This Marxist analysis of the ALP’s formation shines a bright light on the party’s real nature and helps illuminate the way forward for the socialist movement.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2018. 1. Paperback. New. In the 1930s and 1940s, the ‘Red North’ — the area north from Mackay to Cairns — developed as the single strongest base of the Communist Party of Australia. It is this period which is the theme of Diane Menghetti’s pathbreaking book, originally published in 1981 and long out of print. This republication should help a contemporary national audience to understand the fact that as well as a reactionary history, northern Queensland has also had a very radical past.