Search Results: Titles starting with B from Resistance Books

Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1980. 1. Paperback. New. Brilliant and penetrating journalism dealing with a long-forgotten conflict at the start of the 20th century. Trotsky reports military matters but also the effects of the war on social conditions and popular moods, the diplomatic manoeuvring of the ‘great powers’ of Europe, and the political aims of the dynasties and cliques in Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey. A masterpiece of political journalism.

Sydney: Pathfinder Press, 1980. 1. Hardcover. New. Brilliant and penetrating journalism dealing with a long-forgotten conflict at the start of the 20th century. Trotsky reports military matters but also the effects of the war on social conditions and popular moods, the diplomatic manoeuvring of the ‘great powers’ of Europe, and the political aims of the dynasties and cliques in Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey. A masterpiece of political journalism.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2001. 1. Pamphlet. New. Washington’s war on Afghanistan did not begin in 2001, following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It started in early 1978, when a radical leftist government came to power in Kabul. The new regime proclaimed land reform, women’s rights and other popular democratic measures. The US rulers set about to overthrow it and to suck the Soviet Union into a debilitating and costly conflict.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2000. 1. Paperback. New. A Marxist analysis of the breakup of Yugoslavia, in particular the wars in Bosnia and Kosova.showing the fundamental agreement between the Western powers and the former Milosevic regime during these conflicts. Karadjis shows that in neither Bosnia nor Kosova has NATO ever been motivated by concern for human rights but solely by its need to maintain Western control in an economically and politically vital region.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Paperback. New. This volume of writings and speeches by Jim Percy, one of the founders of the Democratic Socialist Party and its longtime central leader until his death in 1992, spans the years 1980 to 1987. This was a period of considerable ferment in Australian and world politics. This collection focuses on how the party should relate to the new situation, especially on the question of left unity.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1997. 1. Paperback. New. James P. Cannon was a central leader of the Communist Party of the United States in the 1920s. Later he was a founder of the US Trotskyist movement and played a decisive role in building it for over three decades. This book provides a brief introduction to Cannon’s life and work and presents a number of his writings from the 1950s and 1960s, otherwise not readily available.