Search Results: Titles starting with C from Resistance Books

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2002. 1. Pamphlet. New. At the heart of Marxist theory is the question of the working class. Through its indispensable role in production, it carries modern society on its back. But Marxists have always argued that the working class is also the decisive agency of radical social change. This proposition has repeatedly been challenged from both the left and the right. This collection of speeches and articles from the late 1960s take up the challenge.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2010. 1. Pamphlet. New. With the return of capitalism, China today is a highly unequal society, where workers are ruthlessly exploited and lack job security, there is national oppression, severe ecological problems and heavy restrictions of democratic rights. Chris Slee surveys the scene and explains how it came about.

In the years before its independence in 1991, Ukraine had been among the most industrialised, technologically advanced regions of the Soviet Union. Thirty years later, it was being rated by the IMF as the poorest country in Europe — its people poorer, on average, than those in many countries of the developing world. Why did Ukraine's transition to capitalism result in such disaster? Was this purely the outcome of an ill-conceived model of 'reform'? Or was capitalism itself the wrong choice? Has 'association' with the European Union provided any answers?As Ukraine battles invasion, knowing the 'back story' of its post-Soviet experience can provide a life-raft in a media space awash with simplistic propaganda.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2007. 1. Pamphlet. New. The fundamental problem facing humanity today is catastrophic climate change brought on by runaway greenhouse gas emissions.The very survival of the human race has now been called into question. Here is a clear socialist analysis of the problem and a plan for action.

Sydney: Socialist Alliance, 2009. 1. Pamphlet. New. This Charter of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights is the Socialist Alliance’s Indigenous policy. It is a contribution to the vital job of building a more powerful movement for Indigenous rights, one that can root out injustice, discrimination, poverty and underdevelopment once and for all.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2014. 1. Paperback. New. Indian-born and Catholic-educated, author Michael Cooke migrated to Australia in his teens. He moved away from religion and towards the political left. In this stimulating work he focuses on issues where religion intersects with the secular society. He engages variously with the Catholic George Pell and the Muslim Waleed Aly. He also takes issue with Richard Dawkins and the so-called ‘New Athesists’.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2004. 1. Pamphlet. New. This 1999 document and report of the Democratic Socialist Party provides a Marxist analysis of the change in the class nature of People’s Republic of China from a bureaucratically deformed socialist state to a capitalist one, the culmination of changes that took place in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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, 1997. 2. Pamphlet. New. The collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the USSR was the most significant event of the latter half of the 20th century. It led to widespread ideological confusion and demoralisation within the international workers movement. Here is a clear Marxist analysis of what happened in the Soviet Union in the past and what the return of capitalism there means.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2017. 2. Paperback. New. Written some 170 years ago, the Communist Manifesto is arguably the most famous political work of all time. This edition contains the original document by Marx and Engels plus number of prefaces written by them to various editions. A 1938 commentary by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky provides a ringing defence of the relevance of the key ideas of the Manifesto to the realities of modern world. And an introduction by Doug Lorimer sets the Manifesto in its political context.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Pamphlet. New. In the 1920s and thirties the Russian Revolution underwent a bureaucratic degeneration. The Communist International also suffered this fate. But in its first five years, when it was still led by Lenin and his closest collaborators, it elaborated a program and strategy that incorporated the lessons of the revolutionary era. Properly understood, it remains profoundly relevant to the struggles shaking the world today.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2017. 1. Pamphlet. New. At the end of the 19th century and in the early 1900s thousands of young women joined the Russian revolutionary movement to fight against the brutal tsarist autocracy and the harsh capitalist system which was developing. They saw achieving the liberation of women and better life for all as indissolubly bound up with socialist revolution and the building of a new society. They came to know both triumph and defeat as the first socialist revolution in history succeeded against all odds but later succumbed to a bureaucratic counterrevolution.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2013. 1. Paperback. New. The first systematic analysis of the political activity of the Communist Party of Australia in the trade union movement between 1945 and 1960. It The historiography of the CPA has generally focused on the industrial activity of CPA trade union members and has neglected this dimension.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2008. 1. Pamphlet. New. This short account of the history of the Cuban Revolution, both before and after the historic seizure of power in January 1959, concentrates on the role of the Cuban people in this process. Right from the start this was a broad-based movement, with deep roots among the masses, and a long and heroic history. The guerrillas in the mountains during the anti-Batista struggle could only have triumphed because they were the vanguard of a mass movement in the cities and towns as well as the countryside.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2000. 1. Pamphlet. New. This pamphlet is a defence of the Cuban Revolution and the line followed by its leadership team around Fidel Castro. It refutes sectarian criticisms made by British Socialist Party leader Peter Taaffe. Doug Lorimer provides a convincing defence of the revolutionary, democratic, anti-bureaucratic and internationalist record of the Castro leadership.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2004. 1. Pamphlet. New. An excellent introduction to the Cuban Revolution and its importance in world politics today. It argues that defending the Cuban people and their inspiring revolution remains an important task of the socialist movement.