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Arthur Horner: A Political Biography
Volume 1 1894-1944, Volume 2 1944-1968
Nina Fishman (1946-2009)
Two-volume biography of miners' leader Arthur Horner 'Nina Fishman's book is, at last, a worthy record of the significant contributions to the working class and the history of twentieth century Britain by a very remarkable man.' Eric Hobsbawm

EuroMemorandum 2009-10
Europe in crisis: a critique of the EU's failure to make a concerted response to the financial crisis
Contributors: Wlodzimierz Dymarski, Trevor Evans, Miren Etxezarreta, David Flacher, Marica Frangakis, John Grahl, Mahmood Messkoub, Catherine Sifakis, Diana Wehlau and Frieder Otto Wolf.
Courtesy of the EuroMemorandum Group

Anarchist Studies 17.1 Anarchist Studies 17.3
Articles includeReiner Tosstorff on The syndicalist encounter with Bolshevism, Ralph Darlington on Syndicalism and the influence of anarchism in Europe, Kevin Morgan on Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzshe and the anarchist as superman and Chris Earlham on Jose Peirats and the CNT.

Soundings 43 Business as usual
Contributors: John Clarke, Michael Rustin, Mark Perryman, Roshi Naidoo, Helen Bird, Max Boykoff, Mike Goodman, George Monbiot, Jo Littler, Julian Petley, John Grahl, Andrew Sayer, Ben Carrington, Glyn Ford, Sayeed Khan, Bill Schwarz, Jon Cruddas, Jonathan Rutherford
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Where now for European Social Democracy?

Online debate organised by Soundings and Social Europe
Debate on the future of social democracy in Europe, with contributors from across Europe discussing Building the Good Society, a document written in June 2009 by Labour's Jon Cruddas and Andrea Nahles of the SPD.

Renewal 17.3
Contributors: Philip Arestis, George Irvin, Tim Jackson, Daniel Leighton, Adam Lent, Martin McIvor, Johnna Montgomerie, Malcolm Sawyer
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newformations 67 Reading Life Writing
Cora Kaplan and Jenny Bourne Taylor (guest editors)
Contributors: Jérôme Hansen, Margaretta Jolly, Esther Leslie, Alison Light, Roger Luckhurst, Jane Mansfield, Ray Monk, Griselda Pollock, Claudine Raynaud, Martin Ryle, Lynne Segal, Alan Sinfield, Carolyn Steedman, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Gillian Swanson, Geoffrey Wall
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Twentieth Century Communism
A journal of international history
Twentieth Century Communism is a new international forum for research and discussion of communist history. Issue 1, now out, is on communist leader cults and features articles on Brazil, Vietnam, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Britain and Finland.

Breaking Up Britain
Mark Perryman (editor)
A dialogue on devolution to mark the tenth anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. 'This brilliant book helps us understand what Scots, Welsh, Irish and English neighbours freed from an unhappy Union might look like.' Billy Bragg
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Feelbad Britain: how to make it better
Pat Devine, Andrew Pearmain and David Purdy (editors)
Feelbad Britain puts forward a framework for understanding contemporary politics and considers what is to be done to revitalise the British left, challenge neoliberal hegemony and develop a political project aimed at creating a greener, fairer, happier, more democratic and less divided Britain.
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Norfolk Red: The Life of Wilf Page, countryside communist
Mike Pentelow

A new biography of Wilf Page, champion of agricultural workers, promoter of justice in the countryside, rural communist councillor and lifelong community activist.
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The crash - a view from the left (free to view online book)
Edited by Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford
Click here for critical alternatives to dominant economic thinking
Contributors: Jon Cruddas, Clive Dilnot, Bryan Gould, John Grahl, Colin Hines, Adam Leaver, Toby Lloyd, Lindsay Mackie, Robin Maynard, Richard Murphy, Carlota Perez, Ann Pettifor, Michael Prior, Jonathan Rutherford, Göran Therborn.

ebook cover Is the future Conservative?
(Free to view online book)
Edited by Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford
Critical analysis of New Conservative thinking by writers from the left and right - including Neal Lawson, Oliver Letwin MP, Tony Juniper, John Harris and Phillip Blond.

Agreement!
The state, conflict and change in Northern Ireland
Beatrix Campbell
Published ten years after the Good Friday Agreement, this book is about the people, ideas and movements that created it. But it is also about its limits; how the Agreement's promise was frequently betrayed. Read introduction

Imagined Nation
Edited by Mark Perryman
Imagined Nation explores the possibilities for England after Britain - as a multicultural nation, capable of addressing the legacies of history, yet confident enough to construct an inclusive future.
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The T & G story A History of the Transport and General Workers Union, 1922-2007 Andrew Murray
The Transport and General Workers Union was the biggest trade union in Britain for much of the 20th century, with its membership in the late 1970s reaching more than two million. It organised workers across the whole economy - from the docks to the car factories, from light engineering to aviation - and its activities touched the lives of many.

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War
Edited by Jim Fyrth with Sally Alexander
Perhaps more than any other war in the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War was seen as a 'writers' war' - names such as Hemingway and Orwell spring to mind. But the women who went to Spain and wrote about it have often been forgotten. This anthology is part of efforts to redress the balance ...

Ideology, Absolutism and the English Revolution
David Parker
Offers a glimpse into some of the early debates inside the History Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whose members included Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm. This book focuses on the debates of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century section and their work on ideology and absolutism...

Building a Citizen Society
Stuart White and Daniel Leighton
'The ideals of civic republicanism have been undergoing a renaissance in scholarly circles for many years. This volume brings those ideas to bear on a range of contemporary issues … lucid, radical and relevant.' Richard Reeves
'a major contribution to neorepublican democratic theory' Philip Pettit

Development of Socialist Economic Thought: essays by Maurice Dobb Edited and introduced by Brian Pollitt
This collection brings together a selection of essays written in the 1960s and 1970s, on socialist economic thought and planning. The essays discuss many issues of relevance today - how to bring about growth in non-industrialised countries; non-market approaches to the economy; and the relevance of Marx to analysing commodity capitalism.

Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall
Edited by Brian Meeks
The essays in this collection are a tribute to Stuart Hall, and to the outstanding contribution he has made to contemporary cultural, social and political thought.
Read some of Stuart's essays in our Reading Room.

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