Books

Resistance Press is the book publishing project of Socialist Resistance. Visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/shops/resistance_books to buy our new and secondhand books. To find out more about the books we’ve published, visit http://resistancebooks.blogspot.com. You can order Resistance Press books from us directly, or from any bookstore. Just note down the ISBN, title and lead contributor’s name as listed below. We have volume discounts for bookshops and progressive organisations.

We also sell books and pamphets that others have published. Visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/shops/resistance_books see the full list. The bestsellers are listed below.

  • From Militancy to Marxism: Personal and Political Account of Organizing Carworkers, Alan Thornett’s first volume of biography describes his work in the militant Cowley Assembly Plant from 1959 to 1974, a period of outstanding struggle. In 1963 Alan was elected as shop steward for the plant’s transport drivers and in 1967, as a member of the Trotskyist SLL, as deputy TGWU convenor (a full-time position) in 1967.
  • The 33 Day War: Israel’s War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Aftermath, Gilbert Achcar 
  • The Fallacies of State Capitalism. This 1991 debate between Chris Harman, of the SWP, and Ernest Mandel, a leader of the Fourth International, discusses whether the USSR was capitalist. Written in the wake of Glasnost and Perestrokia, Mandel argues against Harman’s view that “the move from the command economy to the market is neither a step forward nor a step backwards, but a step sideways, from one way of organising capitalist exploitation to another.”
  • The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism in the 21st Century, Iain Bruce 
  • Cuba: radical face of Stalinism. Written just prior to the start of the rectification period in 1986, John Lister’s book explains the impact of Stalinism on the Castroist leadership. “One very useful and detailed account of the development of the Cuban revolution” - Marxism Bulletin.
  • The Porto Alegre alternative. Brazilian socialists André Passos Cordeiro, Ubiratan de Souza, Pepe Vargas, Raul Pont and João Machado describe in The Porto Alegre Alternative how Porto Alegre’s participatory budget was born, how it works, how it developed in interaction with popular movements and spread with local Workers’ Party (PT) victories, and how it has staked out new ground in promising a radically democratic alternative in the interests of the poor to top-down political and economic decision-making.

All our books are printed on archive-quality acid-free paper. Most are demy octavo, the regular paperback size. Karl Kautsky’s book is textbook sized (Crown Octavo).

We welcome readers’ suggestions for ways that we improve our books and their distribution. We especially value suggestions for additional volumes we can reprint or publish. Our forthcoming books include:

  • Organising Carworkers, a volume of Alan Thornett’s autobiography
  • Living internationalism, a history of the International Institute for Research and Education by Murray Smith and Joost Kircz
  • The conflict in Palestine, edited by Cinzia Nachira