Search Results: Titles starting with O from Resistance Books

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2003. 1. Paperback. New. Centred on works and speeches by Lenin, this collection also contains a number of appendices presenting material by Leon Trotsky, from the Bolsheviks’ program, Comintern documents, and so on. The selection documents the main ideas, debates and experiences in the Soviet communists’ struggle for the emancipation of women as well as the later Stalinist counterrevolution.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2000. 1. Paperback. New. In 1939 a sharp dispute broke out in the US Socialist Workers Party over the attitude to be taken to the Soviet Union in the second world war then getting underway. One of the components of the minority bloc that opposed the leadership’s position of unconditional support of the USSR was a personal grouping around veteran activist Martin Abern. This book is a study of what happens in a revolutionary organisation when principled political positions are subordinated to organisational and personal considerations.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 1998. 1. Paperback. New. In this volume, five leaders of the Democratic Socialist Party address the question of how a campaigning activist socialist party should organise itself. What should be its principles, methods and norms of conduct? The DSP dissolved into the Socialist Alliance in 2010 but this book still contains many important insights for socialist organising.

Sydney: Resistance Books, 2004. 1. Paperback. New. Frederick Engels’ classic analysis of the origins of class society and women’s oppression.

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.