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The following books are highly recommended. They are priced at £15.00 per hardback copy and £10.00 per paperback copy. Please contact books@cpgb-ml.org if you would like to purchase any of these books.
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Red Youth: Statement of Aims: We Want Freedom (30p)
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We stand for the control of working people over their own destiny. We understand that to control our own destiny, we need control over wealth in society; how it is produced and how it is distributed.
Since the real social wealth of our society is monopolised by a tiny clique of rich businessmen (capitalist imperialists), who control the major political parties, government policy, state institutions and media, we must work to get rid of the old undemocratic institutions, and form a new system that truly serves the people.
We declare our right to do so in the name of the desperately urgent needs and interests of ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Revisionism and the demise of the USSR (£3.00)
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The period between the 20th and the 22nd congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) witnessed the emergence, formation, growth and systematisation of Khrushchevite revisionism on a number of very important questions of principle, during which period the teachings of Marxism Leninism were subjected to wholesale revision, distortion and downright falsification.
Harpal Brar's 1992 book, Perestroika, concentrated on exposing the economic side of revisionism: the economic theories propounded, the practical steps taken and 'reforms' implemented by the Khrushchevite revisionists on the ... read full summary |
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CPGB-ML: After the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Israel's Days are Numbered (£3.00)
Early on the morning of Monday 31 May, in international waters some 90 miles from Gaza’s coastline, and in direct contravention of international law and the Geneva conventions, Israeli commandos forcibly boarded a peaceful convoy of aid ships that was headed to Gaza city.
Articles in this pamphlet tell the story of the attack, as well as setting out the consequences for Israeli zionism and for the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Following the attack on the flotilla, Israel has never been more isolated, in spite of all her weaponry, while, despite the Palestinians' lack of arms, their cause has never been so strong.
The question of Palestinian freedom is not merely an academic or altruistic one for British workers. ... read full summary |
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Capitalism and Immigration (£3.00)
The issue of immigration remains the Achilles’ heel of the British working-class movement, just as it was in Marx’s day, when he and Engels noted that the antagonism between Irish and English workers in England was the key to the impotence of the English working-class movement, despite the latter’s high level of organisation.
If we are serious about building a revolutionary movement capable of overthrowing British imperialism, it is imperative that those working within the movement are able to see clearly on this, the most divisive of issues, and are confident in thoroughly refuting all the bourgeois prejudices that have been so carefully inculcated in our minds via school, literature, the media etc.
As the capitalist crisis ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: The 1926 British General Strike (£3.00)
After the defeat of Chartism in the middle of the 19th century, the General Strike of 1926 was the most momentous event in the history of the British working class, with tremendous revolutionary potential. However, it was defeated by the combined forces of the British state, the TUC and the Labour Party.
This pamphlet is designed to explain the background to the strike, its actual course and the final betrayal and surrender by the treacherous leadership of the TUC and the Labour Party, as well as the lessons to be drawn from these historic events for our movement today.
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Harpal Brar: Nato's Predatory War Against Yugoslavia (£5.00)
24 March 2009 marked the 10th anniversary of Nato’s war against Yugoslavia.
Waged in the name of stopping ethnic cleansing, it was an exercise in gigantic ethnic cleansing; waged in the name of stopping genocide, it was a genocidal war against the Yugoslav people; waged in the name of averting humanitarian disaster, it caused the worst humanitarian disaster in Europe since the second world war; waged in the name of democracy and human rights, it was a war to impose puppet regimes in the constituent republics of former Yugoslavia; waged in the name of defending the sovereign rights of the Kosovan people, it was a war to set up a Nato puppet state in Kosovo.
Ten years on, even the most dull-witted can see that Nato, led by US ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Imperialism and War
Wars waged by imperialism against the people of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, and by its Israeli zionist agents against the people of Palestine and Lebanon, are no mere aberrations: they are the product of imperialism.
The worsening market conditions, the credit crunch, the slumping housing market, the plunging stock markets, the bankruptcy of some of the giant financial institutions – which are but symptoms of the crisis of overproduction – are exacerbating all the contradictions of imperialism and driving it to an endless war as the only solution to its incurable crisis.
Other imperialist wars will doubtless follow the wars raging presently, resulting ultimately in an inter-imperialist war for the redivision of the ... read full summary |
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CPGB-ML: Party Programme (50p)
You can buy physical copies from us for 50p or download the document as a pdf.... read full summary |
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George Habash and the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination (£1.00)
George Habash was born in 1926 in Palestine in the town of Lydd, which became Lod after the Israelis ethnically cleansed it at the time of partition in 1947.
At the time when George Habash was born, Palestine was a British ‘Protectorate’, a euphemism for a British share in the spoils of war, specifically the first world war. At the end of the war, the former Ottoman Empire was divvied up between the victors, with Palestine falling to the British, who had for decades been cultivating a special relationship with Palestine’s Jewish minority and with the world zionist movement, which had its eyes on Palestine as the centre of a Jewish homeland.
In the summer of 1948, whilst studying medicine in Beirut, George went back home to ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Imperialism – the Eve of the Social Revolution of the Proletariat
Times without number, the bourgeoisie and its ideologues have pronounced Marxism to be dead. Each time such foolish assertions have been made, Marxism has emerged stronger and more relevant than ever before.
The collapse of the USSR and the eastern bloc of socialist countries was once more the occasion for insanely foolish assertions, rising to a crescendo, that Marxism was dead (yet again!) and that capitalism is the eternal future of humanity.
Far from it. It is capitalism which is long past its sell-by date and is staring death in the face.
The contents of this volume are aimed at demonstrating the continuing validity of the science of Marxism Leninism as the only reliable weapon for the emancipation of the ... read full summary |
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Save the NHS From Capitalist Greed (£1.00)
“Britain’s NHS, which established health care as a right, has been progressively dismantled and privatised by successive governments over the past quarter-century. The story is of course not unique to Britain. Universal health care systems are being dismantled and privatised across the world. Making health care once again a commodity to be bought, rather than a right, has become the standard prescription of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organisation, and even the World Health Organisation …
With these opening words, Allyson Pollock introduces her study, NHS plc, which analyses in detail the accelerating process of health privatisation and the corrupt relationship between the ... read full summary |
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60th Anniversary of the Victory Over Fascism (£5.00)
"The bourgeoisie," said Engels, "turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is a part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods; it falsified the writing of history. And the best-paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie." (Material for the History of Ireland, 1870)
This shrewd observation of Engels' should be firmly kept in mind when judging the controversies raging between the proletarian and the bourgeois camps concerning the interpretation of the causes and the events that led to the second world war, the role in this war of the imperialist camp on the one hand and the socialist Soviet Union on the other and, ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar (editor): Chimurenga! The Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe
“The struggle against imperialism must be fought and fought in the interests of the masses of Zimbabwe” (Robert Mugabe)
The material presented in this book tells the story of Zimbabwe's national revolutionary struggle for liberation from the clutches of racism, colonialism and imperialism - beginning with the armed struggle for independence and culminating in final resolution of the most fundamental question of the liberation struggle, namely, the restoration of the land of Zimbabwe to its people.
Further, it emphasises the necessity for the proletarian revolutionary movement in the imperialist countries to support the national revolutionary movements of the oppressed people, stressing that such support is not merely ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar and Ella Rule: Imperialism in the Middle East
He who would understand the economics and politics of the Middle East from the beginning of the twentieth century must learn to spell, pronounce and really grasp the significance of just one word – OIL.
This single word furnishes the key to an understanding of all the burning questions of war and peace in the area, ranging from the struggle of the leading imperialist powers to carve up the Middle East in the aftermath of the first imperialist war to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the war in Lebanon, the Gulf War, the war in the Balkans, and the war in Afghanistan, presently being conducted with characteristic brutality by US and British imperialism.
What distinguishes oil is that is has become the commodity of all commodities, ... read full summary |
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Ella Rule (editor): Marxism and the Emancipation of Women
"... the first premise for the emancipation of women is the re-introduction of the entire female sex into public industry; and ... this again demands that the quality possessed by the individual family of being the economic unit of society be abolished''' (Engels).
" ... Public dining rooms, creches, kindergartens - these are examples of the shoots, the simple everyday means, which assume nothing pompous, grandiloquent or solemn, but which can in fact emancipate women, which can in fact lessen and abolish their inferiority to men in regard to their role in social production and in social life" (Lenin).
These quotations encapsulate the mission of the proletarian revolution finally to put an end to the social ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Imperialism – Decadent, Parasitic, Moribund Capitalism
"If geometrical axioms affected human interests, attempts would certainly be made to refute them." (Lenin)
The above words of Lenin’s apply, with equal force, to his own thesis on imperialism, which is a further, and brilliant, development of Marxism in the conditions of the latest – monopoly capitalist – stage of capitalism.
Right from its inception, Lenin’s thesis has provoked the most rabid hostility and opposition, on the part of the ideologues of the imperialist bourgeoisie as well as opportunists in the working class movement, for it has served to enlighten and organise the proletariat and the oppressed peoples in their struggle against the system of exploitation by one human being of another, and by one nation ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Bourgeois Nationalism or Proletarian Internationalism?
The question of the fight against racial discrimination is by no means confined to humanitarian considerations. It has far greater and far deeper significance for the working class. Central to the proletariat’s fight against racism is the recognition that the fight against racism is an integral part of its struggle against capitalism; it is the recognition by the proletariat that in the struggle for its own social emancipation it cannot make any significant advance unless at the same time it wages an uncompromising and relentless struggle against racism, for racism divides, weakens, and renders impotent the working-class movement.
In the words of Karl Marx: “Labour in the white skin cannot be free if in the black it is branded” ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Social Democracy – the Enemy Within
One of the assertions – an assertion which has acquired the force of a public prejudice -made not only by the left generally, but also, with some honourable exceptions, by that part of it which calls itself communist, is that the Labour Party is a party of the British working class, which can be an instrument of socialism in Britain. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the utter fallacy of this assertion and, on the contrary to prove that Labour, throughout its existence, ha been an imperialist party – a “bourgeois labour party”, to use Engels’ remarkably profound expression – that it has never championed the interests of the vast masses of the British proletariat, that it has always defended the interests of British imperialism ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Trotskyism or Leninism?
One of the myths perpetrated by the Trotskyites, with not inconsiderable help from the imperialist bourgeoisie, is that Leninism and Trotskyism are synonymous, that Trotsky was, after Lenin, the most brilliant and greatest Bolshevik (some even implying that Lenin was a great Trotskyist); that Trotsky was the true inheritor of Leninism and a worthy successor to Lenin, but was, alas, deprived of his rightful place by the cunning manoeuvres of a third-class mediocrity and oriental despot to boot, ie, Joseph Stalin.
This anti-communist myth, repeated ad nauseam decade after decade in truly Goebbelsian fashion, has acquired the force of a public prejudice. Anyone with the least knowledge of the subject cannot but be aware of the total ... read full summary |
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Harpal Brar: Perestroika – the Complete Collapse of Revisionism
In this short work, the author pursues two aims.
First, to explain the completely bourgeois and anti-Marxist-Leninist essence of the Gorbachev reforms, launched under the twin policies of Perestroika and Glasnost, allegedly for the purpose of renewing and strengthening socialism, which led to the collapse of socialism in the once mighty USSR.
Second, to explain, by reference to the wholesale revision, and downright distortion, of Marxism Leninism in the field of political economy, philosophy and class struggle, committed by the CPSU under the influence of Khruschevite revisionism ever since the 20th Party Congress, the long process, which, over a period of more than three decades, resulted in the emergence of the Gorbachev ... read full summary |
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