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Book Bundle 1
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- Get both ‘The Commonwealth of Britain’ and ‘The Cost of Living Crisis’ for £12, saving £2.99 over our regular prices, when bought individually. To see more details and reviews, click on each book in the shop. Free Postage
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- Get both ‘Lessons in Organising’ and ‘The Cost of Living Crisis’ for £15, saving £3.50 over our regular prices, when bought individually. To see more details and reviews, click on each book in the shop. Free Postage
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But My Fist is Free
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Class Writer
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Don’t Mention the Children
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- Although Michael Rosen is one of our best-loved writers for children, his poems for grown-ups are less well known. Don’t Mention the Children is his first collection since Selected Poems (Penguin) in 2007. Fans of his children’s books will enjoy the way these poems combine the silly and the sinister to catch the surrealism of everyday life, somewhere between Jacques Prévert, Ivor Cutler and Adrian Mitchell.…
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Heroes in the Evening Mist
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His Hands Were Gentle
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- Víctor Jara (1932-73) was a legendary Chilean singer, songwriter, guitarist and theatre director. A leader of the New Song Movement, in the aftermath of the military coup of 1973, Jara was arrested, imprisoned and executed. His Hands Were Gentle brings together, for the first time in both Spanish and English, the best of Víctor Jara’s lyrics, from early songs like ‘El arado’…
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James Connolly & The Re-Conquest of Ireland
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- James Connolly was an Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader. Born to Irish parents in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s. Although mainly known for his position in Irish socialist and republican politics, he also took a role in Scottish…
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Lessons in Organising
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- The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the ‘turn to organising’ in the union movement today. This turn to collective organising builds strength at a local as well as a national level, and also aids in…
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Life and Times of Pete Curran
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London Recruits
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- The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they acted in defiance of the apartheid government and its police on the instructions of the African National…
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Lugalbanda – Lover of the Seed
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- Beautifully designed, printed and written with some stimulating discussion notes, this book is a fund-raiser for the Free Ocalan campaign. It brings to the attention of a modern readers a poem written 5,000 years ago but still with incredible relevance to us today. The imprisoned political leader Abdullah Ocalan draws attention to the first Sumerian civilization built between the Tigris…
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Maduro: A decade of continuing Chávez’s socialist anti-imperialist struggle
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- Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Secretary and Latin American expert Francisco Dominguez looks at the progress Venezuela has made under a decade of Maduro’s leadership. Free Postage
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My Life’s Battles
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Our Trade Unions, What Comes Next After The Summer Of 2022?
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- Nigel Flanagan brings to the question of organising a sharp and critical analysis of the problems thrown up in the new world of work. The hot summer of 2022 anticipated an even hotter autumn. Railway workers, post and telecom staff, train drivers, teachers, health workers, higher education staff all took their place in a wave of strike ballots and –…
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Rise Like Lions
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- About the Author William Ash was born in Texas but fought as a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War before spending three years in a German prisoner-of-war camp. His repeated attempts to escape made him one of the models for the character played by Steve McQueen in the film ‘The Great Escape’, and were chronicled in his bestselling memoir…
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Singing the Changes
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- This book chronicles the songs of Dave Rogers, longstanding member of the Birmingham Banner Theatre. It chronicles 30 years of struggle and marks the Banner Theatre’s 30th Anniversary celebrations. The book is presented as 85 songs of resistance and celebration, spanning over three decades of events. Interspersed between the songs are concise, informative historical accounts of the events themselves recalled…
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Speaking Tools – Poems 1975 to 2005
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- Poetry: fierce, passionate, tender, political, lyrical and well-crafted. Poetry restored to its place in the struggle for social change. Poetry for poetry addicts and the general reader. Writing within the great tradition of progressive literature from Langland to MacDiarmid,Doug Nicholls restores poetry to its public place and hertage in political and philosophical debate. These poems reflect thirty years of recent…
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The Commonwealth of Britain
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- Doug Nicholls was first elected as a trade union General Secretary in 1987 and retired as General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions in 2023 as the longest serving union secretary of his generation. This collection celebrates Britain’s red thread of progressive thinking from the early concepts of an egalitarian commonwealth, to the actual first republic, and the…
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The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)
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- We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has “printed” too much money, or that events far away, such as the war in Ukraine, are solely to blame.…
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The Many Not The Few
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- An illustrated history of Britain shaped by the people A union rep and his granddaughter discuss the history of the labour movement, from the 14th century right up to today. Sean Michael Wilson has done a brilliant job assembling his workers’ manifesto, with the stoic assistance of historical advisor Doug Nicholls. Robert Brown’s simple, straightforward no-nonsense black and white art…
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The RTP Downsized
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- Glasgow writer/musician Martin Chomsky set about the daunting task of downsizing Robert Tressell’s classic The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist into a graphic novel in order to bring the story and its important message to younger readers. Free Postage
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