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![Changes 22 Dec[ember] 1990 – 18 Jan[uary] 1991, Special [42nd] Congress Issue.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/980/722/1356722980.0.b.jpg)
Changes 22 Dec[ember] 1990 – 18 Jan[uary] 1991, Special [42nd] Congress Issue.
by Communist Party of Great Britain
12 pages.
In the early 1980s a long-simmering dispute between the party leadership supported by the majority its members, and an anti-Eurocommunist faction, flared up when the London District Congress in 1984 was closed down for insisting on giving full rights to individuals whose membership of the CPGB had been suspended by the Executive Committee. After the CPGB General Secretary closed the London District Congress a number of members remained in the room and held what was, in effect, the founding... Read more about this item
In the early 1980s a long-simmering dispute between the party leadership supported by the majority its members, and an anti-Eurocommunist faction, flared up when the London District Congress in 1984 was closed down for insisting on giving full rights to individuals whose membership of the CPGB had been suspended by the Executive Committee. After the CPGB General Secretary closed the London District Congress a number of members remained in the room and held what was, in effect, the founding... Read more about this item
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€20.00
The Communist Party in Manchester, 1920-1926.
by Frow, Ruth and Edmund
80 pages.
A clean tight copy.
Ruth and Edmund (Eddie) Frow, in addition to their full-time occupations, were highly respected historians and founders of the Working Class Movement library at their home in Trafford, Manchester. Life-long members of the CPGB they collected a large and wide array of books and material concerning labour and working-class history and anti-capitalist social movements. This detailed publication covers the period from the formation of the CPGB in Manchester and Salford up to... Read more about this item
A clean tight copy.
Ruth and Edmund (Eddie) Frow, in addition to their full-time occupations, were highly respected historians and founders of the Working Class Movement library at their home in Trafford, Manchester. Life-long members of the CPGB they collected a large and wide array of books and material concerning labour and working-class history and anti-capitalist social movements. This detailed publication covers the period from the formation of the CPGB in Manchester and Salford up to... Read more about this item
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€15.00
Pollitt answers Foot
by Pollitt, Harry
15 pages.
Paper wrapper, a little age-toned. Text clean and unmarked.
The 'Plan for Coal' may be seen as a somewhat last-ditch effort of the coal mine owners to stem the tide of argument in favour of wholesale nationalisation of the UK mining industry – an essential service during the second world war. This pamphlet is a critique of the proposals for industry reorganisation set out in the 'Plan for Coal'.
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Paper wrapper, a little age-toned. Text clean and unmarked.
The 'Plan for Coal' may be seen as a somewhat last-ditch effort of the coal mine owners to stem the tide of argument in favour of wholesale nationalisation of the UK mining industry – an essential service during the second world war. This pamphlet is a critique of the proposals for industry reorganisation set out in the 'Plan for Coal'.
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€20.00
British Prime Ministers And Other Essays (Penguin History S.)
by Taylor, A J P
Paperback. Acceptable.
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€1.42
Trade Unions the New Reality : the Communist View
by Carter, Pete
51, [1] pages.
Card cover very slightly bowed. Text clean and unmarked.
Written by the then CPGB National Industrial Organiser it was published at a time when the CPGB had renounced many of its previous stances and positions in favour of a Euro-communist perspective. Based upon a report first made to the CPGB Executive Committee on 08/03/1986, it was published as a far-reaching contribution to discussions on the future of the trade union and labour movement following years of setbacks and defeats... Read more about this item
Card cover very slightly bowed. Text clean and unmarked.
Written by the then CPGB National Industrial Organiser it was published at a time when the CPGB had renounced many of its previous stances and positions in favour of a Euro-communist perspective. Based upon a report first made to the CPGB Executive Committee on 08/03/1986, it was published as a far-reaching contribution to discussions on the future of the trade union and labour movement following years of setbacks and defeats... Read more about this item
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€10.00
The Crisis and The Outlook
by Hobsbawm, Eric
16 pages.
Paper wrapper edges marginally creased. Text clean and unmarked.
Taken from a lecture given by Professor Hobsbawm in January 1975. Cartoon cover by Ken Sprague.
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Paper wrapper edges marginally creased. Text clean and unmarked.
Taken from a lecture given by Professor Hobsbawm in January 1975. Cartoon cover by Ken Sprague.
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€15.00
What We Say about: housing, education, women, racialism, work, health, democracy.
32 pages.
Card cover with bookshop sticker over price. Slight creasing to top corner of pages 23-27. A clean tight copy.
A detailed local political programme for the London borough of Lambeth.
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Card cover with bookshop sticker over price. Slight creasing to top corner of pages 23-27. A clean tight copy.
A detailed local political programme for the London borough of Lambeth.
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€12.00
DOCKS! The Fight for Jobs
by Dunn, Bill
8 pages.
Paper wrapper a little soiled with the remains of a price sticker to the upper top cover. Internally clean.
A response to the threats facing the docks industry with alternative policy proposals.
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Paper wrapper a little soiled with the remains of a price sticker to the upper top cover. Internally clean.
A response to the threats facing the docks industry with alternative policy proposals.
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€10.00
President Kennedy and Britain
by Nunnerley, David
London: The Bodley Head. 1972. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Dj has light edgewear and some scattered foxing to the flaps and inside. The book has very faint scattered foxing to endpapers. xii, 242 pages. Takes a close look at the Anglo-American relationship during the Macmillan/Kennedy era. Almost all the protagonists who determined or advised on policy in Washington and Whitehall were...
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€13.59
Lloyd George
by Chris Wrigley
Paperback / softback. New. Assesses the main features of Lloyd George's career from his early days when he established a reputation as a fiery radical, his work as a social reformer, his stance vis-a-vis the Boer War, his career during World War I and his work in the peace-making process, and his later years out of office.
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€53.05
Power A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin
by McBride, Damian
London: Biteback Publishing. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 435 pages. The autobiography of Gordon Brown's disgraced Senior Adviser. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€11.12
Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield, to several celebrated individuals of the time of Charles II, James II, William III, and Queen Anne, with some of their replies
by Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
United Kingdom: E.Lloyd and Son . 387 pages. Signatures on browning end paper also the bookplate of Vivian de Sola Pinto. A few minor relevant annotations on page before frontispiece. Sound hardback cloth cover with some irregular fading and a few marks etc( see image). Internally sound and tight but occ. light foxing esp. to preliminaries. Slight ragged edge to bottom of frontispiece. Hardback. Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield, to several celebrated individuals of the time of Charles II,...
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€14.19
A Singular Marriage. A Labour Love Story in Letters and Diaries
by MacDonald, Ramsay & MacDonald, Margaret.; edited by Jane Cox
London: Harrap. 1988. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Afterword by Sheila Lochhead. 386pages. The family story of British politician Ramsay MacDonald and his wife Margaret. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€12.36
Oppose Tory Policies: Take Britain on a Different Course.
by McLennan, Gordon
36 pages.
Clean and unmarked.
A general overview of the CPGB's political message and programme by the then CPGB's General Secretary.
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Clean and unmarked.
A general overview of the CPGB's political message and programme by the then CPGB's General Secretary.
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€5.00
The North West Technological Relic or Modern Industrial Region?
16 pages.
Prepared by the Industrial Development Committee of the North West District of the CPGB, to draw attention to some of the problems facing the people of the region and present some possible solutions for discussion.
A clean tight copy.
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Prepared by the Industrial Development Committee of the North West District of the CPGB, to draw attention to some of the problems facing the people of the region and present some possible solutions for discussion.
A clean tight copy.
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€15.00
Productivity Agreements an Exposure of the Latest and Greatest Swindle on the Wages Front.
by Ramelson, Bert
23, [1] pages. Clean and unmarked.
A critique of the then trend towards the negotiation of agreements to increase benefits for workers based upon increasing productivity.
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A critique of the then trend towards the negotiation of agreements to increase benefits for workers based upon increasing productivity.
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€5.00
The Making of the Prime Minister
by HOWARD, Anthony & WEST, Richard
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ spine a litte age-toned. 239 pages. The story of the British election campaign of 1964. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€9.27
UCS: The Fight for the Right to Work.
by Murray, Alex
The author was Secretary of the CPGB's Scottish Committee.
19, [1] pages.
Paper wrapper with minimal age-toning. Internally clean.
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders on the River Clyde. It entered liquidation, with much controversy, in 1971. That led to a "work-in" occupation and campaign at the company's shipyards. In June 1971, the loss-making Upper Clyde Shipbuilders went into receivership.... Read more about this item
19, [1] pages.
Paper wrapper with minimal age-toning. Internally clean.
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders on the River Clyde. It entered liquidation, with much controversy, in 1971. That led to a "work-in" occupation and campaign at the company's shipyards. In June 1971, the loss-making Upper Clyde Shipbuilders went into receivership.... Read more about this item
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End the Ban: Communist Party Members of EETPU Present the Case for Equal Rights.
14 pages.
Paper wrapper with price sticker to rear. Text clean. Near fine.
Sets out the history of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union's (EETPU) ban on members of the CPGB holding office in the Union. Introduced in the early 1960s by the then ETU leadership, which included ex-Communists, following a ballot rigging scandal involving senior CPGB ETU office holders the ban led to a long period of right-wing leadership of the EEPTU. This pamphlet presents out the CPGB's case... Read more about this item
Paper wrapper with price sticker to rear. Text clean. Near fine.
Sets out the history of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union's (EETPU) ban on members of the CPGB holding office in the Union. Introduced in the early 1960s by the then ETU leadership, which included ex-Communists, following a ballot rigging scandal involving senior CPGB ETU office holders the ban led to a long period of right-wing leadership of the EEPTU. This pamphlet presents out the CPGB's case... Read more about this item
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€15.00
Defeat the Anti-Union Laws
by Costello, Mick
23, [1] pages.
Clean and unmarked.
Critique of the then Conservative government's anti-trade union actions and policies and specifically its latest 'Employment Bill'.
Fine condition.
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Clean and unmarked.
Critique of the then Conservative government's anti-trade union actions and policies and specifically its latest 'Employment Bill'.
Fine condition.
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€8.00
Higher Education in the Nuclear Age.
23, [1] pages.
Card cover age-toned and with very small blemish to top cover. Internally clean and un-marked.
Puts forward proposals to assist the development of a movement for the expansion of higher education.
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Card cover age-toned and with very small blemish to top cover. Internally clean and un-marked.
Puts forward proposals to assist the development of a movement for the expansion of higher education.
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€10.00
AMERICA – Go Home!
by Kartun, Derek
15, [1] pages.
Paper wrapper a little dusty. Text clean and unmarked.
Cartoons, including cover by Gabriel (James Friell). A critique of America's domestic and global (expansionist) policies – militarism, unequal application of justice in the USA, favourable treatment of Nazis held in the USA, wealth and inequalities, etc. "AMERICA is now trying to gets its grip on most of the world and to destroy what it cannot hold."
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Paper wrapper a little dusty. Text clean and unmarked.
Cartoons, including cover by Gabriel (James Friell). A critique of America's domestic and global (expansionist) policies – militarism, unequal application of justice in the USA, favourable treatment of Nazis held in the USA, wealth and inequalities, etc. "AMERICA is now trying to gets its grip on most of the world and to destroy what it cannot hold."
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€27.50
The British Road to Socialism (3 versions).
by Communist Party of Great Britain
(a) The British Road to Socialism. New text prepared by the Executive Committee as instructed by the 25th [special] Party Congress. The Communist Party, London 1957. 8vo. (212 x 140 mm), 30 pages. Paper wraps, age-toned. Text clean. Good condition.
(b) The British Road to Socialism. Programme of the Communist Party. The Communist Party, London, October 1968 (republished October 1972). 12mo. (182 x 120 mm), 72 pages. Card cover slightly age-toned. Text clean. Very good condition.
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(b) The British Road to Socialism. Programme of the Communist Party. The Communist Party, London, October 1968 (republished October 1972). 12mo. (182 x 120 mm), 72 pages. Card cover slightly age-toned. Text clean. Very good condition.
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€30.00
The Second Front
by Wainwright, William
15, [1] pages plus 2 page leaf tipped in at the start of the pamphlet.
Paper wrapper and pages age-toned. Stain to lower corner of pages 3 to end.
With the German forces attacking the Soviet Union, sets out arguments for the opening of a second front against the Germans. Two page addition tipped in referencing the recent opening of a British offensive against German forces in Libya, and publishing a statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in response to this development.
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Paper wrapper and pages age-toned. Stain to lower corner of pages 3 to end.
With the German forces attacking the Soviet Union, sets out arguments for the opening of a second front against the Germans. Two page addition tipped in referencing the recent opening of a British offensive against German forces in Libya, and publishing a statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in response to this development.
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€17.50
The Communists were right!
15, [1] pages.
Paper wrapper age-toned. Text clean and unmarked.
Using evidence from the Nuremburg trials of Nazi war criminals, justifies Communist arguments during the second world war, particularly with regard to the early opening of a second front, that the war against the Axis powers could have been handled differently. Written as the Allied powers' co-operation turns towards cold war.
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Paper wrapper age-toned. Text clean and unmarked.
Using evidence from the Nuremburg trials of Nazi war criminals, justifies Communist arguments during the second world war, particularly with regard to the early opening of a second front, that the war against the Axis powers could have been handled differently. Written as the Allied powers' co-operation turns towards cold war.
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€19.00
