The history of the workers' movement from Index Books
Every
one of
these books is written by a leader who writes not as an eye-witness,
but
as an active participant and leading fighter for a socialist
perspective
and the emancipation of the working class. These books include accounts
of struggles in Vietnam before and during the second world war, in
Hungary,
and in Britain.
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. . and Red is the Colour of our Flag
Oskar Hippe
The life of a
Trotskyist
in Nazi Germany.
978-1-871518-02-3 305pp. £9.95
Aspects of
British Black
History
Peter Fryer
In a few short
chapters,
black people's contribution to British history is outlined.
978-1-871518-04-70 56pp. £5.99
FIghting Back
in Ukraine:A
worker who took on the bureaucrats and bosses
Oleg Dubrovskii
with
Simon Pirani
An important source
for
understanding the break-up of the former Soviet union and the role of
workers'
organisations and struggles, by a trade union leader.
978-1-871518-17-7 67pp. £2.50
 Hungarian
Tragedy
and other writings on the 1956 Hungarian revolution
Peter Fryer
New edition of Peter
Fryer's
classic account of the armed confrontation between the Hungarian people
and the Stalinist regime in 1956. Peter Fryer wrote this account soon
after
the events of 1956, and after the refusal of the Communist Party
newspaper,
which had sent him to Hungary, to publish his reports. This edition is
expanded to include Fryer's other writings of the period which show how
the shock waves affected the Communist Party in Britain.
978-1-871518-14-6 192pp. £11.99
Lifelong
Apprenticeship:The
life and times of a revolutionary, Volume 1, 1920-1959
Bill Hunter
A document of social
history
in which Hunter describes growing up in a miner's family in the Durham
coalfield before the war, and how he became a leader of the Trotskyist
movement in the 1940s and 1950s.
original edition 978-1-871518-13-9 440pp. £10.00
Polmaise: the
fight for
a pit
John
McCormack
The fullest account
of the
1984-85 miners' strike in Scotland by a militant pit deputy from
Stirlingshire.
Essential reading on postwar British labour history.
978-1-871518-01-6 99pp. out of print
 Revolutionaries
They Could Not Break:
The Fight for the Fourth International in Indochina 1930-1945
A
remarkably
modest work by a veteran Vietnamese Trotskyist
Ngo Van
978--871518-07-8 234pp. £11.99
Staying Red: why I remain a socialist
Norman Harding's evolution as a
Trotskyist, standing
up for socialism against the betrayals of Stalinism. In 1985 he had no hesitation in standing against corruption
and abuse in the heart of the party to which he had given the best
years
of his life. His account is the only one written by a participant in
the
explosion that expelled Party leader Gerry Healy from the Workers Revolutionary Party.
What little there is on the internet and elsewhere in print is inaccurate and
fails
to grasp both what the party achieved and how its members dealt with
the
corruption.
Norman Harding
978-1-871518-25-3 300pp. £12.99
They Knew Why
They Fought:
Unofficial
struggles and leadership on the docks 1945-1989
Bill Hunter
This is a passionate
book,
full of lively anecdotes as it seeks to explain the struggle for a
fighting
union leadership in one of the hardest industries in postwar
Britain.
978-1-871518-09-2 141pp. £7.99
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