Imperialism brought in its wake world politics and world economics. This was the objective criterion for launching the
Third (Communist) International. Stalin's counter-revolution brought the communist parties into a treacherous
decline, grabbing onto the coat tails of the leading forces in the liberal left and the institutional apparatuses. In this book, Pierre Frank explains how the Fourth International, tounded in 1938 by Revolutionary Marxist militants, nuclei, currents and organizations, answered the problem of the construction of anti-capitalist, revolutionary
Frank was secretary to Leon Trotsky in 1932-1933, and his book draws on his experience as a central leader of the Daniel Bensaid's appendix explains the following 30 years of the Fourth International life, developing the perspective of establishing a new independent political representation of the working class that takes into account the diversity of
Published by the International Institute for Research and Education as an issue of the 30 Ireland's Credit Crunch Morrison and Joe Corrigan (Resistance Press) £6. Reviewed by Piers Mostyn A century and a half ago Karl Marx warned that the English working class ignored Ireland at its peril. The economic crisis in Ireland is providing a vivid illustration. Despite forcing through a domestic austerity offensive throwing hundreds of thousands out of work and slashing budgets by 25%, David Cameron had no hesitation in throwing £9 billion at Ireland's banks to help shore up the sinking economy. Remarkably this was met without a murmur of dissent from a normally rabidly anti-European Conservative right wing that would have revolted had the cash's destination been Greece or Portugal. Even hardline xenophobes understood that, from the perspective of capitalism, there was little choice. Ireland's crisis is Britain's. British banks, like the partly nationalised RBS, stand to lose billions. The 26 county economy, moulded by its colonial history remains significantly dominated by imperialism and particularly British capital; hundreds of thousands of Irish workers live and work here; the 26 counties are a major export and import location; and the febrile "peace-process" in the North would easily be destabilised by upheaval in the 26 counties. In short, if Dublin blows the knock-on effect on London -economically, politically and socially - would be protound. British capital's rise to global eminence depended entirely on extracting profits from such outposts and using them to establish strategic hegemony. Rock the foundations and the building may fall. This book analyses the causes and consequences of the Irish crash and what the Irish working class should do about it. It traces the rise and fall of the "Celtic Tiger" since the early 1990s exposing as a The Long March of the Trotskyists
We live in an age where everything has been internationalised
neo-liberal ideologues that it proved the success of free As in Britain, the country's rulers have sought to absolve themselves of responsibility, claiming that the economy was brought down by international factors beyond their control. Of course this was a major element, but domestic factors played a key role and the chronology shows that it started in Ireland prior to the authors analyse the connectedness between the tault-lines giving rise to the crisis and the weakness of a capitalism still There is a detailed account of the government's austerity National Asset Management Agency (Nama), a state owned "bad bank" for toxic debts and a transfer of wealth from labour to capital. Job cuts, reduced wages, higher charges and dismantling the welfare state sound familiar. But this political formations. Fourth International through to 1979. the working class in defending a resolutely class-based programme. Notebooks for Study and Research and available from Resistance Books. is the most savage worst in Europe and a foretaste of Britain in double dip recession. Cameron's multi-billion pound bung to the Irish bankers is a foretaste of the serious knock on effects. The European Union was widely touted as saviour for the Irish economy by the pro-yes lobby in the campaign to reverse the defeat in the initial referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. But slogans like "vote yes for recovery" "vote yes for jobs" are now being replayed like a cruel joke. The Irish Congress of Trade Union's response has been supine - rooted in long term collaborationism through "social partnership". The authors set out a systematic alternative, based on an internationalist perspective beginning with the expropriation of the banks. A sound understanding of the Irish economic collapse and its interconnections to Britain, Europe and globally is vital for socialists on this side of the water. This book provides an indispensable starting point.
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These are just some of the titles we have published to date, and more are in the pipeline. They can be bought from Socialist Resistance, at the address below; or ordered online through Amazon.co.uk Books from Socialist Resistance Socialist Resistance PO Box 62732 London SW2 9GQ
Mexico's Zapatista rebels and the Seattle demonstrators were the tip of an iceberg of social and political revolt against the injustices of corporateled globalisation. In 2002 John Holloway, working in Puebla, Mexico, published Change the World without Taking Power. This book debates the implications of that slogan. £6 €7 $10
Documents of the differences which developed last year in how Respect should be organised and built, and which led to the split promoted by the SWP following criticism of its leadership role by almost everyone else, including Socialist Resistance. £3.50 €4 $6
Since World War Il the Middle East has suffered a seemingly unending period of war, foreign domination, environmental devastation and mass resistance to the region's ruling classes. In this book, that resistance speaks in its own words, in a collection of some of the most powerful articles written in the last sixty years by socialist, ecologist and anti-Zionist activists across the region. £10 €11 $17
A collection of important contributions to the debate on the ecology and global warming, and the limits of capitalism's ability to control the resulting destruction of the environment. This reprinted second edition is essential reading for anyone getting to grips with ecosocialism. £6 €7 $10
Written just prior
CUBA
to the start of the rectification period in 1986, John Lister's book explains the impact of Stalinism on the Castroist leadership. 'One very useful and detailed account of the development of the Cuban revolution' - Marxism Bulletin £4.95 €6 $8 Celia Hart Celia Hart came from
La family of veteran Cuban revolutionaries ever who fought with Fidel
do Late against the Batista or rebel 10(01 dictatorship. Celia
was an outspoken defender of the political and revolutionary heritage of Leon Trotsky. Her recent articles on this subject provoked an intense debate on the question of Trotsky internationally. £6 €7 $10
Ron Ridenour's CUBA follow-up to his Cuba BETOND CROSSROAD at the Crossroads,
written while he was livng and politically active in Cuba. £10 €11 $17 lan Angus, who wrote several of the articles in this book HELENOW and selected the
others from a wide range of authors and movements, is one of the world's best-known ecosocialist activists. He is editor of the online journal Climate and Capitalism, which has been described as 'the most reliable single source of information and strategic insights for climate justice. lan is also Associate Editor of Socialist Voice, an Advisory Editor of Socialist Resistance, and a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network. He lives in Ontario, Canada. £10 €11 $17
son Trotsk Trotsky's writings
on the permanent revolution are the theoretical mainspring The of proletarian Permanent Revolution revolutionary strategy
and are an obligatory study for all who aspire to lead the working-class in the struggle for socialism, whether in the capitalist countries of the West or in the backward colonial countries. £9 €10 $15
The credit crunch
Capitalist
of 2008 produced an international recession in 2009. In Socialists and the Capitalist Recession, Claudio Katz and Michel Husson, fellows of the International Institute for Research and Education, and SSP activist Raphie de Santos, describe the present crisis, construct a socialist analysis of its causes, and propose socialist solutions £6 €7 $10
The account of his life and struggle by a black activist in South Africa. It records the founding and growth of the revolutionary left organisations, and includes a stern, reasoned critique of the ANC and SACP. Nikani describes his exile, a clandestine mission back into South Africa, his escape to and imprisonment in Swaziland, and his final exile to Sweden, where he died in 1999. £10 €11 $17
In this personal and political account of organising car workers, Alan Thornett's first volume of biography describes his work in the militant Cowley Assembly Plant from 1959 to 1974, a period of outstanding struggle. In 1963 Alan was elected shop steward for the plant's transport drivers and in 1967, as a member of the Trotskyist SLL, as full-time deputy TGWU convenor in 1967. £10 €11 $17
31 Kautsky's 1908 Marxist classic is an account of how what began as a minor sect in Palestine became the state religion of the Roman Empire. There was a time when Kautsky was in the true sense of the word the teacher who instructed the international proletarian vanguard: -Leon Trotsky £12 €13 $20
Brazilian socialists André Passos Cordeiro, Ubiratan de Souza, Pepe Vargas, Raul Pont and João Machado describe in The Porto Alegre Alternative how Porto Alegre's participatory budget was born and developed with popular movements and local Workers' Party (PT) victories, and how it promises a radically democratic alternative in the interests of the poor to top-down political and economic decision-making. £12 €13 $20
Venezuela has THE REAL become a huge VENEZUELA
source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world. Some see it as a shining example of how to beginbuilding a successful socialist state, but Western leaders see it as adangerous enemy and accuse Chávez of being a dictator. This book revealsthe truth by examining the country from the ground up. £15 17 $25
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MARCH ALTERNATIVE: JOBS•GROWTH•JUSTICE
UNFAIR AND UNNECESSARY SAY SPENDING CUTS more details at www.tuc.org.uk/march join the campaign at www.falseeconomy.org.uk FOR THE NO TO
...
* SATURDAY 26
MARCH 2011
Assemble at 11am on Victoria Embankment,
between Temple Place and Blackfriars, to
march to a rally in Hyde Park
BACK THE ALTERNATIVE • a Robin Hood tax on the banks • closing tax loopholes • policies for jobs and green
growth
TOGETHER ALL SERVICES TUC