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CoverThe Green London Way: Walking the city's history and wildlife Bob Gilbert
Completely revised edition, including Olympic perimeter walk 'More than ever now … we need the sanity and the calm informative voice of walkers like Bob Gilbert. This is more than an elegy, it's an inspiration: open your eyes, see what is there and not what you are told is there.' Iain Sinclair

CoverSocialism with a Northern Accent: Radical traditions for modern times Paul Salveson
'there is no more relevant source for the renewal of today's Labour Party in its orientation towards bringing energy and life back to the regions of England … a very important contribution to the debate on how Labour can renew itself as a national party with roots in working communities throughout the country.' Maurice Glasman

CoverAfter the Party: Reflections on life since the CPGB
Andy Croft (editor)

Twenty years after the demise of the Communist Party of Great Britain, eight former members reflect here on some of the personal, political and cultural changes of the last twenty years. Contributors: Dave Cope, Andy Croft, Alistair Findlay, Stuart Hill, Kate Hudson, Andrew Pearmain, Mark Perryman, Lorna Reith Publication date: May 11 2012

coverAnarchist Studies 20.1
In this issue of Anarchist Studies Brian Schill examines anti-copyright and postanarchism, and Daniel Jaeckle explores anarchist ethics in Ursula Le Guin. Other contributors to this issue: Chris Dixon, John Quintus, Iain McKay, Constance Bantman, Keith Hodgson, Paul Chambers, Seth Crownover, Laura Greenwood, Nathan Jun, Gavin Grindon, Toby Boraman.

CoverSoundings 50 Where's Labour?
Contributors Guy Aitchison, David Armstrong, Peter Beresford, Aditya Chakrabortty, Phil Cohen, Patrick Diamond, Alan Finlayson, Jeremy Gilbert, Michael Kenny, Tess Lanning, Neal Lawson, Doreen Massey, Mark Perryman, Michael Rustin, Engelbert Stockhammer, Jon Wilson

More about Soundings Publication date: April 18 2012

CoverTwentieth Century Communism
Issue 4 2012
Communism and youth
This issue looks at communism through the prism of its relationship to young people.
Contributors
include Leo Goretti, Evan Smith, Juliane Brauer, Elke Weesjes, Pia Koivunen, Kimmo Rentola, Detlef Siegfried
Publication date: April 18 2012

ebook cover
Regeneration Free online book
Edited by Guy Shrubsole & Clare Coatman
'politics through the prism of generation, through which can be discerned a first glimmer of a post-neoliberal consensus'

Part of the Radical Future e-book series
Print version also available

ebook coverThe neoliberal crisis Free Soundings online book
Edited by Jonathan Rutherford and Sally Davison

Key Soundings essays on the crisis of the neoliberal regime Contributors: John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin.


ebook coverWelfare Reform Free Soundings online book
The contributions to this short ebook have been written in the moment of political campaigning. They bear witness, employ argument and offer statistical evidence to challenge the way both Labour and the Coalition governments have designed and implemented welfare reforms.


newformations 74new formations 74 Food on the Move
Contributors: Daniela Caselli, Heng-Chang Chi, Jean Duruz, Danielle Gallegos, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Jeffrey Geiger, Ben Highmore, Peter Jackson, Panikos Panayi, Annebella Pollen, Elspeth Probyn, Tara Blake Wilson, Amanda Wise




Looking Back at the Spanish Civil WarThe Labour tradition and the politics of paradox
Free online book


Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears, Stuart White
(eds)

Foreword by Ed Miliband


coverLeadership & Democracy
Stephen Williams and R.H.Fryer
NUPE played a key role in some of the major struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, not least in the battles of the Winter of Discontent. Its championing of the low-paid and defence of the public sector are of continuing relevance in today's harsh political climate.

cover Revolutionary communist at work:
a political biography of Bert Ramelson

Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley
Ramelso was the Communist Party's National Industrial Organiser in the 1960's and 1970s. He received the accolade of being named by prime minister Harold Wilson as the most dangerous man in Britain.


coverRENEWAL 19.3/4 Winter 2011
Contributors: Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, Jacqui Briggs, John Denham, Gregor Gall, Gavin Hayes, Tim Horton, Mariana Mazzucato, Catherine Needham, Adam Ramsay, Matthew Richmond, Ed Rooksby, David Rowland, Robert Saunders, Hopi Sen, Marc Stears, Andy Tarrant, Noel Thompson, Robert Tinker, and Richard Toye.


ebook coverRevisiting Associative Democracy free online book

Edited by Andrea Westall
Contributors: Anthony Barnett, Rosemary Bechler, Ian Christie, Maurice Glasman, Su Maddock, Sam Mauger, Penny Shepherd, Graham Smith, Jonathan Michie, Andrea Westall, Stuart White.




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