Welcome. UK orders over £20 and pre-orders are post free

Merlin Press

Book of the Month

Big Flame

  • Author: Max Farrar & Kevin McDonnell
  • Isbn: 9780850367959
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Pub. Date: 2024-11
  • Price: £30.00

This book, written by two former members, addresses the ideas and experiences of a small revolutionary socialist and feminist organisation.

It reflects on influences (among them Italian Marxism, libertarianism, feminism) and critiques (of Leninism and Trotskyism) that helped shape Big Flame and reflects on its successes and failures.Many other former members write about their experiences in lively times and in harder times, after Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 election.

They say: "our book is aimed at those in the radical movements of every type who are seriously interested in political ideas and their relationship to political struggle. It seeks to assist all those who continue to challenge racist, patriarchal capitalism and to organise for a future where love and equality will prevail".


Recent Books
ANARCHISM IN SPAIN
Carlos Taibo
Anarres Editions
£15.99
Illustrations by Jacobo Pérez-Enciso    Translated by John Stewart    The Spanish anarchist movement of the early 20th century was, without doubt, the most powerful and ...
FACING THE STATE transform 2023
Edited by David Broder, Eric Canepa and Haris Golemis
Merlin Press
£25.00
Transform! 2023 considers the class character of the contemporary nation-state, its measure of relative autonomy from capital, and the left’s strategies to transform it. While neoliberalism has cut ...
WOMEN IN BLACK
Cynthia Cockburn & Sue Finch
Merlin Press
£15.99
Published June 6    Women in Black is both a tribute to the feminist activist and scholar Cynthia Cockburn, and resistance to gendered violence, from Israel’s occupation of...
NHS UNDER SIEGE
John Lister & Jacky Davis plus expert contributors
Merlin Press
£9.99
Published 19 May 2022   The NHS is in crisis. The past 12 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding have been disastrous.  John Lister and Jacky Davis look at the threat to the NHS...
THE SOCIALIST IDEAL IN THE LABOUR PARTY
Martin R. Beveridge
Merlin Press
£14.99
Published March 31Millions of people across the globe face a precarious existence because of Covid-19, climate change, and the greatest wealth inequality in a century. In Britain, the pandemic...
RADICAL IN DIVERSITY
Edited by Amieke Bouma, Cornelia Hildebrandt & Danai Koltsida
Merlin Press/Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
£20.00
What is the role of the radical left in Europe? How can regional groups parties and groups contribute to a common European left Scholars and activists from 22 countries explore radical left...
1933: Warnings from History
Edited by Paul Flewers
Merlin Press
£15.99
The coming to power in Germany of Hitler’s National Socialists in 1933 was possibly the biggest political disaster of the twentieth century. But the victory of Hitler was by no means...
FROM SHARPEVILLE TO RIVONIA 1959 TO 1964
Clare & James Currey
Merlin Press
£15.99
1959 was the year James Currey arrived in South Africa and found a nation in crisis. Hopes of change rose and foundered over the next five years. Letters and vivid conversations capture the...
MISBEHAVING
Edited by Sue Finch, Jenny Fortune, Jane Grant, Jo Robinson and Sarah Wilson
Merlin Press
£15.99
Published by the Misbehavers in association with the Merlin Press Protests at the Miss World contest in 1970 attracted headlines around the world. This book portrays the new and vibrant women’s ...
CLIMATE STRIKE
Derek Wall
Merlin Press
£10.00
Climate change is a product of the entire social and economic system within which we exist, in a word, capitalism. Challenging capitalism is essential to challenging climate change. We have...
WILLIAM MORRIS: ROMANTIC TO REVOLUTIONARY
E.P. Thompson
Merlin Press
£25.00
With a new foreword by Sheila Rowbotham 'Thompson's biography gives us the artist and the political fighter. Of the many books I have read on William Morris and his times, this is the one I...
MARGARET LLEWELYN DAVIES
Ruth Cohen
Merlin Press
£17.99
Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944), a co-operator, feminist and socialist, was well known in her time as the outstanding leader of the Women's Co-operative Guild. This first full scale biography...
THE TOWN THAT WAS MURDERED
Ellen Wilkinson
Merlin Press
£14.99
With an introduction by Matt Perry This well-researched survey of Jarrow, the town that gave its name to the Jarrow march, describes local and labour history, the impact of poverty and the misery...