Big Flame
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,...
- Author: Max Farrar & Kevin McDonnell
- Publisher: -
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £30.00
REASONS TO REBEL
Published 24 September 2024. The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples’ livelihoods...
- Author: Sheila Rowbotham
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £17.99
THE POLITICS OF SOLIDARITY
The First International was founded with high ideals: ‘every individual or society joining it, will recognise morality, justice and truth as the basis of their conduct toward to all men, without...
- Author: A.W. Zurbrugg
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £25.00
A NEW GLOBAL GEOMETRY? SOCIALIST REGISTER 2024
In October 2022, President Joe Biden launched the United States’ new National Security Strategy, which warned that the world was at an ‘inflection point’, in which the ‘post-Cold War era is...
- Author: Edited by Greg Albo
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £20.00
ANARCHISM IN SPAIN
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 ...
- Author: Carlos Taibo
- Publisher: Anarres Editions
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £15.99
WOMEN IN BLACK
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...
- Author: Cynthia Cockburn & Sue Finch
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £15.99
JAMES CONNOLLY
This book offers a measured consideration of James Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It concludes with a review of Connolly’s dramatic final years: the First World War, the...
- Author: Liam McNulty
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £25.00
NHS UNDER SIEGE
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...
- Author: John Lister & Jacky Davis plus expert contributors
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £9.99
THE SOCIALIST IDEAL IN THE LABOUR PARTY
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...
- Author: Martin R. Beveridge
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £14.99
FROM SHARPEVILLE TO RIVONIA 1959 TO 1964
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...
- Author: Clare & James Currey
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £15.99
LONDON RECRUITS
With an introduction by Ronnie Kasrils and a foreword by Z. Pallo Jordan The history of the Anti-Apartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK. But another...
- Author: Compiled and edited by Ken Keable
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £17.99
MISBEHAVING
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 ...
- Author: Edited by Sue Finch, Jenny Fortune, Jane Grant, Jo Robinson and Sarah Wilson
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £15.99
CLIMATE STRIKE
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...
- Author: Derek Wall
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £10.00
WILLIAM MORRIS: ROMANTIC TO REVOLUTIONARY
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...
- Author: E.P. Thompson
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Price: £25.00
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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".
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...