Kennard. (£1,00) 1945 faced by Socialist Challenge 3 December 1981 Tatsuichiro Akizuki, Nagasaki The author was a doctor in a Nagasaki hospital when the bomb was dropped. It is a vivid account of what happened and of the problems the survivers. Very easy to read. (22.30) Peggy Duff. Left, Left, Left Sub-titled, a personal account of six protest campaigns 1945-65: the author says in the preface that the book is not an autobiography, but an account of political campaigns with which she was involved. She died early this year and was best known as the secretary of CND until 1965. Makes interesting reading. (E1.95) Julian Atkinson and Tony Southall, CND lessons of the First Wave This short pamphlet discusses the debates which went on in CND in the 1960s. The most important lesson it draws is CND's failure to turn to the labour movement in an organised way a lesson which still has to be learnt. A must for all those presently involved in CND.
(50p) Other pamphlets available West Newcastle Nuclear Disarma- ment Group, Myth (30p) Eric Burhop, The Neutron Bomb (35p) Philip Bolsover, Civil Defence: the cruellest confidence trick (40p) Betty England, Nuclear disarma- ment for Britain, why we need ac- - how to fight the missiles tion not words (30p)
AP Pre THIRD WORLD PUBLICATIONS Exploding the Nuclear MARXISM Trotsky, Writings, 14 volumes, A must for any revolutionary's bookshelf. Brings together many pamphlets, articles and letters, in- cluding several never before translated. A comprehensive survey of Trotsky's struggle from 1929 to 1940, first to bring the international communist movement back to a Leninist position; the fight against the growth of the Stalinist bureaucratic stranglchold on the Soviet Union; and laying the theoretical and organisational foun- dations of the Fourth International.
(13.95) Trotsky Betrayed The classic analysis of Stalinism and the degeneration of the first workers' state. A brilliant appraisal placed on that achievement by TO TONY TRD (0211 773 G572 RD WORLD' Stalinist degeneration.
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Trotsky Permanent Revolution Perhaps Trotsky's most important contribution to Marxist theory. Of special relevance today with the emergence of new revolutionary regimes in Latin America and the Carribean, the overthrow of the Shah in Iran and the post-colonial developments in Africa and Asia Essential for an understanding of the nature of these new regimes and the problems which confront them nationally and internationally.
(£2.30) James P. Cannon First Ten Years of American Communism (E3.25), History of American Trial (£2.95) of the achievements of the working class in power and the limitations 1936 Stalinism was being bolstered by the "Friends of the Soviet Union', who brought back super-idealistic pictures of what was happening in When the book was published in the Soviet Union. Trotsky called this "socialism for radical tourists". Jewish Jew Trotskyism (£2.95), Letters from Prison (£3.25), Notebook for an Agitator (f3.25), Socialism on Any of these books by Cannon, a founder member of the International Left Opposition and the Fourth In- ternational, is a text book of prac- tical application of Marxist theory to international working class politics. Cannon's writings are models of proletatian journalism. Isaac Deutscher The Non- Written in Deutscher's inimitable brilliant style this book is of interest to Jew and non-Jew alike. The new edition is enhanced by a biographical memoir by Tamaro Deutscher. (£2.70)
NOVELS Yuan Tsung Chen, The Dragons Village An autobiography based on Chen's own experiences during the Chinese revolution and her political work with peasants in a remote part of China. (£3.50) Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter The story of a young woman strug- gling to find her own identity in pre- sent day South Africa. It is both a unique portrait of the women and, an excellent social and political account of South Africa. (E1.95) Valerie Miner, Blood Sisters Centred around two generations of women, the novel explores several themes on the divisions between them in their social and political lives between their involvement in the women's movement and the Irish struggle. (83.50)
for Young Men Julia O'Faolain, No Country The effects of the Irish civil war of the 1920's on four generations of O'Malleys and Clancys is graphically explored through the recurring visions and nightmares of Sister Judith Clancy. (E2.95) Jan Claussen, Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover An enjoyable collection of short stories about women by American feminist poet. (E2.50) JA Lane (ed), The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. In Yellow Wallpaper a young woman is slowly driven to madness by her husband. stories in this collection explore uto- pian situations and choices we can make to change our lives. (E2.95) Gilman's other AND AN IRISH TOWN Eamonn McCann THE DRAGON'S VILLAGE Yuan-tsung Chen An autobiographical novel of Revolutionary China Worker Bees WORKER BEES Alexandra Kollontai LOVE OF Michael Farrell, Northern Ireland, the Orange State Michael Farrell was a student at Queens University Belfast when the "troubles' broke out and was active- ly involved in the civil rights move- ment. Together with Bernadette Devlin, another from the nationalist community who managed to get to Alexandra Kollontai, Love of Around the lives and thoughts of the women in Kollontai's three stories is woven vivid descriptions of peoples everyday rebutor and an ebates and conflicts between sexual rela- tionships and political work. (52.95) Stephanie Markman, The Rime of the Ancient Feminist The Ancient Feminist's tale about her marriage, depression, involve- ment with left-wing politics and the women's movement is a very moving and honest description of one woman's experiences and will be recognisible to many of us. (E1.25)
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