New Books and Pamphlets by Red Star Publishers


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New additions to Red Star Publishers are listed here, in reverse chronological order of posting (most recent first):
 

Five books by D. N. Pritt. Pritt was a left-wing Member of Parliament from the Labour Party, but was expelled from the Labour Party for supporting Russia in its war with Finland in 1939-1940. He was an independent Labour MP until 1940.
Light on Moscow, 1940, 140 p. $6.50 Cover A good explanation, especially useful for those new ro socialism, of the role of the Soviet Union during the period of the non-aggression pact with Germany.
Must the War Spread? 1940, 219 p. $8
Cover
Russia is for Peace, 1951, 100 p. $5.50 Cover
The Fall of the French Republic, 1940, 140 p.$6.50 Cover
Discusses the role of French imperialism from World War I to its collapse with the Nazi invasion of June 1940. It includes a lengthy discussion of the Popular Front and its betrayal.
The State Department and the Cold War, A commentary on its publication, “Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941”. 1948, 93 p. $5.50 Cover


Historia de la Guerra Civil en la U.R.S.S., tomo 1, 1935, 532 paginas. Al momento solo en internet. Portada.

Historia de la Guerra Civil en la U.R.S.S., tomo 3, 1958, 773 paginas. Al momento solo en internet. Portada.

Historia de la Guerra Civil en la U.R.S.S., tomo 4, 1959, 827 paginas. Al momento solo en internet. Portada.

Historia de la Guerra Civil en la U.R.S.S., tomo 5, 1960, 781 paginas. Al momento solo en internet. Portada.
 

Trotskismo: Contrarrevolución disfrazada. M.J. Olgin. $6. Portada. Una excelente respuesta a las principales calumnias trotskista contra la Unión Soviética y Stalin. Incluye capítulos sobre el socialismo en un solo país, la revolución y el campesinado, la revolución china, la situación alemana y la cuestión del socialfascismo, y más. Traducido en español por primera vez por Trabajadores y Estudiantes Comunistas por el Cambio Social de Puerto Rico.
 
Revolutionary Democracy, October 2023. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as well as on historical questions of the international communist movement. Only the contents and pictures are available here. To see the contents in html format, go to www.RevolutionaryDemocracy.org

Booklet containing articles from the 2023 International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America. $6. Cover.

Folleto con articulos del Seminario Internacional de 2022: Problemas de la Revolucion en America Latina: $6. Portada.
 

War and Peace in Finland, by Soviet Russia Today, 1940. A detailed explanation of the reasons for the Soviet-Finish war of 1939-1940, with a background of Finland's situation from its independence after the October Revolution. Internet only.
 

Harry Haywood: Black Bolshevik, 1978. Internet only. In archives of Revolutionary Democracy journal.

The Munich Conspiracy, by Andrew Rothstein. 1958. Internet only.

Warmongers Unmasked: History of Cold War in Germany, Wilfred Burchett. 1950. Internet only. Although this book is dated, it has valuable historical material on how the Western powers were the ones responsible for the division of Germany.

William Z, Foster: Toward Soviet America, 1932. Internet only. Although some of his views were outdated by the need for a United Front against Fascism, this book has valuable information, particularly on the role of the Socialist Party.
 

The Class Nature of China Today, 2021. (P) $2. Cover. An update on the class nature of China, including Xi Xinping's "One Belt One Road" initiative.

Reader in Marxist Philosophy, edited by Howard Selsam and Harry Martel. Originally published in 1963, this edition was reprinted in India in 2010. This 378-page book contains lengthy selection from the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, organized by topics. Internet only.

Culture in a Changing World, by V.J. Jerome. 1945, $5. Cover. Although this 73 page book is written in a somewhat abstract style, it is a very useful work on a Marxist view of culture. The author was the editor of the Communist Party magazine, Political Affairs.

Marxism and Modern Idealism, by John Lewis. 1945. A brief, 50 page booklet that gives a clear explanation of dialectical materialism versus idealism. Internet only.
 

Unity & Struggle #46. May 2022. $7. Cover.

Unidad y Lucha #46. Mayo 2023. $7. Portada.

Revolutionary Democracy, April 2023. $6.
 

Economía Política: Curso para principantes, (versión original). A. Leontiev, 1935. $5. Portada, Eso es una traducción en español de parte de Ediciones Frente Cultural de México.
Versión 2. Lo mismo como el original, pero con citas de los clásicos del Marxismo-Leninismo de fuentes que pueden encontrar en el internet.
 

A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, Langston Hughes, 1934. $6. Cover. This 64-page pamphlet, barely known in the U.S., describes in more historical than autobiographical form Hughes' travels through Soviet Central Asia as in I Wonder as I Wander, with positive comparisons of Soviet Central Asia to the degradation of the U.S. South. (It is also not copyrighted so we can freely reprint it.).

Fascism and the Social Revolution, by R. Palme Dutt, November, 1934. $11. Cover. This 321 page book was written by a leading member of the British Communist Party. Although it is superseded by Dimitrov's United Front, written a half-year later, it still contains worthwhile details on the development of fascism.
 

Jean Boulier: I Was A Red Priest. The autobiography of Father Boulier, who studied to became a Jesuit priest and supported the communists, both in the period of the united front and after. He worked with progressive Catholic groups in Eastern Europe, and particularly in the peace movement. This 2022 English translation is fully annotated, with numerous appendices. Over 700 pages. $19.

Unity & Struggle #45. November 2022. $7. Cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO).

Unidad y Lucha #45. Octubre 2022. $7. Portada. Revista de la Conferencia Internacional de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L (CIPOML).

Engels: The Housing Question. $5. 1873, A polemic with the followers of Proudhon, who considered the housing question as equivalent to the exploitation of labor power.

Engels.

Engels. Contribucion al problema de la vivienda. $5. 1873. Una polemica con los seguidores de Proudhon, los cuales consideraron la problema de la vivienda como equivalente a la explotacion de la fuerza laboral.


Lenin: Reply to P. Kievsky (Y. Pyatakov), 1916. (P) $2. Cover. This little-known 6-page letter discusses the question of democracy in relation to socialism.

Lenin: Respuesta a P. Kievski (Y. Piatakov), 1916. (P) $2. Portada. Esta carta de 7 paginas, que no es bien conocida, explica la tema de democracia en relaction al socialismo.
 

Several articles from the International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America, 2022:
Brazil: Revolutionary Communist Party
Dominican Republic: Communist Party of Labor
Ecuador: Marxist-Leninist Communist Party
Ecuador: Mariano Santos
Mexico: Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Peru: Communist Party Marxist-Leninist
Peru: Anti-Fascist Anti-Imperialist Popular Front


Algunos articulos del Seminario Internacional: Problemas de la Revolucion en America Latina, 2022:
Brasil: Partido Comunista Revolucionario (en Portugues)
Ecuador: Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista
Ecuador: Mariano Santos
Mexico: Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista)
Peru: Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista
Peru: Frente Popular Anti-Imperialista Anti-Fascista
Republica Dominicana: Partido Comunista del Trabajo


The June Shutdown in Ecuador. Cover.
This 40 page printed pamphlet includes full-color pictures. $5. The uprising, started by the indigenous people, was joined by major trade unions, women, youth and others. The main cause was the rise in prices, particularly of oil. After 18 days, and at the cost of at least 6 dead and hundreds of wounded and arrested, the government gave in to the main demands.

Paro de junio en Ecuador. Portada. Este panfleto de 40 paginas incluye los fotos en color. $5. El levantamiento empezo con el movimiento indigena pero estaba juntado por sindicatos, mujeres, jovenes, etc. La causa principal era el alto precio de productos, particularmente petroleo. Gano del gobierno casi todas las demandas.

Revolutionary Democracy, Sept. 2022. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as well as on historical questions of the international communist movement.
 
Revolutionary Democracy, April 2022. $6
 

Unity & Struggle #44. May 2022. $7. Also in pdf and cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO).

Unidad y Lucha #44. Mayo 2022. $7. Tambien en pdf y portada. Revista de la Conferencia Internacional de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L (CIPOML).

Marx: Critique of the Gotha Programme. $5, 1875. Marx's critique of opportunist errors in the new programme of the German Social-Democrats.
 

Pablo Miranda: The Class Nature of the Communist Party, 2014, reprinted in 2022. (P). Cover. $2.

Pablo Miranda: Naturaleza de clase del partido comunista, 2014, reimprimido en 2022. (P). Portada. $2.

The Negro Question in the United States, by James S. Allen, 1936. A detailed explanation of why African-Americans in the Black Belt formed a nation. Internet only.

VII Congress of the Communist International, Abridged Stenographic Report. This 600 page report contains most (though not all) of the Speeches to the Congress. Internet only..

Program of Action of the Red International of Labour Unions, by A. Lozovsky, 1921. Internet only.
 

History of the International Communist Movement, 1848-1917. Actually from the Communist Manifesto until the death of Marx. 1976. 162 pages. $5

The Story of Soviet Progress, by Corliss Lamont. 1938. This 36 page pamphlet gives a short summary of the achievements of the Soviet Union. $5

Engels: La revolución de la ciencia de Eugenio Dühring (“Anti-Dühring”). 1894. $6

How the Steel Was Tempered. 1933. An autobiographical novel by a young worker in the civil war. Published in the US under the title "The Making of a Hero." Internet only. Cover.

Así se templó el acero. 1933. Una novela autobiográfica de un joven trabajador en la guerra civil. Solamente en internet. Portada.

Unity & Struggle #43. November 2021. $6. Also in pdf and cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO).

Unidad y Lucha #43. Noviembre 2021. $6. Tambien en pdf y portada. Revista de la Conferencia Internacional de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L (CIPOML).

Fundamentals of Political Economy, 1974. Also known as the Shanghai Textbook. This book shows the Chinese view of political economy during Mao's era. There is also a lengthy critique of this book from a Marxist-Leninist perspective. Internet only.
 
Cuando y porqué el socialismo en la Unión Soviética fracasó. Portada. Escrito originalmente por el KPD(ML) de Alemania en 1966, esta traducido en español por primera vez en 2021. Edición imprimida: $7. Este libro de 207 páginas es un esfuerzo de una perspectiva marxista-leninista de explicar las raíces del desarrollo del revisionismo en la Unión Soviética, mas allá que decir que "Jruschov era traidor" (aunque sí era). A pesar de unos errores políticas, es uno de los pocos esfuerzos de tratar con esta tema, que es de suma importancia por el movimiento comunista.

Volume 2: A controversial discussion about socialism. Discussion of the above book by various political forces in Germany. Only on internet. This is a rough translation from the German (particularly of the shaded phrases).

Band 2: Eine kontroverse Diskussion über den Sozialismus. Diskussion über das obengenannte Buch durch verschiedene politische Kräfte. Nur im Internet.

Russia and America, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1950. This is an unpublished manuscript. While it is valuable for its description of the Soviet Union, which Du Bois visited several times, it is not a Marxist view, particularly in its positive treatment of militarist Japan before World War II. Internet only.

The Origin of Life on Earth, by A.I. Oparin, third revised and expanded edition, 1945. This 492 page book by a Soviet author explains how organic matter could develop from inorganic matter, thus undermining one of the religious arguments for creation of living beings by a supernatural being. Internet only. We include the original image pdf since there may be formulas that were not written correctly by the OCR software.

Lenin: On the National Pride of the Great Russians, 1914. (P) $2.

The Origin of Life on Earth
, by A.I. Oparin, third revised and expanded edition, 1945. This 493 page book by a Soviet author explains how organic matter could develop from inorganic matter, thus undermining one of the religious arguments for creation of living beings by a supernatural being. Internet only. We include the original image pdf since there may be formulas that were not written correctly by the OCR software.
Relevant today as different from Critical Race Theory

Revolutionary Democracy, Sept. 2020 & April 2021. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as well as on historical questions of the international communist movement.

How Man Became a Giant, by M.Ilin & E. Segal, 1945. $7. This 180 page book by two Soviet authors gives a simple but not simplified account of the development of man from ape to class society.

Lenin: Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. $6. This 127 page book explains the differences between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks in the beginning of the 1905 revolution. Cover.

Lenin: Dos tácticas de la social democracia en la revolución democrática. $6. Este libro de 127 páginas explica las diferencia entre Bolcheviques y Mencheviques en la empieza de la revolución de 1905. Portada.

Lenin: Un paso adelante, dos atrás. $8. Este libro de 223 páginas explica en detalless las diferencias tempranos entre los bolcheviques y los mencheviques. Portada.

Lenin: Materialismo y empirio-criticismo, 1908. $10. Portada. Este libro de334 páginas es uno de las obras más importante de la filosofía marxista, junto con el Anti-Dühring de Engels. Es escrito por los que quieren hacer una estudia seria de filosofía, no por los que empiezan. Portada.
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Lenin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 1904. $8. This 227 page book details the early differences between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Cover

Lenin: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, 1908. $10. This 334 page book is one of the best Marxist works on philosophy, together with Engels' Anti-Dühring. It is meant for those who wish a serious study of philosophy, not for beginners. Cover

Unity & Struggle #42. May 2021. $6. Also in pdf and cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO).

An Elementary Course in Philosophy, by George Politzer. $6, 1950.  The first part of the work of the French Marxist philosopher, put together by his students after he was executed by the Nazis in occupied France in 1942..

Principios elementales y fundamentales de filosofia, George Politzer. $9. La version completa del libro del filósofo maxista, compilado por sus estudiantes después de su execución por los nazis en Francia ocupado en 1942.

Historia de la Guerra Civil en la U.R.S.S., tomo 2. $13, 1936, casi 700 páginas No tan ideológico como la Historia del PCUS(b), pero incluye muchos detalles politicos sobre el período de 1914 hasta octubre de 1917. Pdf y portada gratis.

Lenin on the Emancipation of Women. A selection of articles. $4. Cover

Lenin sobre la emancipación de la mujer. Una selección de artículos. $4. Portada

Lenin: A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism, 1916, $4. Cover

Lenin: Una caricatura del marxismo y el “economismo imperialista”, 1916, $4. Portada

Political Economy - A Textbook. Thiis 620 page book is the English translation of the second, revised edition of the Soviet textbook from 1955. Available in print for $20, or for free download: pdf and cover.

Manual de Economia Politica. Eso libro de 765 pags. es la traduccion del primero edicion del libro de texto de 1954. Disponible en prenta por $25 o gratis en forma pdf con portada.

One can compare the English and Spanish books above to see the difference between the 1954 version and the 1955 revised version.
Se puede comparar los libros en ingles y español para ver la diferencia entre la version de 1954 y la version revisada de 1955.

Unity & Struggle #41. November 2020. $6. Also in pdf and cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations.

Unidad y Lucha #41. Octubre 2020. $6. Tambien en pdf y portada. Revista de la Conferencia Internacional de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L.

The following items, originally prepared as pamphlets,are now also available in book format, for $4 each:
     Stalin: From Socialism to Communism in the Soviet Union
     Harpal  Brar: Preface to Trotskyism or Leninism
     William F. Dunne & Morris Childs: Permanent Counter-Revolution - The Role of the Trotzkyites in the Minneapolis Strikes
     William F. Dunne: Gastonia
     William F. Dunne: The Great San Francisco General Strike
     Walter Linder: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against GM 1936-37
     Anna Louise Strong: The New Lithuania
     Pablo Miranda: The Indigenous and Popular Uprising (in Ecuador), a Victory over Neoliberalism
     Pablo Miranda: Levantamiento indígena popular, victoria sobre el neoliberalismo

Please note: several of the books directly below deal with different aspects of the situation in the Soviet Union during the socialist period. They are meant as companion pieces to the discussion raised in "When and Why Socialism in the Soviet Union Failed."

Russia and America, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1950. This is an unpublished manuscript. While it is valuable for its description of the Soviet Union, which Du Bois visited several times, it is not a Marxist view, particularly in its positive treatment of militarist Japan before World War II. Internet only.

I Wonder as I Wander (excerpts), Langston Hughes. Internet only. Although published in 1954, several chapters of this autobiography describe Hughes's experiences of his year spent in the Soviet Union in 1932-1933. He spent much of his time in Central Asia to see how the non-white people there were treated. (He also has some amusing descriptions of Arthur Koestler just before he publicly broke with communism.) Also included is a chapter on Hughes's experience in Spain for several months in 1937.

I Change Worlds: The Remaking of an American, Anna Louise Strong. 1935. Internet only. Strong spent almost 25 years in the Soviet Union as a sympathetic journalist. The book also has some mention of the "party maximum," which apparently still existed at that time.

USSR: The Story of Soviet Russia, Walter Duranty, 1944. Internet only.  Duranty was the long-time Moscow correspondent for the New York Times. Although he was not a Marxist, he did provide a relatively object account of events in the Soviet Union.

Women in the Soviet East, Fannina W. Halle. 1938. Internet only. A very valuable book describing the introduction of socialism in the Soviet East. (The first chapters, on Matriarchy and Patriarchy, while  interesting, deal with the pre-Soviet period.) There are a series of good pictures at the end.

Behind the Urals, John Scott, 1942, Internet only. This book is by a non-communist U.S. worker who spent five years helping to build the Magnitogorsk iron and steel plant. He gives an interesting account of the conditions in the plant at that time.

History of the Party of Labour of Albania, 1982. $15. This 600 page book is the official history of the heroic socialist country in Europe, including its fight against Titoite, Khrushchevite and Chinese revisionism.

When and Why Socialism in the Soviet Union Failed. Cover. Originally written by the KPD(ML) of Germany in 1996, it is translated into English for the first time in 2020. Print edition: $7. This 217 page book is an attempt from a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint to get at the roots of the development of revisionism in the Soviet Union, beyond saying that "Khrushchev was a traitor" (though he was). Despite a number of political errors, it is one of the few attempts to deal with this question,which is of utmost importance to the communist Movement.

Wann und warum der Sozialismus in der Sowjetunion scheiterte. The above book in the original German. Internet  only.

This Land is Their Land: A Revolutionary Working People's History of the United States, by George Gruenthal. $5. Also free in pdf & cover. Second, expanded edition, 2019. A 184 p. illustrated book giving a brief overview of U.S. history.

PCOF: For a Revolutionary Break with the System. 2020. $5. 123 p. Also in pdf & cover. A detaled analysis of he struggles of the French workers and people against neoliberal attacks, It makes clear that revolutionary movements can develop in an imperialist countries, not just in oppressed countries.

PCOF: Pour une rupture révolutionnaire avec le système. 2020. $5. 127 p. Aussi en pdf et couverture. Une analyse détaillée des luttes des travailleurs et du peuple français contre les attaques néolibérales. Il est clair que les mouvements révolutionnaires peuvent se développer dans des pays impérialistes, pas seulement dans des pays opprimés.

Pablo Miranda: The Indigenous and Popular Uprising (in Ecuador), a Victory over Neoliberalism, October 2019, 66 p. $4. Cover. A detailed description of the uprising that set back the neoliberal plans of the government.

Pablo Miranda: Levantamiento indígena popular, victoria sobre el neoliberalismo. Octubre, 2019. Solamente en pdf. Una descripción detallada del levantamiento que retrasó los planes neoliberales del gobierno.

Unity & Struggle #40. May 2020. $6. Also in pdf & cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations.

Unidad y Lucha #40. Abril 2020. Solamente en pdf. Organo de la Conferencia Internacinal de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L.

Revolutionary Democracy, April, 2020. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as well as on historical questions of the international communist movement.

The Titoites, by Enver  Hoxha. 1982. $13. This 585 p. book contains a detailed account of Titoite revisionism and its plots against against Albania. Titoite Yugoslavia became the first example of revisionism in power.

Imperialism  and the Revolution
, by Enver Hoxha. 1979. $9. This 300 page book contains an exposure, not only of U.S. imperialism, but also Soviet social-imperialism and Chinese imperialism. Although it is overall excellent, it does have errors, including its evaluation of Cuba.

Pablo Miranda: The Indigenous and Popular Uprising (in Ecuador), a Victory over Neoliberalism, October 2019, 66 p. $4, Cover.

History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. Vol. 2. $16, 1946, 700 p. Many details, including military ones, from October to November, 1917. Includes dozens of pictures. Free pdf and cover.

History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. Vol. 1. $12, 1936, 500 p. Not as ideological as the History of the CPSU(B), but includes many political details of the period from 1914 to October, 1917. Free pdf and cover.

Georges Politzer, Principios elementales y fundamentales de filosofía. 340 pág. $9.

Unity & Struggle #39. December, 2019. $5. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations.

Unidad y Lucha #39. Octubre, 2019. $5. Organo de la Conferencia Internacinal de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L.

Revolutionary Democracy, October, 2019. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as well as on historical questions of the international communist movement.

N.B. Turner et al: Is China an Imperalist Country? 2014. Internet only. This book, apparently by a Maoist collective, gives the answer in the affirmative, showinng by detailed analysis that China today meets all of Lenin's characteristics of imperialism.

R. Osborn,  Freud and Marx, 1937. Internet only. A serious attempt to combine the views of Freud and Marx. The author wishes to use Freud's view of the subconscious to uncover the ideas that people are not even aware of that may be holding them back from socialism. Although this may be worthwhile, the author also brings in other constructs of Freud, includiing the ego, Oedipus complex, etc. The interested reader should make up his/her own mind on this.

La URSS: Desmintiendo la propaganda burguesa. Recopilación de archives para desmentir la propaganda burguesa en contra de la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas desde 1922 hasta 1945. Publicada por Colectivo Dos de Febrero. Mas de 300 paginas en tamaño de 8.5" x 11". $11. O gratis en formato pdf

Maxim Gorky: On Guard for the Soviet Union
. Published 1933. $5. A series of essays defending the Soviet Union. His essays were cited in the Moscow treason trials as one of the reasons that Trotsky wanted to have him assassinated, as Gorky's essays were attracting a lot of support for the Soviet Union from youth in the captalist countries.

Maxim Gorky: Culture for the People. Published 1939. $5. A series of polemical essays essays on culture.

South Africa: Four pamphlets from the April 2019 Congress of the South Africa Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (the party that grew out of the National Metalworkers Union after the Marikana miners' massacre in 2012):(P) Manifesto $2, Cover; Constitution $3, Cover; Red Book $4, Cover; Guiding Documents $3, Cover.

Frances Stonor Saunders: Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, 2000. Internet only. A liberal account of how after World War II the CIA financed many cultural institutions to counter Soviet socialist culture. Once you get past the author's anti-communism, it has many valuable exposures of the U.S. Cold War on thecultural front.

Toby Terrar & Monty Thornburg: The Civil Rights History of Greene County, Alabama from a Rank and File Perspective: It’s More Than Race, 2019. It concentrates on the role of public  school teacher Robert Brown. 63 pages, 8.5 x 11. $5

Alex Bittelman: Trotsky the Traitor, 1937. (P) $3. Cover

Engels: Principles of Communism, 1847. (P) $2. A sort of prelude to the Communist Manifesto, written in question and answer form. Cover

Michael Sayers y Albert Kahn, La Gran Conspiración contra Rusia, 1946. $11. Este libro clasico explica las conspiraciones imperialistas y trotslyistas contra la Unión Sovietica, en traduccion español. Envoltura.

Engels: Principios del Comunismo, 1847. (P) $2. Un preludio al Manifesto Comunista, en la forma de preguntas y respuestas. Envoltura

Stalin: Marxismo y la Cuestión Nacional, 1913. $4

Stalin: Problemas Económicos del Socialismo en la URSS, 1952. $4.

Stalin: Sobre los defectos del trabajo del partido y sobre las medidas para liquidar a los elementos trotskistas y demás elementos de doble cara, 1937. (P) $3. Envoltura

Stalin: Brevemente sobre las discrepancias en el partido, 1905. (P) $2. Envoltura

Stalin: Pleno conjunto del C.C. y de la C.C.C. del P.C. (b) de la U.R.S.S., 1933. $4

In China, Capitalism Is Being Consolidated, Not Socialism, PCML Ecuador. A popular pamphlet exposing present-day China as a capitalist country. 2017.  (P) $2. Cover

En China se consolida el capitalismo, no el socialismo, PCML Ecuador. Un panfleto populaar que expone como China de hoy es un pais capitalista. 2017. (P) $2. Envoltura.

Proceedings of the Trials of Slansky, et al in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1952. The transcript of the trial of the Czechoslovak Titoists. Among other things, they were tried for weakening the economy by developing light over heavy industry and making the country dependent on capitalist countries(see particularly the testimony of Frejka). Ironically, a few years later, the Khrushchevites carried out similar policies. Internet only.

Documents on the Mindszenty Case, 1949. Additional material on the Mindszenty case from before the trial. Internet only.

Moscow, 1937. A sympathetic but not uncritical description of the Soviet Union by the well-known German author Lion Feuchtwanger. It includes his evaluation of the second of the famous Moscow treason trials. Included in this edition is the evaluation of the book in the journal of the Communist International. $5

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!, Claudia Jones, 1949. A comradely criticism of progressives, including other Communists, by a leading Black Communist Woman. (P) $3. Cover

The Trial of Jozsef Mindszenty, Budapest, 1949. Transcript of the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty and his accomplices, found guilty of plotting to overthrow the Hungarian government. They had even made up a list of cabinet members, supporters of the Hapsburg empire, who would form a future government.  They also  recognized that such a government could only come to power through a U.S. occupation as the result of a third world war. Internet only.

Laszlo Rajk and His Accomplices before the People’s Court, Budapest. 1949. Laszlo Rajk and his accomplices were found guilty of trying to overthrow the People's Democratic government in Hungary, working for the Titoites and through them Anglo-American imperialism. This was at the time of the U.S. strategy of "rollback communism," which authorized "preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures," as well as "subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas, and refugee liberation groups." Internet only.

Study Handbook of Marxism-Leninism Mao Tsetung Thought, by Canadian Communist League (M-L). A 320-page book of quotes on various topics of Marxism-Leninism. $8.

Histoire du Mouvement Communiste International I, 1848-1917, Petit Bibliotheque Chinoise. Jusque'a la revolution russe. 1976. Un livre de 160 pages en français. $5.

Histoire du Mouvement Communiste International II, 1848-1917, Petit Bibliotheque Chinoise. Sur leninisme et la revolution russe. 1976. Un livre de 160 pages en français. $5.

Chile and the Road to Socialism: Lessons of the Pinochet Coup of 1973, by Willi Dickhut, with an unauthorized introduction by Jim Rosenbaum, 2013. $4. Cover.

This Land is Their Land: A Revolutionary Working People's History of the United States, by George Gruenthal. $5. Second, expanded edition, 2019. A 184 p. illustrated book giving a brief overview of U.S. history.

Stalin: Waiting For ... The Truth!, by Grover Furr. $25+$5 postage. This 360-page book exposes the falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. Click on title for details.

The Theory of Knowledge, Maurice Cornforth, 1955. The third volume of the above work. It is also the original edition of the book, before revisionist editorial changes. $6. Also available in Word or pdf format.

Shih Chan: A Brief History of the United States, 1972. (P) $3. Translation of a Chinese pamphlet providing a good, short (44 p.) summary of U.S. working class history. Cover

Two  articles regarding elections:
Stalin: Muddle..., 1907 and
Lenin: The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential Elections
, 1912. (P). $2

The Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution. 1934. A reprint from the Communist Party of Great Britain of the Thesis of the Second Congress of the Communist International of 1920. (P). $2. Cover

Harpal Brar: Preface to Trotskyism or Leninism, 1993. $4. Cover. This preface contains any quotes from Trotsky and penin showing that they held opposing views for most of the period before and after the Bolshevik revolution.

Revolutionary Democracy. October 2018. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries. Some earlier issues are available for $2.  The contents of earlier issues can be seen at: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org. Please check with webmaster at email address above.

Karl Marx: Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. $4. 1859. Cover

Philip Stein : Siqueiros, His Life and works. Chapter 13:  Leon Trotsky. Siqueiros was one of the great Mexican muralists. Phil Stein was a painter and member of the Communist Party USA who studied under Siqueiros and wrote a biography of him. This chapter deals with the April 1940 attack on Trotsky (not the one in which Trotsky was killed the following August)  masterminded by Siqueiros in an attempt to force the Mexican govrnment to expel Trotsky from the country. 1994. (P) $2. Cover

The Heritage of Sen Katayama. Reprint from the Communist Party's journal Political Affairsfrom 1975. Katayama was not only a founding member of the Communist Party of Japan, but took part in the communist movements in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. (P) $2. Cover

Handbook of Philosophy, by M. Rosenthal and P. Yudin. $6, 1949. An alphabetical index of philosophical terms, with enough cross-references to get a rudimentary idea of dialectical materialist philosophy, in 172 pages.

With Stalin, by Enver Hoxha. 1981. $5. Hoxha's account of his five meetings with Stalin. Also detaills of his discussion with Greek comrades about the Civil War in that country.

Bill Bland: The Restoration  of Capitalism in the Soviet Union. 1980. $9. This 304 page book details the restoration of capitalism under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, relying mainly on Soviet sources.

Revolutionary Democracy. April 2018. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries. Some earlier issues are available for $2.  The contents of earlier issues can be seen at: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org. Please check with webmaster at email address above.

Unity & Struggle #37. October, 2018. $5. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations. Special issue on the bicentenary of Marx's birth. Some earlier issues are available for $2.  The contents of earlier issues can be seen at: http://cipoml.net/en/?cat=3. Please check with webmaster at email address above.

Unidad y Lucha #37. Octubre, 2018. $5. Organo de la Conferencia Internacinal de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L. Numero especial del bicentenario del nacimiento de Marx. Algunos numeros anteriores estan disponibe por $2. Los contenidos de numeros anteriores se puede ver en: http://www.cipoml.net/es/?cat=6. Favor de contactar el maestro del sitio por el correo electronico por arriba.

This Land is Their Land: A Revolutionary Working People's History of the United States, by George Gruenthal. $5. 2016. A short, 130 p. illustrated book giving a brief overview of U.S. history.

Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, by a group lead by O.V. Kuusinen. 1963. Although the beginning sections of this book have some straight-forward accounts of dialectical materialist philosophy and political economy, the sections dealing with socialism are full of Khrushchevite revisionist distortions of Marxism-Leninism. Internet only.

The Khrushchevites, by Enver Hoxha. 1980. $8. This 268 p. book contains memoirs by the Albanian Marxist-Leninist leader of the revisionist leaders of the Soviet Union and eastern European countries after Stalin's death.

On Contradiction, by Mao Tsetung. 1937. (P). $3. A 42 p. pamphlet.

On Practice, by Mao Tsetung. (P). $2. A 16 p. pamphlet.

gg Winter. Last Days of the USSR. $8. A description of the U.S.S.R. by the leader of a tour of women trade unionists during the Gorbachev era. A 192 page book with many full-color pictures.

J. Lenz, The Second International, 1932. Internet only. A fascinating history of the Second International, by one of the leaders of Communist Party of Germany. Although the tactics of the Communist International were to change a few years later, this book is a detailed exposure of both the open social patriots as well as the centrists in the Second International, as well as an explanation of the role of Lenin anad other revolutionary leaders.

A. Zhdanov: The International Situation, 1947. (P) $2. Cover

Lenin: Las tareas del proletariado en la presente revolución ("Tesis de Abril"), 1917. (P) $2. Envoltura

Lenin: La revolución socialista y el derecho de las naciones a la autodeterminación, 1916. (P) $2. Envoltura

The Soviet Power: The Soviet Sixth of the World, Hewlett Johnson, 1940. $10. A sympathetic account by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, of the building of socialism in the Soviet Union. Johnson sees socialism as the actual fulfillment of the principles of true Christianity.

We Saw for Ourselves. Report of the Nineteen Americans on Their Visit to the USSR. 1951. $5. A description of the Soviet Union by 19 Americans, 9 black and 10 white, including 3 ministers.

The USSR and Finland, Historical, Economic, Political Facts and Documents. 1939. (P) $2. Cover A background to the Soviet Finnish war. Internet only.

Lenin, El imperialismo, fase superior del capitalismo, 1916. $5. En español.

Lenin, El estado y la revolución, 1917. $5. En español.

Lenin, La revolución proletaria y el renegado Kautsky, 1918. $5. En español.

Lenin, La enfermedad infantil del “izquierdismo” en el comunismo, 1920. $5. En español.

Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916. $5

Constitution of the U.S.S.R. 1936. The so-called Stalin Constitution. (P) $2. Cover

Lenin: The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, 1918. $5.

Vitaly Startsev: How the Soviets Were Formed. 1982. $5. A short book detailing the role of the Soviets from the 1905 revolution to October 1917. It emphasizes Lenin's statement that the Soviets were formed by the workers themselves.

Michael Sayers and Albert Kahn, The Great Conspiracy against Russia. 1946. $11. This classic book explains the imperialist and Trotskyite conspiracy again the Soviet Union.

Gerhard Eisler, Albert Norden, Albert Schreiner: The Lesson of Germany, 1945. $6. An important book dealing with the rise and fall of fascism in Germany.

Wreckers on Trial. The trial of the Industrial Party, Moscow, December-Novemberm 1930. This was a group of engineers and others who plotted sabotage against Soviet industry. They confessed but received death sentences, which were commuted to prison terms. Several later loyally served Soviet development. With a forward by Andrew Rothstein. Internet only.

Ekaterina Blinova: Unveiling Lies of the Cold War; What Lay Beneath Anti-Soviet Myths. 2015. $4. This 66 page booklet consists  of articles originally published in SputnikNews.com (except for one publlished in Russia-Insider.com),.

Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement. 2015. $2. Cover. A 31-page reprint of short articles from African-American Communists.

Rosa Luxemburg's Views on the Russian Revolution, by Clara Zetkin:,1922, $10. This 225 page book has ben translated into English for the first time. It shows how Luxemburg, in her actions in the German Revolution after her release from prison in November 1918 until her murder by soldiers in the pay of the Social-Democratic government in Germany in January 1919, in practice took the same positions as the Bolsheviks in the Otober Revolution. It is an important exposure of the Social-Democrats in Germany and around the world, who try to assert that Luxemburg was one of them.

Soviets in Central Asia, by W.P. & Zelda K. Coates, 1951. This 300 page book documents the history of Central Asia from Tsarist times to the political, economic and cultural developmentunder Soviet power. A valuable resource showing how the people in these republics improved their lives under socialim. Internet only.

A People Reborn, the Story of North Ossetia, edited by Andrew Rothstein, 1954. A report by a British delegation on a visit to the Autonomous Republic in the NorthCaucasus. Internet only

Felix Dzherzinsky: A Biography, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1988. Internet only

Emile Burns (ed.) Handbook of Marxism, 1935. $12. This 800-page book contains large sections (not just quotes) from major works of Marxism-Leninism, including the Communist Manifesto, Capital (Vol. 1), Anti-Dühring, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Imperialism, State and Revolution, "Left-Wing"Communism, Report to the 17th Congress of the CPSU(b) 1934, and the Program of theCommunist International 1928. A useful work for those who want much of the basics of Marxism-Leninism in one volume.

Engels: Anti-Dühring, 1894. $6

Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 1939. $2. Cover

Lenin: “Left-Wing” Communism, An Infantile Disorder, 1920, $5.

On Guard against Browderism, Titoism, Trotskyism, John Gates, 1951. (P) $2. Cover

What is Marxism?, by Emile Burns, 1939. $4. A very good summary of the basics of Marxism-Leninism in 74 pages. Good for beginners.

Historical Materialism, Maurice Cornforth, 1954. The second volume of the above work. It is also the original edition of the book, before revisionist editorial changes. $6. Also available in Word or pdf format.

Readers' Guide to the Marxist Classics, 1952, prepared and edited by Maurice Cornforth. Internet only.

Materialism and the Dialectical Method, Maurice Cornforth, 1953. A very readable explanation of Dialectical Materialism in 122 pages. This is the original edition of the book, before revisionist editorial changes. $5. Also available in dowloadable Word or pdf format.

Rumanian Summer, Jack Lindsay with Maurice Cornforth. 1953. This 170 page book, with pictures, gives a portrait of the Rumaniann People's Democracy before the advent of revisionism. $5.

On the Road to Bolshevization, 1929. (P) $2.Cover

Philip Farr, Soviet Russia and the Baltic Republics, 1944. (P) $2. Cover

Andrew Rothstein: Man and Plan in Soviet Economy, 1948. A detailed account of Soviet planning. Internet only.

Anna Louise Strong: Spain in Arms, 1937. $4.

Mike Gold: Why I am a Communist, 1932. (P) $2.

Lenin: The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ("April Theses"), 1917.  (P) $2. Cover

V. Adoratsky: Dialectical Materialism, 1934. Internet only.

From Harry Haywood: Black Bolshevik, Chapters on the Afro-American National Question, 1978
Chapter 4: An Organization of Revolutionaries. (P) $2.Cover 4
Chapter 12: Return Home: White Chauvinism Under Fire. (P) $2. Cover 12

Lenin: The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination, 1916. (P) $2. Cover

Organisation and Structure of the Communist Party, Communist International, 3rd Congress, 1921. (P) $2. Cover

Fifteen Years of Soviet Georgia, by Lavrenti Beria, 1936. (P) $2. Cover

Joseph Weydemeyer, Pioneer of American Socialism, by Karl Obermann, 1947. Internet only

A. A. Heller: One Sixth of the World. 1937. (P) $2. Cover

George Orwell: Anti-Communist Propagandist, Champion of Trotskyism & State Informer, reprinted from the Stalin Society, Britain, 1998. (P) $2. Cover

Soviet Policy and Its Critics, by J.R. Campbell. 1939. $6. This 329 page book by a leading member of the Communist Party of Britain is mainly an exposure of Trotskyism, both in its anti-Leninist theory and its counter-revolutionary practice.

Marxism and the National Question, J.V. Stalin, 1913. $4.

The Negro National Colonial Question, Nelson Peery, 1972. $5. This 200 page book contains a forthright defense of the Marxist analysis that there is an African-American nation in the Black Belt south with the right to self-determination. It contains many maps and statistics to back up this position.

Lenin on the Woman Question. Clara Zetkin. (P) $3. Cover

Speeches on the American Communist Party, J.V. Stalin, 1929. (P) $3. Cover

Wages, Price and Profit, by K. Marx. $5.

What Is To Be Done, by V.I. Lenin. $5. The famous book in which Lenin explained the teachings on the foundation of the party in Russia in opposition to economism.

The State and Revolution, by V.I. Lenin. $5.

Political Economy: A Beginner's Course, by A. Leontiev, 1935. Price $5. This 232 page book is an excellent introdiction to reading Marx's Capital. Besides covering some of the main topics in the first volume of Capital, it explains Lenin's analysis of imperialism and the question of crises, including data related to the crisis of the 1930s (the Great Depression).

Days With Lenin, Maxim Gorki, 1932. This 44 page pamphlet describes Gorky's meetings with Lenin and others over the years. (P) $3. Cover

Engels on Science, J.D. Bernal, 1935. A 20 page pamphlet summarizing Engels application of dialectics to science. (P) $2. Cover

Communism and the Family, Alexandra Kollontai. 1918. A 15 page pamphlet on how the family will change under communism. (P) $2. Cover

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, Vol. I. 1933. First of 3 volumes of the transcript of the so-called Metro-Vickers trial, of British subjects and their Soviet accomplices, found guilty of wrecking and espionage activities. For a fascinating discussion from relatively objective bourgeois sources that the British subjects, when they were released and returned to Britain, stated clearly that they were not subject to any form of torture or undue pressure, see: http://www.red-channel.de/the_real_stalin_moscow_trials.htm. Internet only

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, Vol. 2. 1933. Second of 3 volumes of above transcript. Internet only

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, Vol. 3. 1933. Last of 3 volumes of above transcript. Internet only

[Greek] National Liberation Front (E.A.M.) White Book
, Greek American Council, August 1945. Documents that show how British forces bombed Athens, which had been liberated by the E.A.M, at the end of World War II. 131 pages, $4. 

Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands Is False, by Grover Furr, 2014, 581 pages, $25.

¿Que Hacer? V.I. Lenin, en español. El famoso libro de Lenin que explico las enseñanzas sobre la fundacion del partido en Rusia y la lucha en contra del economismo. $5.

Readings in Leninism. This is a 4-volume set, first published in the U.S. in the 1930s, with extended quotes from the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin on major questions of Marxist-Leninist theory. $5 each volume: 1) What Is Leninism?, 2) The Theory of the Proletarian Revolution, 3) The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 4) Strategy and Tactics.

The Road to  Life (An Epic of Education), A.S. Makarenko. This 3-volume set is an autobiographical novel describing the formation of the Gorky Colony in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, which Makarenko headed. After the Civil War, homeless youth roamed the country. The colony sucessfully integrated them into the new socialist life through collective labor and self-discipline. $5 each volume.

Marxist Glossary, L. Harry Gould, 1948. An 82 page book containing definitions and explanations of common Marxist terms, many including brief quotes from Marx, Engels, Len and Stalin further elucidating how these terms have been used. $4.

Steel and Slag, Vladimir Popov, 1951. This is a 284 page socialist realist novel that takes place in a steel mill in the Ukraine that had to relocate to the Urals during World War II. It deals with the transformation of people under adversity, some becoming hardened as steel, some degenerating into slag. $6.

History of the Three Internationals, William Z. Foster, 1955. This 458 page book contains Foster's detailed description of the work of the First, Second and Third Internationals. $8.

Soviet Union, Land without Unemployment: In Pictures. 1931. This 200 page book contains hundreds of pictures on all facets of Soviet life, with captions in English, en español and en français. The foreword and 15 page epilogue on the Five-Year Plan by Alfred Kurella are only in English. $5.

The Soviets Expected It, Anna Louise Strong, 1941. $5. This 178 page book deals not only with the beginning of the German war on the Soviet Union, but also the background to the war and the development of Soviet industry.

Volantes y artículos tempranos, V.I. Lenin, en español. (P) $3. Cubierto
          A los obreros y obreras de la fábrica Thornton, volante, 1895
          La guerra con China, artículo, periódico Iskra, 1900
          El alistamiento forzoso de 183 estudiantes, artículo, periódico Iskra, 1901
          Golpea duro, pero no mates, artículo, revista Zarya, 1901

Early Writings, V.I. Lenin. (P) $3. Cover
To the Working Men and Women of the Thornton Factory, Leaflet, 1895
The War in China, Article, Iskra newspaper, 1900
The Drafting of 183 Students Into the Army, Article, Iskra newspaper, 1901
Beat – But Not to Death!, Article, Zarya magazine, 1901

Labor’s Own William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1949. (P) $3. Cover

Women, Marriage & Sex, Clara Zetkin, 1925. From Reminiscences of Lenin. (P) $2. Cover

From Black Bolshevik, Harry Haywood, Chapters on the Soviet Union, 1978
Chapter 5: A Student in Moscow, (P) $2. Cover 5
Chapter 6: Trotsky's Day in Court, (P) $2. Cover 6
Chapter 7: The Lenin School, (P) $2. Cover 7
Chapter 8: Self-Determination: The Fight for a Correct Line, (P) $2. Cover 8
Chapter 9:  Sixth Congress of the Comintern:  A Blow Against the Right, (P) $2. Cover 9
Chapter 10: Lovestone Unmasked, (P) $2. Cover 10
Chapter 11: My Last Year in the Soviet Union, (P) $2. Cover 11
Chapter 14: Reunion in Moscow, (P) $2. Cover 14

Stalin, Pablo Miranda, 2012. (P) $2. Cover

Stalin, Pablo Miranda, 2012, en español. (P) $2. Cubierto

Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union, Mario Sousa. (P) $3. Cover

A History of the U.S.S.R., Andrew Rothstein, 1950. $8. A 400-page history by a leading member of the then-revolutionary Communist Party of Britain. This gives many details of the economic and political history of the Soviet Union not included in the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The United Front, Georgi Dimitrov, 1935-1937. $7. Besides the famous speeches at the 7th Congress of the Communist International, this edition includes 18 other speeches and articles dealing with the application of the united front in various countries over the following two year.

Joseph E. Davies: Excerpts from Mission to Moscow concerning the Moscow Trials, 1943. (P) $3. Cover

Diez días que estremecieron al mundo, John Reed, 1919, en español. El famoso libre sobre la revolución rusa. 336 pág. $8.

This Monstrous War, Wilfred Burchett. 1953. This 288 page book presents the Korean War and the armistice negotiations from the side of the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers. When this book was sent to the United States in late 1953, it was seized by the U.S. Customs and dumped into the ocean, so this is the first time it is available in the U.S.288 p. $6.

Koje Unscreened, Wilfred G. Burchett, 1953?. On the treatment of Korean and Chinese prisoners in the notorious U.S.-run prison camp during the Korean War. Internet only

Light on Korea, D.N. Pritt, 1950. (P) $2. Cover

A History of the U.S.S.R., Andrew Rothstein, 1950. A 400-page history by a leading member of the then-revolutionary Communist Party of Britain. Internet only

Stalin: Story of a Great Servant of Mankind Who Belongs to the Ages, Andrew Rothstein, 1953. (P) $2. Cover

The Crime of el Fanguito, William Z. Foster, 1948. On a notorious slum in Puerto Rico. (P) $2. Cover

Three Articles from the Communist Party in the 1930s on the Afro-American National Question. (P) $2. Cover

The Constituent Assembly Elections and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, V.I. Lenin, 1919. (P) $2. Cover

Why Soviet Russia Should Be Recognized, Friends of the Soviet Union, 1933. (P) $2. Cover

The U.S. State is a Machine Oppressing the Working Class, Jim Rosenbaum & Al Johnson, 1991. (P) $2. Cover

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