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DANGEROUS LIAISONS:
The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism

by Cinzia Arruzza
With a prologue by Penelope Duggan

An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement. The first part is historical, the second theoretical. Cinzia Azzura analyses the controversial, often difficult relationship between feminism and Marxism. Marxism needs to probe complex processes: ongoing transformations and crises, a global context creating an increasingly feminised workforce, and changing relations between men and women. It is a mistake to submerge gender into class or to believe that freedom from exploitation automatically brings about women’s liberation and the ending of sexual roles. It is equally wrong is to think the class question can be removed and gender made the main enemy. The author believes passionately in the need to combine gender and class politics. 

Pub. 2013

RRP: £15 (pbk), 156 pages
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CRITICAL MARXISM
Concepts, Context, Combat
by Ian Parker

This book provides an introduction to Marxism as it emerged in the nineteenth century, examines what happened when it was put into practice in the twentieth century, and how we can make use of it now in anti-capitalist struggle. It reviews the degeneration and distortion of Marxist politics, explores how we can put Marxist ideas to work, and reviews the contribution of revolutionaries. The author shows how these ideas are relevant to contemporary culture, technology and politics, including the emergence of decolonial, ecological and feminist critique, redeeming the promise of Marxism to help us struggle for open communism.

RRP £16, 260 pages
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The POUM: Republic, Revolution, and Counterrevolution

by Andy Durgan

Pub. November 2025

RRP: £14 (pbk)
164 pages; 140x210mm.
ISBN: 978-1-872242-48-4

In 1935, the POUM, the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, was founded, playing a pivotal role at the outbreak of the Civil War and the revolution. Of the many dissident communist groups that began to emerge internationally in the 1930s, the POUM was the most important.  This book by Andy Durgan tells the story of a revolutionary militancy of the first third of the 20th century, its party, its ideas, and its tragic fate. A story more relevant than ever in a world where the parallels with the 1930s, also threatened by the darkest reaction, compel us to read about that generation.

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VOICES AGAINST PUTIN'S WAR
Protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts

Pub. November 2025

RRP: £15 (pbk)
192 pages; 140x21mm.
ISBN: 978-1-872242-45-3

This book comprises nine speeches in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested, tried and handed long jail sentences for doing so. There are also letters and interviews in which they made their case; two statements, made outside court, by other protesters who went on trial; and a chapter on resistance in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and in Russia, and the reaction by the Kremlin’s repressive machine.

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GREAT JOHN MACLEAN
Has come home to the Clyde

The Life and times of Scotland's greatest Socialist
by Donald Robertson

Pub. August 2025

RRP: £28 (pbk)
590 pages; 234x156mm.
ISBN: 978-1-872242-39-2

‘Excellently written, and unafraid to confront the issues of his contested political legacy, this is the most thorough account of Maclean’s life and work I have read.’ —Ian R Mitchell, historian and author of Walking through Glasgow’s industrial past. 

Resistance Books is a feminist, internationalist and ecosocialist publisher. We publish books independently, and also jointly with Merlin Press (London) and the International Institute for Research and Education (Amsterdam).

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