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INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION
A study in the Soviet nationalities problem

Ivan Dzyuba

RRP: £17 (print). RRP: £9.99 (e-book)
370 pages; 140x216mm.
Publication date: February 2024

Internationalism or Russification? was written in 1965 while there was a wave of political repression in Ukraine. In the book, Dzyuba analyses from a Marxist position the national and cultural policy of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. Dzyuba describes how the USSR developed a relationship of Russian great-power chauvinism and oppression towards other republics and in particular Ukraine. ith the invasion of Ukraine, Putin has carried on the Russian great-power chauvinism of the Tsars and Stalin. This book documents in great detail the oppression of Ukraine and is as relevant today as when it first appeared.

OUT FEBRUARY 2024
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ISRAEL'S WAR ON UKRAINE

Gilbert Achcar

RRP: £6, US$8, AU$12, €7 (print). RRP: £3, US$4, AU$6, €4 (e-book)
98 pages; 108x178mm.
Publication date: December 2023

Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas's operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway, 75 years after the creation of Israel. This booklet includes articles by Gilbert Achcar written as the Israeli onslaught started unfolding in Gaza. He explains why the population of Gaza is facing such 'massive extermination', and argues that the refusal of Western governments to call for a ceasefire is making them accomplices to crimes against humanity.


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MAKING SENSE OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE

Paul Le Blanc

RRP: £5, US$7, AU$10 (print) . RRP: £3, US$4, AU$6. (e-book)
95 pages; 108x178mm. Publication date: November 2023

In this small book, Paul Le Blanc tries to ‘make sense of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’. His starting point is for a victory for Ukrainian self-determination and opposition to imperialism in all its forms. Paul Le Blanc tackles the following themes: What Mistaken Friends Say – and Where They Are Right, Imperialism and Illusion, Which Side Are You On?, Views of Russian and Ukrainian Socialists, Lessons from History on Self-Determination, and Where the Weapons Come From.


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THE RUSSIAN INVASION AND THE UKRAINIAN LEFT

The struggle for a social Ukraine
Commons journal of social criticism 13/2013

Contents: To the Western Left, Between Survival and Resistance, For a Just Reconstruction

The Commons journal of social criticism is a left-wing Ukrainian media about economy, politics, history and culture, established in 2009 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Profits from the sales of this journal will go to fundraising initiatives for humanitarian relief and support of leftist and trade-unionist soldiers.

RRP: £10,US$15,AU$20 (print); 90 pages; 210x280mm.


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UPRISING
The October rebellion in Ecuador

Leonidas Iza, Andrés Tapia, and Andrés Madrid
Preface: Michael Löwy

UPRISING is a detailed description and analysis of the Indigenous-led uprising of October 2019 in Ecuador, written by three people deeply involved in the revolt. The lead author, Leonidas Iza, came to national prominence as one of the central leaders of the rebellion. On the final day of the paro, when the movement forced the government of Lenin Moreno to withdraw Decree 883 and accede to live televised talks with the leaders of Conaie, the main Indigenous umbrella organisation, it was Leonidas Iza who tore apart the arguments of the finance minister in front of the nation, giving him a master class in the implications of neoliberal economics and the government's deal with the IMF.

RRP: £19, €24, $28 (print)
RRP: £10.99, €15.99, $19.99 (e-book)

350 pages; 178×254 mm.
Includes tables and 40 photographs.

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THE WELL-DRESSED REVOLUTIONARY
The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings

Hall Greenland

Born in Alexandria in 1911, Michel Pablo became a leading figure in the Fourth International from its foundation in 1938. Throughout the 20th century, he was active in revolutions around the globe. His political work ranged from agitation among German troops in World War II, to supporting the Algerians in their fight for freedom, to gun-running for Che Guevara. He also drafted revolutionary legislation in Allende’s Chile and Ben Bella’s Algeria. Throughout his long and eventful life, Pablo fought for a society based on ‘generalised self-management’ or ‘direct democracy’. The Well-Dressed Revolutionary is a meticulously researched biography of an exciting international figure (and his partner, Elly Diovouniotis).

Paperback RRP: £18, €22, $US25
E-book RRP: £9.99, €14.99, $US17.99
380 pages; 156×234 mm.

Out in September 2023
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CAPITALIST CHINA
and
SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

Simon Hannah

RRP paperback : £5, €6, $7; RRP e-book: £4, €5, $6; 78 pages

The economic and political growth of China and its transformation into a capitalist world power is one of the defining features of the modern age. It has shifted economic relations and the balance of power. Hundreds of millions of workers in China – the world’s largest working-class population – hold the future of the world in their hands. What China is and how it is developing is not an academic matter. This book is a contribution to the debate on China.

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HOPE AND MARXISM
Selected Historical and Theoretical Essays
by Ernest Mandel

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print); 306 pages

Hope and Marxism collects essays by Ernest Mandel exploring Marxist theory and history. Most of the texts are newly translated. These include a discussion of Rosa Luxemburg’s place in the German workers movement, the development of the bourgeois state, the roots of Nazi violence, and an essay on Marxism and ecology. The texts in this book demonstrate Mandel’s use of an open Marxism to investigate theoretical and historical problems.

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DANGEROUS LIAISONS
The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism

Cinzia Arruzza

An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement. The theoretical questions discussed include the origins of women’s oppression, domestic labour, dual systems theory, performativity and differentialism. The author writes passionately about the need to combine gender and class politics.

RRP £10, €13, $16

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ECOSOCIALISM
NOT
EXTINCTION
by Allan Todd

RRP: £5, €6, $7 (print); 88 pages

The planet is facing an existential crisis. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal agriculture is urgent. It must be based on a socially and economically just transition to renewables and a completely new relationship with the natural world. This book is an introduction to Ecosocialism and how to fight for it.

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MARXISTS AGAINST STALINISM
by Ernest Mandel

A debate with Chris Harman
Preface by Paul Le Blanc

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print); 200 pages

As the USSR disintegrated in 1990 and 1991, the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International took different views of the impending privatizations. Marxists Against Stalinism brings together powerful contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR. Paul Le Blanc provides an introduction that looks back at the debate 30 years on.

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UKRAINE: Voices of resistance and solidarity

A collection of recent writings by Ukrainians and socialists around the world

RRP: £10, €12, $14 (print); 168 pages

This book is a contribution to understanding what Ukrainians think, feel and need. Their voices are a call for solidarity, peace and progress. Above all, it is about the Ukrainian people deciding their future and an end to Russian imperialism.
Mick Antoniw, Member of the Welsh Parliament.

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RADICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS
and Anti-Capitalist Action

by Ian Parker

RRP: £5, €6, $7 (print); 86 pages

This crisis-ridden world is having disastrous effects on the climate, on our bodies and on our internal worlds, on how we feel and try to respond, on how we panic and on how we act collectively. Psychoanalysis can be part of this collective political response. Ian Parker shows how personal struggle can be linked to political struggle so we confront misery in this world and find alternatives in anti-capitalist resistance.

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MIND FUCK

The Mass Psychology of Creeping Fascism
by Neil Faulkner

RRP: £6, €7.50, $8 (print); 136 pages

Nationalism, racism, misogyny, and irrationalism is sweeping the world. The authoritarian right and new forms of fascism are a clear danger. Neoliberal capitalism has torn society apart. Alienation has reached an unprecedented level. In this little book, Neil Faulkner draws on Marxist-Freudian theory to provide an updated analysis of the mass psychology of fascism, and to argue for a progressive counter-offensive based on love, labour, and reason.

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INTRODUCTION TO MARXIST THEORY

Selected writings
by Ernest Mandel

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print); 300 pages.

Introduction to Marxist Theory contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. “The Leninist Theory of Organisation” is an influential essay on class consciousness and organisation. The “Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory” was widely used as a textbook in classes on Marxist economics.

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SYSTEM CRASH
An Activist Guide to Making Revolution

By Neil Faulkner, Phil Hearse, Rowan Fortune, Simon Hannah, and Nina Fortune

RRP: £10, €12, $14 (print)

It is the greatest crisis in human history. We are hurtling towards an abyss. The system is terminally diseased. Pandemic, climate crisis, endless war, mega-slums, police repression, creeping fascism, economic stagnation: these shape our world. On one side, grotesque greed and rampaging corporate power. On the other, poverty, oppression, and despair. Capitalism came into the world, Marx wrote, ‘dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt’. Now, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. Revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become an existential necessity. This book is a call to arms.

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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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