Outselling the Communist Manifesto in its day, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific remains invaluable in showing that Marxist ideas are key to transforming society. Engels explains in a clear manner how socialist ideas were shaped by events. Looking at the philosophical ideas of Marxism, Engels explains how they can guide the movement to change the world.

This edition contains a new introduction examining the re­emergence of utopian socialist ideas today. Extensive new footnotes will assist the new reader of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, making it an essential read for those interested in socialism and Marxism.

The thirteenth edition of Reclaim the Game, this March 2019 edition includes updates on the financing of football, women's footbal, fights fight back, VAR and the question of a breakaway European League

In the recent mass movements against austerity and the capitalist establishment in Chile, the demand for a constituent assembly has arisen. This demand has also surfaced in similar movements worldwide.

What is a constituent assembly and what role can it play in a struggle to transform society?

Tony Saunois, secretary of the CWI, who was in Chile last year, answers these questions.

Accounts of the struggle against the poll tax across Kent compiled by Eric Segal, a leading figure in the anti-poll tax struggle who was imprisoned for his refusal to pay.

"Whilst a definitive history of the great battle against the Poll Tax is yet to be written, the invaluable importance of this book lies in the oral history of personal reminiscences and the contemporous minutes of those in the front line of the struggle and the lessons it contains for the battles yet to come." Dave Nellist, from the introduction.

May-June 1968. Brutal police repression of student demonstrations. Within days, 10 million French workers were on strike. Factories were occupied, red flags flown and the Internationale heard in the streets of Paris. Even the armed forces were infected by the revolutionary mood. The future of French capitalism hung in the balance. Worker and student action committees constantly discussed what should happen next, yet within weeks the strikes were over and 'order' was restored.

Clare Doyle's, Month of Revolution (first published in May 1988), looks at what caused this mighty explosion of workers' and students' anger and why it did not succeed in overturning capitalism. She argues that the French working class had power in its hands. With a far-sighted, revolutionary leadership, capitalism could have been abolished, and a truly representative socialist government brought to power. World history could have taken a very different course.

In a new introduction, the author also looks at the post-68 class struggles in France and internationally. As anger against capitalism and imperialism grows today, and as a new generation of workers and young people search for an alternative, the events described in Month of Revolution serve as a timely inspiration - a reminder of how a socialist revolution can unfold, in the heart of Europe or in any other country of the globe.

This is a political autobiography of a working class man who came to be a leading figure within the Militant organisation in Liverpool: it examines his personal trajectory, his time as a printer, seafarer, cabinet maker, car worker, the changes in his political development and the issues and individuals he met and dealt with along the way.

Celebrated film maker and playwright Jimmy McGovern says "This is just not one man's story. It's the story of Liverpool, beautiful, bolshie, passionate Liverpool. I couldn't put it down."

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Since the financial crisis of 2007-08, many different movements have developed against oppression, austerity, neoliberalism and capitalism – with mixed success. In a complicated situation, Marxists must take stock, analyse what is going on and why, and present a way forwards.

In 2018-19, a dispute broke out over exactly these questions within the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the world socialist organisation which includes the Socialist Party in England and Wales.

‘In Defence of Trotskyism’ is a new book bringing together many of the key documents produced to defend a working-class, Trotskyist CWI; a process which culminated in the CWI’s re-foundation.

The focus of this debate included the questions of socialism and ‘identity politics’; the role of the trade unions and the working-class movement; the national question; and under what programme and how should Marxists organise internationally and domestically.

Internationalist in form and content, In Defence of Trotskyism collects contributions from across the world, bringing together the collective experience of working-class fighters to weigh on these important questions.

This book is much more than a record of an internal debate. It is a restatement of Marxist principles, and a living example of their application in today’s world. In Defence of Trotskyism will be invaluable to all those fighting for socialism.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets across the world in opposition to the naked greed by the ruling elite and growing impoverishment of the mass of people. Socialist change is in the air. 

In this third book on the history of the work of the Socialist Party, Peter Taaffe outlines a Marxist and Trotskyist analysis of developments in the global capitalist system, including the political events that flow from them, from the financial crash of 2007-08 through to 2019. 
At the same time, numerous examples of successful trade union and political class battles bring to life, not only the kind of organisation and audacity that can win against the bosses now, but also helps workers to hone the kind of methods and organisation that can bring about socialist change.

The Covid pandemic accelerated the crisis of capitalism and disrupted every aspect of society. In its wake the need for socialism is clearer than ever. This Socialist Party manifesto sums up our main demands on the different issues that face the working class. It outlines what is necessary to begin the process of achieving a socialist society, in Britain and internationally, able to meet the needs humanity and to protect the planet. This text was discussed throughout the party and agreed by the national conference in May 2022.

New book from the CWI on the life and ideas of Leon Trotsky - a revolutionary whose ideas couldn't be killed

New publication from Socialist Books! A collection of articles that deal with the key ideas of socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky on the 80th anniversary of his assassination by an agent of Stalin. Includes Trotsky on the role of the revolutionary party and October 1917, Stalinism, the permanent revolution, the Transitional Programme, fascism, and the national question. A must-read for workers and youth who want to find out about Trotskyism and ideas to change the world.