• What consequences will the economic crisis and its aftermath have for women?
• Will the important changes that have already taken place withstand the effects of this dramatic new period?
• Or will the film of history begin to unwind?
• Are inequality, discrimination and oppression inevitable part of our lives?

Christine Thomas was the Socialist Party's national women's organiser from 1994 to 2006. She has written extensively on the question of women's oppression for the Socialist newspaper and the Socialist Party's theoretical magazine Socialism Today.

This updated second edition contains a new appendix.

Read an interview with the author 'Women and the struggle against oppression' in the Socialist 638.

Twenty years ago, the Tory Prime Minister, Maggie Thatcher was reduced to iron filings by a mass movement led by the Socialist Party, then Miilitant. This pamphlet outlines how we can stop the cuts.

The propertied classes have often accused socialists in struggle against exploitation of 'terrorism' while the terror of capitalist rulers provokes resistance. Trotsky shows that the working class is the only social force capable of changing societ

In the Middle of the Road: The ILP and the Fourth International

Analysis of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War, including the role of the POUM, Stalinists and Anarchists.

"The Vietnam War was the longest conflict of the twentieth century – unfolding over 30 years, 10,000 days in length. This war left an indelible impression worldwide in the minds of the generation who lived through these tumultuous events. It helped to form the ‘1960s generation’ of young people who participated in and sometimes led mass movements and demonstrations against the established order of world capitalism. It was a powerful factor in the revolt of the student youth, who sympathised with the Vietnamese masses and their tenacious resistance to US imperialism...

"The implacability of the Vietnamese, their refusal to bow to the military might of the US, lit a fire under the US ruling class in the form of a mass antiwar movement which compelled it to withdraw from Vietnam."

- From the introduction

See interview with the author in the Socialist 324

Celebrating the activity and contribution of the CWI to the workers’ movement internationally over the last 30 years. Republished 1997 pamphlet 'History of the CWI' with a major update by Peter Taaffe

This book was first published as a pamphlet in October 1997 to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the execution of Che Guevara. He was executed in Bolivia by the Bolivian army working in conjunction with the United States Central Intelligence Agency. His crime was to fight against oppression and exploitation. As a self-sacrificing revolutionary and internationalist he remains a powerful symbol of struggle and inspiration to those who are fighting against exploitation and capitalism. There are many lessons which need to be learned from Che's struggle and the Cuban revolution in which he was a central figure.

This book discusses the life and role of Che as a revolutionary. It also addresses his ideas on guerrilaism and the attitude of Marxism towards this method of struggle which was supported by Guevara.

The republication of this book against the background of a new phase of struggle by the working people of Latin America, a continent in open revolt against neo-liberalism and the effects of capitalism is extremely timely. It can assist a new generation of readers to draw the lessons of the Cuban revolution and apply them to the struggle to defeat capitalism and imperialism today and build international socialism - the goal which Che Guevara supported.

Millions of people's hopes were raised when New Labour was elected in 1997. Since then, these hopes have been cruelly dashed. The New Labour government has shown since it came to power that it is firmly on the side of big business. Blair and his ministers have attacked working conditions, the welfare system, free education, public services and are now bringing private companies into the NHS and schools. Despite huge levels of protest, the war and occupation of Iraq continues and has so far cost £5 billion of public money in Britain alone.

As the harsh realities of the government's policies are realised by more and more people, opposition to New Labour is growing. This pamphlet argues that an essential part of making that opposition effective is the building of a new mass workers party.

May 2006 marked the eighteeth anniversary of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - the most important and earth-shattering moment in the history of the British working class. To commemorate it and, more importantly, to draw out the lessons from this movement, Peter Taaffe has written this book outlining the course of the nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundations.

It is more than a narrative and chronology of the events themselves, although this will be important for those newer to the movement. Following the public-sector workers' strike during March 2006, the biggest strike of the British working class since 1926, it discusses the use of the demand for a general strike. But it particularly deals with the revolutionary possibilities of the General Strike and the question of whether the fledgling Communist Party of Great Britain had the right strategy, programme and tactics to take full advantageof the strike and the period.

See interview with the author '1926 General Strike: 9 Days That Shook Britain' in the Socialist 438