Police strikes have taken place on numerous occasions around the world and the stormy period at the end of the First World War, saw movements amongst police officers in a number of countries, with two of the most dramatic strikes taking place in Britain in 1918 and 1919, being the subject of this book.

Most book-length accounts of this and other police strikes are written by those who view such events as warnings against the moral danger of allowing full democratic rights, of association and to strike, to sections of the state, such as the police, prison officers and the army.

This book takes a different approach. It approaches these events from the position of believing that a different kind of society, is both possible and necessary, a socialist society run in the interests of the 99%. Events that break down the ability of the ruling capitalist class to hamper movements in that direction are welcome and should be learned from.

By the early nineteenth century, Manchester was England’s second largest city and world’s first industrial city. But it was run like a mediaeval market town with no real democracy and brutal poverty for the working class.

A mass movement developed among working-class and middle-class people, for universal manhood suffrage, annual parliaments and ‘the ballot’ i.e. a secret vote. The working-class part of this movement saw winning democratic rights as part of the struggle for better living and working conditions.

The huge demonstration on St Peter’s Fields on the 16 August 1819 was the high point of the working-class part of this movement. Estimates of the turnout vary up to 150,000 but academia is agreed that there were over 60,000 people. In a population of 400,000, there were up to half the adults on the march.

Women and Irish migrant workers were prominent on the demonstration as all sections of the working class poured out on protest in the world’s first mass working-class movement. The ruling class used army regiments and volunteer soldiers to smash the demonstration, killing 15 and wounding hundreds.

This new pamphlet, produced by the Socialist Party north-west region, brings together four new articles about “The Massacre,” “Revolution, War and Struggle,” “The run-up to Peterloo,” and “After Peterloo,” together with previously published material on the Pentrich Uprising and the Great French Revolution.

This is the first real account of Militant, its ideas, organisation and the role of figures associated with it. Five previous books have been written about Militant. But this is the only one which gives an authentic account of how Militant played such a prominent role in Liverpool in the 1980's and the successful battle to defeat the Poll Tax.

A collection of the key writings of Ted Grant, one of the founders of the Militant - includes Will There Be a Slump?, The Chinese Revolution and Against the Theory of State Capitalism amongst others.

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

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.

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."

Read the review in the Socialist no 1060