Branch library

Books can be borrowed for up to a month. The library contains mainly used books, but some new publications, particular those from the Socialist Party itself. If you'd like to borrow a book, or donate any books, please contact socialistpartykent@mail.org

New additions

Castro, Herbert Matthews
Wages, Price and Profit, Karl Marx
Genesis of Capital, Karl Marx
A Time to Rage, Tommy Sheridan
France 1968, Clare Doyle
On Marx’s Capital, Friedrich Engels
The Housing Question, Friedrich Engels
Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels
Engels: A Very Short Introduction
Imperialism and World Economy, N. Bukharin
Marxism Opposes Individual Terrorism, Leon Trotsky
Stalin and Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky
The Class, The Party and The Leadership, Leon Trostky
The Position of the Party and the Tasks of Young Workers, Leon Trotsky
Entrism, Leon Trotsky
Lenin, David Shub
The Workers’ Press, V. I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky
What is to be Done? V. I. Lenin
Between the Two Revolution (Selected Works), V. I. Lenin
On the Slogan for United States of Europe, V. I. Lenin
The April Thesis, V. I. Lenin
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, V. I. Lenin
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, V. I. Lenin
‘Left-Wing’ Communism, an Infantile Disorder, V. I. Lenin
Marxism and the State, V. I. Lenin
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, V. I. Lenin
Questions of National Policy and Proletarian Internationalism, V. I. Lenin
Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism, V. I. Lenin
On the Question of Dialectics, V. I. Lenin
Lenin on War and Peace, V. I. Lenin
The Impededing Catastrophe and How to Combat It, V. I. Lenin
Collected Works, Vol. 35, V. I. Lenin
‘Left-Wing’ Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality, V. I. Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, V. I. Lenin
Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin
Articles on Tolstoi, V. I. Lenin
Socialism and War, V. I. Lenin
The Third International and Its Place In History, V. I. Lenin
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination, V. I. Lenin
Oppurtunism and the Collapse of the Second Internation, V. I. Lenin
Lenin on the National and Colonial Questions, V. I. Lenin
Lectures on Russia, V. I. Lenin
Stalinism in Crisis, Militant Pamphlet
Poll Tax: ‘We Won’t Pay’, Militant Pamphlet
Hegel, Peter Singer
The Marxist Theory of the State, Ted Grant
The Intelligent Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism, George Bernhard Shaw
In the Name of the Working Class, Sandor Kopacsi
It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This: Women and the Struggle for Socialism, Christine Thomas

Stocklist

Paul Adelman, The Rise of the Labour Party
Neal Ascherson, The Polish August, Penguin
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Crane Brinton, The Political Ideas of the English Romanticists, Ann Arbor
James Cannon, The Revolutionary Party, Pathfinder
Elizabeth Clarke and Richard Peters, Workers of the Soviet Union Speak, Fortress
Ronald Clark, Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask (biography)
J. M. Cohen (ed.), Writers in the New Cuba, Penguin
James Connolly, Socialism Made Easy, Militant
Pete Dickenson, Planning Green Growth, Socialist Books
Isaac Deutscher, Stalin, Pelican
Jean Duvignaud, The Sociology of Art, Paladin
Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Freidrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Timothy Garton Ash, History of the Present, Penguin
Ted Grant, Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For, Socialist Books
Ted Grant, The Unbroken Thread, Fortress
Ted Grant, The Rise and Fall of the Communist International, Socialist Books
Ted Grant and Peter Taaffe, The Spanish Revolution, Socialist Books
J. L. and Barbara Hammond, The Town Labourer, Longman
Peter Hadden, Divide and Rule, Socialist Books
Elie Halevy, The Liberal Awakening, Ernest Benn
Elie Halevy, England in 1815, Ernest Benn
Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution
Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Empire
Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire
David Horowitz, From Yalta to Vietnam, Pelican
Louis James, Fiction for the Working Man, Penguin
Steve Jolly, Eyewitness in China, Militant
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Naomi Klein, No Logo, Flamingo
Joel Krieger, Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Decline
Oskar Lafontaine, The Heart Beats on the Left
Lenin, How Did the Bolsheviks Maintain Power?
Jack London, The Iron Heel
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia
Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution, Socialist Books
Thomas Mann, Joseph the Provider, Knopf
Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1948
Karl Marx, Early Texts
An Introduction to Karl Marx, John Elser
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Margeret Morris, The General Strike
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and Profit
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Pathfinder
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Merlin
Methuen, An Atlas of European Affairs
Michael Moore, Dude, Where's My Country? (hb)
Henry Pelling, A History of British Trade Unionism
Plato, The Republic
John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World, Penguin
John Reid, Reclaim the Game: the Great Premier League Swindle, Socialist Books
Sian Reynolds (ed.), Women, State and Revolution, Wheatsheaf
David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Erik Ringmar, Surviving Capitalism, Anthem
Tony Saunois, Che Guevara: Symbol of Struggle, Socialist Books
Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, Picador
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
Hannah Sell, Socialism in the 21st Century: New Edition, Socialist Books
William Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Pelican
Peter Taaffe, Cuba: Socialism and Democracy, Socialist Books
Peter Taaffe, A Socialist World Is Possible: the History of the CWI, Socialist Books
Peter Taaffe, Empire Defeated: the Vietnam War, Socialist Books
Peter Taaffe and Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool: a City that Dared to Fight, Fortress
Peter Taaffe, Socialism and Left Unity: a Critique of the SWP
Peter Taaffe, 1926 General Strike
The General Strike: articles by Trotsky, Taaffe, Grant, Militant
A. J. P. Taylor, The First World War: An Illustrated History
Robert Theobald, Free Men and Free Markets, Anchor
E. P. Thomson, Beyond the Cold War
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America
Leon Trotsky, Transitional Programme
Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It, Pathfinder
Leon Trotsky, Lessons of October, Young Socialist
Leon Trotsky, In Defence of October, Socialist Books
Leon Trotsky, Stalinism and Bolshevism, Socialist Books
Leon Trotsky, The Class, the Party and the Leadership
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Vintage
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
William Morris, Selected Writings