Resistance Books

14/07/2025

New book out in August
GREAT JOHN MACLEAN
Has come home to the Clyde
The life and times of Scotland's greatest socialist
by Donald Robertson
£28, 590 pages, from Resistance Books

‘Excellently written, and unafraid to confront the issues of his contested political legacy, this is the most thorough account of Maclean’s life and work I have read.’ —Ian R Mitchell, historian and author of Walking through Glasgow’s industrial past.

03/07/2025

Andrew Coates reviews "The Well Dressed Revolutionary" by Hall Greenland and published by Resistance Books.

Andrew Coates on Pabloism The well- dressed revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings by Hall Greenland published by Resistance Books. “Michel Pablo was a 20th century revolutionary whose life and ideas remain relevant and inspirational in the 21st.” begins the first pag...

14/06/2025

"The Well-Dressed Revolutionary - the Odyssey of Michel Pablo" published by Resistance Books is now available in French.

Né Michalis Raptis en 1911, Michel Pablo était un révolutionnaire de nationalité grecque. Il a participé à des révolutions dans le monde entier (en Grèce, en France, en Algérie, au Chili et au Portugal) la poursuite d’un socialisme véritablement démocratique. Il a analysé et commenté ...

14/06/2025

Sean Bell reviews "An October in Catalonia" by Josep Maria Antentas and published by Resistance Books.

Nearly seven years on from Catalonia's so-called illegal referendum, Sean Bell reviews a new Marxist analysis of events which garnered much attention and sympathy in Scotland.

05/06/2025

Chris Bambery reviews "An October in Catalonia" by Josep Maria Antentas and published by Resistance Books.

Antentas’ An October in Catalonia covers the 2017 independence referendum there, but leaves many questions unanswered, finds Chris Bambery As I was finishing this book, news came that the Spanish Supreme Court had decided to maintain the arrest warrant against Carles Puigdemont, the exiled Preside...

29/05/2025

Catherine Samary reviews "SOCIALISMS - Revolutions betrayed, mislaid and unmade" by Ian Parker and published by Resistance Books.

SOCIALISMS Revolutions betrayed, mislaid and unmade By Ian Parker Resistance Books, 192 pages, $15. IAN PARKER IS an activist and academic based in Manchester in the north of England. On the basis …

28/05/2025

"Internationalism or Russification" published by Resistance Books in a new edition is reviewed here.

Years ago, I posted on social media about how this book was in dire need of being reissued in a fine new edition - and now it has been, by Resistance Books in the UK.

28/05/2025

Duncan Chapel reviews "For the Earth to Live" published by Resistance Books.

Duncan Chapel reviews a new book making the case for ecosocialism.

12/05/2025

Hall Greenland, author of "The Well Dressed Revolutionary - The Odyssey of Michel Pablo", talks about his book at the Melbourne Greek Centre. The book is published by Resistance Books.

Presenter: Hall GreenlandSynopsisMichel Pablo was the pseudonym for Michalis Raptis, a Greek revolutionary born in Alexandria in 1911. He was a twentieth cen...

12/05/2025

Resistance Books will be at the Dublin Radical book fair Saturday 31 May.

Books, zines, exhibitions, poetry, art, campaign groups and workshops all under one tent; the Radical Bookfair promises to be a fun and exciting part of 2024’s cultural and political calendar - save the date!

03/05/2025

NEW TITLE OUT NOW
Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution
Break with capitalist growth

Just £5 +p&p from resistance Books

Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution Break with capitalist growth Manifesto adopted by the Fourth International ISBN: 978-1-872242-35-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-872242-36-1 (e-bk) RRP: £7 (pbk) 108 pa…

30/04/2025

Declaration of the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International.