Reps’ library – Unite CEC Branch

Reps can borrow books from our lending library. These are books lent out by other reps.

Comment at the bottom of the page with any requests for books you’d like to see here.

Trade unionism, labour and activism

Raising Expectations and Raising Hell: My Decade Fighting for the Labour Movement by Jane McAlevey
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
“And the Judges Said”: Collected Essays by James Kelman
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz by Eric Hobsbawn
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Thousands of texts on Marxism, history, economics, sociology and other topics at marxists.org.

The Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism; Karl Marx; Frederick Engels by V. I. Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Form of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
Capital by Karl Marx
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Anti-Dühring by Frederick Engels
An Introduction to Marxism by Emile Burns
Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction by Maurice Cornforth
The Prison Diaries by Antonio Gramsci

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis by Benjamin Kunkel
For They Know Not What They Do by Slavok Žižek
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today by Razmig Keucheyan

Michael Roberts’ blog is regularly updated and provides a clear-sighted analysis of today’s economic issues.

Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Talking to my Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
A Very Short Introduction to Capitalism by James Fulcher
Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx
Marx 200 – a Review of Marx’s Economics 200 Years After His Birth by Michael Roberts
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
The Essential Keynes by John Maynard Keynes
A Guide to the World Bank by the World Bank
50 Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund edited by Kevin Danaher
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

A Very Short Introduction to Twentieth Century Britain by Kenneth O. Morgan
A Very Short Introduction to British Politics by Tony Wight
Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture by Ian Cobain
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
Red Lives: Communists and the Struggle for Socialism by the Communist Party of Britain
A Centenary for Socialism: British Communist Party 1920-2020 by the Communist Party of Britain
Poverty Safari: An Understanding of the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey
Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy by Kerry-Anne Mendoza
Clyde Built Man by Jimmy Reid
Keir Hardie: From Serfdom to Socialism edited by John Callow

The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil by Dan Kovalik
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky
The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi
War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel by Andrew Ross
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by Naomi Klein
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor

The Economic Singlularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism by Calum Chance
Postcapitalism by Paul Mason
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller.