Socialist Party books and pamphlets online

The Case for Socialism

Why you should join the Socialist Party - Pamphlet dated 28/06/2016

Militant's Thirty Years 1964 - 1994
The official history of the Militant tendency, forerunner of the Socialist Party.

Written by Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party and the Militant's first editor

Liverpool - A city that Dared to Fight

By Peter Taaffe and Tony MulhearnMilitant played a leading role in Liverpool city council's battle against the Thatcher government 1983-7. This book presents both a commentary and penetrating political analysis of the growth of Marxism in Britain.
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A Strategy To Defeat The Cuts

Demonstrate, occupy, strike
● For a mid-week national demonstration
● For a one day public sector strike

Pamphlet by Hannah sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, dated 24/03/2011

How a fightback can stop the cuts

Online: Twenty years ago, the Tory Prime Minister, Maggie Thatcher was reduced to iron filings by a mass movement led by the Socialist Party, then called the Militant. This pamphlet outlines how we can stop the cuts.
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Women and the struggle for socialism

It doesn't have to be like this
By Christine Thomas

It doesn't have to be like this - What consequences will the economic crisis and its aftermath have for women?

Book published August 2010

Planning Green Growth

A socialist contribution to the debate on environmental sustainability
By Pete Dickenson
Pamphlet dated 20/09/2010

The case for socialism (2013 version)

Why you should join
Pamphlet dated 10/08/2013

This short pamphlet outlines what the Socialist Party stands for and how we think it can be achieved. If you agree - join us!

The Case for Socialism by Hannah Sell, cover design by Denis Rudd

The Case for Socialism (2009)

The profound crisis that global capitalism entered in 2008 is resulting in increased hardship for the majority, in Britain and internationally.

Pamphlet published 17/11/2009

Socialism and Left Unity - A critique of the Socialist Workers Party

Pamphlet published in November 2008.
The Socialist Party in England and Wales, and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) are the two largest organisations on the 'Marxist left' in Britain. Many argue: 'Why can't you forget your differences and combine to unite yourselves and the left in a real alternative?'

Capitalism in Crisis

The defenders of capitalism were wrong and the socialists and Marxists were right. This is what the current economic crisis means - as well as hardship for millions of people. Over the last few decades...

Pamphlet dated 24/02/2009, later revised and republished as 'The Case for Socialism'