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British Publications which have been Suppressed
or Which are Difficult to Locate
[Intro to be added...]
Many of the magazines and documents below have been scanned and first posted on the Internet by other organizations or individuals, including one group calling itself “The Socialist Truth in Cyprus—London Branch”, about whose politics we have no knowledge. We thank them, however, for their scanning and posting efforts.
If you know of other publications or documents which should be made available here, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
British Imperialism — Its History and Characteristics
- [Book:] “The British in Vietnam: How the Twenty-Five Year War Began”, by George Rosie, (London: Panther Books, 1970), 156 pages. PDF format [12,127 KB]
Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) [A small party which originated in 1968 as a pro-Maoist split from the CPGB. However, in the late 1970s this party renounced Maoism and allied itself with Enver Hoxha and Albania. Strangely, it then apparently supported the revisionist Soviet Union again for a brief period! It has a website at: https://www.cpbml.org.uk/]
- Documents:
- [To be added.]
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) [A small party originally called the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) when it was formed in 1972. In 1979 it changed its name, rejected Maoism and aligned itself with Albania. It was ideologically very close to Hardial Bains, who was the head of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). Website: http://www.rcpbml.org.uk/]
- Documents:
- [To be added.]
- Marxist-Leninist Journal:
- Volume 3:
- Volume 3, #2 (July 1990), 104 pages. PDF format [1,549 KB]
Communist Party of Great Britain [Existed from 1920 to 1991. From at least 1950 on (and probably long before that) this was a totally revisionist party.]
- [Many CPGB documents are available at: http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/documents.htm More will eventually be added here.]
- “Inner Party Democracy”, adopted at the 25th CPGB Congress (April 1957), 32 pages. Searchable PDF format [5,789 KB]
- “26th Congress Report of the CPGB”, March 27-30, 1959, 76 pages. Searchable PDF format [12,055 KB]
- “The British Road to Socialism (Draft for Discussion)”, by the CPGB, 1977, 40 pages. Searchable PDF format [3,339 KB]
- “The British Road to Socialism: Programme of the Communist Party”, by the CPGB, 5th edition, 1978, 68 pages. Searchable PDF format [9,174 KB]
CPGB Books and Pamphlets:
- [Book:] “Britain in the World Front”, by R. Palme Dutt, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1942), 226 pages. Searchable PDF format [15,736 KB]
- [Book:] “Science and Idealism: An Examination of ‘Pure Empiricism’ and Modern Logic”, by Maurice Cornforth, (NY: International, 1946), 274 pages. [Originally published in London by Lawrence & Wishart.] Searchable PDF format [18,498 KB]
- “Dialectical Materialism and Science”, by Maurice Cornforth, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1949), 68 pages. Searchable PDF format [3,977 KB]
- “Marx and Science”, by J. D. Bernal, (NY: International, 1952), 52 pages. [Originally published in London by Lawrence & Wishart.] Searchable PDF format [3,409 KB]
- [Book:] “Historical Materialism”, by Maurice Cornforth, 2nd ed. (1962), (NY: International, 1971), 152 pages. (Has a few marginal notes: our apologies.) Searchable PDF format [8,986 KB]
- [Book:] “Socialism in the Nuclear Age”, by John Eaton, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1961), 194 pages. PDF format [8,014 KB]
- [Book:] “Aeschylus and Athens: A Study of the Social Origins of Drama”, by George Thomson, one of the most genuinely revolutionary members of the CPGB who eventually split from them and helped form a Maoist party, (NY: 1968, 3rd edition; the first edition was published by Lawrence & Wishart in 1940), 385 pages. Searchable PDF format [5,584 KB]
Marxist Study Courses [Prepared by the CPGB in the early 1930s.]
- Course 1: Political Economy [Not yet available online, but re-published as a single book, Political Economy: Marxist Study Courses (Chicago: Banner Press, 1976).]
- Course 2: History of the Working Class
- Lesson 1: The Great French Revolution [1931, 28 sheets, 52 pages + cover, PDF format, 3,341 KB]
- Lesson 2: The English Industrial Revolution and Chartism [1932, 26 sheets, 52 pages, PDF format, 13,936 KB]
- Lesson 3: The Revolution of 1848 in France and Germany [c. 1931, 26 sheets, 49 pages + cover, PDF format, 3,365 KB]
- Lesson 4: The First International and the Paris Commune [c. 1931, 25 sheets, 47 pages + cover, PDF format, 2,965 KB]
- [The additional 14 lessons which were apparently part of this course are not yet available to us.]
Other Educational Materials
- [Book:] Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics, prepared and edited by Maurice Cornforth, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952 [reprinted 1953]), 132 pages. PDF format [16,119 KB]
Marxism Today — CPGB Monthly Theoretical and Discussion Journal
- 1970 (Vol. 14):
- #10 — October 1970, 40 pages. PDF format [3,994 KB]
- #11 — November 1970, 36 pages. PDF format [3,940 KB]
- 1981 (Vol. 25):
- #10 — October 1981, 52 pages. PDF format [6,449 KB]
Labour Monthly [A journal published from 1921-1981 and associated with the CPGB. It was edited from its beginning until his death in 1974 by R. Palme Dutt. It is said that Dutt’s “Notes of the Month” editorial in each issue represented the official CPGB line. Some individual articles from other issues are available at: http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/labour_monthly/ ]
Vol. 32 #7 July 1950 PDF format (4,577 KB) Includes Agnes Smedley’s last article. The Modern Quarterly [A journal published from 1945-1953 and associated with the CPGB. It was edited by John Lewis.]
Vol. 1, #1 December 1945 PDF format (10,368 KB) [One spurious page and a couple missing pages.] Vol. 3, #1 Winter 1947-8 PDF format (8,796 KB) Vol. 3, #3 Summer 1948 PDF format (8,611 KB) Vol. 3, #4 Autumn 1948 PDF format (8,010 KB) Vol. 4, #4 Autumn 1949 PDF format (17,660 KB) Vol. 5, #1 Winter 1949-50 PDF format (8,577 KB) Vol. 5, #2 Spring 1950 PDF format (9,523 KB) Vol. 5, #3 Summer 1950 PDF format (8,256 KB) Vol. 5, #4 Autumn 1950 PDF format (6,843 KB) [Some light underlining.] Vol. 6, #3 Summer 1951 PDF format (7,927 KB) Vol. 6 Index 1951 PDF format (4 pages; 142 KB) Vol. 7, #2 Spring 1952 PDF format (6,248 KB) Vol. 7, #3 Summer 1952 PDF format (5,846 KB) Vol. 8, #1 Winter 1952-3 PDF format (5,227 KB) [Cover askew.]
Other Parties, Organizations, Publications and Documents
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