Böcker av Tom Bramble

Introducing Marxism is published by Socialist Alternative to explain the fundamentals of Marxism for anyone who wants to fight for a better world.Written from an unashamedly partisan perspective, this book offers a starting point for challenging capitalism and overturning oppression.Using modern examples from Australia and the world, it aims to show that Marxism can make sense of this unjust and destructive world while also pointing to the solution: a workers' revolution that smashes the capitalist state and prepares the way for a society in which things are run for the needs of the many, not the profits of the few.This second edition has been fully updated to account for political developments since the book was first published.This book is meant to be read as part of the introductory discussion groups run regularly by Socialist Alternative, Australia's biggest revolutionary socialist organisation. We have branches in most major cities and student clubs on university campuses across the country.Sign up to discuss the book with us and get involved - a member of SA from your area will get in touch. Just go to redflag.org.au/getinvolved

The horrors of 20th century capitalism threw up numerous challenges by workers and peasants, who rose up in their millions to fight the system. Inspired by the successful 1917 Russian Revolution, they repeatedly created their own institutions of collective power and in doing so demonstrated not just how to organise their struggles in the present but also how to build a world free of capitalists, landlords and generals. But these revolutionary movements quickly confronted counter-revolutionary forces, both in the repressive machinery of the state and in the workers' movement itself - trade union and political leaders with no interest in seeing workers take power. Defeating such forces required that at least the leading militants be organised in revolutionary parties dedicated to seeing the struggle through. The victorious Russian revolution brought hundreds of thousands of working class militants together in new Communist parties dedicated to working class emancipation, but tragically the revolution's defeat at the hands of the dictator Joseph Stalin turned these parties into vehicles for betrayal.From Britain to China, from Hungary to Australia, this book tells the story of these inspiring working class struggles and uprisings and recounts the fights within the workers movement over strategies and tactics to take the struggles forward.