“Recent entries” (see right) include the two single largest resources of information. `A compendium of communist biographies’ has 200,000 words on some 500 (mainly) deceased Communist Party members. New information on individuals is always welcome. Secondly, there’s the 330,000 word study, `Defence or Defiance’, a people’s history of Derbyshire, in four parts. These can also be found in the “Monthly Entries” (again, see right) for December 2005 and November 2005, respectively. For reasons of editorial convenience, even though the Communist biographies are constantly updated, I have kept them in this dated order. The complete memoirs of three Communists that I have been associated with, Frank Watters, Jock Kane and Sid Eastonare published here, also.
Additionally, the following may be found in the monthly archives:
November 2005
1) The YCL 1966-1980 - anatomy of decline - a 53,000 word study
2) Archives from our history - transcribed from the originals by Michael Walker. (1946 YCL congress; 1961 YCL congress; YCL in the 1950 election; Clarion cycling club 1922; engineering shop stewards national conference 1944; Communist student branches 1963-64; the wartime links between Coventry and Stalingrad.)
August 2005
1) An illustrated guide to trade union history, with downloadable pictures
2) “No wonder we were all rebels - an oral history” by Jock and Betty Kane
December 2004
1) "Being Frank" - the memoirs of Frank Watters (publ. 1992, revised edition)
2) Reggie Dunne - an Irish republican martyr
3) Harry Pollitt on video on line
4) An analysis of the 2004 elections
6) `Women and the new industries of the 1930s'
7) `Is corporatism dead?' An analysis of the sideling of unions by the state
8) Birmingham communists in action in the 1930s
9) "In defence of History", an 80,000 word study of classical Marxist historical theory in the context of modern knowledge; in which conceptions of patriarchy, class rule and development are shown to be the consequences of real life.
September 2004
1) Lenin and "left-wing communism"
2) What’s in "What is to be done?”
3) The great money trick - a play format from Tressell’s book
4) Ricky Tomlinson’s autobiography - the full review
5) 12,000 words on the errors of Eaden and Renton on CPGB history
6) 12,000 words arguing for the fight to reclaim the Labour Party
7) The miners' strike 20 years on and the Communist Party
8) 11,000 words on Spartacus and the slave revolt against Rome
9) Official CV of Graham Stevenson