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The publishing house of the British Socialist Workers Party, which grew out of the International Socialists' bookshop (I.S. Books from 1971, Bookmarks from 1973–74) and has published books since 1979, including the works of Tony Cliff, Chris Harman and Paul Foot. Its bookshop, now in Bloomsbury, is Britain's largest socialist bookshop.

Years
1979–present
Location
London, United Kingdom
Affiliation
Socialist Workers Party (UK)
Languages
English
Authority records
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Sources
Wikipedia — Bookmarks (bookshop)

Backlist

200197019801990200020102020Founded 19791979: 1 title1980: 3 titles1981: 1 title1982: 6 titles1983: 2 titles1984: 6 titles1985: 7 titles1986: 13 titles1987: 20 titles1988: 7 titles1989: 8 titles1990: 9 titles1991: 5 titles1992: 5 titles1993: 8 titles1994: 5 titles1995: 3 titles1996: 5 titles1997: 2 titles1998: 6 titles1999: 10 titles2000: 3 titles2001: 5 titles2002: 2 titles2003: 6 titles2004: 4 titles2005: 2 titles2006: 6 titles2007: 4 titles2008: 1 title2009: 4 titles2010: 5 titles2011: 4 titles2012: 1 title2013: 6 titles2014: 4 titles2015: 2 titles2016: 2 titles2017: 4 titles2018: 1 title2019: 1 title2020: 4 titles2021: 2 titles2022: 1 title2023: 1 title2024: 2 titles2025: 4 titles2026: 1 title
Titles of Bookmarks by year: 214 dated titles, 1979–2026, most in 1987 (20); 3 undated. Lines mark founded 1979.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1970s1
1980s73
1990s58
2000s37
2010s30
2020s15
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1979Anger on the Road, or, How the TUC Learned to Hate the Right to Work March✓Jimmy ReillyEnglish
1980Never again!✓ — The hows and whys of stopping fascismColin SparksGerman
1980Never Again!✓ — The Hows and Whys of Stopping FascismColin SparksEnglish
1980Rosa Luxemburg✓FreeTony CliffGerman
1981The Lost Revolution✓ — Germany 1918 to 1923Chris HarmanEnglish
1982Neither Washington nor Moscow✓ — Essays on Revolutionary SocialismTony CliffEnglish
1982Solidarno´s´c: The Missing Link?✓ — A New Edition of Poland's Classic Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto; Kuron and Modzelewski's Open Letter to the PartyJacek Kuroń & Karol ModzelewskiEnglish
1982Solidarność✓ — The Missing Link?: A New Edition of Poland's Classic Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto: Kurón & Modzelewski's Open Letter to the PartyJacek KurońEnglish
1982Solidarność, the Missing Link?✓ — A New Edition of Poland's Classic Revolutionary Socialist ManifestoJacek KurońEnglish
1982The lost Revolution✓ — Germany 1918 to 1923Chris HarmanGerman
1982The Lost Revolution✓ — Germany, 1918 to 1923Chris HarmanEnglish
1983Rosa Luxemburg✓FreeTony CliffEnglish
1983The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1984Class Struggle and Women's Liberation✓ — 1640 to TodayTony CliffEnglish
1984Examining the Crisis✓ — A Marxist Re-appraisalChris HarmanEnglish
1984Explaining the Crisis✓Free — A Marxist Re-appraisalChris HarmanEnglish
1984Red Shelley✓Paul FootEnglish
1984The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx✓ — By Alex. CallinicosAlex CallinicosGerman
1984Trotsky's Marxism✓Duncan HallasEnglish
1985All Power to the Soviets✓ — Lenin, 1914-1917Tony CliffEnglish
1985Lenin✓Tony CliffEnglish
1985Nicaragua, Revolution Under Siege✓Mike GonzalezEnglish
1985The Comintern✓Duncan HallasEnglish
1985The lost Revolution✓ — Germany 1918 to 1923Chris HarmanGerman
1985The Western Soviets Workers' Councils Versus Parliament, 1915-1920✓Donny GlucksteinEnglish
1985What Is the Real Marxist Tradition?✓John MolyneuxEnglish
1986Bailing Out the System✓ — Reformist Socialism in Western Europe, 1944-1985Ian H. BirchallEnglish
1986Building the Party✓ — LeninTony CliffEnglish
1986Festival of the Oppressed✓ — Solidarity, Reform, and Revolution in Poland, 1980-81Colin BarkerEnglish
1986How Marxism Works✓FreeChris HarmanEnglish
1986Ireland's Permanent Revolution✓Chris BamberyEnglish
1986Israel, the Hijack State✓ — America's Watchdog in the Middle EastJohn RoseEnglish
1986June '36✓ — Class Struggle and the Popular Front in FranceJacques DanosEnglish
1986Lenin✓Tony CliffEnglish
1986Lenin 1893 - 1914✓ — Building the PartyTony CliffEnglish
1986Marxism and the Party✓John MolyneuxEnglish
1986Marxism and Trade Union Struggle✓Free — The General Strike of 1926Tony CliffEnglish
1986Rosa Luxemburg✓FreeTony CliffGerman
1986The Mass Strike✓FreeRosa LuxemburgEnglish
19871919--Britain on the Brink of Revolution✓Chanie RosenbergEnglish
1987Arguments for Revolutionary Socialism✓John MolyneuxEnglish
1987Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma✓FreeAlekseĭ Egorovich BadaevEnglish
1987Britain on the Brink of Revolution✓ — 1919Chanie RosenbergEnglish
1987Explaining the Crisis✓Free — A Marxist Re-appraisalChris HarmanNot recorded
1987Festival of the Oppressed✓ — Solidarity, Reform and Revolution in Poland 1980 - 81Colin BarkerEnglish
1987Ireland's Permanent Revolution✓Chris BamberyEnglish
1987Irelandʼs Permanent Revolution✓Chris BamberyEnglish
1987Labour in Irish History✓Free
Revolutionary Classics
James ConnollyEnglish
1987Lenin✓ — 1917 - 1923; revolution besiegedTony CliffEnglish
1987Racism, Resistance and Revolution✓Peter AlexanderEnglish
1987Revolution Beseiged✓ — Lenin 1917-1923Tony CliffEnglish
1987Revolution Besieged✓ — Lenin 1917 - 1923Tony CliffEnglish
1987Revolutionary Rehearsals✓Colin BarkerEnglish
1987Russia, from Workers' State to State Capitalism✓Peter BinnsEnglish
1987The Changing Working Class✓ — Essays on Class Structure TodayAlex CallinicosEnglish
1987The Lessons of October✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1987The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx✓Alex CallinicosGerman
1987Trotsky's Marxism✓Duncan HallasEnglish
1987Women's Liberation & Socialism✓Celia PettyEnglish
1988Class Struggles in Eastern Europe 1945-83✓Chris HarmanEnglish
1988Revolution and Counter-revolution in Iran✓Phil MarshallEnglish
1988South Africa Between Reform and Revolution✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1988State Capitalism in Russia✓Free
Revolutionary Classics
Tony CliffEnglish
1988The Fire Last Time✓ — 1968 and AfterChris HarmanEnglish
1988The Labour Party✓Free — A Marxist HistoryTony CliffEnglish
1988What Is the Real Marxist Tradition?✓John MolyneuxEnglish
1989Fascism, Stalinism and the United Front✓ — Leon Trotsky; with Commentary by Chris Harman and an Introd. By Steve Wright
Revolutionary Classics
Leon TrotskyEnglish
1989Fascism, Stalinsim and the United Front✓Lev Davidovič TrockijEnglish
1989Intifada✓Free — Zionism, Imperialism and Palastinian ResistancePhil MarshallEnglish
1989Reform or Revolution✓FreeRosa Luxemburg & Sozialreform oder Revolution?English
1989Sex, Class, and Socialism✓Lindsey GermanEnglish
1989The Quiet Revolutionary✓ — The Autobiography of Margaret DewarMargaret DewarEnglish
1989Trotsky✓Free — Towards October, 1879-1917
Trotsky / Tony Cliff; 1
Tony CliffEnglish
1989Women and Perestroika✓Chanie RosenbergEnglish
1990Ireland's Permanent Revolution✓Chris BamberyEnglish
1990Irelandʾs Permanent RevolutionChris BamberyEnglish
1990Is Southern Ireland a Neo-colony?Kieran AllenEnglish
1990Nicaragua✓ — What Went Wrong?Mike GonzalezEnglish
1990Nicaragua✓ — What went wrong ?Mike Gonzalez & Sabby SagallFrench
1990The Ghetto fights✓ — Warsaw 1941-43Marek Edelman & John RosePolish
1990The Ghetto Fights✓ — Warsaw 1941-43Marek EdelmanEnglish
1990The Sword of the Revolution 1917-1923
Trotsky, 2
Tony CliffEnglish
1990Trotsky✓Tony CliffEnglish
1991Arguments for Revolutionary Socialism✓John MolyneuxEnglish
1991Fighting the Rising Stalinist Bureaucracy 1923-1927
Trotsky, 3
Tony CliffEnglish
1991The English People and the English Revolution✓Brian ManningEnglish
1991The Road to Tiananmen Square✓Charlie HoreEnglish
1991Trotsky✓Tony CliffEnglish
19921649✓ — The Crisis of the English RevolutionBrian ManningEnglish
19921649: Crisis of the English Revolution✓Brian ManningEnglish
1992Between Apartheid and Capitalism✓ — Conversations with South African SocialistsAlex CallinicosEnglish
1992Crime, Class and Corruption✓ — The Politics of the PoliceAudrey FarrellEnglish
1992Malcolm X✓ — Socialism and Black NationalismKevin OvendenEnglish
1993A Nation of Change and Novelty✓ — Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century EnglandChristopher HillEnglish
1993Crime, Class and Corruption✓ — The Politics of the PoliceAudrey FarrellEnglish
1993How Marxism Works✓FreeChris HarmanEnglish
1993In the Heat of the Struggle✓ — 25 Years of Socialist WorkerPaul Foot & Chris HarmanEnglish
1993Race and Class✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1993Socialism, Utopian and Scientific✓Free
Revolutionary Classics
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1993The Case of Comrade Tulayev✓Victor SergeEnglish, French
1993Trotsky✓Tony CliffEnglish
1994Marxism and the New Imperialism✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1994Race and Class✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1994Sex, Class and Socialism✓Lindsey GermanEnglish
1994The ABC of Socialism✓John ReesEnglish
1994The Experience of Defeat✓ — Milton and Some ContemporariesChristopher HillEnglish
1995A History of Communism in Britain✓Michael WoodhouseEnglish
1995Economics of the Madhouse✓Free — Capitalism and the Market TodayChris HarmanEnglish
1995Socialists in the Trade Unions✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1996New Labour or Socialism?Alex CallinicosEnglish
1996Party and Class✓Free — Essays by Tony Cliff, Duncan Hallas, Chris Harman and Leon TrotskyTony CliffEnglish
1996Party and Class: Essays—English
1996The Labour Party✓Free — A Marxist HistoryTony CliffEnglish
1996Wage Labour and Capital✓Free — Plus, Wages, Price and Profit
Revolutionary Classics
Karl MarxEnglish
1997In Defence of October✓ — A Debate on the Russian RevolutionJohn Rees & Robert ServiceEnglish
1997The Lost Revolution✓ — Germany, 1918-23Chris HarmanEnglish
1998A Socialist Review✓Lindsey German & Rob HovemanEnglish
1998England's Turning Point✓ — Essays on 17th Century English HistoryChristopher HillEnglish
1998Essays on Historical Materialism✓John ReesEnglish
1998Marxism and History✓ — Two EssaysChris HarmanEnglish
1998Shaking the World✓ — John Reed's Revolutionary JournalismJohn Reed & John NewsingerEnglish
1998The Fire Last Time✓ — 1968 and AfterChris HarmanEnglish
1999A People's History of the World✓Chris HarmanEnglish
1999Dear GOd✓ — The Price of Religion in IrelandEamonn McCannEnglish
1999Explaining the Crisis✓Free — A Marxist Re-appraisalChris HarmanEnglish
1999Scotland, Class and Nation✓ — ...Based on Talks Given at the 'Socialism in Scotland' Conference Held in Glasgow in November 1998 ... Organized by the Socialist Workers PartyChris Bambery & Socialist Workers PartyEnglish
1999Shaking the World✓ — John Reed's Revolutionary JournalismJohn Reed & John NewsingerEnglish
1999The Balkans, Nationalism and Imperialism✓Lindsey GermanEnglish
1999The Far Left in the English Revolution 1640 to 1660✓Brian ManningEnglish
1999The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class✓Donny GlucksteinEnglish
1999Trotsky✓Tony CliffEnglish
1999Trotskyism After Trotsky✓Free — The Origins of the International SocialistsTony CliffEnglish
2000A World to Win✓Free — Life of a RevolutionaryTony CliffEnglish
2000Articles of Resistance✓Paul FootEnglish
2000Marxism at the Millennium✓FreeTony CliffEnglish
2001An Activist's Guide to Exploiting the Media✓George MonbiotEnglish
2001Anticapitalism✓ — A Guide to the MovementEmma Bircham, John Charlton & Susan GeorgeEnglish
2001Glorious Summer✓ — Class Struggle in Britain, 1972Ralph DarlingtonEnglish
2001International Struggle and the Marxist Tradition✓
Selected Writings / Tony Cliff; Vol. 1
Tony CliffEnglish
2001The American War✓ — Vietnam 1960-1975Jonathan NealeEnglish
2002In the Thick of Worker's Struggle✓
Selected Writings / Tony Cliff; Vol. 2
Tony CliffEnglish
2002Russia✓ — Class and Power, 1917-2000Michael HaynesEnglish
2003Anti-imperialism✓ — A Guide for the Movement—English
2003Marxist Theory After Trotsky✓ — Selected Writings. Vol. 3
Selected Writings
Tony CliffEnglish
2003Revolution and Counter-revolution in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1658-1660✓Brian ManningEnglish
2003Selected Writings✓Tony CliffEnglish
2003The Communist ManifestoFree — With a New Introduction/ Karl Marx and Frederick Engels; with an Introduction by Chris HarmanKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Chris HarmanEnglish
2003The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini✓Tom BehanEnglish
2004Anti-capitalism✓ — Where Now?Hannah DeeEnglish
2004Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution✓Mike GonzalezEnglish
2004Saint Oscar✓ — A Play
Bookmarks Publications
Terry EagletonEnglish
2004Striking Back✓ — Photographs of the Great Miners' Strike 1984 - 1985Mike SimonsEnglish
2005A Rebel's Guide to LeninIan H. BirchallEnglish
2005Stop the War✓ — The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass MovementAndrew MurrayEnglish
2006A Rebel's Guide to GramsciChris BamberyEnglish
2006Another School Is Possible✓Terry WrigleyEnglish
2006Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy✓Donny GlucksteinEnglish
2006The Blood Never Dried✓Free — A People's History of the British EmpireJohn NewsingerEnglish
2006The Paris Commune✓ — A Revolutionary DemocracyDonny GlucksteinEnglish
2006Universities in a Neoliberal World✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
2007Fighters for Life✓ — Selected PoemsMichael RosenEnglish
2007Material Girls✓ — Women, Men and WorkLindsey GermanEnglish
2007Revolution in the 21st Century✓FreeChris HarmanEnglish
2007Sexism and the System✓ — A Rebel's Guide to Women's LiberationJudith OrrEnglish
2008Stop Global Warming✓ — Change the WorldJonathan NealeEnglish
2009Life on the Track✓ — Memoirs of a Socialist WorkerFrank HendersonEnglish
2009Strike by Name✓ — One Man's Part in the 1984-5 Miners' StrikeNorman StrikeEnglish
2009Unravelling Capitalism✓ — A Guide to Marxist Political EconomyJoseph ChoonaraEnglish
2009Zombie Capitalism✓Free — Global Crisis and the Relevance of MarxChris HarmanEnglish
2010Breaking Their Chains✓ — Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910Tony BarnsleyEnglish
2010Historical Actuality of the Socialist Offensive — Alternative to ParliamentarismIstván MészárosEnglish
2010Occupy!✓ — A Short History of Workers' OccupationsDave SherryEnglish
2010The Blood Never Dried✓Free — A People's History of the British EmpireJohn NewsingerEnglish
2010The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl MarxAlex CallinicosEnglish
2011Defending Multiculturalism✓ — A Guide for the MovementHassan MahamdallieEnglish
2011The Egyptian Revolution✓ — A Political Analysis and Eyewitness AccountSameh NaguibEnglish
2011Tony Cliff✓ — A Marxist for His TimeIan H. BirchallEnglish
2011Voices from the West Bank✓Chris JonesEnglish
2012Fighting Back✓ — The American Working Class in the 1930sJohn NewsingerEnglish
2013Capitalism and Sport✓ — Politics, Protest, People and PlayMichael LavaletteEnglish
2013Jim Larkin and the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913✓John NewsingerEnglish
2013Marikana✓ — A View from the Mountain and a Case to AnswerPeter Alexander, Luke Sinwell, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope & Bongani XezwiEnglish
2013Say It Loud — Marxism and the Fight Against RacismBrian RichardsonEnglish
2013The Blood Never Dried✓Free — A People's History of the British EmpireJohn NewsingerEnglish
2013The Ghetto Fights✓Marek EdelmanEnglish
2014Deciphering Capital✓ — Marx's Capital and Its DestinyAlex CallinicosEnglish
2014Empire and Revolution✓ — A Socialist History of the First World WarDave SherryEnglish
2014John Maclean✓ — Red ClydesiderDave SherryEnglish
2014Land and Labour✓ — Marxism, Ecology and Human HistoryMartin EmpsonEnglish
2015Marxism and Women's LiberationJudith OrrEnglish
2015Them and Us✓ — Fighting the Class War, 1910-1939John NewsingerEnglish
20161917: Russia's Red Year: A Graphic NovelTimEnglish
2016A Very Capitalist Condition✓ — A History and Politics of DisabilityRoddy SlorachEnglish
2017A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital✓Joseph ChoonaraEnglish
2017Lenin for TodayJohn MolyneuxEnglish
2017Politics of the Mind✓ — Marxism and Mental DistressIain FergusonEnglish
2017Unravelling Capitalism✓ — A Guide to Marxist Political EconomyJoseph ChoonaraEnglish
2018"Kill All the Gentlemen"✓ — Class Struggle and Change in the English CountrysideMartin EmpsonEnglish
2019System Change Not Climate Change✓ — A Revolutionary Response to Environmental CrisisMartin Empson, Ian Angus, Carolyn Egan & Sarah EnsorEnglish
2020A Rebel's Guide to Engels✓Camilla RoyaleEnglish
2020Alexandra Kollontai — Writings from the StruggleA. (Aleksandra) Kollontaĭ & Cathy PorterEnglish
2020Chosen by God✓ — Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American CapitalismJohn NewsingerEnglish
2020Hegel and Revolution✓Terry Sullivan & Donny GlucksteinEnglish
2021Breaking up the British State✓ — Scotland, Independence & SocialismBob Fotheringham, Dave Sherry & Colm BryceEnglish
2021Revolution Is the Choice of the People — Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East and North AfricaAnne AlexanderEnglish
2022Socialism or Extinction✓ — The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological CrisisMartin EmpsonEnglish
2023The Radical Jewish Tradition✓ — Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and FirebrandsDonny Gluckstein & Janey StoneEnglish
2024China✓ — Rise, Repression & ResistanceAdrian BuddEnglish
2024Spartacus and the Slave Revolt Which Shook the Roman Empire✓Chris Harman & Christian HogsbjergNot recorded
2025'The Time of the Harvest Has Come!'✓ — Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants' WarMartin EmpsonEnglish
2025Bye Bye Blackshirt✓ — The Fight Against Oswald Mosley, Antisemitism, And The British Union Of FascistMark KrantzNot recorded
2025Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom✓Philip MarfleetEnglish
2025People's History of the Anti Nazi League✓ — 1977-1981Geoff BrownNot recorded
2026Revisiting the General Strike of 1926✓ — When Workers Were Ready to DareCharlie Kimber & Judy CoxEnglish
n.d.Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British EmpireFreeJohn NewsingerNot recorded
n.d.Revolution and Counter-revolution in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1658-60Brian ManningNot recorded
n.d.Revolutionary Classics—English