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Communist Party of Great Britain

Defunct

The party's own imprint, used from its founding in 1920 until its dissolution in 1991 for programmes such as The British Road to Socialism, congress documents, pamphlets and early British editions of Lenin, Stalin and Bukharin. Its books were also published through Martin Lawrence and later Lawrence & Wishart.

Years
1920–1991
Location
London, United Kingdom
Also known as
CPGB
Languages
English
Authority records
Wikidata · GND
Sources
Wikipedia — Communist Party of Great Britain

Backlist

50019201930194019501960197019801990Founded 1920Closed 19911920: 21 titles1921: 21 titles1922: 13 titles1923: 9 titles1924: 10 titles1925: 26 titles1926: 20 titles1927: 24 titles1928: 31 titles1929: 21 titles1930: 9 titles1931: 7 titles1932: 10 titles1933: 11 titles1934: 11 titles1935: 19 titles1936: 40 titles1937: 29 titles1938: 28 titles1939: 21 titles1940: 22 titles1941: 17 titles1942: 50 titles1943: 47 titles1944: 22 titles1945: 21 titles1946: 15 titles1947: 13 titles1948: 14 titles1949: 9 titles1950: 2 titles1951: 9 titles1952: 5 titles1953: 2 titles1954: 3 titles1955: 4 titles1956: 8 titles1957: 8 titles1958: 7 titles1959: 20 titles1960: 2 titles1961: 10 titles1962: 3 titles1963: 5 titles1964: 2 titles1965: 3 titles1966: 2 titles1967: 10 titles1968: 9 titles1969: 18 titles1970: 8 titles1971: 12 titles1972: 5 titles1973: 15 titles1974: 5 titles1975: 12 titles1976: 5 titles1977: 8 titles1978: 5 titles1979: 5 titles1980: 2 titles1981: 2 titles1982: 1 title1983: 2 titles1984: 2 titles1985: 1 title1986: 2 titles1987: 3 titles
Titles of Communist Party of Great Britain by year: 838 dated titles, 1920–1987, most in 1942 (50); 24 undated. Lines mark founded 1920 and closed 1991.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1920s196
1930s185
1940s230
1950s68
1960s64
1970s80
1980s15
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1920"Left Wing" Communism✓Free — An Infantile DisorderVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1920A War Was Stopped✓ — The Story of the Dockers & the "Jolly George"Harry PollittEnglish
1920Communist Industrial Policy New Tasks for New TimesFree—English
1920Communist Unity Convention, London, July 31st and August 1st, 1920✓Free — Official ReportCommunist unity convention London 1920English
1920How to Organise the Communist Party✓Communist International. CongressEnglish
1920Lenin and Britain✓ — His Message to the British WorkersA. LepeshinskaiaEnglish
1920National and Colonial Questions✓ — (Theses Adopted by the Second Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, August, 1920)Communist International. CongressEnglish
1920On the Road to Insurrection✓Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1920Parliamentarism, Trade Unionism and the Communist International✓ — Theses Adopted by the Second Congress, Moscow, August 1920—English
1920Re-establishing the Second International✓ — The Communist Party of Great Britain Replies to a Letter of Appeal Signed by Arthur Henderson (for the British Labour Party), J.H. Thomas and Harry Gosling (for the Trades Union Congress), and J. Ramsay Macdonald (for the Second International)—English
1920Songs of the Revolution✓—English
1920Statutes and Conditions of Affiliation of the Communist International✓ — As Adopted at the Second Congress, Moscow, August, 1920—English
1920The Agrarian Question✓ — Thesis Adopted by the Second Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, August, 1920Communist International. CongressEnglish
1920The Communist Party, the Labour Party & the United Front✓ — A Thesis Defining the Attitude of the Communist Party Towards the Labour Party—English
1920The Dictatorship of the Proletariat✓FreeLev Borisovich KamenevEnglish
1920The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, by L. Kameneff✓FreeLev Borisovich KamenevEnglish
1920The Economic Organisation of Soviet Russia✓Free — A Brief Sketch of the Organisation and the Present Situation of Industry in RussiaV. P. MiliutinEnglish
1920The Life and Work of Friedrich Engels✓FreeZelda Kahan-CoatesEnglish
1920The Soviet System at Work✓Robert WilliamsEnglish
1920Theses of the Communist International (Complete)✓ — As Adopted by the Second Congress Held in Moscow, August 1920
Theses of the Communist International (as Adopted at the Moscow Congress, August, 1920)
—English
1920Work Among Women✓
History of Women -- No. 7303
—English
19213rd Congress of the Communist International. Report of MeetingsFree—English
1921A Straight Talk to the Miners!✓ — A Communist Policy for the Miners' Federation of Great Britain—Not recorded
1921Chairman's Report, November, 1921 - Communist Party of Great BritainArthur McManusEnglish
1921Communism or I. L. P.-Ism?✓ — Verbatim report of debate held ... between A. Macmanus and R. C. WallheadA. Macmanus & R. C. WallheadNot recorded
1921Decisions✓FreeCommunist International. Congress 1921 : Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.)English
1921Decisions of the Third Congress of the Communist International✓Free — Held at Moscow, July, 1921Communist International. CongressEnglish
1921National and Colonial Questions✓ — (Theses Adopted by the Second Congress of the Communsit International, Moscow, Aug., 1920); with an Introd—English
1921Report of Meetings Held at Moscow, June 22nd-July 12th, 1921✓FreeCommunist International. Congress 1921 : Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.)English
1921Russia To-day✓ — A Survey of Facts & Figures; to All British Trade Unionists—Not recorded
1921Russia Today✓ — A Survey of Facts and Figures: To All Trade Unionists—English
1921The Communist Review—English
1921The Doom of a Coalfield✓ — Newbold, J. T. Walton; 'Big Business' in South WalesJohn Turner Walton NewboldEnglish
1921The Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International✓ — Thesis Adopted by the Second Congress, Moscow, August, 1920—Not recorded
1921The International Situation✓ — A Study of Capitalism in CollapseLeon Trotsky & Eugène VargaEnglish
1921The Irish Crisis✓William PaulEnglish
1921The Land Grabbers: A Tale of Robbery✓ — Specially Addressed to Agricultural WorkersFrank TannerEnglish
1921?Third Congress of the Communist International✓ — Report of Meetings Held at Moscow June 22nd-July 12th 1921Communist International. CongressEnglish
1921To Working Women!✓ — A Communist Message. By Y.JY. J.English
1921What Are a Few Churchills?✓ — C.J. L. Malone, M.P.'s Defence of His Famous Albert Hall Speech: Verbatim Report of a Speech from the Dock at the London Sessions Before Sir Robert Wallace, K.C., January 17th 1921C. J. L. MaloneEnglish
1921What Is This Communist Party?✓ — A Plain Statement of a Plain CaseW. McLaineEnglish
1921Why This Unemployment?✓Free — Addressed to Those in Work as Well as Those Out of WorkThomas BellEnglish
1922Between Red & White✓Free — A Study of Some Fundamental Questions of Revolution, with Particular Reference to GeorgiaLeon TrotskyEnglish
1922Between Red and White✓Free — A Study of Some Fundamental Questions of Revolution, with Particular Reference to GeorgiaLeon TrotskyEnglish
1922Communism & Society✓William PaulEnglish
1922Communism and Society✓FreeWilliam PaulEnglish
1922Fourth Congress of the Communist International✓ — Abridged Report of Meetings Held at Petrograd and Moscow, Nov. 7-Dec. 3, 1922—English
1922Secrets of Menshevik Georgia✓Free — The Plot Against Soviet Russia Unmasked: With Authentic Copies of Documents Taken from the Archives of the Late Menshevik Governors of GeorgiaIAkov Moiseevich ShafirEnglish
1922Statutes and Rules✓ — As Adopted by the Battersea Conference, Oct. 7-9, 1922—English
1922The ABC of Communism✓Free — A Popular Explanation of the Program of the Communist Party of RussiaNikolaĭ Ivanovich Bukharin & E. A. PreobrazhenskiĭEnglish
1922The British Empire✓Free — “With a Map Specially Drawn by J. F. Horrabin”T. A. JacksonEnglish
1922The Communist Party and the Labour Party✓Free — All the Facts and All the CorrespondenceLabour Party (Great Britain)English
1922The Communist Party, the Labour Party & the United Front✓ — A Thesis Defining the Attitude of the Communist Party Towards the Labour Party—English
1922Towards a communist programme✓—Not recorded
1922What Is the United Front?✓—English
19234th Congr of the Com Intern Report of MeetingsFree—English
1923Communist Industrial Policy✓ — New Tasks for New Times—English
1923Fourth Congress of the Communist International✓ — Abridged Report of Meetings Held at Petrograd & Moscow Nov. 7-Dec. 3, 1922Internationale (3)English
1923John Maclean✓Harry McShaneEnglish
1923Lenin's Lash for "Pacifist" Hypocrites✓ — His Exposure of Fine Words Which Cover Foul Deeds
The Workers Against War
—English
1923Nikolai Lenin✓ — A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Great LeaderThomas BellEnglish
1923Secrets of Menshevik Georgia✓ — The Plot Against Soviet Russia UnmaskedJ. ShaphirEnglish
1923Snowden's Socialism Riddled✓John Turner Walton NewboldEnglish
1923Unemployment and How to Deal with It✓John Turner Walton NewboldEnglish
1924Fifth Congress of the Communist International✓ — Abridged Report of Meetings Held at Moscow June 17th to July 8th, 1924—English
1924From the Fourth to the Fifth World Congress✓ — Report of the Executive Committee of the Communist InternationalInternationaleEnglish
1924How to Organise the Communist Party✓—English
1924Manual of Party Training✓Free — Principles and Organisation—English
1924My Case✓J. R. CampbellEnglish
1924The Communist Party and the Labour Government✓—English
1924The Path to Power✓ — The Communist Party on TrialWilliam PaulEnglish
1924The Record of the Labour Government✓FreeBert WilliamsEnglish
1924What Is the Use of Parliament?✓ — The Limitations of Parliamentary Democracy as Disclosed in the General Election, 1924J. R. CampbellEnglish
1924Work Among Women✓Free
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
—English
1925A Short Course of Economic Science✓FreeAlexander Alexandrowitsch BogdanowEnglish
1925Anti-Labour Legislations✓ — Why the Workers Should Demand Their RepealW. T. ColyerEnglish
1925Bolshevising the Communist Internatinal✓ — Report of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist International, March 21st to April 14th, 1925Internationale (3)English
1925Communist Work in the Factories✓ — The Work of Factory Groups—English
1925Empire Socialism✓Rajani Palme DuttEnglish
1925Fifth Congress of the Communist International✓ — Abridged Report of Meetings Held at Moscow June 17th to July 8th, 1924Internationale (3)English
1925Harry Pollitt's Defence
The Communist Party on Trial
—English
1925History of the Zinoviev Letter✓ — Facts About the Infamous LetterArthur McManusEnglish
1925International Trade Union Unity✓—English
1925Lenin and Britain; His Message to the British WorkersFreeVladimir Ilâich Lenin & A. LepeshinskyEnglish
1925Lenin as a Marxist✓Free
The Lenin Library
Nikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish
1925Murder!✓ — An Indictment of British Imperialism in China—English
1925Report of Seventh Congress, May 30-June 1, 1925✓Communist Party of Great Britain. CongressEnglish
1925Report of Seventh National Congress, May 30-June 1 1925✓—English
1925Russia's Path to Communism✓FreeG. ZinovievEnglish
1925The Errors of Trotskyism✓Free — A SymposiumJ. T. MurphyEnglish
1925The Path to Power✓ — The Communist Party on TrialWilliam PaulEnglish
1925The Reds and the Labour Party✓ — Towards a Left Wing Policy—English
1925The State & Revolution✓ — Marxist Teaching on the State and the Task of the Proletariat in the RevolutionVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1925The Theory and Practice of Leninism✓FreeJoseph StalinEnglish
1925W. Gallacher's Defence and Judge Rigby Swift's Summing-up
The Communist Party on Trial
—English
1925Wage-Labour and Capital✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1925What Is the British Empire to You?✓T. A. JacksonEnglish
1925What Is the Use of Parliament?✓ — The Limitations of Parliamentary Democracy as Disclosed in the General Election, 1924J. R. CampbellEnglish
1925What the Young Communist League Stands For✓William RustEnglish
1925Who Are the War-Makers?✓—English
1926And Now for Power!✓ — Opening Speech at the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Battersea, 16.10.26T. BellEnglish
1926Bolshevism✓ — Some Questions AnsweredJoseph StalinEnglish
1926Building up Socialism✓Nikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish
1926Communism Is Commonsense✓ — The Case for the International Party of the Workers—English
1926Orders from Moscow?✓—English
1926Statutes and Rules✓ — Adopted by Party Congress, Battersea, Oct. 16 and 17, 1926—English
1926Ten Days That Shook the WorldFreeJohn ReedEnglish
1926The Aftermath of Non-co-operation✓FreeSurendra Nath DasguptaEnglish
1926The Communist Party on Trial✓ — Wm. Gallacher's Defence and Judge Rigby Swift's Summing UpWilliam GallacherNot recorded
1926The General Council & the General Strike✓ — An Analysis of the General Council's Report on the StrikeA. J. Bennet[Pseud.]English
1926The General Council and the General Strike✓ — An Analysis of the General Council's Report on the StrikeA. J. BennetEnglish
1926The Meaning of the General Strike✓FreeRajani Palme DuttEnglish
1926The Meaning of the General Strike (Reprint from Communist International, No. 21)R. Palme (Rajani Palme) DuttEnglish
1926The Political Meaning of the Great Strike✓Free
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
John Thomas MurphyEnglish
1926The Reds and the Labour Party✓ — Towards a Left-Wing Policy—English
1926The Soldier's Conscience✓ — A Unionist DiscoveryRobert DunstanEnglish
1926The Soldiers' Programme✓—English
1926The Theory and Practice of Leninism✓Free
The Lenin Library
Joseph StalinEnglish
1926What Margate Means✓ — An Analysis of the Labour Party Conference at Margate, October, 1926Harry PollittEnglish
1926Where Is Britain Going?✓FreeLeon TrotskyEnglish
1927A Defence of Communism✓ — In Reply to H. J. LaskiRalph Fox & Harold Joseph LaskiEnglish
1927A Short Course of Economic Science✓ — Translated by J. FinebergA. BogdanovEnglish
1927China✓ — A Survey of the Historical & Economic Forces Behind the Nationalist RevolutionSeng-sin FuEnglish
1927Communism Is Commonsense✓ — The Case for the International Party of the Workers—English
1927Communist Party Training✓ — With a preface—English
1927Is India Different?✓Free — The Class Struggle in India: Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern ConditionsShapurji SaklatvalaEnglish
1927Lenin. Information Bulletin for the Use of Propagandists and Party Training Groups✓Free—English
1927May Day, 1927✓ — S. Saklatvala's Message to His Constituents on His Return from IndiaShapurji SaklatvalaEnglish
1927Modern India✓Rajani Palme DuttEnglish
1927Only Communism Can Conquer Unemployment✓ — A Reply to Lloyd George and OthersJ. R. CampbellEnglish
1927Prob Lems of the Chinese Revolution✓Nikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish
1927Problems of the Chinese Revolution✓FreeNikolaĭ BukharinEnglish
1927Socialism and the Living Wage✓Rajani Palme DuttEnglish
1927Stand by Workers' Russia✓ — The Truth About the Break—English
1927Ten Years of Workers' Rule✓—English
1927The ABC of Communism✓FreeNikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish
1927The ABC of Communism/ by N. Buharin & E. Preobrazhensky; Translated from the Russian by Eden and Cedar PaulN. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich) Bukharin & E. A. (Evgeniĭ Alekseevich) PreobrazhenskiĭEnglish
1927The Bill to Smash Trade Unionism✓ — An Explanation of the Bill Together with a Programme of Action for Defeating the Bill and Breaking the Baldwin Government—English
1927The Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Gt. Britain, Held at Battersea Town Hall on October 16 and 17, 1926✓ — Reports, Theses, Resolutions—English
1927The Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Gt. Britain, Held at Battersea Town Hall on October 16 and 17, 1926 ... Reports, Theses and Resolutions✓Communist Party of Great Britain. CongressEnglish
1927The Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain✓ — Report, Theses and Resolutions—English
1927The Role and Tasks of the Young Communist League✓—English
1927The War on China✓ — How British Imperialists Stole the Concessions, Paid for Civil Wars, Sweated Chinese Workers, Massacred Thousands and Why the Troops and Warships Were Sent to Shanghai—English
1927War✓ — The Communist International's PositionA. J. BennetEnglish
1928At the Parting of the Ways✓ — The Results of the Ninth Plenum of the CominternP. Braun & Communist InternationalEnglish
1928Communism and Coal✓FreeArthur HornerEnglish
1928Communism and Industrial Peace✓John R. CampbellNot recorded
1928Communism Is Commonsense✓ — The Case for the International Party of the Workers—English
1928Communist Policy in Great Britain✓ — The Report of the British Commission of the Ninth Plenum of the CominternThird InternationalEnglish
1928Is Labour Lost? — The New Labour Party's Programme ExaminedJ. R. (John Ross) CampbellEnglish
1928Left Wing Communism✓Free — An Infantile DisorderVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1928Leninism✓Joseph StalinEnglish
1928Mondism and MacDonaldism✓William GallacherEnglish
1928On the Road to Insurrection✓Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1928Peterloo✓ — The Story of the Terrible Massacre of the Lancashire Workers at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester on August 16th 1819, and the Lessons of Peterloo—English
1928Red and White Terror✓N. V. KrylenkoEnglish
1928Red Politics in the Trade Unions✓ — Who Are the Disrupters?J. R. CampbellEnglish
1928Report of the Fifteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union✓FreeKommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza. Moscow 1927English
1928Report of the Fifteenth Congress Ofthe Communist Party of Soviet Union✓Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (Bol'shevikov). (15th 1927)English
1928Sailors and Marines Programme✓—English
1928Socialism & Labouralism✓ — A Speech in the House of CommonsShapurji SaklatvalaEnglish
1928Socialism and Labouralism✓ — A Speech in the House of Commons by S. SaklatvalaShapurji SaklatvalaEnglish
1928The Communist International✓ — Between the Fifth and the Sixth World Congress 1924-8: [A Report on the Position in All Sections of the World Communist Party]Third International. CongressEnglish
1928The Communist International Between the 5th and the 6th World Congresses, 1924-8✓—English
1928The Communist International Between the Fifth & the Sixth World Congresses, 1924-8✓FreeCommunist InternationalEnglish
1928The Decline of Capitalism✓Free — The Economics of a Period of the Decline of Capitalism After StabilisationEugen VargaEnglish
1928The March of the Women✓Beth TurnerEnglish
1928The Organisation of a World Party✓FreeO. PiatnitskiĭEnglish
1928The Red Army✓ — A Short Account of the First Army of the Workers—English
1928The Worker's State [Lies About Soviet Russia Answered]✓ — Foreign Delegation's Interview with J. Stalin, on November 5th, 1927Joseph StalinEnglish
1928The Workers' State✓ — Foreign Delegation's Interview with J. Stalin on November 5th, 1927Joseph StalinEnglish
1928The Young Communist International Between the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, 1924-1928✓FreeYoung Communist InternationalEnglish
1928Where Is Trotsky Going?✓ — Facts and Figures on the Discussion in the Communist Party of Russia, Which Has Led to the Exclusion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Party—English
1928With the Communist Party in Parliament✓ — Exposure of Parliamentary Hypocrisy: Saklatvala's Great Speech on King's Address, November 7th, 1928Shapurji SaklatvalaEnglish
1928Women in Russia✓—English
1929A Revolutionary Workers' Government✓J. T. MurphyEnglish
1929Class Against Class✓ — The General Election Programme of the Communist Party of Great Britain—English
1929Economic Struggles and the Tasks of the Party✓ — To Be Submitted to the 11th Party Congress: Draft Resolution—English
1929How Britain Rules India✓Robert Page ArnotEnglish
1929Labour and the Empire✓C. P. DuttEnglish
1929Make Way for the Women✓—English
1929Only communism can conquer unemployment✓ — A reply to Lloyd George and othersJohn R. CampbellNot recorded
1929Party Trade Union Policy✓ — The Economic and Political Situation: To Be Submitted to Tenth Party Congress, C.P.G.B.—English
1929Resolutions of the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Leeds, Nov. 30th, Dec. 3rd, 1929✓—English
1929Russia's Socialist Triumph✓ — Exposition of the Soviet Union's Five Years' Plan of Socialist ConstructionAndrew RothsteinEnglish
1929Tasks of the Communist Party of Great Britain; the 10th Plenum and the International Situation✓ — To Be Submitted to the 11th Party Congress—English
1929The Coming War✓Rajani Palme DuttEnglish
1929The Election and the Coming War✓Rajani Palme DuttEnglish
1929The Election and the Coming War, by R. Palme Dutt✓FreeR. Palme DuttEnglish
1929The Fight Against the War Danger in Britain✓ — To Be Submitted to the 11th Party Congress: Draft Resolution—English
1929The New Line✓ — Documents of the Tenth Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain Held at Bermondsey, London, on Jan., 19th-22nd, 1929—English
1929The Present Situation and the Tasks of the Party✓—English
1929The Struggle Against War and the Tasks of the Communists✓—English
1929The World Situation & Economic Struggle✓ — Theses of the Tenth Plenum E. C. C. IInternationale (3)English
1929The World Situation and Economic Struggle✓ — Theses of the Tenth Plenum of the ECCI—English
1929Young Workers and the General Election✓ — Young Workers, Vote Communist!Jack CohenEnglish
1930Building the Party in the Factories✓—English
1930Colonies Mandates and Peace✓
The Peace Library
Ben BradleyNot recorded
1930Tariffs and Starvation✓ — An Exposure of the Effect on the Workers of the Empire Fascist RampWilliam GallacherEnglish
1930The Fight of the Miners✓ — The Position of the British Coal Industry—English