NEW BOOKS FROM BOOKMARKS PUBLICATIONS
**Coming soon from Bookmarks Publications***
Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer
Peter Alexander, Thapelo Lekowa, Botsang Mmope, Luke Sinwell and Bongani Xezwi
978 1 909026 25 4
£7.99, out in January 2013
On 16 August 2012 near Marikana, South Africa, striking miners from the Lonmin company were fired on by police, resulting in 34 deaths. The heart of this book is a series of interviews with strikers, most of them recorded on “the mountain” close to where their comrades were killed. Also includes a narrative and analysis by Peter Alexander of the University of Johannesburg.
“The book provides a bottom-up account of the Marikana story, to correct an imbalance in many official and media accounts that privilege the viewpoints of governments and business, at the expense of workers.” Professor Jane Duncan, chair of Media and Information Studies at Rhodes University
“Well written, extremely scrupulous in its research and forceful in its argument.” Professor John Saul, Canadian political scientist, one of the world’s top experts on liberation struggle in Southern Africa
***Out now from Redwords***
Poems of Protest by William Morris
with an introduction by Michael Rosen
978 1 909026 05 6
£6.99 SPECIAL OFFER £5
Though most know him for his design work, William Morris was also an accomplished writer whose poetry was used as songs and chants for the socialist movement. This volume includes work that has not been published since first appearing as propaganda in The Commonweal, the paper of Morris’s Socialist League. Michael Rosen argues that his socialist poetry was part of a long tradition of protest writing and a signpost for future struggles.
Also included are “How I Became a Socialist” by William Morris and an afterword, “The Communist Poet-Laureate” by the Morris scholar Nicholas Salmon.
Crossing the ‘river of fire’: the socialism of William Morris
by Hassan Mahamdallie
978 1 909026 04 9
£9.99 SPECIAL OFFER £8
The ravages of industrial capitalism, imperialism and war, the destruction of the environment and above all, the enslavement of human labour to the machine, appalled William Morris. Hassan Mahamdallie shows that the socialism of Morris grew out of his view of the past and his hatred for a system of “shoddy” production and that during the last decades of his life he threw all his energy into the struggle to change the world.
Shostakovich: Socialism, Stalin & Symphonies
by Simon Behrman
9781905192663
£9.99 SPECIAL OFFER £8
His struggle to maintain artistic integrity as the Russian Revolution was replaced by a cruel dictatorship made Shostakovich a tragic figure, but also a hero to his contemporaries, fellow musicians and audience. This book describes the importance of Shostakovich in transcending the artificial divide between popular and classical music.
***All available from Bookmarks the socialist bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QE. Tel: 020 7637 1848
Bookmarks Publications: http://www.bookmarksbookshop.co.uk
First published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/new-from-bookmarks-publications
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Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjxeHvvhJQ (live, at the Belle View pub, Bangor, north Wales); and at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo (new remix, and new video, 2012)
‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8
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