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Miscellany is a wide ranging collection of pieces, large and small: `Anatomy of decline - the Young Communist League (1966-1980)' - a 53,000 word study first written by Graham Stevenson in 1985. `In Defence of History’ (2004), an 80,000 word study by Graham Stevenson of classical Marxist historical theory in the context of modern scientific evolutionary, psychological, anthropological, archaeological and historical knowledge; in which conceptions of patriarchy, class rule and development are shown to be the consequences of real life. Graham Stevenson's `An illustrated guide to trade union history', with downloadable pictures (further developed in 2001 from a 1980 project). `The British Security Forces and the Communist Party’ (5,500 words) `Spartacus and class struggle in ancient Rome’ (1986) - 11,000 words Various articles by Graham Stevenson: Articles that first appeared in shorter versions in `Communist Review’ published here in full: iii. `Is corporatism dead?' An analysis of the side-lining of unions by the British state Articles that first appeared in shorter version in the Morning Star viii. The miners' strike 20 years on and the Communist Party (10,000 words)
i. `A Disordered Society Of Machine Men, With Machine Minds And Machine Hearts’: Speech To North-East May Day May 3rd 2008 ii. `The Human Race Is Not A Competition’: Speech To Wolverhampton May Day 2008 iii. "We Will Keep A-Going ... And Will Break Before We Will Bend.’ Speech To Derby Trades Union Council Rally – May Day 2007 iv. "We’re not very militant here, not like Birmingham" speech to Derby Socialist Forum – April 2007 v. The Life & Work Of Tom Mann & Trade Union Organising Today’ – speech to Coventry Trades Union Council May 2007 vi. `Capitalism Damages Your Health’: Communist Party Executive Committee January 2007 vii. `The Formation Of A Mass Workers’ Party’ - Communist University Of Wales 2006 viii. `The British Labour Movement and the Lessons of History’ - Communist University Of Scotland 2006 ix. `Building the Party and the Report Of The Commission On Party Organisation’ - 2006 49th Congress Communist Party of Britain x. `The Current Stage In State Monopoly Capitalism’: Communist Party Executive Committee Political Statement – November 2004 xi. `Trade Unions, Globalisation And The EU’ - Red November 2004 xii. `Figures Don’t Lie But Dissemblers Can Surely Figure – Glasgow Morning Star Conference 2004 xiii. `Has the link been broken?’ Glasgow Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group - 2004 xiv. The Slogan 'Quality Of Life' Needs To Be Our Watchword For The Future - Speech To YCL Rally `Red November’ 2003 xv. `New Labour Pole-Dances Its Way Around US Imperialism’: xvi. Speech by Graham Stevenson to Communist Party Election Rally, Pontypridd, April 2003 xvii. `Globalise Labour’s Solidarity’: Speech To Communist University Of Britain - 2003 xviii. `Militancy is the next step - but in itself it is not enough’: Speech to the 46th Congress of the Communist Party - 2002 xix. `The Economic Basis For Capital, delivered to the T&G London Morning Star Readers And Supporters’ Group – May 2000 xx. `The Challenge For The Left and Trade Unions And Society In The 21st Century’ Speech To Communist Trades Unionists weekend school (1994) The complete memoirs of three Communists - are also published here. i.e. "Being Frank" - the memoirs of Frank Watters (publ. 1992, revised edition – 100,000 words) , `Why is life like that?' by Sid Easton (1991 – 24,000 words), and `No wonder we were all rebels - an oral history' by Jock and Betty Kane (1992 – 34,000 words). `Archives from our history' – a collection of miscellaneous reprinted versions of texts from the past: 1946 YCL congress; 1961 YCL congress; YCL in the 1950 general election; Clarion cycling club 1922; engineering shop stewards national conference 1944; Communist student branches 1963-64; the wartime links between Coventry and Stalingrad.
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