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Welcome to our education page. Our program is designed to ensure that our revolutionary praxis is rooted in the profound lessons of Marxist-Leninist theory and its practical applications in both historical and contemporary struggles worldwide. Through practical experience and dedicated struggle among the masses, we continuously refine and enhance our educational program and theoretical understanding.

“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”

― Vladimir Lenin

Through education, we aim to empower all working-class individuals to become active agents of change. Participants will engage in collective learning experiences that challenge dominant ideologies, promote solidarity, and inspire a steadfast commitment to the revolutionary transformation of our country and society. Together, we will dismantle the structures that perpetuate inequality and oppression, paving the way for a brighter socialist future.

Below are a selection of resources  that serves as an Introductory educational guide for members, and non-party members alike. The content of this list is subject to change, link, scans and summaries will be provided in due course.

Disclaimer: Endorsement or association between our party to authors or organisations should not be assumed.

Essentials

  • Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels
  • Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx
  • Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels
  • State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin
  • Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism, , Vladimir Lenin
  • On Contradiction, Mao Zedong
  • On Practice, Mao Zedong
  • Socialism and Nationalism, James Connolly
  • When Was Wales,  Gwyn Alf Williams

Marxist Theory & Economics:

  • Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels
  • Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx
  • The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
  • Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels
  • State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin
  • Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Karl Marx
  • On Authority, Friedrich Engels
  • Das Kapital volumes I-III, Karl Marx
  • Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer, Jose Maria Sison
  • Marx’s Economic Doctrine, Vladimir Lenin
  • Theses on Bourgeois Democracy & Proletarian Dictatorship, Vladimir Lenin
  • Three Sources and Three Core Components of Marxism, Vladimir Lenin
  • Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?, Mao Zedong
  • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels
  • History of the CPSU(b)
  • The Ballot or the Bullet, Malcom X
  • Reform or Revolutionm, Rosa  Luxemburg
  • Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx
  • Selections From The Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
  • Soviet Textbook on Political Economy
  • Reading Notes on the Soviet Text Political Economy, Mao Zedong
  • Anti-Duhring, Friedrich Engels
  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin
  • What is to be Done?, Vladimir Lenin
  • April Theses, Vladimir Lenin
  • Marxism and the National Question, Joseph Stalin
  • The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong), Mao Zedong
  • On Practice, Mao Zedong
  • Serve the People, Mao Zedong

Organising and Revolutionary Attitude:

  • Constructive Criticism: A Handbook: Gracie Lyons
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
  • Serve the People Mao, Mao Zedong
  • Instructions to One Studying Independently, Nadezhada Krupskaya
  • How Lenin Studied Marx, Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • On Communist Ethics, Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • The Tyranny of Structurelessness” Jo Freeman
  • Unity of the Working Class Against Fascism, Georgy Dimitrov
  • Activist Study/Araling Aktabista
  • Socialism and Man in Cuba, Che Guevara
  • Get Organized!, Mao Zedong
  • Revolutionary Suicide,  Huey P. Newton
  • The Revolutionary Path, Hồ Chí Minh
  • The Dual Power, Vladimir Lenin
  • Imperialism and anti-imperialism:
  • Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism, , Vladimir Lenin
  • Imperialism in a Coffee Cup, John Smith
  • Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
  • The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins
  • The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
  • Imperialism in the 21st Century, John Smith
  • Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah
  • The National and Colonial Question, Joseph Stalin
  • A United Front Against Debt, Thomas Sankara
  • Unequal Development, Samir Amin
  • Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano

Anti-Revisionism and Anti-Dogmatism

  • Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin: 
  • “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin
  • The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by Vladimir Lenin
  • Marxism vs Liberalism by Joseph Stalin:
  • Anarchism or Socialism?, Joseph Stalin
  • Trotskyism or Leninism? by Joseph Stalin: 
  • Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr
  • On Contradiction by Mao Zedong
  • Combat Liberalism Mao Zedong
  • Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong
  • On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party by Mao Zedong
  • Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny
  • Stand For Socialism Against Modern Revisionism by Armando Liwanag

Combatting Racial Oppression:

  • Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
  • Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson
  • Black Bolshevik, Harry Haywood
  • Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
  • Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale.
  • Orientalism, Edward Said

Women’s liberation:

  • Caliban and the witch – Silvia Federici
  • Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis
  • philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement, Anuradha Ghandy
  • Social Basis of the Woman Question, Alexandra Kollontai
  • Communism and the Family, Alexandra Kollontai
  • The Woman Worker, Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • Women of ‘98, Constance Markievicz
  • Marx On Gender and the Family: A Summary, Heather Brown
  • Origins of the Family, Property and State, Friedrich Engels
  • Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle, Thomas Sankara
  • Women’s Leadership in the Revolution in Nepal
  • Black Feminism – Brixton Black Women’s Group –
  • Women’s Liberation Is a Component Part of the Proletarian Revolution

LGBTQ+ liberation:

  • Towards a Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question, Los Angeles Research Group
  • LGBT Liberation: An Essential Working Class Struggle, Leslie Feinberg
  • Rainbow Solidarity in DefenFce of Cuba, Leslie Feinberg
  • Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, Christopher Chitty
  • Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory, Carrie Hamilton
  • The Nuptial Deal: Same-Sex Marriage and  Neo-Liberal Governance
  • Transgender Marxism, Elle O’Rourke & Jules Joanne Gleeson
  • Profit and pleasure, Rosemary Hennessy
  • Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation, Sherry Wolf
  • Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
  • Warped: Gay Normality and  Queer Anti-Capitalism, Peter Drucker

Analysis of Wales

  • When Was Wales,  Gwyn Alf Williams
  • The FED: a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century‘, Hywel Francis
  • ‘Miners Against Fascism‘, by Hywel Francis
  • Labour Country: Political Radicalism and Social Democracy in South Wales 1831-1985, Daryl Leeworthy
  • The Dragon’s Dearest Cause, Robert Stradling
  • The Communist Party of Great Britain and the National Question in Wales, Douglas Jones.
  • Socialism for the Welsh People, Robert Griffiths and Gareth Miles
  • Whispers of a Forgotten Nation (2002), by Dr D. Ceri Evans
  • The Hollowing of Welsh Democracy, Dan Evans
  • Detoxifying Welsh Labour, Gareth Leaman
  • Wales’ Progressive Alliances, by Gareth Leaman

Socialist Republicanism 

  • Socialism and Nationalism, James Connolly
  • Revolutionary Works, Seamus Costello
  • What Is A Free Nation?, James Connolly
  • Socialism and Imperialism, James Connolly
  • Socialism Made Easy – James Connolly
  • Connolly’s Marxism – Bernard Ransom

Ecology:

  • Cuba’s Urban Farming Revolution
  • The Rift of Éire, John Bellamy Foster
  • The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism & Ecological Destruction, John Bellamy Foster

Miscellaneous 

  • Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Parenti
  • Why Socialism?, Albert Einstein
  • Capitalist Realism, by Mark Fisher
  • Contrary Notions, by Michael Parenti
  • Inventing reality Michael Parenti
  • Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend, Domenico Losurdo
  • Stasi State or Socialist Paradise, John Green and Bruni De La Motte
  • Ten Days That Shook The World, Jack Reed
  • Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, Helen Yaffe

Useful resources:

  • Y Seren Goch (Newspaper of Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / the Communist Party of Wales)
  • Marxists Internet Archive
  • Foreign Language Press (Book Publisher)
  • Cosmonaut (Magazine)
  • Granma  (Newspaper of Partido Comunista de Cuba / the Communist Party of Cuba)
  • Blowback (Podcast)
  • Revleft Radio (Podcast)
  • Prolekult (YouTube channel)

Documentaries

  • The Dragon has Two Tongues 
  • Colliers Crusade 
  • Loyal Citizen of Pyongyang 
  • Hughesovka and the New Russia