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The Left Book Club was founded in 1936 to oppose war, inequality and fascism. Join us today and help support political education.

Revolution, Democracy, Socialism

By V. I. Lenin
Edited and Introduced by Paul Le Blanc

For September we are exploring the ideas of one of the twentieth century's most important political figures.

Lenin has been much maligned in the mainstream, accused of 'social engineering of the most radical kind'. However, in contrast to today's world leaders, who happily turn to violence to achieve their objectives, Lenin believed it impossible to reach his goals 'by any other path than that of political democracy'.

This collection shows that Lenin held a life-long commitment to freedom and democracy. With a comprehensive introduction, it gives a broad overview of Lenin's life and work which explains how his thinking can inform our strategies against the multiple crises of capitalism we face today.

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    Sep

    Monthly member meet up (online)

    virtual · Starts at 5 p.m. · 20 hours from now
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    Manchester reading group (October)

    in person · Starts at 12:30 p.m. · 1 week, 3 days from now
  3. 20
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    Glasgow Left Book Club in October: Protest - Stories of Resistance

    in person · Starts at 5:30 p.m. · 3 weeks, 1 day from now
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Drop into our reading group at The World Transformed

We'll be joining thousands of others at The World Transformed, the UK's leading festival of radical ideas, from 24-27th September. Come along to our reading group on the Saturday morning at 11am in the Black-e Studio, where we'll be discussing Protest: The Power of Resistance, with Gargi Bhattacharyya and others. Hope to see you there!

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The Reading Room is an exciting new project designed to get people reading across Britain. Working with Pluto Press we're creating radical libraries in community centres, free for all to use. In these spaces, reading groups and opportunities to meet authors are being established, providing resources and activities that hope to catalyse creativity, collaboration and conversation.

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The Left Book Club was founded by Victor Gollancz in 1936 and soon had 57,000 members. Authors included George Orwell and Clement Attlee.

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