Bertrand Russell books published by Spokesman Books the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

Spokesman has published new editions of two short stories by Bertrand Russell which first appeared in the 1950s. We have also reprinted Roads to Freedom, Icarus and the Future of Science and German Social Democracy.

We publish a number of new editions of Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Classics.

In this section you can view the titles that are available to buy now.

Logic and Knowledge was the first of the series to be published. It contains one of Russell's most influential pieces On Denoting.

Cover Portrait by Hans Erni, with grateful acknowledgements © Hans Erni, Lucern

A list of our new and most recently published titles.

Prehistory of European Society is available NOW.

Written by V. Gordon Childe the central object of this book is to show that even in prehistoric times the barbarian societies of Europe behaved in a distinctly European way, and also to show why European societies could produce European science.

With a new Foreword by Professor Stephen Shennan, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of London University.

This section contains all the details on The Spokesman, the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

It features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics. Contributors include Robert Fisk, Naomi Klein and Kurt Vonnegut

'I've just had chance to read The Spokesman ... its really first rate.' Noam Chomsky

Here you will see each individual issue.


You may order each seperately or subcribe to The Spokesman

Spokesman Books have started to create ePUB eBooks and to showcase our new venture we'd like to give you the opportunity to read one of our digital editions of The Spokesman completely FREE.

This section of the website will be added to as we develop more eBooks.

John Arden, now entering his 80th year, has produced another glorious collection of stories. Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obession mingles black comedy with melodrama to probe the underside of Irish and English history from the 17th century to the 21st.

He is the author of a variety of plays, including All Fall Down, which appeared in 1955, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959), Live Like Pigs, and The Non-Stop Connolly Show, co-authored and co-produced in 1975 with Margaretta D'Arcy. The Business Of Good Government (1960) was their first collaboration.

Silence Among the Weapons, his first novel, was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Cogs Tyrannic, a collection of short stories, received the PEN Short Story Prize and his story, 'Breach of Trust,' from the 2003 collection, The Stealing Steps, took the V.S.Pritchett Memorial Prize. Books of Bale: a fiction of history, appeared in 1988. He has also written drama for children, radio plays and work for television, including, with Margaretta D'Arcy in 1973, the documentary Sean O'Casey: Portrait of a Rebel

In order to make Gallows readily available to John Arden’s many admirers in Britain, Spokesman has ordered stock from the Irish publishers (Original Writing) for sale through its website.

Tony Benn, formerly the leading light of the parliamentary left in Britain and long time peace campaigner, is also a celebrated author. He has written a number of stimulating and incisive books and pamphlets, which Spokesman Books have published.

Spokesman Books holds a great collection of titles by the acclaimed Noam Chomsky.

Here you can browse our titles by Noam Chomsky who also regularly appears in our journal The Spokesman of which he said, '

I've just had chance to read The Spokesman ... its really first rate.'

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Ken Coates. Ken died suddenly at home in Derbyshire on Sunday 27 June 2010, in his eightieth year. He was editor of The Spokesman journal, starting with the first number published in 1970. The forthcoming issue, no.109, will carry a full appreciation.

Spokesman Books have an extensive range of
titles written by Ken Coates.

He was the editor of our journal The Spokesman and has written many books on the issue of Workers' Control all of which can be in this section.

Trevor Griffiths was born and educated in Manchester and has been writing for theatre, television and cinema since the late 1960s. Here you can view and purchase the plays, television scripts and screenplays byTrevor Griffiths published by Spokesman Books.

Thomas Paine, revolutionary and philosopher, whose bicentenary falls in 2009.

We have published a number of different titles concerned with this great man. These Are The Times: A Life of Thomas Paine is an original screenplay by Trevor Griffiths, which follows Tom Paine from persecution in England, to the American War of Independence, to Revolutionary France. It has recently been adapted for theatre and A New World makes its premiere at Shakespeare's Globe this summer (29th August - 9th October).

Another recent publication is Thomas Paine: In Search of the Common Good. The book offers reflections on his life and writings by a group of experts and specialists who came together at a Thomas Paine Colloquium held at the United Nations in New York.

All these titles and more can be found on our Thomas Paine page.

Spokesman Books enjoyed a great relationship with Kurt Vonnegut and in this section you will find the many articles and pamphlets he so kindly had published with us.

On Mark Twain
Fates Worse Than Death

Issues of The Spokesman he has featured in:
Confessions of a Terrorist
Dark Times
America's Gulag
From Tom Paine to Guantanamo
Fallujah: Shock and Awe
The Suicide Bombers
How to Lose a War
Legacies of Harm
Brown Studies

Dexter Whitfield is Director of European Services Strategy Unit and Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Institute for Social Research, University of Adelaide.

He has a unique, extensive track record of research, policy analysis and strategic advice to public bodies, trade unions and community organisations (www.european-services-strategy.org.uk).

Books on economy by writers such as Stuart Holland, K. William Kapp, Ken Coates, Michael Barratt Brown and Dexter Whitfield can be found in this section of our website.

Titles by Stuart Holland include:
Global Economy: From Meso to Macroeconomics
Market Economy: From Micro to Mesoeconomics

K. W. Kapp:
The Social Cost Of Business Enterprise

You can also find several titles from our European Labour Forum series.

Key Words is committed to developing the tradition of cultural materialism derived from the founding analysis of culture and society in the work of Raymond Williams.

The Institute for Workers' Control (IWC) was founded in 1968. In this section of our site you can find many writings on Workers' Control and the work of the IWC.

Click here for a full list of IWC pamphlets.

The Institute for Workers' Control was formed in 1968 to act as a research and educational body, to co-ordinate discussion and communication between workers' control groups and trade unions, and to publish important materials on industrial democracy and workers' control.

Here you will find details of those publications which are still available, including many pamphlets from the IWC series.

'To our generation fell the good fortune of re-discovering the Levellers. To the classical liberal historians they meant rather less than nothing. This neglect is puzzling.

But what we have rediscovered is not merely the fact that the Levellers anticipated our fathers in most of the social and political reforms of the next 300 years; they were, until Cromwell crushed them, the dynamic pioneers, who had the initiative during the most formative years of the Inter-regnum. They would have won for our peasants in the mid-17th century what the Great Revolution gained for those of France at the close of the 18th.'
Christopher Hill talking about H.N. Brailsford's book The Levellers and the English Revolution.

Spokesman Books have published several titles about the Levellers. Browse the titles here in this section or look at our Socialist Classics range for more.

With authors such as Tom Mann, Ken Coates, Tony Topham and R. H. Tawney on subjects ranging from The Making of the Labour Movement, Syndicalism, Workers' Control to Bevanism and Feminism this section is packed full for the discerning reader of Labour History.

Socialist Renewal grew out of the discussions around Labour's abandonment of Clause Four, in 1995. A general invitation was issued to socialist authors to write for us. A dozen pamphlets and half a dozen books followed.

Currently Socialist Renewal is in its 8th Series and is still going strong.

The Socialist Renewal series also has a website dedicated to its publications and provides a space in which to leave comments - http://www.socialistrenewal.net/

Our Socialist Classics range includes
The Levellers by H. N. Brailsford,
A Radical Reader by Christopher Hampton and
A History of British Socialism by Max Beer to name only a small few.

Plus our most recent additions -
Inside the Left by Fenner Brockway
The Miracle of Fleet Street: The Story of the Daily Herald by George Lansbury
Tom Mann's Memoirs,
All are introduced by Ken Coates

Our Trade Union Classics series starts with Up and Down Stream by Harry Gosling.

Spokesman Books' Human Rights, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament titles.

Authors include Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky,Tony Bunyan of Statewatch, Robert Hinde of Pugwash UK, Ken Coates, Alva Mydral, George Farebrother, Seymour Melman and Kurt Vonnegut.

Our New Thinkers Library contains three titles by three extraordinary men:

Bertrand Russell's Let the People Think
V Gordon Childes' Man Makes Himself
and Prehistory of European Society
Benjamin Farrington's Head and Hand in Ancient Greece

Here you can find a list of the best selling titles in our store.

A Radical Reader by Christopher Hampton is a glorious book. With over 600 pages, it is a major anthology which spans 500 years of radical protest from the Peasants’ Revolt to the First World War. Provides an alternative political and social history of England.

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