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Our library collection includes over 50,000 books and pamphlets, and nearly runs of nearly 2,000 periodicals. 

A unique collection of pamphlets and rare periodicals form part of the Library’s collections and document the activities of trade unions, political parties and campaign groups for over one hundred years, covering subjects including anti-colonial campaigns, the womens’ movement and strikes and struggles.

Our printed collections also incorporate books on Marxist philosophy and political economy, pamphlets on chartism and anti-imperialism and periodicals on the socialist sunday schools and early trade union movement.

Examples from our unique collections include a full run of the Young Socialist, a magazine for children published by Twentieth Century Press (1901-1979) and copies of Justice, the organ of the Social Democratic Federation (1893-1922), and Communist Party pamphlets on equal pay and peace.

The periodicals are listed as Serials and books and pamphlets are listed as Printed Material on our online catalogue. You can browse books and pamphlets under the classification below by searching for each class mark on the catalogue.

 

Pamphlet Classification

YA - British Parties & Labour Movement Organisations

YA01.01 – YA01.07: Communist Party of Great Britain 1920-91

.01: 1920-1929

.02: 1930-1939

.03: 1940-1949

.04: 1950-1959

.05: 1969-1969

.06: 1970-1979

.07: 1980-1991

YA01.08: Young Communist League (YCL)

YA01.09: Communist Campaign Group; Communist Party of Britain; New Communist Party

YA01.10: Democratic Left; Socialist History Society; New Times

YA02: Daily Worker

YA03: Ultra Left

YA04: Social Democratic Federation

YA05: Socialist Labour Party

YA06: Independent Labour Party (ILP)

YA07: Fabian Society

YA08: Labour Party

YA09: Labour Research Department

YA10.01: Other Socialist Movements

YA10.02: Labour Monthly

YA10.03: Institute for Workers’ Control (IWC) & Union of Democratic Control (UDC)

YA10.04: National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL)

YA11: National Minority Movement

YA12: Trade Union Congress

YA13: Trade Unions and Trade Councils

YA14: Marx Memorial Library Publications

 

YB - International Organisations

YB01: Communist International

YB02: International Trade Union Organisations

YB03: General International

YB04: International – Political & Industrial

 

YC - Countries other than Britain

YC01.01: Soviet Union – Biography

YC01.02: Soviet Union – Ideology

YC01.03: Soviet Union – Finance

YC01.04: Soviet Union – Five Year Plan

YC01.05: Soviet Union – Industry & Economy

YC01.06: Soviet Union – Space & Transport

YC01.07: Soviet Union – Agriculture

YC01.08: Soviet Union – Trade & Council of Mutual and Economic Aid (CMEA)

YC01.09: Soviet Union – Foreign Socialist Countries

YC01.10: Soviet and Capitalist Countries (Not UK)

YC01.11: Soviet Union – Soviets & the UN

YC01.12: Anglo – Soviet Relations

YC01.13: Soviet Union – Culture & Religion

YC01.14: Soviet Union – Literature

YC01.15: Soviet Union – Politics

YC01.16: Soviet Union – CPSU & Democracy

YC01.17: Soviet Union – Elections, Rights of Citizens & Racism

YC01.18: Soviet Union – Constitution

YC01.19: Soviet Union – Armed Forces

YC01.20: Soviet Union – Peace

YC01.21: Soviet Union – Health, Housing & Pensions

YC01.22: Soviet Union – Education

YC01.23: Soviet Union – Women

YC01.24: Soviet Union – Sport

YC01.25: Soviet Union – Children & Youth

YC01.26: Soviet Union – Trade Unions

YC01.27: Soviet Union – Working Conditions

YC01.28: Soviet Union – Republics

YC01.29: Soviet Union – Geography & Travel

YC01.30: Soviet Union – Documents & Reports

YC01.31: Soviet Union – History

YC01.32: Soviet Union – Science & Technology

YC01.33: Soviet Union – Law

YC01.34: Soviet Union – Cooperation

YC02: China

YC03: Czechoslovakia

YC04.01: Bulgaria

YC04.02: Poland

YC04.03: Yugoslavia

YC04.04: Albania

YC04.05: Romania

YC05.01: Hungary

YC05.02: East Germany

YC06.01: Korea

YC06.02: Vietnam

YC06.03: Mongolia

YC07: Cuba

YC08: Spain

YC09: Ireland

YC10.01: France

YC10.02: Italy

YC10.03: Germany

YC10.04: Greece, Cyprus & Turkey

YC10.05: Norway, Sweden, Finland & Iceland

YC10.06: Denmark & Holland

YC10.07: Portugal & Malta

YC10.08: Austria

YC11: India

YC12: Far East including Philippines

YC13: South Africa & South African States

YC14: Africa – Central Belt

YC15: Middle East

YC16: USA

YC17: Canada

YC18: South & Central America

YC19: Australia

YC20: New Zealand

 

YD - Special Topics

YD01.01: Works – Marx & Engels

YD01.02: Works – Lenin

YD01.03: Works – Mao Tse Tung

YD01.04: Works – Stalin

YD02: Biographies

YD03: China – USSR Controversy

YD04: Fascism & Anti Fascism

YD05: War & Peace

YD06: Religion

YD07: Trade Unionism

YD08: Unemployment

YD09: Youth

YD10: Women

YD11: Racism and Anti Racism

YD12: Colonialism & Imperialism

YD13: Civil Liberties

YD14: Culture

YD15: Strikes & Other Specific Actions

 

YE - Other Topics

YE01: History

YE02: Anarchism & Syndicalism

YE03: Economics

YE04: Co-operation

YE06: Political Science

YE07.01: Town & Country, Planning & Housing

YE07.02: Education

YE07.03: Health

YE07.04: Social Problems

YE07.05: Agriculture and Land

YE07.06: Transport

YE08: Science

YE09: General Political Propaganda

YE11: Rule books, guides, programmes

YE12: Miscellaneous

YE13: Pre-29th century pamphlets

 

Book Classification

A Works by, or on, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin

A1 Marx

A2 Engels

A3 Marx and Engels

A4 Lenin

A5 Marx, Engels and Lenin

A6 Stalin

A7 Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin

Subdivision for each section within A

      1. Collected works
      2. Selected works
      3. Individual works
      4. Selection from individual works (excerpts)
      5. Letters
      6. Diaries
      7. Journalism, articles, essays, miscellaneous
      8. Works edited by or including a contribution by….

/B Biographical works

 

B Biographies and Memoirs

Of persons other than Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin

BB Collection biography containing lives of more than one person

 

C Communism, Socialism and other political ideologies

C1 Marxism-Leninism

C2 Socialist theory up to 1917

C3 Social Democracy after 1917

C4 Other forms of Socialism (eg Guild Socialism, Christian Socialism, New Left)

C5 Chartism

C6 Utopian Socialism

C7 Anarchism

C8 Syndicalism

C9 Anti-Socialism/ Anti-Communism

C10 Contemporary theories of revolution (eg Fanon, Debray, Marcuse, Segal, Gramsci)

 

D Science

D1 Economic Geography (eg regional production, raw materials, Plant geography)

D1(a) Political Geography

D2 Physics

D3 Chemistry

D4 Biology

D4(a) Physiology and Medicine

D4(b) Evolution

D4(c) Botany

D4(d) Zoology

D5 Physiography, Ecology, Environmentalism

D6 Astronomy

D7 Various, covering several specific branches

D7(a) Energy

D8 Astronautics

 

E Political Economy

E1 Classical Political Economy and contemporary schools

E2 Bourgeois Economics

E2(a) Radical and Social-Democratic Political Economy

E3 Statistics, including statistical method

E4 Industry, including monopolies, trusts, raw materials

E4(a) Coal

E4(b) Oil

E4(c) Metals and Engineering

E4(d) Railways, Transport and Communications

E4(e) Textiles

E4(f) Electricity

E4(g) Other industries, eg Building

E4(h) Automation

E5 Marxist Political Economy

E6 Agriculture, the Land Question

E7 Economic Conditions, Applied Economics, Planning, Economic Law

E8 Trade

E9 Economic Empires

E9(a) Intergovernmental Economic Organisations

E10 Prices

E11 History of Economics and Political Economy

 

F Finance

F1 Public Finance

F2 National and Local Taxation

F3 Banking and Currency

F4 Financial Empires

F5 Investment

F6 Fiscal and other State Economic Policies

 

G Philosophy and Related Subjects

G1 Philosophy other than Marxist

G2 Ethics

G3 Religion, Secular Religion and Atheism

G4 Marxist Philosophy

 

H History

H1 Economic History

H2 Policial History and History of Wars

H3 History of Political Parties

H4 History of Religions, Races and Classes

H4.421 Local History

H5 History of Ancient Civilisations, Prehistoric Communities

 

J General Literature

J1 Fiction including Plays

J2 Essays including Literary Criticism

J3 Description and Travel, Journals, Letters, Speeches

J4 Collected Works and Selected Works

J5 Poetry, Histories of Literature, Miscellaneous including Anthologies of prose and poetry

 

P Politics

P1 Political Theory (bourgeois and pre-bourgeois)

P2 Imperialism and Colonialism including Economic Imperialism and Neo-Colonialism, Slavery

P3 Constitutions and Parliamentary Systems

P3(a) Civil Administration

P4 Law and Trials, excluding Trade Union Laws

P5 Local Government

P6 Racism and Anti-Semitism

P7 Political Systems other than Socialist; Capitalist Power Structures

P7(a) Socialist Power Structures and Political Systems

P8 War and Anti-War

P9 International Institutions and Relations

P10 Press, Propaganda etc, Pressure Groups and Lobbies

P11 Fascism and Anti-Fascism

P12 Nationalism

P13 Class Struggle in Ex-Colonial Countries, Semi-Colonial Countries and the Global South

 

S Social Conditions and Social Movements

S1 Public Health; Population

S2 State Income Support (including Social Insurance, Family Endowment, Endowment of Motherhood, Poor Laws)

S3 Other Insurance

S4 Pensions

S5 Employment and Unemployment

S6 Education

S7 Temperance

S8 Housing

S9 Sexual Politics, Women’s Conditions and Movements

S10 Youth Conditions and Movements

S11 Other Social Conditions

S12 Peasantry and Agrarian Movements

S13 Co-operation and Co-operative Movement

S13(a) General

S13(b) Year Books and Directories

S13(c) Specialised Co-operatives

S13(d) Congress Reports and Souvenirs

S13(e) Women in the Co-operative Movement

S13(f) Foreign Co-operative Movements

S13(g) Co-operative Educational Activities

S13(h) Histories of Societies

S14 Histories of Societies

S15 Sport

S16 Technique of Social Surveys

 

T Trade Unionism, the Guild Movement, the Working Class Movement

T1 Trade Unionism (General)

T1(a) Mining

T1(b) Transport and Docks

T1(c) Building and Woodworking

T1(d) Engineering and Metallurgy

T1(e) Textiles

T1(f) Clerical, Shop Workers, Administrators

T1(g) Printing and Bookbinding

T1(h) Other Industries

T1(i) Clothing Workers

T1(j) Electrical Workers

T1(k) Agricultural Workers

T2 Guilds

T3 Wages

T4 Hours and Conditions of Labour

T4(a) Science of Collective Bargaining

T5 Strikes and Lock-outs, Sit-ins, Occupations of Premises

T6 Trade Union, Labour and Anti-Labour Legislation, Trials

T7 History and Description of the Working Class Movement (other than that of a specific trade unions)

T8 International Trade Union and Labour Movements

T9 Guides to the Conduct of Trade Union and Labour Meetings

 

V Sociology

V1 General

V2 Physical Anthropology

V2(a) Social Anthropology including Ethnology and Ethnography

V2(b) Archaeology

V3 Language

V4 Modern Science

V4(a) Psychology

V5 Social Institutions

V6 The Arts

 

W The Socialist World and Former Socialist Countries

Each sub-section contains all book on the country concerned and has sub-divisions as required corresponding to the categories B to V above, eg a book on education in the USSR will be W1(b)/S6.

W The Socialist World in General

W1 Russia

W1(a) Russia before the 1917 Revolution

W1(b) The Soviet Union

W1(c) Russia and former Soviet Republics after 1990

W2 Poland

W3 Romania

W4 Bulgaria

W4(a) Balkans (general)

W5 Albania

W6 Czechoslovakia

W7 Hungary

W8 Yugoslavia

W10 North Korea

W11 German Democratic Republic

W12 Democratic Republic of Vietnam

W13 Cuba

W14 Mongolian People’s Republic

W15 Angola and Mozambique

W16 Guinea Bissau

W17 Kampuchea

W18 Afghanistan

 

X The USA

This section contains all books on the USA with sub-divisions as for the Socialist World.

 

Z Reference Books