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Back to topOur 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
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- Collected works
- Selected works
- Individual works
- Selection from individual works (excerpts)
- Letters
- Diaries
- Journalism, articles, essays, miscellaneous
- Works edited by or including a contribution by….
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/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