The Good Old Cause (Signed copy)

Signed by Willie Thompson, British Communism 1920–1991

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First paperback edition. 21.5 × 13cm, 258pp.

Signed and dated by Willie Thompson to the half-title page.

Willie Thompson, a longstanding Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) member and activist, here describes the history of the Communist Party, from its formation to its present crisis of identity. The character and methods of the Party are explored in detail, from the Russian Revolution through the popular front of the 1930s, the heyday of the war period to Socialism to the crisis of 1956, disintegration, loss of industrial base and near collapse in the 1970s and 1980s. The dual nature of the infant CPGB—as an expression both of the international revolutionary wave and the specific crisis of British state and society—is interpreted as the central contradiction at the heart of the Party's subsequent career.

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Good condition. There is a corner crease to the front cover and tanning to the pages but it remains in strong readable condition.

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