The Communist Manifesto
Marx & Engels (1848)

The Manifesto begins: "A spectre is Haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism." As the anti-capitalist movement grows around the world, this spectre is once again rising, only a decade after the fall of the so-called "Communist" countries.

Wage Labour & Capital: Value, Price & Profit
Karl Marx (1937/81)

Trotsky's reflections on the Communist Manifesto from 1937, with a new introduction by Militant comrades.

Capital, Vol. I
Karl Marx (1867)

One of the key landmarks in the scientific understanding of capitalist development, bourgois society and modern class conflict.

Capital, Vol II
Karl Marx (1885)

Provides a vital cornerstone to Marx's overall theory of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society.

Capital, Vol III
Karl Marx (1894)

In this third volume Marx shows that the 'basic laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production lead to explosive crises and its ultimate collapse'.

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Fredrick Engels (1880)

One of the most influential classics of Marxist literature , this book explains in simple language the development and basic ideas of Marxism.

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