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Peter Taaffe (1942–2025)

Author of Liverpool: A City That Dared to Fight

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Works by Peter Taaffe

Liverpool: A City That Dared to Fight (1988) 21 copies

1926 General Strike - Workers Taste Power (1976) 11 copies

The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789-1815 (1989) 10 copies

Cuba: Socialism & democracy ; debates on the revolution and Cuba today (2000) 9 copies

Rise of "Militant": Thirty Years of "Militant" (1995) 9 copies

Marxism in Today's World: Answers on War, Capitalism and Environment (2013) 8 copies

Empire Defeated: Vietnam War - The Lessons for Today (2004) 5 copies, 1 review

A Socialist World is Possible: The History of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) (2004) 5 copies

From Militant to the Socialist Party (2017) 4 copies

The State : a warning to the labour movement (1982) 4 copies

Socialism and Left Unity: A Critique of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (2008) 3 copies

The Spanish Revolution 1931-37 (1977) 3 copies

1917: The Year That Changed the World (2007) 2 copies

South Africa: From Slavery to the Smashing of Apartheid (1994) 1 copy

Militant: What We Stand For (1986 pamphlet) (1980) 1 copy

In Defence of Trotskyism (2019) 1 copy

Associated Works

Out of the Night (1941) — Preface, some editions — 210 copies, 4 reviews

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Birthdate: 1942-04-07
Date of death: 2025-04-23
Gender: male
Organizations: Militant
Socialist Party (England and Wales)
Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
Birthplace: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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Empire Defeated - Vietnam War - The Lessons For Today by Peter Taaffe

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ISBNs: 18

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