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Select Bibliography Select Bibliography PRIMARY SOURCES John Strachey: Books and Pamphlets Revolution by Reason, an account of the financial proposals submitted by Sir Oswald Mosley, London, Parsons, 1925. The Coming Struggle for Power, London, Gollancz, 1932. The British Anti-War Movement, Leicester, 1933. The Menace of Fascism, London, Gollancz, 1933. The Nature of Capitalist Crisis, London, Gollancz, 1935. The Theory and Practice of Socialism, London, Gollancz, 1936. Hope in America, New York, Harper, 1938. What are we to do? London, Gollancz, 1938. Why you should be a socialist, London, Gol!ancz, 1938. The Banks for the People, London, Gollancz, 1940. A Programme for Progress, Londou, Gollancz, 1940. Federalism or Socialism? London, Gollancz, 1940. A Faith to Fight For, London, Gollancz, 1941. Why you should be a socialist, London, Gollancz, 2nd edn, 1944. Labour's Task, Fabian Tract 290, London, 1951. The Just Society, a re-affirmation of faith in socialism, London, Labour Party, 1951. The Frontiers, London, Gollancz, 1952. Contemporary Capitalism, London, Gollancz, 1956. Scrap ALL H-Bombs, London, Labour Party, 1958. The End of Empire, London, Gollancz, 1959. The Pursuit of Peace, Fabian Tract 329, London, 1960. The Great Awakening or, from imperialism to freedom, Encounter, Pamphlet No. 5, London, 1961. The Strangled Cry, London, Bodley, 1962. On the Prevention of War, London, Macmillan, 1962. The Challenge of Democracy, E11counter, Pamphlet No. 10, 1963. Articles (It should be pointed out that the articles listed below represent a small fraction of Strachey's journalistic output.) 'The ILP goes to school, a communist challenge', New Leader, 14 August 1925. 269 270 Select Bibliography 'Trotsky attacks the Labour Party', Socialist Review, February 1926, 32-40. 'What happened at Whitby?', Socialist Review, May 1926, 9-17. 'Notes', Socialist Review, May 1926, 1-5. 'What has the strike done to us?', Socialist Review, June 1926, 27-31. 'Wanted: a theory of British Socialism, Marx, materialism and human nature', New Leader, 14 January 1927. 'Wanted: a theory of British Socialism, determinism or vitalism', New Leader, 18 February 1927. 'What Labour might do', Socialist Review, March 1927, 1-10. 'The coming crisis in France', Spectator, 5 March 1927. 'Notes', Socialist Review, April 1927, 1-7. 'Notes', Socialist Review, May 1927,1-13. 'Young men's fancies, a plea for irreverence', New Leader, 10 June 1927. 'Notes', Socialist Review, July 1927, 1-12. 'Notes', Socialist Review, August 1927, 1-13. 'Notes', Socialist Review, November 1927, 1-9. 'Hard facts for the government', Miner, 19 November 1927. 'The miners' march to London', Miner, 19 November 1927. 'Notes', Socialist Review, December 1927, 1-9. 'The nation or the trust', Miner, 3 December 1927. 'Notes', Socialist Review, February 1928,1-7. 'The Party faces its new problems', New Leader, 13 Apri11928. 'Notes', Socialist Review, May 1928,1-9. 'Notes', Socialist Review, June 1928,1-7. 'The Cook-Maxton Manifesto', Miner, 30 June 1928. 'Notes', Socialist Review, July 1928, 1-8. 'Notes', Socialist Review, August 1928, 1-6. 'Coal and credit', Miner, 4 August 1928. 'Notes', Socialist Review, September 1929, 1-8. 'Mr. Wells takes the blue train', New Leader, 29 October 1928. 'Notes', Socialist Review, October 1928, 1-7. 'Notes', Socialist Review, November 1928, 1-12. 'The necessity of socialism', 'New Leader, 29 October 1928. 'Towards a United Front', Miner, 30 March 1929. 'Notes', Socialist Review, Apri11929, 2-6. 'Notes', Socialist Review, May 1929,1-5. 'Notes', Socialist Review, June 1929,1-4. 'Notes', Socialist Review, July 1929, 1-3. 'Lest we forget, peace with Russia', New Leader, 3 November 1929. 'The future of the parties', Week-End Review, 22 March 1930. 'The world I would build', Daily Herald, 30 May 1930. 'The Mosley Plan will fulfil all our pledges', Daily Herald, 30 June 1930. 'Shadow at Brighton, money and unemployment', New Leader, 17 October 1930. 'The coming session- and after', Week-End Review, 25 October 1930. 'The Mosley Manifesto: why we have issued it', Spectator, 13 December 1930. 'Parliamentary reform: the New Party's proposals', Political Quarterly, 2, 1931, 319-36. Select Bibliography 271 'The progress of the New Party', Week-End Review, 30 June 1931. 'Gradualism is bankrupt, where does the ILP stand?', New Leader, 2 October 1931. 'Fascism in Britain, Mosley not the only way out', Daily Worker, 30 June 1932. 'On the New Deal', Daily Worker, 24 July 1933. 'Roosevelt's slave plan', Daily Worker, 24 August 1933. 'The education of a communist', l.eft Review, 1, 1934, 63-9. 'The intelligentsia adrift', Daily Worker, 20 June 1934. 'Two views of Roosevelt', Labour Monthly, 16, 1934,4-46. 'A New Statesman pamphlet', l.eft Review, 2, 1935, 51-4. 'Look at the news', Daily Worker, 21 November 1935. 'Look at the news', Daily Worker, 3 December 1935. 'Look at the news', Daily Worker, 5 December 1935. 'Look at the news', Daily Worker, 9 April1936. 'Can the Blum government bring an end to capitalism?', Daily Worker, 17 June 1936. 'Lessons British workers must learn from Spain', Daily Worker, 7 July 1936. 'British democrats who help the Spanish fascists', Daily Worker, 3 August 1936. 'The civil war in Spain', l..eft News, October 1936, 116-21. 'Roosevelt will win', Daily Worker, 27 October 1936. 'The fascists world offensive', Left News, December 1936, 171-5. 'Who fights for democracy?', Daily Worker, 11 December 1936. 'Peace or war in the New Year?', Left News, January 1937, 119-204. 'Trotskyism', Daily Worker, 22 January 1937. 'Democracy and freedom', Left News, April1937, 268-75. 'The boom and the slump', Daily Worker, 13 March 1937. 'Armaments as the end of life', Left News, April1937, 316-21. 'Our campaign', Daily Worker, 7 April 1937. 'The three worlds', Daily Worker, 4 June 1937. 'Compensate or confiscate?', Daily Worker, 14 July 1937. 'Captain Kidd in conference', Daily Worker, 8 September 1937. 'Is the slump corning?', Daily Worker, 27 October 1937. 'Lesson of the hooded men', Daily Worker, 24 November 1937. 'The poison pen and the USSR',Daily Worker, 17 December 1937. 'What will Roosevelt do?', Daily Worker, 31 December 1937. 'The greatest fascist defeat', Daily Worker, 1 April 1938. 'The Soviet trials', Left News, July 1938, 885-91. 'What socialists must do if war comes', Tribune, 16 September 1938. 'We are all reformists now', New Fabian Research Bureau Quarterly, Novem­ ber 1938, 14-25. 'Review of J. R. Campbell, Soviet Policy and its Critics', Left News, December 1938, 1086-89. 'What next for America?', Tribune, 24 February 1939. 'What Roosevelt has given the American workers', Tribune, 3 March 1939. 'The secret of successful democracy', Tribune, 10 March 1939. 272 Select Bibliography 'The ally that awaits us in the East', Daily Worker, 6 April1939. 'If guns why not butter?', Left News, 1258-63. 'Review of Leonard Woolf, Barbarians at the Gate', Left News, November 1939,1398-1401. 'The war', Left News, December 1939, 1409-11. 'Strachey explains', Daily Worker, 11 March 1940. 'The Daily Worker and the war', New Statesman, 27 April1940. 'The CP-line now', Left News, July 1940, 1498-99. 'Totalitarianism'; 'The American Question' and 'The Struggle for power' in V. Gollancz (ed.), The Betrayal of the Left, London, Gollancz, 1941. 'On the Convention', Tribune, 10 January 1941. 'Mixed Economy I', Left News, March 1941, 1651-55. 'Mixed Economy II', Left News, April1941, 1685-90. 'A political letter', Left News, May 1941, 1719-24. 'The dilemma of leadership and democracy', Left News, August 1941, 1823-25. 'A perspective', Left News, May 1942, 2085-89. 'Report of a conference of the Left Book Club', Left News, July 1942, 2163-64. 'The restoration of capitalism', New Statesman, 17 November 1942. 'Laski's struggle for certainty', New Statesman, 18 April1950. 'The Ministry of Fair Shares', New Statesman, 29 December 1951. 'The tasks and achievements of British Labour' in M. Cole and R. Crossman (eds), New Fabian Essays, pp. 181-215. 'Bevan, the passionate moderate', Daily Herald, 4 April1952. 'The object of further socialization', Political Quarterly, 24, 1953, 68-77. 'Too many men overseas', Tribzme, 13 March 1953. 'Marxism revisited 1', News Statesman, 2 May 1953. 'Marxism revisited II', New Statesman, 9 May 1953. 'Marxism revisited I', New Statesman, 16 May 1953. 'Marxism revisited IV', New Statesman, 23 May 1953. 'The burden of defence', New Statesman, 5 August 1953. 'Labour and the call up', Nev.J Statesman, 21 November 1953. 'The powder and the jam', New Statesman, 6 February 1954. 'Back to laissezfaire', New Statesman, 3July 1954. 'The new revisionist', Nev.1 Statesman, 6 October 1956. 'Our bomb or theirs', Encounter, August 1958, 3-6. 'Has capitalism changed?' in S. Tsuru (ed.), Has Capitalism Changed?, 67-91. 'Is our deterrent vulnerable, a discussion of western defence in the 1960s', International Affairs, 37, 1961, 1-8. 'Pursuing NATO strategy', Encounter, April1962, 8-19. 'What is the Commonwealth?', New Statesman, 19 Apri11963. 'Lenin in April' in G. Urban (ed.), Talking to Eastern Europe, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964. * * * Ablett, N., Easy Outlines of Economics, Oxford, 1919. Select Bibliography 273 Berle, A. and Means, A., The Modern Corporation and Private Property, New York, Commercial, 1932. Besant, A., 'Industry under socialism' in G.B. Shaw (ed.), Fabian Essays, London, Allen and Unwin, 1889, pp. 150-69. 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