Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement
Education
The following is a recommended reading list to help guide both members and education officers. All members are expected to carry out comprehensive self-education, alongside consistent engagement with reading groups and other educational activities.
Fundamentals
The Principles of Communism – Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific – Friedrich Engels
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism – Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition on Marxism – Vladimir Lenin
Foundations of Leninism – Joseph Stalin
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course – CPI (Maoist)
Political Economy
Wage-Labour and Capital – Karl Marx
Value, Price and Profit – Karl Marx
The Poverty of Philosophy – Karl Marx
Capital – Karl Marx
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism – Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism – Vladimir Lenin
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR – Joseph Stalin
Critique of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR – Mao Zedong
Scientific Socialism
Critique of the Gotha Programme – Karl Marx
The Civil War in France – Karl Marx
State and Revolution – Vladimir Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky – Vladimir Lenin
What is to be Done? – Vladimir Lenin
Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution – Comintern
Dialectical Materialism
Theses on Feuerbach – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The German Ideology – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy – Karl Marx
The Class Struggles in France – Karl Marx
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte – Karl Marx
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy – Friedrich Engels
Anti-Duhring – Friedrich Engels
Letters on Historical Materialism – Friedrich Engels
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism – Vladimir Lenin
Dialectical and Historical Materialism – Joseph Stalin
On Contradiction – Mao Zedong
On Practice – Mao Zedong
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People – Mao Zedong
A Textbook of Marxist Philosophy – Leningrad Institute of Philosophy
Socialist-Republicanism and the National Question
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination – Vladimir Lenin
The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination – Vladimir Lenin
Socialism and Nationalism – James Connolly
Sinn Féin and Socialism – James Connolly
Labour and the Proposed Partition of Ireland – James Connolly
Labour in Irish History – James Connolly
Liam Mellows: Selected Writings
Revolutionary Works – Seamus Costello
Organisation & Tactics
“Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder – Vladimir Lenin
Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership – Mao Zedong
Oppose Book Worship – Mao Zedong
Combat Liberalism – Mao Zedong
The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International – Georgi Dimitrov
Women's and LGBT+ Liberation
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State – Friedrich Engels
On the Emancipation of Women – Vladimir Lenin
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement – Anuradha Ghandy
Women, Race and class – Angela Davis
Towards a Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question – Los Angeles Research Group
Transgender Marxism – Jules Joanne Gleeson & Elle O'Rourke
Anti-Revisionism
Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg
Leninism or Trotskyism? – Joseph Stalin
The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists – Joseph Stalin
The Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.) – Joseph Stalin
On Khrushchov’s Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World – Mao Zedong
A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement – Communist Party of China
Rethinking Socialism: What is Socialist Transition? – Deng-Yuan Hsu & Pao-Yu Ching
Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism – Jose Maria Sison
Irish History
Nothern Ireland: the Orange State – Michael Farrell
Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution – Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston
The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament – Tommy McKearney
Neglect in the North of Ireland – Odrán de Bhaldraithe
Unfinished business: The politics of 'dissident' Irish republicanism – Marisa McGlinchey
Sins of the Father – Conor McCabe
Ireland Her Own – T. A. Jackson
British Imperialism in Ireland – Elinor Burns
Soviet & Chinese History
Ten Days that Shook the World – John Reed
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course – Joseph Stalin
Red Star Over China – Edgar Snow
The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution 1893–1954 – Han Suyin
Wind in the Tower: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution, 1949–1975 – Han Suyin
From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal – Pao-Yu Ching
The Principles of Communism – Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific – Friedrich Engels
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism – Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition on Marxism – Vladimir Lenin
Foundations of Leninism – Joseph Stalin
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course – CPI (Maoist)
Political Economy
Wage-Labour and Capital – Karl Marx
Value, Price and Profit – Karl Marx
The Poverty of Philosophy – Karl Marx
Capital – Karl Marx
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism – Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism – Vladimir Lenin
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR – Joseph Stalin
Critique of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR – Mao Zedong
Scientific Socialism
Critique of the Gotha Programme – Karl Marx
The Civil War in France – Karl Marx
State and Revolution – Vladimir Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky – Vladimir Lenin
What is to be Done? – Vladimir Lenin
Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution – Comintern
Dialectical Materialism
Theses on Feuerbach – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The German Ideology – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy – Karl Marx
The Class Struggles in France – Karl Marx
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte – Karl Marx
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy – Friedrich Engels
Anti-Duhring – Friedrich Engels
Letters on Historical Materialism – Friedrich Engels
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism – Vladimir Lenin
Dialectical and Historical Materialism – Joseph Stalin
On Contradiction – Mao Zedong
On Practice – Mao Zedong
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People – Mao Zedong
A Textbook of Marxist Philosophy – Leningrad Institute of Philosophy
Socialist-Republicanism and the National Question
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination – Vladimir Lenin
The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination – Vladimir Lenin
Socialism and Nationalism – James Connolly
Sinn Féin and Socialism – James Connolly
Labour and the Proposed Partition of Ireland – James Connolly
Labour in Irish History – James Connolly
Liam Mellows: Selected Writings
Revolutionary Works – Seamus Costello
Organisation & Tactics
“Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder – Vladimir Lenin
Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership – Mao Zedong
Oppose Book Worship – Mao Zedong
Combat Liberalism – Mao Zedong
The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International – Georgi Dimitrov
Women's and LGBT+ Liberation
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State – Friedrich Engels
On the Emancipation of Women – Vladimir Lenin
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement – Anuradha Ghandy
Women, Race and class – Angela Davis
Towards a Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question – Los Angeles Research Group
Transgender Marxism – Jules Joanne Gleeson & Elle O'Rourke
Anti-Revisionism
Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg
Leninism or Trotskyism? – Joseph Stalin
The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists – Joseph Stalin
The Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.) – Joseph Stalin
On Khrushchov’s Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World – Mao Zedong
A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement – Communist Party of China
Rethinking Socialism: What is Socialist Transition? – Deng-Yuan Hsu & Pao-Yu Ching
Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism – Jose Maria Sison
Irish History
Nothern Ireland: the Orange State – Michael Farrell
Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution – Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston
The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament – Tommy McKearney
Neglect in the North of Ireland – Odrán de Bhaldraithe
Unfinished business: The politics of 'dissident' Irish republicanism – Marisa McGlinchey
Sins of the Father – Conor McCabe
Ireland Her Own – T. A. Jackson
British Imperialism in Ireland – Elinor Burns
Soviet & Chinese History
Ten Days that Shook the World – John Reed
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course – Joseph Stalin
Red Star Over China – Edgar Snow
The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution 1893–1954 – Han Suyin
Wind in the Tower: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution, 1949–1975 – Han Suyin
From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal – Pao-Yu Ching