About Red Mole Guides & Books
Red Mole Guides
Each Red Mole Guide is a primary-source reader with an argued introduction. The introduction takes a position on a question where the standard left account falls short; the documents that follow, reprints or translations assembled as a casebook, are the evidence the reader can weigh against it.
Already available
Crisis and Continuity in Revolutionary Industrial Strategy
Red Mole Guides, #1 — Red Mole — Ebook price: $5.00Mapping the International Left on Venezuela: Campism vs. Critical Solidarity, 2018–2026
Red Mole Guides, #2 — Red Mole — Ebook price: $4.00The Dialectics of Rebellion in Iran
Red Mole Guides, #3 — Red Mole — Ebook price: $3.00Ideology & Society: On Some Theoretical Premises of the Transitional Programme
Red Mole Guides, #4 — Ernest Mandel — Ebook price: $1.00Relations Between the Communist Vanguard and the Mass Movement
Red Mole Guides, #5 — Livio Maitan and Red Mole — Ebook price: $1.00Rent, Modes of Production, and the Debate on Technofeudalism
Red Mole Guides, #6 — RedMole.org — Ebook price: $1.00The Case for Workers’ Control: Nottingham & Hull, 1966–1967
Red Mole Guides, #7 — Ken Coates et al. — Ebook price: $1.00Imperialism, Stalinism and Permanent Revolution
Red Mole Guides, #8 — Red Mole and John Robens — Ebook price: $1.00
Coming later in 2026
9. The Reaction and the Wave: Young Women, Young Men and the Far Right in Europe, 2019–2026 [September 2026]
10. The Break-up of Britain, Revisited. England, Scotland and Wales in the Fourth International's press, 1968–2026. [October 2026]
11. Democracy or Bonapartism? The Fourth International’s argument over post-war Europe, 1941–1946 [November 2026]
What to expect from Red Mole Guides
Most draw on Marxist works otherwise unavailable in English, including documents from congresses and plenums of the Fourth International, internal bulletins from affiliated sections, and writings by its principal theorists. A few are research guides built from AI-assisted background material rather than primary texts. All are too long for Substack. They are available at:
https://books2read.com/ap/RWOvYN/Red-Mole-Substack
Red Mole’s books
Red Mole also publishes books, which are thematic collections of previously published articles. They include:
Organisational strategy for the left: Revolutionary Strategy in an Age of Organizational Crisis
A defence of Ernest Mandel’s ideas against the AWL: Open Marxism vs. Sectarian Dogma: Defending Ernest Mandel Against the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty
A collection about the conservative left ideology, and its impact on British left groups including Your Party, rs21 and the SWP: The Conservative Left: Campism, Organisational Failure, and the Politics of Liberation