Red Books Day 2025
RBD2025 EVENTS
Red Books: Melbourne
Join us on February 21st at 4pm for a picnic in the park and a discussion of the books that radicalised us. Bring along your favourite red book!
Red Books: Perth
Our Perth comrades are busy organising an event for Red Books Day! Check back here or on our instagram for updates on our Perth RBD event.
RBD2025 SERIES: What books radicalised you?
This Red Books Day we’ve asked our members to think of a book that has radicalised them, or a book that was important to their development as a socialist. Why was it important? How did it change their thinking or their trajectory as a socialist? What did they learn from the book and what can others learn?
We’ll be posting throughout the month of February. Leave a comment, send a message on socials, or shoot us an email to tell us what books have have been essential to your socialism!
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This is the final part of our series published to celebrate Red Books Day 2025, in which Red Ant comrades were invited to write a short reflection on a book that radicalised them.
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Walter Rodney remains an essential point of reference for anti-imperialist Marxists, writes Alex Morgan.
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E.Y. writes on Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend.
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All intelligence is equal, and this is a fundamental principle of Marxism, argues Nandini S. following Ranciere.
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Motega, Sal and Zane write on Nkrumah, Althusser and Engels.
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George, HM and Adam write on Burchett, Malcolm X and Kim Il-Sung for Red Books Day.
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Comrades Davey, Rob and Albert write on John Reed’s Ten Days That Shook the World, Mark Fischer’s Capitalist Realism, and Utsa and Prabhat Patnaik’s A Theory of Imperialism.
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Comrades AK, Andrew and Andy write on Mao’s On Contradiction, The Communist Manifesto, and Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy’s Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution.
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In this article, published as part of our series for Red Books Day 2025, we take a look at five books on Lenin and Leninism for 2025.