Left Book Club

File:Left Book Club editions.jpg (1945), and On the Top of the World by L. Brontman (1938)]]

The Left Book Club, founded in May 1936, was a key left-wing institution of the late 1930s and the 1940s in the United Kingdom. It was set up by Stafford Cripps, Victor Gollancz and John Strachey to revitalise and educate the British Left.{{citation | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/left-book-club-anthology-edited-by-paul-laity-753003.html | title = Left Book Club Anthology | editor-first = Paul | editor-last = Laity | publisher = The Independent}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}.{{citation | publisher = The Citizen | url = https://archive.org/details/wikipedianewcomm0000osul | first = Dan | last = O’Sullivan | title = Wikipedia: a new community of practice? | place = Ashgate, UK | ISBN = 978-0-7546-7433-7 | url-access = registration }}. The club's aim was to "help in the struggle for world peace and against fascism". Aiming to break even with 2,500 members, it had 40,000 within the first year and by 1939 it was up to 57,000. The LBC was one of the first book clubs in the UK and, as such, played an important role in the evolution of the country's book trade.Edwards, Ruth Dudley (1987) Victor Gollancz: A Biography, P. 231, Victor Gollancz Ltd

Historian Michael Newman says:

Between 1936 and 1939, the LBC provided hope for thousands of people who were seeking a solution to the burning moral issues of the era. Despite its pro-Communist line, the Club's socialist propaganda and education probably ultimately strengthened the Labour Party and contributed to its victory in the postwar election.Michael Newman, "Left Book Club" in Fred M. Leventhal, ed., Twentieth-century Britain: an encyclopedia (Garland, 1995) p. 448.

The club supplied a book chosen every month by Gollancz and his panel (Harold Laski and John Strachey) to its members, many of whom took part in one of the 1,500 Left Discussion Groups scattered around the country. The books and pamphlets with their distinctive covers—orange for paperback (1936–1938) and red for hardback (1938–1948) editions—bore the legend "NOT FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC" and sold for 2s 6d to members. Many titles were available for sale only in the LBC edition, with monthly 'choices' received by all members; there were also reprints of current socialist and 'progressive' classics for members to buy. The volumes covered history, science, reporting and fiction and a range of other subjects, but always from a left-leaning perspective.

In response, Christina Foyle founded the Right Book Club, to counter what she regarded as the pernicious influence of the Left Book Club. It offered a variety of titles with Conservative and classical Liberal themes.[https://www.publishinghistory.com/right-book-club.html Right Book Club - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 10 November 2019. The Right Book Club was launched in 1937 by Edgar Samuel, who worked for the bookselling firm Foyle's.{{citation |url=http://www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz/heritage/collections/reed-rare-books/other-special-collections |title=Other Special Collections |website=Dunedin Public Libraries }} Other political book clubs included the Liberal Book Club and the pacifist Peace Book Club.

Until the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact of 1939, the club's output included many authors who were members of the Communist Party of Great Britain or close to it, and many of its books offered a positive portrayal of the Soviet Union and its international policies.

World Revolution: 1917–1936 by C. L. R. James was a Trotskyist critique of the LBC's coverage of the Soviet Union during this period.Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction. University Press of Mississippi, 1997 {{ISBN|9780878059737}} (p. 88). At the same time, Gollancz, as a member of the Labour Party, was concerned to keep the club at a formal distance from campaigns of which the Labour Party disapproved.Edwards (1987) pps. 229 & 241

Gollancz was a notoriously interventionist editor. He published Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier but insisted on prefacing its account of working-class life in the north of England with an introduction disowning the book's criticisms of middle-class socialists who, Orwell said, had little understanding of working class life. Later Gollancz republished the book leaving out the second part of which he disapproved.

The LBC held its first annual LBC rally in February 1937, and the tradition continued until the late 1940s.Edwards (1987) ps.238 The largest was in April 1939, when thousands attended the Empress Stadium in Earls Court, to hear a roster of speakers that included Liberal leader and former wartime Prime Minister, David Lloyd George; Sir Stafford Cripps, recently expelled from the Labour Party because of his Popular Front advocacy; Ellen Wilkinson another Labour Party renegade prominent for her role in the Jarrow March; and CPGB leader Harry Pollitt.{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Julian |title=The Thirties, a Dream Revolved |publisher=Faber Paperbacks |year=1960 |isbn=05711078 |location=London |pages=137}}

By early 1940, however, Gollancz had broken with the CP, a process documented in the articles collected in Betrayal of the Left in early 1941. Thereafter the club's selection of authors and titles reveals an eclectic mix.

Despite its large membership and popular success the Book Club was always a huge financial drain on the publisher, and the advent of paper rationing at the onset of the war meant that the club was restricted to just one monthly title. To replace the book club's additional choices and augment the LBC selections, Gollancz launched the "Victory Books" series, a series of shorter monographs available to the general public. These included two of the biggest selling publications of the entire War period: Guilty Men (July 1940) by "Cato" (Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard) and Your M.P. (1944) by "Gracchus" (Tom Wintringham).

In addition to books, the LBC also produced a monthly newsletter. This began as a simple club newssheet Left Book News, but gradually developed (as Left News) into a key periodical about international, political and social affairs, with lengthy editorials from Gollancz.

H. Gannes and T Repard (1936) Spain in Revolt

• {{cite book| year=1936| first=Stafford |last=Cripps |authorlink=Stafford Cripps| title=The Struggle for Peace}}
• {{cite book| year=1936| first=André | last=Malraux| authorlink= André Malraux| title=Days of Contempt}}
• {{cite book| year=1936| first=Philip |last=Noel-Baker |authorlink=Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker| title=The Private Manufacture of Armaments}}
• {{cite book| year=1936| first=Rudolf |last=Olden |authorlink=Rudolf Olden| title=Hitler the Pawn}}
• {{cite book| year=1936| first=Gaetano |last=Salvemini |authorlink=Gaetano Salvemini| title=Under the Axe of Fascism| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.6613}}
• {{cite book| year=1936| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title=The theory and practice of Socialism }}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=C. R. |last=Attlee| authorlink=Clement Attlee| title=The Labour Party In Perspective| url=https://archive.org/details/labourpartyinper0000attl| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=Robert A. |last=Brady| authorlink=Robert A. Brady (economist)| title=The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217806}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first1= G. D. H. |last1=Cole| authorlink1= G. D. H. Cole |first2= M. I. |last2=Cole| authorlink2= Margaret Cole |title=The Condition of Britain | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524798}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first= G. D. H. |last=Cole| authorlink= G. D. H. Cole |title=The People's Front }}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=Dudley |last=Collard |authorlink= Dudley Collard| title=Soviet Justice and the Trial of Radek and Others| url=https://archive.org/details/sovietjusticetri0000coll| url-access=registration}} (a defence of the first two Moscow Trials)
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=Arthur| last=Koestler| authorlink=Arthur Koestler| title=Spanish Testament}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=Clifford |last=Odets| authorlink=Clifford Odets| title=Waiting for Lefty}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=George | last=Orwell| authorlink=George Orwell| title=The Road to Wigan Pier}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first= Pat |last=Sloan |title=Soviet Democracy| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.261348}} (praising the 1936 Soviet Constitution)
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=Edgar| last=Snow| authorlink=Edgar Snow| title= Red Star Over China}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=Stephen |last=Spender| authorlink=Stephen Spender| title=Forward from Liberalism}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title=The Coming Struggle for Power }}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first= R. H. |last=Tawney| authorlink= R. H. Tawney| title= The Acquisitive Society| url=https://archive.org/details/acquisitivesocie0000tawn| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1937| first1=Sidney |last1 =Webb| authorlink1=Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield|first2=Beatrice |last2=Webb |authorlink2=Beatrice Webb |title=Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation| url=https://archive.org/details/sovietcommunismn01webb| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1938| first=J. B. S.|last= Haldane |authorlink=J. B. S. Haldane| title=A. R. P. [Air Raid Precautions]}}
• {{cite book| year=1938| first=F. Elwyn|last= Jones| authorlink=Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones| title=The Battle for Peace}}
• {{cite book| year=1938| first=Agnes |last=Smedley| authorlink=Agnes Smedley| title=China Fights Back: An American Woman with the Eighth Route Army| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75631}}
• {{cite book| year=1938| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title=What Are We to Do? }}
• {{cite book| year=1938| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title= Why you should be a Socialist}}
• {{cite book| year=1938|author=Vigilantes| authorlink=Konni Zilliacus| title= Why the League [of Nations] has Failed}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first=Lord| last=Addison| authorlink=Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison| title=A Policy for British Agriculture| url=https://archive.org/details/policyforbritish0000addi| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first= Leonard |last=Barnes| authorlink=Leonard Barnes| title=Empire or Democracy?}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first=J. R. |last= Campbell |authorlink=J. R. Campbell (communist)|title=Soviet Policy and its Critics| url=https://archive.org/details/sovietpolicyitsc0000camp| url-access=registration}} (defending the Popular Front and criticizing Trotsky)
• {{cite book| year=1939| first= G. D. H. |last=Cole| authorlink= G. D. H. Cole |title=War Aims | url=https://archive.org/details/waraims0000cole| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first= G. E. R. |last=Gedye| authorlink=George Eric Rowe Gedye |title=Fallen Bastions. The Central European Tragedy }}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first=Jürgen |last=Kuczynski |authorlink=Jürgen Kuczynski| title=The Condition of the Workers in Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union 1932–1938| url=https://archive.org/details/conditionofworke0000kucz| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first= Hewlett |last=Johnson |authorlink=Hewlett Johnson| title=The Socialist Sixth of the World| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43416}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first=Stephen |last=Swingler|authorlink=Stephen Swingler|title=An Outline of Political Thought Since the French Revolution}}
• {{cite book| year=1939|author=Vigilantes| authorlink=Konni Zilliacus| title= Why We Are Losing the Peace: the National Government's Foreign Policy: its Causes, Consequences and Cure}}
• {{cite book| year=1939| first=Ellen | last=Wilkinson |authorlink=Ellen Wilkinson| title= The Town That Was Murdered: The Life Story of Jarrow| url=https://archive.org/details/townthatwasmurde0000wilk| url-access=registration}}

• {{cite book| year=1940| first=Murray| last=Constantine| authorlink=Katharine Burdekin| title=Swastika Night}}
• {{cite book| year=1940| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title=Federalism or Socialism? }}
• {{cite book| year=1940| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title= A Programme for Progress| url=https://archive.org/details/programmeforprog0000stra| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1940| first=Paul| last=Frölich| authorlink=Paul Frölich| title= Rosa Luxemburg}}
• {{cite book| year=1941| first= G. D. H. |last=Cole| authorlink= G. D. H. Cole |title=Europe, Russia and the Future }}
• {{cite book| year=1941| first=Maurice |last=Edelman| authorlink=Maurice Edelman| title=Production for victory, not profit!}}
• {{cite book| year=1941| first=Arthur| last=Koestler| authorlink=Arthur Koestler| title=Scum of the Earth}}
• {{cite book| year=1941| author= The Pied Piper| authorlink=J. P. W. Mallalieu|title=Rats!}}
• {{cite book| year=1941| first=Edgar| last=Snow| authorlink=Edgar Snow| title= Scorched Earth }}
• {{cite book| year=1941| first=John| last=Strachey| authorlink=John Strachey (politician)| title= A Faith to Fight For| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58582}}
• {{cite book| year=1942| first= Aubrey Douglas |last=Smith|title=Guilty Germans? }}
• {{cite book| year=1942| first= Joseph E. |last=Davies|authorlink=Joseph E. Davies | title=Mission to Moscow }}
• {{cite book| year=1942| first= G. D. H. |last=Cole| authorlink= G. D. H. Cole |title=Great Britain in the Post-War World | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77264}}
• {{cite book| year=1942| first= J. P. W. |last=Mallalieu|authorlink=J. P. W. Mallalieu| title=Passed to You, Please: Britain's Red-Tape Machine at War}}
• Monte Hilda (1942). The Unity of Europe.
• {{cite book| year=1942| first= Franz |last=Neumann| authorlink= Franz Leopold Neumann |title=Behemoth. The Structure and Practice of National-Socialism | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.90525}}
• {{cite book| year=1943| first= G. D. H. |last=Cole| authorlink= G. D. H. Cole |title=The Means to Full Employment | url=https://archive.org/details/meanstofullemplo0000cole| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1943| first= Julius |last=Braunthal| authorlink= Julius Braunthal |title=Need Germany Survive? }}
• {{cite book| year=1943| first= John |last=Burger| title=The Black Man's Burden }}
• {{cite book| year=1943| first= Paul |last=Hagen| title=Will Germany Crack? A Factual Report on Germany from Within }}
• {{cite book| year=1944| first= Harold J. |last=Laski |authorlink=Harold Laski| title=Faith, Reason and Civilisation: An Essay in Historical Analysis}}
• {{cite book| year=1944| first= Agnes |last=Smedley| authorlink=Agnes Smedley| title=Battle Hymn of China}}
• {{cite book| year=1944| first= Adolf |last=Sturmthal| authorlink=Adolf Sturmthal| title=The Tragedy of European Labour 1918–1939| url=https://archive.org/details/tragedyofeuropea0000stur| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1944|first= Konni |last=Zilliacus| authorlink=Konni Zilliacus| title=The Mirror Of The Past: Lest it Reflect the Future | url=https://archive.org/details/mirrorofpastlest0000zill| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1945| first=Evelyn |last=Anderson |authorlink=Evelyn Anderson (journalist)| title=Hammer or Anvil. The Story of the German Working-Class Movement}}
• {{cite book| year=1945| first=Julius |last=Braunthal |authorlink=Julius Braunthal| title=In Search of the Millenium}}
• {{cite book| year=1945| first=Leonard O. |last=Mosley | authorlink= Leonard Mosley| title=Report from Germany| url=https://archive.org/details/reportfromgerman0000mosl| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1946| first= Léon |last= Blum |authorlink=Léon Blum| title=For All Mankind| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85858}}
• {{cite book| year=1946| first=Fenner |last=Brockway |authorlink=Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway| title=German Diary}}
• {{cite book| year=1946| first=Ernest| last=Davies| authorlink=Ernest Davies (Enfield MP)| title=National Enterprise-the development of the public corporation}}
• {{cite book| year=1946| first= Andrew |last=Roth |authorlink=Andrew Roth| title=Dilemma In Japan}}
• {{cite book| year=1947| first= Russell |last=Hill| title=Struggle for Germany | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.203742}}
• {{cite book| year=1947| first= Arthur |last=Keppel-Jones| authorlink=Arthur Keppel-Jones| title=When Smuts Goes }}
• {{cite book| year=1947| first= Friedrich |last=Schlotterbeck | authorlink=Friedrich Schlotterbeck| title=The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars| url=https://archive.org/details/darkernightbrigh0000schl| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1947| first= Kurt |last=Schuschnigg | authorlink=Kurt Schuschnigg| title=Austrian Requiem}}
• {{cite book| year=1948| first= G. D. H. |last=Cole| authorlink= G. D. H. Cole |title=The Meaning of Marxism | url=https://archive.org/details/meaningofmarxism0000cole| url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book| year=1948| first= Julius |last=Braunthal| authorlink= Julius Braunthal |title=The Tragedy of Austria | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.203942}}
• {{cite book| year=1948| first= Lina |last=Haag| authorlink= Lina Haag| title=How Long the Night }}
• {{cite book| year=1948| first=Ella |last=Lingens-Reiner |title=Prisoners of Fear }}
• {{cite book| year=1948| first= Oliver |last=Walker| title=Kaffirs are Lively | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.220038}}

Alongside the Fabian Society and Transport House, the LBC's popularising of socialist ideas was a major influence behind the Labour victory in the general election of 1945.

Many members of the club acted as missionaries for the ideas espoused by the club, such as full employment, socialised medicine, town planning and social equality. No less than eight Gollancz authors were part of the new Labour government: Lord Addison, Attlee, Bevan, Philip Noel-Baker, Shinwell, Strachey and both Cripps and Wilkinson who had spoken at 1939 Earls Court rally. A further six were MPs (Maurice Edelman, Michael Foot, Elwyn Jones, J. P. W. Mallalieu, Stephen Swingler and Konni Zilliacus). This led Victor Gollancz's biographer to write, "for an individual without official position, Victor's [Gollancz's] colossal influence on a vital election remains unmatched in twentieth-century political history."Edwards (1987) pp. 396 & 399 However, Gollancz was not rewarded with a position in the House of Lords by Clement Attlee who was worried he would become a thorn in his side there.

The Left Book Club was accused of being under Soviet influence both financially and ideologically. One expression of this was its failure to publish Trotskyist writings critical of the USSR. Another example was Gollancz's refusal to publish George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia: he would not even read the manuscript.{{cite book|last1=Edwards|first1=Ruth Dudley|title=Victor Gollancz: A Biography|date=17 April 2012|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571294800|page=197|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVsVCD3sZJUC&pg=PT197|language=en}}{{cite book|last1=Miles|first1=Jonathan|title=The Nine Lives of Otto Katz|publisher=Random House|year=2010|isbn=9780593062302|page=205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=miDgmjcq6w0C&pg=PA205|language=en}}

The success of the Left Book Club led to imitation by other parts of the UK's political spectrum.{{citation |author=Russi Jal Taraporevala |title=Competition and its control in the British book trade, 1850–1939 |location=London |publisher=Pitman |year=1973 |isbn=9780273001447 |page=236 }}

Historian A. J. P. Taylor points out the membership consisted largely of schoolteachers. Labour Party leaders were annoyed that the club was diverting high-minded middle-class Britons into reading communist tracts instead of joining the Labour Party.A. J. P. Taylor, English History: 1914–1945 (1965) p. 397. Taylor notes the crankiness in the choices of books made by Strachey, Laski, and Gollancz. For example, one of the first two choices was by a biologist envisioning a future in which artificial insemination would enable Lenin (or Stalin) to father every child in the Soviet Union. Taylor denies it was a subversive organisation, saying that "members of the Left Book Club worked off their rebelliousness by plodding through yet another orange-covered volume."A. J. P. Taylor, Politicians, socialism and historians (1980) p. 189

The leftist Nagani Book Club established in British Burma in 1937 was modelled after the Left Book Club.{{Cite web |last=Zöllner |first=Hans-Bernd |title=The Myanmar Literature Project - Starting with an Investigation into the NAGANI BOOK CLUB |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26602903_The_Myanmar_Literature_Project_Starting_with_an_Investigation_into_the_NAGANI_BOOK_CLUB/fulltext/0f318e763829de2216377503/The-Myanmar-Literature-Project-Starting-with-an-Investigation-into-the-NAGANI-BOOK-CLUB.pdf |website=Universities of Passau and Hamburg}}

file:Left Book Club logo.jpg

In 2015 the Left Book Club was relaunched as a non-profit organisation with the aim of encouraging left-wing debate and discussion among its followers. Its first publication was Kevin Ovenden's Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth. Initially publishing four books a year in conjunction with Pluto Press, in October 2018 it stepped up its publishing programme to publish a book every month, working with a range of different publishers. The club remains not for profit and is funded by subscriptions and voluntary contributions. Books are selected by an editorial panel and are chosen to represent the best critical writing on left politics, economics, society and culture, written for a broad audience. Subscribers can choose from classic or contemporary writing. Each book is published in a unique LBC edition which is paid for through monthly subscriptions, and members organise their own reading groups to discuss the books.

MP for Islington North Jeremy Corbyn offered wholehearted support to the project. "The relaunch of the Left Book Club is a terrific and timely idea, and will give intellectual ballast to the wave of political change sweeping Britain and beyond, encouraging informed and compassionate debate. I have a large collection of Left Book Club publications collected by my late parents and me. The works will open minds and inspire. I support the new LBC wholeheartedly."[https://archive.today/20160831190217/http://www.leftbookclub.com/ The Left Book Club - News], leftbookclub.com (archive copy as at 31 Aug 2016). Retrieved 25 December 2018.

{{reflist}}

• Edwards, Ruth Dudley. Victor Gollancz: a biography. Gollancz. 1987. {{ISBN|0-575-03175-1}}
• Laity, Paul (ed). The Left Book Club Anthology. Gollancz. 2001. {{ISBN|0-575-07221-0}}
• Lewis, John. The Left Book Club: an historical record. Gollancz. 1970. {{ISBN|0-575-00586-6}}
• Neavill, Gordon Barrick. "Victor Gollancz and the Left Book Club," Library Quarterly 41 (July 1971): 197–215. http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/slisfrp/53
• {{citation | url = http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/perryMat.html | publisher = Institute of Historical Research, University of Sunderland | first = Matt | last = Perry | title = review of Laity (2001) | access-date = 21 December 2008 | archive-date = 28 September 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060928212325/http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/perryMat.html | url-status = dead }}
• Samuels, Stuart. "The Left Book Club," Journal of Contemporary History 1#2 (1966): 65–86. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/259923 in JSTOR]

• {{cite web|title=Left Book Club|url=https://www.leftbookclub.com}}
• {{cite web|title=Series: Left Book Club|url=https://www.librarything.com/nseries/4185/Left-Book-Club|website=LibraryThing}}
• {{cite web|title=Left Book Club Collection|url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/leftbook|website=The University of Sheffield Library}}
• {{cite web|title=Left Book Club |url=http://www.wcml.org.uk/culture/lbcbooks.htm |website=Working Class Movement Library |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217075402/http://www.wcml.org.uk/culture/lbcbooks.htm |archivedate=2004-12-17 }}
• {{cite web|title=Pluto Press: Left Book Club|url=https://www.plutobooks.com/pluto-series/left-book-club/|website=Pluto Press}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom

Category:Publishing companies established in 1936

Category:Political book publishing companies

Category:1948 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

Category:Socialist publications

Category:Book clubs

Category:Book series

Category:1936 establishments in the United Kingdom

Category:Publishing companies disestablished in 1948