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The Tiny Red Book

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I wrote the Tiny Red Book in July 2004, after long discussions within the group which went on to found the Red Party, which included Jeremy Butler, Gerry Byrne, Rae Hancock, and Darren Williams. I will forever be in their debt not merely for hammering out the ideas it contains, but for the comradeship they showed me when severe depression prematurely ended my involvement in the project.

The Tiny Red Book proved to be extraordinarily popular, and is still generating a stream of emails from those who have come across it for the first time, and have taken the trouble to express their support for the politics it describes, and perhaps yet more for the straightforward way it describes them. It seems we were not alone in thinking that the left was disappearing up its own arse in a desire to sound profound: or, as the Tiny Red Book puts it somewhat more politely, speaking a language no-one else understands.

On the following pages, the original text is shown alongside reduced images of the pages as originally laid out. Just click on the 'next page' links or picture images to read it a page at a time. It genuinely is tiny: less than 1,000 words all told.

You can download a copy of the book in PDF format by clicking here.

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