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THE LONG WEEKEND COMBATTING UNEMPLOYMENT DURING THE INTER-WAR YEARS
“In the inter-war years, 50% of the working population were in some way touched by unemployment…What did they do to survive?”

In what’s proven to be a very timely and penetrating study, Phil Katz examines the impact of mass unemployment on people, communities and politics in Britain in the 1920s and 30s and why there is so little action to prevent the scourge of unemployment today.

FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY: THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM AND THE FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY
Published in association with the Communist Party History Group to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe this book is a celebration of that victory and also a warning of the continuing dangers posed by fascism and the attempts to re-write history.

It includes a number of previously unpublished and well known images (courtesy of the Marx Memorial Library photographic archive) displaying Nazi atrocities and the popular resistance to them in Britain and across Europe.

“When VE (Victory in Europe) day was celebrated on May 8 1945, the people of Europe swarmed into the streets to celebrate their first taste of freedom since 1939.Tyranny had been put to the sword but at a massive cost in destruction of communities and economic life. For many, especially in central and eastern Europe, born after the First World War into economic depression and fascism, it was a novel first-ever taste of freedom.

“Today and tomorrow, we must continue to defend and advance the gains of 1945 and ensure that there is no going back.”

AUTHOR BIO
Phil Katz is a printer and designer, writer and lifelong activist in the labour movement. He has worked as a union organiser and union communicator and extensively in magazine, newspaper and web design . Phil has worked on projects in Australia, Ireland and South Africa and for the British, Commonwealth and European TUC’s. He gained his MSc at Birkbeck University of London in Industrial Economics and went on to further qualify in Computer Aided Design at the world-renowned Central Saint Martins School of Art. This is his fourth book. He is a proud father of four and passionate supporter of Tottenham Hotspur.

Previous books include:
The Long Weekend - combating unemployment in the inter war years - Hetherington Press
Thinking Hands - the theory of Labour in William Morris - Hetherington Press
The People, Organised - unions on the home front in WW2 - TGWU publications
Freedom From Tyranny - against fascism and historical revisionism - Manifesto Press
Co-authored ‘Unity is Strength’ The official 125th Anniversary of the Greater London Association of Trades Councils and ’Sovereignty for What?’ why getting out of EMU is just the start. (Tribune Publications)