Preface, Polly Toynbee
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Kimberley Reynolds, Jane Rosen, Michael Rosen
Part 1: Stories for young socialists
'King Midas' published in The Young Socialist (1902), Alexander Gossip
From 'The Coal Cargo' in Pages for Young Socialists (1913), F.J. Gould
'Greed the Guy' from Tomfooleries (1920) and 'The First of May' from Moonshine (1921), 'Tom Fool' [Eleanor Farjeon]
'The Story of the Island of Fish' from Eddie and the Gipsy (1935), Alex Wedding
From Adventures of the Little Pig and other stories (1936), F. le Gros and Ida Clark
From Hue and Cry (1956), Fielden Hughes
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 2, 'Whitewash' (Daily Worker 3 January, 1930)
Part 2: The war against war
From War in Dollyland (1915), Harry Golding
'Don't Shoot Your Class!' from The Revolution (1918), Tom Anderson
From Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War (1930), Helen Zenna Smith
'A Life with a Purpose - or a grave in Malaya' from Challenge (1949), Anon
'Last Night I had the Strangest Dream' (1950), Ed McCurdy
Part 3: Writing and revolution
'Little Peter' from Proletcult (1.9, 1922), Hermynia Zur Muhlen
'Steel Spokes' from Martin's Annual (1931), T. H. Wintringham
The Red Corner Book for Children, title page, frontispiece and miscellaneous items (1931)
'The People Speak' from Bows Against the Barons (1934), Geoffrey Trease
'Lower Ranks' from A White Sail Gleams (1936), Valentin Katayev
'How Till Bought Land in Luneburg' from The Amazing Pranks of Master Till Eulenspiegel (1936), L. Gombrich
'Little Tusker's Own Paper,' Daily Worker (1945), Barbara Niven and Ern Brook
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 7, 'Selling' (Daily Worker 11 January, 1930)
Part 4: Of Russia with love
From The Diary of a Communist Schoolboy (1928), Nikolai Ognyov
'A New Kind of Park' from Red Comet (1937), Geoffrey Trease
Wash 'Em Clean (1923), Kornei Chukovsky
What is Good and What is Bad (1925), Vladimir Mayakovsky
From Timur and his Comrades (1943), A. Gaidar
'The Telephone' from Jolly Family (1950), N. Nosov
Part 5: Examples from life
'Safar the Hero' from Folk Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Union (1945), Gerard Shelley
Extracts from Tomorrow is a New Day: A Youth Edition (1945), Jennie Lee
Come In (1946), Olive Dehn
'The First Labour M.P.'; 'Hunger Strike Heroine'; 'In Great-Great-Great Grandfather's Day: A historian tells the story of the 'Battle of Peterloo'' from Daily Worker Children's Annual (1957)
Karl Marx: Founder of Modern Communism (1963), Arnold Kettle
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 14, 'Bertram Bulldog' (Daily Worker 18 January, 1930)
Part 6: Performing leftness
The World's May Day: A Celebration (1924), J.H. Bingham
From The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1955), Alan Lomax
Selected 'Songs of Struggle' from If I had a Song: a song book for children growing up (1954), Alan Gifford
Songs for Elfins (selected songs, c. 1950)
Part 7: Fighting fascism
'Side-light on the Blackshirts' and 'Fight War and Fascism' from Out of Bounds: Public Schools' Journal against Fascism, Militarism and Reaction (1934), T. P./Anon
'Red Front' from Martin's Annual (1935), Michael Davidson
'Blacking His Shirt' from Martin's Annual (1935), Anon
Extracts from 'I For Influenza' from Rescue in Ravensdale (1946), Esme Cartmell
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 46, 'Lionel Lapdog' (Daily Worker 27 February, 1930)
Part 8: Science and social transformation
'The Child of the Future' from The Young Socialist (1913), Margaret MacMillan
'The Beginning of Trade' from Pollycon (1933), E. F. Stucley
'Whatever Happens' from The Radium Woman (1937), Eleanor Doorly
'The Fate of Books' from Black on White (1942), M Ilin
Extracts from The Magic of Coal (1945), Peggy Hart
Extracts from 'Numbers and Nothing' from Man Must Measure (1955), Lancelot Hogben
Part 9: Sex for beginners
From 'Sex Knowledge' in Proletcult (1923), Margaret Dobson (pen-name of Tom Anderson)
Extracts from How You Began (1928), Amabel Williams-Ellis
'Hero-Worship Adrift: Film-Star Hero or Games Mistress?' and 'Morning Glory (Sex in Public Schools)' from Out of Bounds: Public Schools' Journal against Fascism, Militarism and Reaction (1934), Phyllis Baker / Giles Romilly
Extracts from 'Physiology' from An Outline for Boys and Girls and Their Parents (1932), Winifred Cullis and Evelyn Hewer
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog 335, 'Air Display' (Daily Worker 1 January, 1932)
Part 10: Visions of the future
'The Sorry Present and the Expelled Little Boy' from The Story of the Amulet (1906), E. Nesbit
Extracts from New Russia's Primer: Story of the Five-Year Plan (1931), M. Ilin
Extracts from 'Problems and Solutions' in Naomi Mitchison, ed. extracts from An Outline for Boys and Girls and Their Parents (1932), Olaf Stapledon
'Danger! High Tension!' from The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (1933), Erich Kastner
Extracts from Village and Town (1942), S. R. Badmin
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog (unnumbered final Mickey the Mongrel cartoon, Daily Worker 1 January, 1932)
Works cited
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