One hundred red hot years

Edited by Deborah Sknookal, Ocean Press, paperback, 81 pages, price £5.95

This short book provides an enlightening and easy-to-navigate reference book of the major global political events of the 20th century. Taking the reader on a journey through 100 years of "response, revolution, reaction and resistance" it also highlights, chronologically from 1900 to 2000, the labour and protest movements' responses to those events.

Filled with potent images and powerful quotes, One hundred red hot years goes back to the origin and causes of current political campaigns and issues, including union ones, pointing out that: "Without consciousness of what has gone before it is difficult to imagine a different future."

A handy guide for the trade union and labour movement, which also manages to engender a feeling of solidarity with actions taken by the movements over the last hundred years.