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Welcome to Mehring Books	We are a specialty publisher dedicated to producing high-quality editions of socialist books and pamphlets in the English language. Our titles cover a wide range of subjects, from history and philosophy to culture and contemporary politics. One of the greatest lies maintained in the course of this century was the false identification between Stalinism and socialism. For decades the Stalinist bureaucracy of the Soviet Union suppressed the heritage of classical Marxism, while western historians and bourgeois ideologues used the crimes committed by the bureaucracy to discredit a socialist perspective. Mehring Books sets out to clarify the historical record. We are proudly associated with the writings of Leon Trotsky and other great anti-Stalinist socialists and are making many of their books available in English for the first time. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, these works acquire an immense contemporary significance. Our publishing house contributes to the intellectual and cultural environment by providing a body of literature which helps one intelligently comprehend complex economic, political, and social problems that confront mankind today. Mehring Books, formerly Labor Publications, distributes titles in the United States, Canada, Australia and Britain. The Library of Congress has cataloged our newest titles. They can be ordered directly or found at fine bookstores everywhere. Our ISBN prefix is 0-929087. We can also obtain foreign-language socialist works.	To start shopping, click the button.
Franz Mehring 1846-1919	Franz Mehring  Our publishing house is named after Franz Mehring, one of the outstanding writers, literary critics and historians of the Second International, the Marxist movement before World War I. He was known for his erudition and incisive thought, as well as for his determined and courageous defense of socialist principles. He was an authoritative contributor to the theoretical journal of the German Social Democratic Party, Neue Zeit and wrote on many subjects, including philosophy, history and literary criticism. In a moving tribute to Mehring in 1916, Rosa Luxemburg wrote: "For decades now you have occupied a special post in our movement, and no one else could have filled it.... Every line from your brilliant pen has taught workers that socialism is not a bread and butter problem, but a cultural movement, a great and proud world ideology."