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