Key sources

The starting point for exploring Cliff's writing has to be the index of his work on the Marxists Internet Archive. You can follow up anything from an extremely thorough range of links to articles and book chapters (or even whole books), from his very first piece in 1935 (see earlier post) to the end of his life.

It's also worth looking at the exceptionally comprehensive bibliography compiled by Ian Birchall, composed when he started researching his biography of Cliff (yet to be published). Birchall has also written a very thought-provoking piece about the process of researching and writing the biography, which also serves as a concise overview of Cliff's life and achievements - and it contains a few obscure nuggets about Cliff's childhood that were news to me.

It was intriguing to learn more about Cliff's unpublished manuscripts too, including a full-length book on the Middle East from his years in Palestine and also an incomplete book about Keynes and economics. Warwick University has the full archive - in material rather than online form - including unpublished or unfinished documents.