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  • Fighting Fascism

    by Clara Zetkin
    Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.

  • Impossible Revolution

    by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
    Saleh urges us to oppose intervention of imperialist powers in Syria, and reject the tyranny of the Assad regime.

  • Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People

    by Danny Katch
    A sharp-witted indictment of our broken political system and a vision for a socialist alternative that is truly by and for the people.

  • A Beautiful Ghetto

    by Devin Allen
    Allen asks us to see beyond the the violence and poverty that all too often defines the "ghetto."

  • In the Shadows of the American Century

    by Alfred W. McCoy
    Explores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony--including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.

  • Optimism over Despair

    by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou
    Wide-ranging interviews on war, power, and politics with Noam Chomsky, the world's leading critic of US foreign policy.

  • The Lost Revolution

    by Chris Harman
    Without understanding the defeat of the German Revolution, the great barbarisms that swept Europe in the 1930s cannot be understood.

  • Marxism and the Party

    by John Molyneux
    The question of party organization has been a central concern of Marxists for more than a century.

  • Party and Class

    by Tony Cliff and Duncan Hallas
    These essays show why we need something more than single-issue organizations, movement coalitions, if we are to achieve real change.

  • Russia

    by Anthony Arnove, Tony Cliff, et al.
    In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history.

  • The Bolsheviks Come to Power

    by Alexander Rabinowitch
    A classic work depicting the early months of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction for the Revolution's centenary.

  • A James Connolly Reader

    by James Connolly
    A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.

  • The Whiskey of our Discontent

    Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.

  • No Is Not Enough

    by Naomi Klein

    “This year's most immediately useful political book.” —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

  • Urban Revolt

    Edited by Immanuel Ness, Trevor Ngwane, et al.
    Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • The Doctor and the Saint

    by Arundhati Roy
    Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism.

  • Struggle or Starve

    by Seán Mitchell
    The story of how thousands of Catholics and Protestants united to challenge poverty and unemployment in Belfast, Ireland.

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)

    by Neil Davidson
    The globalized economy of the present is the result of political and social revolutions directed against pre-capitalist economic structures.

  • Left Americana

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Essays highlighting socialist and left-wing traditions that helped shape US history in the direction of “liberty and justice for all".

  • On Antisemitism

    by Jewish Voice for Peace
    The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace.

  • The Violent American Century

    by John W. Dower
    The Violent “American Century” addresses the U.S.-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945.

  • Not In Our Genes

    by Leon J. Kamin, Richard Lewontin, et al.
    Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

  • A People's History of Chicago

    by Kevin Coval
    Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.