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  • How We Get Free

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

  • Capitalism's Contradictions

    by Henryk Grossman
    Henryk Grossman’s substantial essays highlight vital but still neglected aspects of Marx’s economic theory

  • October Song

    by Paul Le Blanc

    An evocative and inspiring account of the events of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its legacy.

  • Red Petrograd

    by S. A. Smith
    A deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia’s revolutionary year.

  • Black Liberation and the American Dream

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc
    Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US.

  • Commando

    by E'mon Lauren

    E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto...

  • Communist Insurgent

    by Doug Enaa Greene
    This book discusses the life and political activity of French Communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui and the problems of his political current.

  • Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution

    Edited by Todd Chretien
    The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.

  • Imperialism and War

    by Nikolai Bukharin and V. I. Lenin
    The two founding texts of the analysis of capitalism and imperialism in one volume, with annotation.

  • Policing A Class Society

    by Sidney L. Harring
    An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.

  • 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."

  • Electric Arches

    by Eve L. Ewing
    Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

  • 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.

  • 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