William A. Pelz is an academic historian who specializes in European and comparative labor history. His previous books include The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and Democracy(2014), Karl Marx: A World to Win (2012), Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (2007); and The Spartkusbund and the German Working Class Movement (1988). His articles and reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, Film & History,German History, German Studies Review, International Labor and Working Class History, International Review of Social History,Labor Studies, Journal of European Studies, Science & Society,Soviet Studies, Sozialismus, JahrBuch fuar Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, and International Labor History Yearbook, among others. Pluto Press (London) will publish his forthcoming book, Peoples History of Modern Europe in 2015.