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Socialism & Marxism

  • Keywords

    by John Patrick Leary

    A lexicon of our age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership.

  • Capitalism and Theory: Selected Writings of Michael Kidron

    by Michael Kidron

    The essential writings of one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of recent decades, collected in one volume for the first time

  • Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith

    This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • A James Connolly Reader

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

  • Communards and Other Cultural Histories

    by Adrian Rifkin
    A wide-ranging collection of essays from Adrian Rifkin, covering cultural production, urbanism, and social conflict from a critical Marxist perspective.

  • The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)

    by Philippe Bourrinet
    The most substantial history to date of the famous ‘ultra-left’ tendency within the international Communist movement.

  • Revolutionary Democracy

    by Soma Marik
    Complete with a new introduction, Revolutionary Democracy argues that Marxism, including pre-revolution Bolshevism, has historically been firmly aligned with democracy.

  • Althusser and Theology

    Edited by Agon Hamza
    A major contribution to Althusser scholarship, as well as to our understanding of the Left’s relation to religion and theology.

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Alastair Davidson
    This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

  • C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee
    CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism collects some of the most important, but difficult to obtain, articles from the legendary Trinidadian-Marxist.

  • Otto Bauer (1881-1938)

    by Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp
    A stirring, ground breaking, political biography of the most important leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers Party’s, Otto Bauer.

  • The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

    by Reiner Tosstorff
    The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.

  • Revolutionary Studies

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Explores relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through critical examination of core concepts and key twentieth-century revolutionary figures and movements.

  • Trotsky on Lenin

    by Leon Trotsky
    Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

  • The History of Italian Marxism

    by Paolo Favilli
    A compelling analysis of how Marx's ideas were received in Italy from the 1860s through the First World War

  • Landscape Between Ideology and the Aesthetic

    by Andrew Hemingway
    An extraordinary collection of pieces from the three plus decade career of one of Britain’s most important Marxist art-historians.

  • Marx Worldwide

    by Jan Hoff
    Examining how Marxism has been received and developed beyond Europe, this work asserts the continuing global relevance of tradition.

  • Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment

    by Loren Goldner
    A wide-ranging and critical examination of twentieth-century revolutionary movements across four major ideological traditions and countries.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.