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  • In the Red Corner

    by Mike Gonzalez
    The first English-language biography of one of Latin America’s most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers.

  • Capitalism and Disability

    by Marta Russell

    This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara

    Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx’s masterpiece, Capital.

  • Socialism From Below

    by Hal Draper

    In exploring the question: "What do we mean by socialism?,” Hal Draper argues genuine liberation can be won only through self-emancipation.

  • Ten Days that Shook the World

    by John Reed

    A new edition of John Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, 100 years since its first publication.

  • The Communist Movement at a Crossroads

    Edited by Mike Taber

    An invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the Communist movement, this volume collects the proceedings and resolutions of the ECCI

  • Marx’s Capital

    Edited by Gerald Hubmann and Marcel van der Linden

    When he died, Marx left his opus Capital unfinished. But how incomplete was the project? This volume offers the first comprehensive answer.

  • Keywords

    by John Patrick Leary

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

  • Class, Party, Revolution

    Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, et al.

    An expertly selected collection of articles on class, party, and revolution from one of the world’s most important socialist journals

  • 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

  • Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

    by Raju J. Das
    A persuasive and thorough response to those fashionable social theorists who challenge both the explanatory and emancipatory power of ‘class.’

  • 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.

  • Class Struggle and the Color Line

    by Paul Heideman
    A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.

  • 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.