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  • Coup

    by Thomas Becker and Linda Farthing

    Coup analyzes the conditions that led to the 2019 coup in Bolivia and details its repressive aftermath.

  • Las Réplicas del Desastre

    Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

    En el contexto de los terremotos, "una réplica" describe las sacudidas que se sienten después del sismo inicial. Ningún...

  • Mi María: Surviving the Storm

    Edited by Ricia Anne Chansky and Marci Denesiuk

    Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane María and its aftermath.

  • The Border Crossed Us

    by Justin Akers Chacón

    A compelling argument that re-building unions requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders.

  • Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age

    Edited by Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, et al.

    This indispensable volume surveys revolutionary upheavals across the world between 1989 and 2019, drawing lessons for theorizing revolution today.

  • Securing Democracy

    by Glenn Greenwald

    Glenn Greenwald 's riveting follow up to his acclaimed international best-seller No Place to Hide.

  • Border and Rule

    by Harsha Walia

    An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

  • Lineage of Rain

    by Janel Pineda

    In this spellbinding debut, Los Angeles–born poet Janel Pineda sings of communal love and the diaspora and dreams for a liberated future. ...

  • Digging Our Own Graves

    by Barbara Ellen Smith

    This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community 's struggle against the deadly black lung disease.

  • Milagro

    by Penelope Alegria

    Penelope Alegria's Milagro is a retracing of parental lineage, a recount of the stories that course through the veins of family. The...

  • Black Power Afterlives

    Edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis

    A powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles.

  • Aftershocks of Disaster

    Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

    An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

  • 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.

  • Solito, Solita

    Edited by Jonathan Freedman and Steven Mayers

    They are a mass migration of thousands of young people from Central America, yet each one travels alone: solito, solita.

  • The Long Honduran Night

    by Dana Frank

    A story of resistance, repression, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.

  • 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.

  • No One is Illegal (Updated Edition)

    by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis
    No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

  • What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Dan La Botz
    An indispensable reexamination of the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.

  • Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela

    by Dario Azzellini
    A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

  • Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America

    by Karla Hernández Mares and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
    In their stirring analysis Pérez-Bustillo and Hernández Mares explore the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights.

  • Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina

    by Agustin Santella
    A compelling case study of the impacts of Neoliberalism on Argentina’s auto industry.

  • Power and Resistance

    by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
    Two of the left’s most important academics analyze the politics and economics of US imperialism’s relationship with Latin America.

  • 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.

  • The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same

    by Jeffery R. Webber
    This book offers an overarching political and economic evaluation of the Latin American Left between the late 1990s and 2016.