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  • Haunted by Slavery

    by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

    A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We Still Here

    by Marc Lamont Hill

    In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.

  • Can't Pay, Won't Pay

    by Debt Collective

    A Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.

  • 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.

  • How We Go Home

    Edited by Sara Sinclair

    How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.

  • Berkeley

    by Hal Draper

    Brimming with lessons still relevant for today's activists, Berkeley: The Student Revolt is a classic of on-the-ground historical reportage.

  • The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II

    Edited by Tim Davenport and David Walters

    Eugene V. Debs Selected Works will provide activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.

     

  • RX Appalachia

    by Lesly-Marie Buer
    An account of radical responses to the opioid crisis facing women in Central Appalachia.

  • The Socialist Challenge Today

    by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    A newly updated and expanded primer for 21st-century democratic socialists from acclaimed scholars Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, with Stephen Maher.

  • City of Women Poster

    by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and Rebecca Solnit
    This 20" x 20" map, created by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and originally featured in their New York atlas Nonstop Metropolis, reimagines New York City’s subway stations named after great women.

  • Tramps and Trade Union Travelers

    by Kim Moody

    A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.

  • 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.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • Whose Story Is This?

    by Rebecca Solnit

    New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me and the forthcoming memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence.

  • The New Authoritarians

    by David Renton

    An original and compelling analysis of how a newly emboldened and radicalizing right has come to global political ascendance in the years after 9/11, culminating in the victories of Trump and Brexit.

  • 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.

  • 1919

    by Eve L. Ewing

    Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

  • Repair

    by Katherine Franke

    A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.

  • The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I

    Edited by Tim Davenport and David Walters

    An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs.

  • Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics

    A timely, free ebook about the fight for working-class power.

  • Call Them by Their True Names

    by Rebecca Solnit
    Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

  • 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.