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  • Struggle or Starve

    by Seán Mitchell
    The story of how thousands of Catholics and Protestants united to challenge poverty and unemployment in Belfast, Ireland.

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)

    by Neil Davidson
    The globalized economy of the present is the result of political and social revolutions directed against pre-capitalist economic structures.

  • Left Americana

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Essays highlighting socialist and left-wing traditions that helped shape US history in the direction of “liberty and justice for all".

  • On Antisemitism

    by Jewish Voice for Peace
    The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace.

  • The Violent American Century

    by John W. Dower
    The Violent “American Century” addresses the U.S.-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945.

  • Lessons of October

    by Leon Trotsky
    An critical examination of the key actors and larger social movements that led to the rise of the Bolsheviks.

  • Not In Our Genes

    by Leon J. Kamin, Richard Lewontin, et al.
    Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

  • A People's History of Chicago

    by Kevin Coval
    Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.

  • Concerning Violence

    Edited by Göran Olsson and Sophie Vukovic
    A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the '60s and 70's.

  • 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.

  • Los Hombres Me Explican Cosas

    by Rebecca Solnit
    A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word “mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

  • Confronting Empire

    by Eqbal Ahmad and David Barsamian
    Brilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    by Don Lash
    Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

  • All Our Relations

    by Winona LaDuke
    A beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.

  • Voices of Liberation

    by Leo Zeilig
    A perfect introduction to one of the most influential figures in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.

  • Inauguration

    by Idris Goodwin and Nico Wilkinson
    Inauguration is a collection of ten poems written in reaction to the onset of the Trump era.

  • Leninism under Lenin

    by Marcel Liebman
    A winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize Liebmann highlights democratic dimensions in Lenin's thinking as it developed over 25 years.

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    by Betsy Hartmann
    With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.

  • Class Action

    by The Caucus of Rank and File Educators CORE and Jacobin Magazine
    Tens of thousands of ordinary people are willing to take action to defend the right to a public education.

  • Splinterlands

    by John Feffer
    Julian West, looking backwards from 2050, tries to understand why the world and his family have fallen apart.

  • 1905

    by Leon Trotsky
    1905 chronicles the key developments lead to revolution and the unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing the Tsar of Russia.

  • The Forging of the American Empire

    by Sidney Lens
    This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism.

  • Trotskyism in the United States

    Edited by George Breitman, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
    An outstanding set of informative essays, providing an unsurpassed account of the dynamic revolutionary socialist current known as American Trotskyism.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    by Peter Shapiro
    An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.