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  • Electric Arches

    by Eve L. Ewing
    Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

  • In the Shadows of the American Century

    by Alfred W. McCoy
    Explores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony--including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.

  • Optimism over Despair

    by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou
    Wide-ranging interviews on war, power, and politics with Noam Chomsky, the world's leading critic of US foreign policy.

  • History of the Russian Revolution

    by Leon Trotsky
    An unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history.

  • 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.

  • Party and Class

    by Tony Cliff and Duncan Hallas
    These essays show why we need something more than single-issue organizations, movement coalitions, if we are to achieve real change.

  • Russia

    by Anthony Arnove, Tony Cliff, et al.
    In the Russian revolution of 1917, workers took control of a major country for the first time in history.

  • 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.

  • Night Thoughts

    by Wallace Shawn
    Writer and actor Wallace Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents.

  • The Whiskey of our Discontent

    Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.

  • No Is Not Enough

    by Naomi Klein
    “This year's most immediately useful political book.” —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

  • 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.

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • Deliverance from Slavery

    by Dick Boer
    Deliverance from slavery was a central concern of Biblical verse. Boer aims to reclaim this focus for today's struggles.

  • The Doctor and the Saint

    by Arundhati Roy
    Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism.

  • Karl Marx

    by Karl Korsch
    A bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marx’s thought, by a major figure of twentieth-century Western Marxism.

  • Marx and the Earth

    by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster
    In this compelling anti-critique the founders of the Eco-socialist school of thought respond to their chief intellectual detractors.

  • Marxism and Historical Practice (Vol. I)

    by Bryan D. Palmer
    Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years.

  • Marxism and Historical Practice (Vol. II)

    by Bryan D. Palmer
    Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years

  • On the Formation of Marxism

    by Jukka Gronow
    In this gripping new intellectual biography, Jukka Gronow examines Karl Kautsky’s influence on the European labor movement.

  • Struggle or Starve

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

  • Trotsky's Challenge

    Edited by Frederick C. Corney
    The debates surrounding the publication of Trotsky’s Lessons of October are here collected, translated, and explained for the first time.

  • 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.