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John Carlos, one of the men involved in the most iconic moment of the 1960s,
tells his story.

The John Carlos Story

The Sports Moment That Changed the World
John Carlos with Dave Zirin, foreword by Cornel West

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black
Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy
and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the
most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power
movement. Here is the remarkable story of one of the men be-
hind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos.

ISBN: 978-1-60846-127-1 • World
$22.95 • Hardcover • July 2011
“John Carlos is one of the grand figures of the twentieth century. His
incredible political courage, indisputable athletic excellence, and inde-
structible spiritual fortitude set him apart from most contemporary
celebrities. In fact, his fame derives from his courage, excellence, and
fortitude. Yet it is only in this powerful and poignant memoir that we
learn of what and who made him who he is.
“The majestic spirit of John Carlos looms large in the darkness he
encounters after Mexico City. He struggles, he suffers, and he shud-
ders. Yet he endures with dignity…This courageous memoir is a testa-
ment to the triumph of John Carlos in the face of terror, trauma, and
stigma. It is the tale of a strong Black man who overcame forces try-
ing to crush him”
—Cornel West, from the Foreword

“Dave Zirin is the smartest and gutsiest sportswriter in America.”

—Robert Lipsyte

John Carlos is a former track and field athlete and professional football player, and a founding member of the Olympic Project for
Human Rights. He won the bronze medal in the 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, where his Black Power salute on the
podium with Tommie Smith took place. The John Carlos Story is his first book.

Dave Zirin is the author of four books, including Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love, A Peoples’ History of Sports
in the United States, and What’s My Name, Fool? He writes the popular weekly online sports column “The Edge of Sports”
(edgeofsports.com) and is a regular contributor to SI.com, SLAM, the Los Angeles Times, and the Nation, where he is the publication’s
first sports editor.
As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti
presents a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.

Boycott, Divestment,
Sanctions
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Omar Barghouti

International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts

helped topple South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime. In this ur-
gent book, Omar Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based
BDS campaign to stop apartheid Israel’s rapacious occupation
and colonization of the Palestinian people. This considered, con-
vincing collection contributes to the growing debate on Israel’s
violations of international law and points the way forward to a
united global civil society movement for freedom, justice, self-
determination, and equality for all.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-114-1 • World
$16 • Paperback • April 2011
“This is a book about the political actions necessary to hinder and fi-
nally to stop the Israeli state machine, which is operating every day to
eliminate the Palestinian people. It is like an engineer’s report, not a
sermon. Read it, decide, and then act.”
—John Berger

“I have been to Palestine [and] can’t help but remember the condi-
tions we experienced in South Africa under apartheid. We could not
have achieved our freedom without the help of people around the
world using the nonviolent means of boycotts and divestment to com-
pel governments and institutions to withdraw their support for the
apartheid regime. Omar Barghouti’s lucid and morally compelling
book is perfectly timed to make a major contribution to this urgently
needed global campaign for justice, freedom, and peace.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“No one has done more to build the intellectual, legal, and moral case
for BDS than Omar Barghouti. The global Palestinian solidarity move-
ment has been transformed and is on the cusp of major breakthroughs.”
—Naomi Klein

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian
Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University
and a master’s degree in philosophy (ethics) from Tel Aviv University.
L-vis Lives in this poetic narrative on the use and misuse of contemporary Black culture.

L-vis Lives
Racemusic Poems
Kevin Coval, foreword by Patricia Smith

In this bold, new collection, HBO Def Poet Kevin Coval explores
the collision of art and appropriation in contemporary America
through the lens of hip hop culture.

“L-vis” is an imagined persona, a combination and representation

of various artists who have used and misused Black art. Like Elvis
Presley, Eminem, the Beastie Boys, and so many others who gained
fame and fortune from their sampling of Black music—L-vis is as
much a sincere artist as he is a thief.

One might root for L-vis and be antagonized by him; he delights

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$16 • Paperback • September 2011
and troubles the imagination. But, L-vis Lives is more than just the
story of an imagined artist—L-vis lives at the troubling intersec-
tion between our yearning for multicultural transcendence and
the ever-present racism in society. L-vis represents what is possible
in a miscegenated America, but also what is problematic in a cul-
ture that at times only fully accepts Black art in a white face.

In this series of poems, Coval transfigures contentious racial and

political views into a lyrical poetic that challenges us to reflect on
our recent cultural history, what it says about how far we have
come, and how much further we still need to go.

“L-vis is an unstinting excavation of race and culture, art and owner-

ship…With poignancy, humor, and no small amount of soul, Coval has
fashioned a poetry for the present.”
—Adam Bradley, co-editor of The Anthology of Rap

“Kevin Coval is a new, glowing voice in the world of literature.”

—Studs Terkel

“A prophet…a tour-de-force…he can soothe and scathe, hurt and

heal, in the course of a single poem.”
—Providence Journal

Kevin Coval is the author of Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica and Everyday People. Cofounder and artistic director of Louder Than a Bomb:
The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, Coval is also a four-time HBO Def Poet and can be seen in the feature documentary Louder Than a
Bomb. Based in Chicago, he teaches at the School of the Art Institute and is a regular contributor to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio.
Keeping up with the American elite can be tiring. Rich People Things is the
layman’s guide to how the wealthy maintain their rule.

Rich People Things

Real-Life Secrets of the Predator Class
Chris Lehmann

How do the very well-to-do keep their edge? In Rich People

Things, Chris Lehmann lays bare the various dogmas and delu-
sions that prop up plutocratic rule in the post-meltdown age. It’s
a humorous and harrowing tale of warped populism, phony re-
form, and blind deference to the nation’s financial elite.

From ideological stanchions such as the Free Market, through

the bastions of the liberal media, including the New York Times
and Wired magazine, to gatekeepers such as David Brooks and
Alan Greenspan, Lehmann covers the vast array of comforting
and comprehensive protections that allow the über-privileged to
ISBN: 978-1-60846-152-3 • World
maintain their iron grip on almost half of America’s wealth. With
$16.95 • Paperback • October 2011
chapters on Malcolm Gladwell, the Supreme Court, the memoir,
and more, few are spared from Lehmann’s pointed prose. As the
author explains, “American class privilege is very much like the
idea of sex in a Catholic school—it’s not supposed to exist in the
first place, but once it presents itself in your mind’s eye, you real-
ize that it’s everywhere.”

“Scathing, scintillating chapters on Malcolm Gladwell; on the Times,

and on its ‘chirpy’ and delusional columnist David Brooks; on Wired
magazine’s breathless paeans to new media’s broken promises; and on
other ventures and adventurers who, often unwittingly, work hard to
suppress or deflect their own and their audiences’ understandings of
what consumer and casino-finance capitalism are doing to us.”
—Talking Points Memo

“What a delight it is to have—finally!—an entire book in which Leh-

mann gives the plutocrats of this world the drubbing they deserve—in
delicious detail. His scoffing is a tonic.”
—Tom Frank

“Social criticism at its scorching-hot best.”

—Barbara Ehrenreich

Chris Lehmann is employed, ever precariously, as an editor for Yahoo! News, Bookforum, and the Baffler, while dissecting the excesses
of his social betters for The Awl.com. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Ana Marie Cox and a quartet of excellent pets.
With piercing wit and brutal insight Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins
of the American empire.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-154-7 • World
$16.95 • Paperback • October 2011
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a Fellow. He is the
author of the critically acclaimed American Way of War and The End of Victory Culture.
The United States of Fear
Tom Engelhardt
In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its lat-
est report meant for the administration of newly elected president
Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet’s “sole superpower”
would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years
hence. In his new book, The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt
makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and
buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to
major decline. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive
administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring
American treasure into the military, war, and national security—and
so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff.
This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the na-
tional bloodstream; how the country—gripped by terror fantasies—
was locked down; and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled
(and profited) while America quietly burned. Think of it as the
story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist “sole
superpower” of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through
which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.
Praise for Tom Engelhardt and The American Way of War
“A tour de force.”
—Jeremy Scahill
“Tom Engelhardt is the I. F. Stone of the post–9/11 age.”
—Andrew J. Bacevich
“Tom Engelhardt’s biting look at United States militarism…[is]
pithy…[and] alarming…He takes on our war-possessed world with
clear-eyed, penetrating precision.”
—Mother Jones online
In a wide-ranging conversation, filmmaker Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali discuss world
history from the seventh century to today.

On History
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone

In working together on two challenging new documentaries—

South of the Border and the forthcoming thirteen-part, thirteen-hour
Forgotten History of the United States series for Showtime—film-
maker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq
Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on the politics of his-
tory. Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten—or
deliberately buried—episodes of American history, from the US
intervention against the Russian Revolution, to the dynamic
radicalism of the Wobblies, to how Henry Wallace’s nomination
for the presidency was deliberately thwarted by Democratic
Party machine insiders, to the ongoing close connections be-
ISBN: 978-1-60846-149-3 • World
tween various US presidents and the Saudi royal family.
$16 • Paperback • November 2011

Praise for Oliver Stone

“I believe there are larger truths than the supposedly factual accounts
of events given in orthodox histories…The role of art is to make up for
the overwhelming power of the Establishment by using emotion to in-
tensify and magnify suppressed truths. Oliver Stone has done that in
his films.”
—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

Praise for Tariq Ali

“The charm of stylish dissent: empires may come and go but Tariq Ali,
the rebel who has lost the streets but gained the ghettos, is here to
stay, to fight on…Buy his spirit.”
—India Today

Tariq Ali is an internationally acclaimed Pakistani writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world
history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an
editor of New Left Review and lives in London.

Oliver Stone is an academy award winning director and documentary film maker. His films include Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,
Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, Comandante, and South of the Border.
Interviews and photographic essays highlight the spirit of the New York–based organization
of Puerto Rican radicals, the Young Lords.

Palante
Young Lords Party
Young Lords Party, with a new introduction by
Iris Morales; Photographs by Michael Abramson

In 1969, a group of young, primarily Puerto Rican activists founded

the Young Lords Party in New York City, taking inspiration from
the Black Panther Party.

Palante, the first book by and about the radical organization, is

brought back into print here with new introductory material.

Organizing directly in Latino/a communities, the Young Lords took

up slum housing conditions, garbage cleanups, “serve the people
programs,” and health care. Dramatic takeovers of institutions—
ISBN: 978-1-60846-129-5 • World
such as The People’s Church, where they ran a free breakfast pro-
$24.95 • Paperback with photographs
June 2011
gram, and Lincoln Hospital, where they held free testing for
tuberculosis and lead poisoning—brought media and public atten-
tion to the socioeconomic and political situation of people of color
in the United States. They summarized their political beliefs and
goals in a thirteen-point program, published and distributed a
newspaper called Palante, and produced a weekly radio show on
WBAI also called “Palante.”

Capturing the spirit and actions of the sixties movements, Palante

features political essays by members, oral histories of how mem-
bers joined the Young Lords, and more than seventy-five photos
of their vibrant membership and actions.

“What makes the book not only a moving document of a significant

struggle but a tool for change in itself is that it is a series of personal
testaments and hard-won insights into America…Palante sets a high
standard for activist photojournalism.”
—A. D. Coleman, Village Voice

Michael Abramson is a photographer and publisher who lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Iris Morales is an activist, educator, media producer, and author who has spent her life in the struggle for human rights and Puerto
Rican liberation. A member of the Young Lords for five years, she rose through the ranks to become Deputy Minister of Education
and leader of the Women’s Union. ¡Palante, Siempre Palante!, her award-winning documentary about the Young Lords was broadcast
on national public television and continues to be screened widely in colleges and community venues across the United States.
The long-buried story of a Chicagoan’s struggle for justice after his four children burned
in a fire lit by their landlord’s greed.
A TRUE STORY of RACE HOUSING
and MURDER in CHICAGO
JOE ALLEN
ISBN: 978-1-60846-126-4 • World
$22.95 • Hardcover • June 2011
Joe Allen is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review and a long-standing social justice fighter, involved in the
ongoing struggles for labor, abolition of the death penalty, and against the Iraq War.
People Wasn’t Made
to Burn
A True Story of Race, Housing,
and Murder in Chicago
Joe Allen
In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed
was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his
children on Chicago’s West Side. Prosecutors hung the death
sentence over Hickman’s head, but a vibrant defense campaign
exposed how working poverty and racism led to his crime and
helped win Hickman’s freedom.
With a true-crime writer’s eye for suspense and the historian’s
depth of knowledge, Joe Allen unearths the compelling story of a
campaign that was willing to stand up to Jim Crow well before
the modern civil rights movement had even begun.
As deteriorating housing conditions and an accelerating foreclosure
crisis combine to form a hauntingly similar set of factors as those
that led to the tragic fire that claimed the lives of James Hickman’s
children, Allen’s book restores to prominence a previously un-
known individual whose story has profound relevance today.
“What I appreciate about Joe Allen’s work is that he demonstrates as
a historian…the power of information—meticulous, distilled, coher-
ent, principled.”
—John Pilger
“Today as the United States faces the greatest economic and housing
crisis since the Great Depression, there is no doubt that circumstances
are creating the potential for many James Hickmans. Unscrupulous
landlords, real estate companies, and bankers are forcing millions into
desperate plights with no options and a growing sense of injustice.
Desperate people with little or nothing to lose will take justice into
their own hands. Events very much like those of six decades ago could
come to mark our own living history.”
—Joe Allen, from the Introduction
101 profiles of social justice leaders who changed the world, made accessible
for students in grades 5–9.

101 Real Changemakers

Rebels and Radicals
Who Changed US History
Michele Bollinger

In the great tradition of Howard Zinn, 101 Real Changemakers of-

fers a “peoples’ history” version of the individuals who have
shaped our country, for middle school students. In the place of
Founding Fathers, presidents, and titans of industry are profiles of
those who courageously fought for social justice in America. 101
Changemakers aims to provide young students with new ways of
understanding how history is written and how history is made.

ISBN: 978-1-60846-156-1 • World Changemakers include:

$19.95 • Hardcover • March 2012 Tecumseh Helen Keller Ella Baker
Oscoela Eugene Debs Fannie Lou Hamer
Red Cloud Big Bill Haywood Stokely Carmichael
Crazy Horse Joe Hill Diane Nash
Grimke Sisters Mary Harris John Lewis
Susan B. Anthony “Mother” Jones Angela Davis
Elizabeth Cady Hubert Harrison Huey Newton
Stanton Paul Robeson Muhammad Ali
Denmark Vesey Genora Dollinger Leonard Peltier
Nat Turner Emma Goldman Philip and Daniel
Frederick Douglass A. Philip Randolph Berrigan
Harriet Tubman John L. Lewis Ralph Nader
John Brown Langston Hughes Rachel Carson
WEB DuBois Richard Wright Howard Zinn
Queen Liliuokalani Daughters of Bilitis Dolores Huerta
Mark Twain Jeanette Rankin Edward Said
August Spies Fred Korematsu Harvey Milk
Albert and Lucy Henry A. Wallace Winona LaDuke
Parsons Cesar Chavez Cleve Jones
Ida B. Wells Dorothy Height Laila Al-Arian
Margaret Sanger Rosa Parks Noam Chomsky
Upton Sinclair Bayard Rustin Constance McMillen
Clarence Darrow Dr. Martin Luther Elvira Arellano and
Elizabeth Gurley King, Jr. son Saul Arellano
Flynn Malcolm X

Michele Bollinger lives in Washington, DC, with her two children and husband, sportswriter and Nation columnist Dave Zirin,
where she teaches high school social studies.
In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public
education by corporate board room “reformers.”

Education and Capitalism

Struggles for Learning and Liberation
Edited by Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, a conservative, bipar-

tisan consensus dominates about what’s wrong with our schools
and how to fix them. In each case, those solutions scapegoat teach-
ers, vilify our unions, and promise more private control and market
mentality as the answer. In each case, students lose—especially stu-
dents of color and the children of the working class and the poor.

This book, written by teacher activists, speaks back to that elite

consensus. It draws on the ideas and experiences of social justice
educators concerned with fighting against racism and for equal-
ity, and those of activists oriented on recapturing the radical roots
ISBN: 978-1-60846-147-9 • World
of the labor movement. Informed by a revolutionary vision of
$17 • Paperback • March 2012
pedagogy, schools, and education, it paints a radical critique of
education in Corporate America, past and present, and con-
tributes to a vision of alternatives for education and liberation.

Inside are essays that trace Marxist theories of education under cap-
italism; outline the historical educational experiences of emergent
bilingual and African American students; recap the history of teach-
ers’ unions; analyze the neoliberal attack on public schools under
Obama; critically appraise Paolo Freire’s legacy; and make the his-
torical link between social revolution and struggles for literacy.

“At a time when the capitalist class and their corporate allies in the
media have waged an all-out assault on teachers, students, and public
education, Education and Capitalism responds by speaking truth to
power.…Drawing from the lived experiences of the editors and their stu-
dents, and informed by cutting edge sociopolitical critique, Education
and Capitalism clears the path for new understanding of the current as-
sault on public schooling and points towards important directions if we
are to save it.”
—Peter McLaren, author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire,
and the Pedagogy of Revolution

Sarah Knopp is a public high school teacher in Los Angeles and an activist with United Teachers Los Angeles.

Jeff Bale is assistant professor of second language education at Michigan State University. Their work has appeared in Rethinking
Schools, International Socialist Review, and CounterPunch.
Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses.This volume reveals the history
of workers who dare to disagree.

Ours to Master and to Own

Workers’ Control from the Commune
to the Present
Edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini

From the dawning of the industrial epoch wage earners have or-
ganized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and, in dozens
of instances, have gone so far as to challenge the very premises of
the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management
aimed at controlling production without bosses. Looking at spe-
cific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every pe-
riod of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively
traces this often underappreciated historical tradition.

ISBN: 978-1-60846-119-6 • World Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary strug-
$19 • Paperback • May 2011 gles for workers’ control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential
reading for those struggling to bring to birth a new world from
the ashes of the old.

“Ours to Master and to Own is the most substantive and comprehen-

sive work on workers’ control and self-management today providing an
essential account of labor movements in the process of insurrection,
direct action, and factory occupations under a range of institutional
circumstances. I strongly recommend this work, which provides exam-
ples drawn from throughout the world of workers struggling for justice
and power from the Paris Commune to the present.”
—Gary Younge, columnist for the Guardian and the Nation

“Excellent! A very complete, serious, and inspiring account of the

movements for workers’ control and their difficulties. There is no doubt
that it should become a standard point of reference for future discus-
sions and actions. A great source of information and reflection.”
—John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism

Dario Azzellini is a writer and documentary director. He served as associate editor for the International Encyclopedia of Revolution
and Protest: 1500 to the Present. He is the associate editor of WorkingUSA:The Journal of Labor and Society and Cuadernos de Marte.

Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is author of Immigrants,
Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market, and an anthology of contemporary labor: Real World Labor, with Amy Offner and Chris Sturr
(Dollars & Sense). He is editor of WorkingUSA:The Journal of Labor and Society.
While corporate-funded science continues to deny its existence, global climate change
threatens one native village with total destruction.

Kivalina
A Climate Change Story
Christine Shearer

While corporate-funded scientists continue their efforts to spread

doubt about global climate change, for one native village in
Alaska the price of further denial could be the complete devasta-
tion of their homes and culture. Kivalina must be relocated to
survive, but neither the oil giants nor the government have
proven willing to take responsibility.

In this muckraking account of the peril faced by one small village,

Christine Shearer unearths the toxic legacy of corporate denial,
which stretches all the way back to the turn of the twentieth cen-
tury. She reveals that Big Oil has hired the same legal firm previ-
ISBN: 978-1-60846-128-8 • World
ously responsible for limiting corporate culpability in the lawsuits
$16 • Paperback • July 2011
that sought compensation for tobacco- and asbestos-related ill-
nesses. As the ocean slowly engulfs Kivalina, time is running out for
the island’s inhabitants.

“This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what’s happening to

the people of Kivalina. It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary, the
product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation,
and greed of some of the biggest and richest companies on earth.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life
on a Tough New Planet

“Christine Shearer’s Kivalina: A Climate Change Story is a fast and

bumpy ride that begins with the history of outrageous corporate decep-
tions through public relations and legal campaigns, continuing with
building of the coal-and-oil empire to fuel progress in the United
States, leading to the horrendous politics of climate crisis, and finally
arriving at its destination, a ground zero of climate refugees—
Kivalina—Inupiat community along the Chukchi Sea coast of arctic
Alaska…I urge you to get a copy, read it, share the story, and join the
global climate justice movement.”
—Subhankar Banerjee, photographer of Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land

Christine Shearer is a writer, journalist, activist, and academic. She is the environment/ecology editor of EconomyWatch, and
managing editor of the online progressive magazine Conducive. She is also a contributor to Coalswarm, part of the online corporate
watch website Sourcewatch.

An accessible, enlightening,
and compelling introduction
to Marx’s ideas, with an
emphasis on their enduring
relevance.
The Cuban Revolution’s
most informed and
insightful historian critically
assesses—from the left—its
impact and legacy.
The Revolutionary Ideas
of Karl Marx
Alex Callinicos
Despite their best attempts to declare them dead at every opportunity,
establishment critics have failed to relegate Karl Marx’s theories to the
dustbin of history. Callinicos argues that Marx’s ideas have an enduring
relevance and provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the
West’s most recognizable social critic.
Alex Callinicos is Professor of European Studies at Kings College London. He
has written widely about Marxism and social theory. His most recent books are
Social Theory (1999), Equality (2000), Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009),
and Bonfire of Illusion (2010), all published by Polity
ISBN: 978-1-60846-138-7 • World excluding UK • $16 • Paperback • October 2011
Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959
A Critical Assessment
Samuel Farber
“A courageous and formidable balance sheet of the Cuban Revolution.”
—Mike Davis, author, Planet of Slums and In Praise of Barbarians
Uncritically lauded by many on the left, and impulsively denounced
by the right, the Cuban revolution is almost universally viewed in
one-dimensional terms. Farber, one of its most informed left-wing
critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the revolution’s
impact and legacy.
Samuel Farber was born and raised in Marianao, Cuba, and came to the United
States in February 1958. His scholarship on Cuba includes two previous books
Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933–1960 and Origins of the Cuban Revolution
Reconsidered. Farber was active in the Cuban high school student movement against
Batista, and has been involved in socialist politics for more than fifty years.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-139-4• World • $24 • Paperback • September 2011

From Mark Twain to the
movement against the war
in Vietnam, this is the story
of ordinary Americans
challenging empire.
A classical work of radical
educational theory and a
progressive economic vision
of equity and equality in
America’s schools.
American Insurgents
A Brief History of American Anti-imperialism
Richard Seymour
“Seymour’s obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its place as
the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind.”
—Resurgence
All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States the most
potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the
world.Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism that gives the
lie to this mythology. Seymour examines this complex relationship from
the American Revolution to the present-day.
Richard Seymour is a socialist writer and runs the blog Lenin’s Tomb. He is the
author of The Liberal Defense of Murder. His articles have appeared in the Guardian
and the New Statesman.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-141-7 • World • $17 • Paperback • November 2011
Schooling in Capitalist America
Educational Reform and the
Contradictions of Economic Life
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
“There could not possibly be a better time to rediscover the classic work that
taught a generation to interrogate and challenge the economic forces and cor-
porate predations that betray the democratic possibilities of public education.
It deserves a wider readership than ever.”
—Jonathan Kozol
No book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic
forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic
reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators.
Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences
Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the
University of Massachusetts.
Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and an Emeritus
Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-131-8 • World • $22 • Paperback • June 2011

The most comprehensive
collection of Gramsci’s
writings on the relationship
between culture and politics
available in the English
language.
Though claimed by
disparate schools of thought,
Peter Thomas shows
Gramsci is best understood
as deepening the classical
Marxist tradition.
Selections from Cultural Writings
Antonio Gramsci; edited by David Forgacs, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith;
translated by William Boelhower
One of the world’s most influential cultural critics, Gramsci’s writings
on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally
changed the way that scholars view both. Among the first to argue that
art is not the product of “men of genius” but rather particular historical
and social contexts, Gramsci remains one of the most widely read theo-
rists of modern culture.
Antonio Gramsci was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party, and
spent most of his adult life imprisoned by Mussolini. After his death and the
subsequent publication of his Prison Notebooks he came to be known as one of the
twentieth century’s foremost cultural critics.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-136-3 • World • $22 • Paperback • February 2012
The Gramscian Moment
Philosophy, Hegemony, and Marxism
Peter D. Thomas
The influence of Antonio Gramsci’s thought is exceeded only by the di-
verse interpretations to which it has been subjected. Drawing on the re-
cent flurry of linguistic work on his Prison Notebooks, Thomas argues that
Gramsci’s significance is in his distinctive position in the development of
the classical Marxist tradition.
Peter Thomas is lecturer in the history of political thought at Brunel University.
He has previously studied and worked at the University of Queensland, University
of Naples, University of Berlin, and the University of Amsterdam. He has published
widely on Marxist political theory and philosophy. He is an editor of the journal
Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-116-5 • World • $36 • Paperback • March 2011
 The Paris Commune
A Revolution in Democracy
Donny Gluckstein

When Parisian workers established the world’s first workers’ democracy,

there were no blueprints for the society they might build. This detailed
study examines their brief experiment in collective social, economic, and
political equality, with attention to the historic problems of the Com-
mune, critical debates over its implications, and the lingering inspiration
of the glimpse of a better world its history provides.

Donny Gluckstein is author of The Western Soviets:Workers’ Councils Versus Parliament

1915–1920 and The Tragedy of Bukharin. He is a lecturer in history in Edinburgh
This comprehensive history and is a member of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK.

of the world’s first

experiment in workers’
democracy seeks to reclaim ISBN: 978-1-60846-118-9 • World excluding UK • $17 • Paperback • May 2011

the inspiring legacy of the

Paris Commune.

The Nazis, Capitalism,

and the Working Class
Donny Gluckstein

The rise of the Third Reich remains one of the most widely debated
and discussed events of the twentieth century. Gluckstein sets out to
place Nazism in the context of an economic crisis and a failed workers’
revolution, seeking to draw lessons for those interested in preventing
fascism’s return.

Donny Gluckstein is author of The Western Soviets:Workers’ Councils Versus Parliament

1915–1920 and The Tragedy of Bukharin. He is a lecturer in history in Edinburgh
and is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.

An important contribution
to the debate about the ISBN: 978-1-60846-137-0 • World • $18 • Paperback • December 2011
nature of Nazism that
argues understanding it
still matters today.
 Social Movements and
Anti-globalization in Africa
Miles Larmer, Leo Zeilig, and Peter Dwyer

Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the
democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa.
Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zim-
babwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform
this analysis of the challenges faced by nongovernmental organizations
in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalization and to grass-
roots struggles for social justice.

Miles Larmer is a lecturer in international history at the University of

This groundbreaking Sheffield.
analysis examines the
Leo Zeilig teaches sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
gains, contradictions, and
Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford.
frustrations of twenty-
first-century pro-democracy
struggles across southern ISBN: 978-1-60846-120-2 • World • $17 • Paperback • August 2011

Africa.

Too Many People?

Too Population,
Immigration,
and the
Environmental
Crisis
Population, Immigration,
and the Environmental Crisis

Many Ian Angus and Simon Butler

Too Many People? provides a clear, well-documented, and popularly writ-

ten refutation of the idea that “overpopulation” is a major cause of envi-

People?
Ian Angus Foreword by
Betsy Hartmann and Joel Kovel
ronmental destruction, arguing that a focus on human numbers not only
misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the move-
ment for real solutions. No other book challenges modern overpopula-
and Simon Butler tion theory so clearly and comprehensively, providing invaluable insights
for activists and environmental scholars alike.

Ian Angus is editor of Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on

A clear, evocative, and well- capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. His previous books
include Canadian Bolsheviks and The Global Fight for Climate Justice.
documented refutation of
the idea that overpopulation Simon Butler, a climate justice activist based in Sydney, Australia, is coeditor of
Green Left Weekly, the country’s leading source of anticapitalist news, analysis,
is at the root of many discussion, and debate.
environmental problems.

ISBN: 978-1-60846-140-0 • World • $19 • Paperback • October 2011


The trials and tribulations
of firebrand union
organizers, from the 1930s
through the 1970s, are
brought to life here, in
their own words.
In an industry under
constant attack, a veteran
autoworker offers his take
on the collapse of the
American Dream.
Rank and File
Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers
Edited by Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd
“A skillful compilation of interviews with working-class organizers…not just
an oral history but a chronicle of modern political events ignored in main-
stream labor history and journalistic commentary. The value lies in what it
will tell future generations about today.”
—History Workshop Journal
Stories of dozens of working-class heroes are chronicled in this long
out-of-print oral history classic. From founding unions to responding to
sexism, safety violations, and fear in the ranks, Rank and File brings the
militancy of firebrand union organizers across six decades to life.
Staughton and Alice Lynd have written numerous books, including Nonviolence
in America, Homeland, and Lucasville.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-150-9 • World • $20 • Paperback • September 2011
Live Bait and Ammo
Autoworkers under the Gun
Gregg Shotwell, foreword by Jerry Tucker
“Workers’ rights are not defined by law or contract. Workers’ rights are
defined by struggle.”
These biting shop-floor bulletins chronicle a decade of autoworker re-
sistance to ever-expanding concessions imposed upon them by union
bureaucrats and company men alike. Offering an alternative to both the
union-management partnership approach and the “bankruptcy as a
business plan,” Live Bait and Ammo is a rank-and-file call to action for a
new generation at the gates of a recession-wracked America.
Gregg Shotwell, a machine operator turned rebel writer, worked for thirty years
at General Motors. His shop-floor newsletters grew legs of their own, distributed
by rank and filers and cited by auto industry analysts.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-142-4 • World • $17 • Paperback • March 2012

Lifelong Israeli activist and
theorist Moshé Machover’s
collected essays on the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
This critique of Left
Zionism argues a Jewish-
only state cannot offer peace
or justice for Palestinians.
Israelis and Palestinians
Conflict and Resolution
Moshé Machover, foreword by Gilbert Achcar
These essays, written between 1966 and 2010 by an Israeli activist,
cover diverse aspects of Israeli society and the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict. Comprising analysis and polemics, they address both Zionist ide-
ology and its results. Two interrelated themes run throughout: the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a regional context, and the connection
between Palestinian liberation and the struggle for socialism through-
out the region.
Moshé Machover was born in 1936 in Tel-Aviv, Palestine. He has taught at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the university of Bristol, and at King’s College,
London. He is currently emeritus professor at London University.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-148-6 • World • $24 • Paperback • November 2011
False Prophets of Peace
Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
Tikva Honig-Parnass
Refuting the long held view of the Israeli left as adhering to a humanis-
tic, democratic, and even socialist tradition, False Prophets critically ana-
lyzes the prevailing discourse of Zionist intellectuals and activists on the
Jewish “democratic” state. Honig-Parnass uncovers the Zionist left’s
central role in laying the foundations for the colonial settler state of Is-
rael, and articulating Israel’s hegemonic ideology, whether explicitly or
implicitly, legitimizing the apartheid treatment of Palestinians both in-
side Israel and in the 1967 occupied territories. Their determined sup-
port of a Jewish-only state underlies the failure of the “peace process,”
to reach a just peace based on recognition of the national rights of the
entire Palestinian people.
Tikva Honig-Parnass served as the secretary of the then Radical Left Zionist Party
of Mapam (The Unified Workers Party) in the Knesset (1951-1954). In 1960 she
definitively broke with Zionism. Since then she has played an active role in the
struggle for the Palestinian national rights.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-130-1 •World • $20 • Paperback • August 2011

In 1923 history stood at
a crossroads. Serge lent
his pen to those fighting
for international workers’
revolution.
To Anna, her little brother
Ben is perfect. So why can’t
she find the words to tell
her friends he’s different?
Witness to the German Revolution
Victor Serge
In the wake of the carnage across Europe wreaked by world war, Ger-
man workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in deter-
mining the course of the entire twentieth century. In 1923 the fledgling
Comintern dispatched Victor Serge, with his peerless journalistic skills,
to Berlin to expedite the German Revolution and write these moving
reports from the battlefront.
Victor Serge (1889–1947) is best known as the author of numerous classic novels,
including The Case of Comrade Tulayev and Conquered City. Originally a participant
in the anarchist movement, Serge became a committed Bolshevik when he arrived
in Russia in 1919 and lent his considerable talents to the cause of spreading the
revolution across Europe.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-085-4 • World • $15 • Paperback • April 2011
Red Sky in the Morning
Elizabeth Laird
“Quite simply, a wonderfully moving story about the power of love.”
—Times Educational Supplement
“A wry first-person narrative…discussion of handicaps, death and bereave-
ment, and religious belief are carefully integrated into the story.”
—School Library Journal
Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby
brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled and will never be like other children.
Anna loves him immensely but she finds herself unable to admit the truth
about Ben to her school friends. Eventually the truth gets out and leads
not to the ridicule Anna expected, but to sympathy and understanding.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-153-0 • North America • $9.95 • Paperback • February 2012
Theory as History
Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation
Jairus Banaji
ISBN: 978-1-60846-143-1 • $28 • Paperback • November 2011 • World

The essays collected herein straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist
theory, combining source-based archival work in a wide range of languages with sophisti-
cated discussion of Marx’s historical categories. Banaji deals with the key issues that are nec-
essary for fully understanding the Marxist idea of a “mode of production.” He discusses a
diverse array of topics from the emergence of medieval relations of production and the ori-
gins of capitalism to the dichotomy between free and unfree labour. Ultimately these essays
demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history
back into historical materialism.

Criticism of Religion
On Marxism and Theology II
Roland Boer
ISBN: 978-1-60846-122-6 • $28 • Paperback • June 2011 • World

Criticism of Religion offers a spirited critical assessment of the engagements with religion and
theology by a range of Marxist philosophers and critics, including Lucien Goldmann, Fredric
Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Georg Lukács, and Ray-
mond Williams. In addition to offering a sustained critique of each thinker, Boer’s aim is to
gather insights from these critics in order to develop a comprehensive theory of religion. Fol-
lowing on the heels of the acclaimed Criticism of Heaven, this is the second of a five volume
series called Criticism of Heaven and Earth

Witnessess to Permanent Revolution

The Documentary Record
Edited by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido
ISBN: 978-1-60846-089-2 • $36 • Paperback • April 2011 • World

The theory of permanent revolution has long been associated with Leon Trotsky. Though he
was the most brilliant of its proponents, these newly translated documents, most of them
translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was only one of several
leading figures of international Marxism engaged in a debate, sparked by the first Russian
Revolution in 1905, about the form workers’ struggle would take in less developed coun-
tries. Among the figures included in these discussions were Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg,
Franz Mehring, Parvus, and David Ryazanov

Politics and Philosophy

Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism
Mikko Lahtinen. Translated by Gareth Griffiths and Kristina Köhli
ISBN: 978-1-60846-123-3 • $28 • Paperback • June 2011 • World

Seeking to challenge the prevailing views on Althusser through examining his interpretation
of Machiavelli, Lahtinen argues that existing scholarship has approached this topic solely from
a philosophical perspective, excluding politics altogether.

HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
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Michael A. Lebowitz
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On Marxism and Theology
Roland Boer
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Marcel van der Linden
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Jacques Bidet, translated
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Jean-Jacques Lecercle,
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Paul Burkett
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Tony Smith
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Between Equal Rights
A Marxist Theory of International Law
China Mieville
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The German Revolution,
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Pierre Broué, translated
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An Essay on the Marxist Theory
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Pavel V. Maksakovsky,
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Alex Callinicos
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Heide Gerstenberger,
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Gregory Elliott
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Lars Lih Michael Löwy
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The Clash of The Gramscian Moment
Philosophy, Hegemony, and Marxism
Globalizations
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Peter D. Thomas
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Ray Kieley
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More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed)
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Engaging Social Justice
Critical Studies of Twenty-First Century
Social Transformation
David Fasenfest
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The global economic collapse of 2008 has revealed the penetration of

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Destiny of Modern Societies

The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society
Milan Zafirovski
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Examining the impact of Calvinism on modern society, this title extends

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Mark P. Worrell
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Milan Zafirovski
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ECONOMICS
YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
The Tyranny of Global Finance
Eric Toussaint
Neoliberal policies have created debt
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US HISTORY AND POLITICS
THE AMERICAN SOCIALIST
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Ira Kipnis
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BREAKING THE
SOUND BARRIER
Amy Goodman, foreword by Bill Moyers
Goodman breaks through the corporate
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Noam Chomsky
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in the democratic wave in Latin America
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Chris Harman
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Ray Ginger, foreword by Mike Davis
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Lance Selfa
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 IN PRAISE OF BARBARIANS
Essays Against Empire
Mike Davis
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THE OLD MAN
John Brown at Harper’s Ferry
Truman Nelson
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Irving Bernstein,
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Bernstein recaptures the social history of
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Steve Early
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A History of the American Worker, 1933–
1941
Irving Bernstein,
foreword by Frances Fox Piven
In this groundbreaking work of labor
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working-class power, and socialism be-
came the rallying cry for millions of
workers in the fields, mills, mines, and
factories of America.
 REVOLUTION IN SEATTLE
A Memoir
Harvey O’Connor
In this political memoir, O’Connor cap-
tures the courage and defiance of work-
ers on the march against the First World
War, the dramatic inequality that marked
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labor movement embodied in the 1919
general strike.
PALESTINE
BETWEEN THE LINES
Readings on Israel, the Palestinians,
and the U.S. “War on Terror”
Tikva Honig-Parnass and Toufic Haddad
This compilation of essays, edited by a
Palestinian writer and an Israeli journal-
ist, constitutes a challenge to critically
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rethink the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
MIDNIGHT ON
THE MAVI MARMARA
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
and How It Changed the Course of the
Israel/Palestine Conflict
Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi
Mixing firsthand testimony with hard-
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this book reveals why the attack on the
Gaza Freedom Flotilla may just turn out
to be Israel’s Selma, Alabama, moment:
the beginning of the end for an apartheid
Palestine
THE PEN AND THE SWORD
Conversations with Edward Said
David Barsamian, forewords by Nubar
Novespian and Eqbal Ahmad
In conversation with David Barsamian, di-
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imbued with knowledge of loss and desire
for justice for Palestinians—and necessary
for understanding the Israel/Palestine
conflict.
SUBTERRANEAN FIRE
A History of Working-class Radicalism
in the United States
Sharon Smith
This history of the US labor movement
examines the hidden story of workers’
resistance from the nineteenth century
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States have a rich tradition of fighting
back. Subterranean Fire reveals the lessons
of these struggles.
GAZA IN CRISIS
Reflections on Israel’s War
on the Palestinians
Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and
Ilan Pappé, two of the issue’s most in-
sightful and prominent critical voices,
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in Gaza and place it into the context of
Israel’s longstanding occupation of
Palestine.
THE PALESTINE COMMUNIST
PARTY 1919–1948
Arab and Jew in the Struggle
for Internationalism
Musa Budeiri
Musa Budeiri shows how the complex
history of the Palestinian left before the
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Zionist destruction of historic Palestine
was defined by secularism and solidarity
between Arab and Jewish workers. With
a new introduction and afterword by the
author.
THE STRUGGLE FOR
PALESTINE
Edited by Lance Selfa
Leading solidarity activists—including
Naseer Aruri, David Barsamian, Tikva
Honig-Par nass, Rania Masr i, Tanya
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WAR AND ANTIWAR
AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt, creator of the vital
website TomDispatch.com, takes a
scalpel to the American urge to domi-
nate the globe. Tracing developments
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is yet to end.
THE FORGING OF THE
AMERICAN EMPIRE
From the Revolution to Vietnam
Sidney Lens, foreword by Howard Zinn
This book chronicles the more than 160
wars and other military ventures of the
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tory of American imperialism, Sidney
Lens shows that the United States has
used every means available to dominate
other peoples.
IRAQIGIRL
Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
Edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field,
introduction by John Ross
“Sometimes I just think that if you could
see what my eyes see you would be able
to understand what I mean.” These are
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the words of IraqiGirl, a teenage girl
blogging from Iraq in the midst of the
occupation.
SOLDIERS IN REVOLT
G. I. Resistance During the Vietnam War
David Cortright, foreword by Howard Zinn
Soldiers in Revolt documents one of the
least known and most important aspects
of the Vietnam War: the rebellion among
US soldiers opposed to the war.
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BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE
Dispatches from an Unembedded
Journalist in Occupied Iraq
Dahr Jamail
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dispensable account of life in Iraq under
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US occupation offers lyrical journalism,
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personal reflection, incisive analysis, and
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viously unpublished details of the first
year’s occupation.
IMPERIALISM AND WAR
Lenin’s Imperialism and Bukharin’s
Imperialism and World Economy
V. I. Lenin, and Nikolai Bukharin, edited
by Phil Gasper
Here, with critical notes and context, are
Lenin and Bukharin’s foundational texts
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ism. They are essential readings for un-
derstanding the nature of imperialism
and war historically—and today.
ROAD FROM AR RAMADI
The Private Rebellion
of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía
Camilo Mejía
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became a
leading voice for the antiwar movement
when he applied for discharge from the
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stirring book, he argues passionately for
the end to an unjust war.
VIETNAM
The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
Joe Allen, foreword by John Pilger
In addition to debunking the mythology
surrounding the war in Vietnam, Allen
analyzes three elements that played a
central role in the US defeat: the Viet-
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in the United States, and the rebellion of
US soldiers.
 WAR WITHOUT END
The Iraq War in Context
Michael Schwartz
In this razor-sharp analysis, Schwartz de-
molishes the myths used to sell an endless
“war on terror” centered in Iraq, showing
how the real US interests in Iraq have
been rooted in the geopolitics of oil.
WINTER SOLDIER:
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
Iraq Veterans Against the War
and Aaron Glantz
In the spr ing of 2008, Iraq Veterans
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the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Here are the powerful words, images, and
documents of this historic event.
BLACK LIBERATION
AND SOCIALISM
Ahmed Shawki
An analysis of the historic movements
against racism in the United States—
from the separatism of Marcus Garvey
and the militancy of Malcom X and the
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Martin Luther King Jr.—with lessons for
today’s struggles.
RACE AND IMMIGRATION
FIELDS OF RESISTANCE
The Struggle of Florida’s
Farmworkers for Justice
Silvia Giagnoni
Migrant far mworkers in the United
States are routinely forced to live and
work in unsafe, squalid conditions.Yet in
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one Florida town, they organized them-
selves into the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers, and launched campaigns that
forced several fast food giants to recog-
nize their demands for workers’ rights.
THE WILL TO RESIST
Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight
in Iraq and Afghanistan
Dahr Jamail, foreword by Chris Hedges
Since 2006, a majority in the United
States have opposed the war. But what do
soldiers carrying out the occupation
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think? Dahr Jamail’s study of today’s mil-
itary resisters sheds new light on the con-
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US military.
WINTER SOLDIERS
An Oral History of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Richard Stacewitcz
Rarely do the worlds of the US Vietnam
veteran and the antiwar demonstrator
come together. Yet in Vietnam Veterans
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common cause. Winter Soldiers recovers
this moving chapter in the history of the
Vietnam era.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN PERIL
The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims
Edited by Elaine C. Hagopian
Muslims and Arab Americans are in-
creasingly under attack as a result of the
US “war on terror.” This title explores
the impact on these communities, as well
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as part of the drive to war.
FLOODLINES
Community and Resistance
from Katrina to the Jena Six
Jordan Flaherty, foreword
by Amy Goodman
From post-Katrina evacuee camps to
torture testimony at Angola Prison to
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the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories
behind the headlines in New Orleans.
 NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
Fighting Racism and State Violence
on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacón
Debunking the ideas behind the often
violent right-wing backlash against im-
migrants, the authors reveal the back-
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lash’s deep roots in US history. They also
chart a course toward justice for immi-
grants by chronicling the long tradition
of resistance in the United States.
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
MYTHS OF MALE DOMINANCE
Articles on Women Cross Culturally
Eleanor Burke Leacock
This classic anthropological study de-
bunks the many myths behind the idea of
“natural” male superiority. Drawing on
ethnographic research, Leacock demon-
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nance are based on carefully constructed
falsehoods with no historical, factual basis.
WOMEN AND SOCIALISM
Essays on Women’s Liberation
Sharon Smith
Thirty years after the heyday of the
women’s movement women remain sec-
ond-class citizens and mainstream femi-
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Marxist perspective on the roots of
women’s oppression and how to fight it.
CULTURE AND FICTION
ESSAYS
Wallace Shawn
With his distinctive humor and insight,
award-winning playwright and noted stage
and screen actor Wallace Shawn invites us
to look at the world with new eyes, the
better to understand—and change it.
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF RACISM
Melvin Leiman
Grounded in an analysis of the history of
race in America, from antebellum slavery
to present-day ongoing racial disparities,
The Political Economy of Racism examines
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race through the lens of economic and
institutional realities.
SEXUALITY AND SOCIALISM
The History, Politics, and
Theory of LGBT Liberation
Sherry Wolf
From essays on the roots of LGBT op-
pression to the question of how to win
sexual liberation for all, Sexuality and So-
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cialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of
the most challenging questions for those
concerned with winning full equality.
THE WOMEN INCENDIARIES
The Inspiring Story of the Women
of the Paris Commune
Edith Thomas
The story of the women of the Paris
Commune who fought for liberty and
equality. Women played a courageous
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role in defending the Commune, and in
the process challenged the limitations
placed on them by French society.
EXILE
Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Andre Vltcheck and Rosie Indira,
edited by Nagesh Rao
The first ever book-length interview
with Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a novelist
widely regarded as the artist who gave
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expression to revolutionary vision in
Indonesia. Exiled for ten years he was
author of the widely acclaimed “Buru
Quartet.”
 LITERATURE
AND REVOLUTION
Leon Trotsky, edited by William Keach
Trotsky penned this engaging book to
elucidate the complex way in which art
informs—and can alter—our under-
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notes from Brown University English
professor William Keach.
ORANGES IN NO MAN’S LAND
Elizabeth Laird
The moving story of ten-year-old Ayesha,
living in a war-damaged apartment in
Beirut during the civil war offers young
readers an inspiring heroine, and an up-
lifting look at the power of the human
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spirit to rise above racism and fear.
WELCOME
TO THE TERRORDOME
The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports
Dave Zirin, foreword by Chuck D
From the bashing of Barry Bonds to the
stormy marriage between hip-hop and
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happening in the locker room, the
boardroom, the arena, and the stands.
MARXISM AND SOCIALISM
THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM
Alan Maass, afterword by Howard Zinn
Growing numbers of people are dis-
gusted by the disaster of poverty, war,
oppression, and environmental destruc-
tion caused by global capitalism. But is
there an alternative? Alan Maass argues
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that socialism—a democratically planned
economy based on workers’ control—is
rational, necessary, and possible.
A LITTLE PIECE OF GROUND
Elizabeth Laird
Winner: Middle East Outreach Council
Youth Literature Award, 2006, and the US
Board on Books for Young People’s Out-
standing International Book Award, 2007.
978-1-931859-38-7 Life in occupied Palestine, through the
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POETRY AND PROTEST
A Dennis Brutus Reader
Dennis Brutus, edited by Aisha Karim
and Lee Sustar
This vital original collection of inter-
views, poetry, and essays of the much
loved anti-apartheid leader is the first
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book of its kind to bring together the
full, forceful range of his work.
WHAT’S MY NAME, FOOL?
Sports and Resistance in the United States
Dave Zirin
Zir in shows how sports express the
worst—and at times the most creative,
exciting, and political—features of our
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society. Rediscovering a history of ath-
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their athletic ability and their outspo-
ken views.
THE COMINTERN
Duncan Hallas
This history of the Communist (Third)
International, from its beginnings in
1919 as the center of world revolution
through its degeneration at the hands of
the Stalinist bureaucracy, draws out les-
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sons valid today to the work of building
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bridges to unite and rebuild a left capa-
ble of fighting for radical social change.
 THE COMMUNIST
MANIFESTO
A Road Map to History’s Most
Important Political Document
Karl Marx, edited by Phil Gasper
978-1-931859-25-7
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notated edition of The Communist
Manifesto is complete with historical
references and explication, additional
related texts, and a thorough glossary,
br inging the Manifesto to life for
today’s readers. An authoritative in-
troduction to the text.
THE ESSENTIAL
ROSA LUXEMBURG
Reform or Revolution
and The Mass Strike
Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Helen Scott
This new, authoritative introduction
to Rosa Luxemburg’s two most im-
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Reform or Revolution and The Mass
Strike, with explanatory notes, appen-
dixes, and historical contextualization.
MARXISM AND THE PARTY
John Molyneux
Molyneux explores such questions as the
independence of the party, spontaneity
and class consciousness, democracy, and
centralism.
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THE MEEK
AND THE MILITANT
Religion and Power Across the World
Paul N. Siegel
This reprint of a Marxist classic examines
the connection between religion and
politics. It unearths the historical roots of
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how it has served as a tool of both reac-
tion and revolution.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIALISM
Solutions to the Capitalist Ecological Crisis
Chris Williams
The majority of solutions to the ecologi-
cal crisis, from using efficient lightbulbs
to biking to work, focus on individual
lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the cri-
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qualitative changes.
LENIN’S POLITICAL THOUGHT
Theory and Practice in the Democratic
and Socialist Revolutions
Neil Harding
Caricatured as a superhuman idol in the
former Communist states, Lenin has
long been reversely caricatured in the
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carefully researched analysis, Harding
upends these traditional Cold War inter-
pretations of Lenin.
THE MEANING OF MARXISM
Paul D’Amato
This book is a lively and accessible in-
troduction to the ideas of Karl Marx,
with historical and contemporary exam-
ples. The Meaning of Marxism shows that
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a “radical, fundamental transformation
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but urgently necessary.
PARTY AND CLASS
Tony Cliff, Duncan Hallas, Chris Harman,
and Leon Trotsky
These essays show why we need some-
thing more than single-issue organizations,
movement coalitions, or reformist organi-
zations if we are to achieve real change.
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 THE POLITICS OF COMBINED
AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
The Theory of Permanent Revolution
Michael Löwy
Löwy’s book analyzes how the theories
of combined and uneven development
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were developed later by Leon Trotsky,
continuing to have an enduring rele-
vance to today’s activists.
STATE AND REVOLUTION
V. I. Lenin, edited by Todd Chretien
Lenin’s brilliant polemic State and Revo-
lution elaborates the Marxist conception
of the state as a structure of class domi-
nation. This fully annotated edition, with
a new foreword, aims to bring to life for
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new readers one of Lenin’s most impor-
tant works.
WAR ON WAR
Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the
Origins of Communist Internationalism
R. Craig Nation
When the First World War broke out
across Europe, socialist parties through-
out the region backed their own gov-
978-1-931859-82-0
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ashes of their betrayal that Lenin and his
collaborators laid the groundwork for
the communist international.
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
THE BOLSHEVIKS COME
TO POWER
The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
Alexander Rabinowitch
For generations Cold War animosity
blocked dispassionate accounts of the
Russian Revolution. This history author-
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social actors—workers, soldiers, and
peasants—to their rightful place at the
center of the revolutionary process.
ROSA LUXEMBURG
Ideas in Action
Paul Frölich
Tracing Rosa Luxemburg’s development
from a Polish girl with a keen interest in
herding geese to the major leader of the
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German Communist Party, Frolich’s bi-
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most remarkable women produced by
the international socialist movement
TROTSKY’S MARXISM
AND OTHER ESSAYS
Duncan Hallas
This introduction to the politics of Leon
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revolution, the rise of Stalinism, Trotsky’s
analysis of the strategy and tactics and the
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relationship between the revolutionary
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party and the working class.
WHAT IS THE REAL
MARXIST TRADITION?
John Molyneux
This book aims to establish criteria for
evaluating claims to stand within the
Marxist tradition in order to examine
the conflicting claims of Social Democ-
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racy, Stalinism, and the liberation move-
ments of the Third World
HISTORY OF THE
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Leon Trotsky
Regarded by many as among the most
powerful works of history ever written,
Trotsky’s account of the events of 1917
reveals the October revolution’s pro-
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acter. Collected in a single portable
volume, with a thorough new index.
 REVOLUTION AND
COUNTERREVOLUTION
Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory
Kevin Murphy
Based on research in four factory-spe-
cific archives, Revolution and Counterrevo-
lution focuses on Soviet workers’
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labor policies. This study meticulously
reconstructs everyday life: leisure activi-
ties, domestic issues, the changing role of
women, and popular religious belief.
RUSSIA: FROM WORKERS’
STATE TO STATE CAPITALISM
Anthony Arnove, Peter Binns, Tony Cliff,
Chris Harman, and Ahmed Shawki
These essays describe the triumph and
defeat of the Russian Revolution and
show that Stalin’s dictatorship was not
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but a reversal of everything the revolu-
tion stood for.
DIARY OF BERGEN-BELSEN
1944–1945
Hanna Lévy-Hass, foreword
and afterword by Amira Hass
Hanna Lévy-Hass stands alone as the
only resistance fighter to record her own
experience under Nazi internment, and
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she does so with unflinching clarity and
attention to the political and social divi-
sions inside the notorious Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp.
FIELD NOTES ON DEMOCRACY
Listening to Grasshoppers
Arundhati Roy
This series of essays examines the dark
side of democracy in contemporary
India. It looks closely at how religious
majoritarianism, cultural nationalism,
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surface of a country that projects itself as
the world’s largest democracy.
REVOLUTION IN DANGER
Victor Serge
Upon his arrival in Petrograd in 1919,
Victor Serge—the great chronicler of the
Russian Revolution—found a society
nearly shattered by civil war. In these
essays he sketches a portrait of the dark-
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est hours faced by the fledgling revolu-
tion, defending the new regime against
its critics.
WORLD HISTORY AND POLITICS
CLASS STRUGGLE AND
RESISTANCE IN AFRICA
Edited by Leo Zeilig
Employing Marxist theory to address the
postcolonial problems of several different
countries, experts analyze such issues as
the renewal of Islamic fundamentalism
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ments, and strike actions. Includes in-
terviews with leading African socialists
and activists.
THE DISPOSSESSED
Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia
Alfredo Molano
Here in their own words are the stories
of the desterrados, or “dispossessed,” the
thousands of Colombians displaced by
years of war and state-backed terrorism,
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bian government.
FROM REBELLION
TO REFORM IN BOLIVIA
Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation,
and the Politics of Evo Morales
Jeffery Webber
Using insights from dozens of interviews
with leading Bolivian trade union leaders,
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who went from being oppositionists to
government officials, Jeffery Webber ex-
amines the contradictions of Evo
Morales’s first term in office.
 HOW REVOLUTIONARY
WERE THE BOURGEOIS
REVOLUTIONS?
Neil Davidson
Davidson’s book accounts for the variabil-
ity of bourgeois revolutions across space
and time while drawing out the continu-
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present is the result of a single turbulent
process marked by dramatic revolutions.
NOTES FROM
THE MIDDLE WORLD
Breyten Breytenbach
In dialogue with Mahmoud Darwish,
Nelson Mandela, and Barack Obama,
South African artist, activist, and writer
Breyten Breytenbach’s traces the collisions
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trauma, and the renewal of hope.
REVOLUTIONARY
REHEARSALS
Edited by Colin Barker
Five times in the last 40 years, the work-
ing class has posed a radical alternative to
the status quo. These essays examine the
dynamics and lessons of upheavals in
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THE TRAGEDY OF THE
CHINESE REVOLUTION
Harold Isaacs
Most accounts of modern China begin
with Mao’s 1949 Revolution. But to un-
derstand its true depth, it is necessary to
look further back. In Isaacs’s narrative,
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workers and peasants for genuine self-
government in 1925–27 is reclaimed.
THE LOST REVOLUTION
Chris Harman
Without an understanding of this defeat,
the great barbarisms that swept Europe
in the 1930s cannot be understood. Har-
man unearths the history of the lost rev-
olution in Germany.
978-1-931859-08-0
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THE REVOLUTION AND THE
CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN
Pierre Broué, Émile Témine
This long-out-of-print history details the
internal political dynamics that led the
popular front to hold back radical meas-
ures that could have decisively weakened
978-1-931859-51-6
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SIN PATRÓN
Inside Stories from Argentina’s
Worker-Run Factories
Edited by the lavaca collective, foreword
by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
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