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In the desert of corporate publishing, Haymarket Books is a verdant and lush intellectual oasis. The titles and subjects cascade like a waterfall and inspire and energize! David Barsamian
At a time when mainstream publishers detected no value in disseminating the truth about the US war on Iraq, Haymarket Books remained committed to principle over profit, offering its readership a welcome respite from the criminal complicity of corporate media, publishing, and the state. Dahr Jamail
With speed, panache, lan, and rigor, Haymarket Books has made itself an indispensible resource to the thinking radical. Heres to another ten years.
Congratulations on a decade of inspiring achievement. We all know that the country desperately needs a revived, organized, active, and engaged left, to reverse todays extremely dangerous course, and soon. Haymarket has its work cut out for it. And, fortunately, it has created a solid basis for helping to lead the way towards a more hopeful future. Noam Chomsky
I am so glad Haymarket is here and thriving. We need left publishers, a left intellectual community, and never more than now when the streets are beginning to rumble. Frances Fox Piven
Howard Zinn weaves rich historical narratives that inspire and captivate.
Zinns speeches, beautifully gathered together here by Anthony Arnove, are a joy and an inspiration. Marisa Tomei Collected here for the first time, Howards speechesspanning an extraordinary life of passion and principlecome to us at the moment when we need them most: just as a global network of popular uprisings searches for what comes next. Naomi Klein
ISBN: 978-1-60846-223-0 $26.95 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60846-259-9 $18.95 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-228-5 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-60846-260-5 Enhanced Ebook October 2012 World
Howard Zinnthere was no one like him. And to hear him speak was like listening to music that you lovedlyrical, uplifting, honest. Michael Moore
Howard Zinn was one of the great orators of the twentieth century and illuminated our history like no other historian. He rarely spoke from notes, and yet could weave rich historical narratives that inspired and captivated audiences. He could grab the attention of even the most jaded students and charm listeners with his sharp humor and personal, engaging style. Yet many of his speeches have never been published in book form. is rst-ever collection of his speecheson a range of vital topicswill be an invaluable resource for new generations to continue to discover his work, as well as the millions he moved and informed in his lifetime.
Howard Zinn wrote the classic A Peoples History of the United States. The book, which has sold more than two million copies,
has been featured on The Sopranos and The Simpsons and in the film Good Will Hunting and has appeared multiple times on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Anthony Arnove wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn, Chris Moore, Josh Brolin, and Matt
Damon and co-edited, with Howard Zinn, the book Voices of a Peoples History of the United States.
Blending poetics, politics, and everyday life, the singular lyrics of Boots Riley, poet of the hip-hop underground, are collected here.
Boots Riley
Boots Riley
Every line brims with the grit of the underdog, burns with rage and tenderness. Its no secret he is one of the most influential poets of this generation. Jeff Chang, Cant Stop, Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Boots lyrics contain the wit and satire to match their venom and potent political punch. His intricate yet relatable rhymes are like a combination of a Richard Pryor sketch and a guerrilla warfare manual. Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine
ISBN: 978-1-60846-253-7 $22.95 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-225-4 Ebook October 2012 World
Rileys rhymes work so well because theyre more about real life than rhetoric. . . . Its the rare record that makes revolution sound like hot fun on a Saturday night. Rolling Stone
Fact is, the brothers some writer. . . . Their low-slung rhythms imagine what might have happened if Reagan-era Prince had been less into getting some action and more into kicking up some activism, or if P-Funk had dabbled in politics as well as psychedelics. Village Voice
Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup for two decades. An activist, educator, and emcee, Rileys singular lyrical stylings combine hip-hop poetics, radical politics, and the wry humor of the everymanall woven through with Bay Area swag. Including not-yet-released lyrics, photos, and backstories, heres an indepth portrait of Rileys life and work.
A popular leader in the struggle for radical change through culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal hip-hop group from Oakland, California, where he is an organizer and an activist in the Occupy movement. Billboard magazine declared The Coup the best hip-hop act of the past decade.
Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis.Noam Chomsky
Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Silenced Majority
You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodmans Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday talk shows. Thats because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows that the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power. Bill Moyers
Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day. Susan Sarandon
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, Breaking the Sound Barrier, for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodmans New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government powerand refusing to be silent. Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate reporting to dig deep into the politics of climate apartheid, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza. Throughout, Goodman and Moynihan show the work of ordinary people to change their mediaand change the world.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-231-5 $16.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-232-2 Ebook August 2012 World
Amy Goodman is a multiple New York Times bestselling author and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now!, a daily
Denis Moynihan, since helping co-found Democracy Now! as an independent production company in 2002, has participated
independent news program airing on more than a thousand television and radio stations. Time magazine named Democracy Now! its Pick of the Podcasts, along with NBCs Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, for developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.
in the organizations growth, focusing primarily on distribution, infrastructure development, and coordinating complex live broadcasts from all continents (save Antarctica). He lives in Denver and is the founder of a new non-commercial community radio station in Colorados high country.
A provocative mixtape, mash-up, and treasure trove of footage and interviews of the Black Power movement, with contemporary reflections.
The images, accompanied by present-day voice-over reflections from historians, rappers, artists and veterans of the eras racial politics, offer revelations about events and personalities we thought we understood completely. New York Times
ISBN: 978-1-60846-173-8 $27.95 Hardcover ISBN: 971-1-60846-174-5 Ebook March 2012 World
A brilliant work of socially relevant art about race relations. . . . A treasure trove of archival material, new music and stylish editing. POV blog, PBS Truly remarkable. Amy Goodman
The film presents a powerful reminder of the Black Power movement, often neglected, misrepresented or forgotten in this country. This is a film that should be seen by anyone who wants to learn where weve come from as a nation. The Black Power Mixtape is not a static, talking heads record of the past. Hollywood Reporter
Featuring words and images only recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, here is the Black Power movement as youve never seen it. Powerful interviews with Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, and others who shaped the struggle of their day are mixed with the contemporary reections of leading activists, musicians, and scholars, introducing a new generation to the legacy of Black Power. With commentary from Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan, John Fort, Kenny Gamble, Talib Kweli, Huey P. Newton, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Questlove, and Melvin Van Peebles.
Born in Sweden in 1965, Goran Olsson studied film and art in Stockholm and subsequently worked as a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. The Black Power Mixtape is his third feature film.
Rich, inventive, and funny, here is the first novel in over a decade from the great Caribbean novelist Earl Lovelace.
Is Just a Movie
Earl Lovelace
Is Just a Movie is not just a movie, its a poem, too. Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things
Written in a vigorous, patois-inflected prose, Is Just a Movie celebrates the lives of characters caught up in the ferment of 1970. Is Just a Movie confirms Lovelace as a master storyteller of the West Indies. Financial Times
Lovelace is bursting with things to say about this complex, heterogeneous society in the late 20th century. This he does with a flair that at its best reaches a soaring rhapsody. Guardian Earl Lovelace writes like a man who has just discovered language and is amazed. Each word is a revelation. The Times of London Heartfelt, hugely enjoyable. . . . Witty, sardonic, impassioned. . . . transcendent, this is a sweet-natured but consistently incisive look at smalltown life in transition. Time Out London
ISBN: 978-1-60846-175-2 $14.95 Paperback March 2012 North America and US territories ISBN: 978-1-60846-176-9 Ebook
In Trinidad, in the wake of the 1970s Black Power rebellion, we follow Sonnyboy, singer King Kala, and their townsfolk through experiments in music, politics, religion, and love, and in their day-to-day adventures. Humorous and serious, sad and upliing, Is Just a Mo ie is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.
Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, and has lived most of his life on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. His books
include While Gods Are Falling, winner of the BP Independence Award, the Caribbean classic The Dragon Cant Dance, and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For Is Just a Movie, he has been awarded the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe.
An insightful and informative examination of Black social movements for housing during the 1960s and in the present.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-248-3 $16.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-249-0 Ebook January 2013 World
When Martin Luther King Jr., directed his campaign for civil rights and social justice to the North, he came to Chicago. The fight against slum conditions, poor housing, and residential segregation was at the center of the Chicago Freedom Movements agenda. That racial discrimination and segregation persisted in Chicago long after Kings foray into Chicago politics has led historians to summarily assess the Chicago Freedom Movement as a failure. But in doing so, the movement for fairness and good housing in Chicago is reduced to the brief period in which King was involved. Such a narrow focus misses the way in which Black Chicago became a hotbed of tenant and homeowner organizing in the late 1960s, long after King had left the city. Some of this activity could be linked to organizations that were created as a result of the Chicago Freedom Movement, but others like the Contract Buyers League (CBL) arose in response to the economically predatory relationships born as a result of redlining and the economic exclusion of African Americans from conventional sources of home lending capital. The CBL formed to protest Black homeowners exclusion from the use of traditional mortgages to buy homes. Moreover, the focus on concepts like Black Power and community control, among others, were the context within which Black tenant organizing across Chicago developednot for fair housing in white suburban communities, but for equal housing in Black urban spaces. Finally, these movements for equality in housing in Black communities demonstrated the way in which racism, redlining, and urban exploitation were not just expressions of prejudice or generic antiblack attitudes; rather, they were demonstrations of a political economy of residential segregation in which African Amerians were often expected to pay significantly more for inferior housing.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the department of African American studies at Northwestern University.
Taylor has been awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and will also be a Northwestern University Presidential Fellow. She is active in local housing struggles in Chicago and is an organizer with Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction. Taylor has written for CounterPunch, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Gapers Block, and New Politics, among others. She is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and is a columnist for SocialistWorker.org.
The Attican events, described with primitive energy and workday language . . . will surely appease the hunger of tens of thousands of us for an honest insiders account of what led to such a ferocious attack on virtually unarmed prisoners. . . . It is a heartbroken rather than angry book. It is a superb documentary which would hold up in court. Kurt Vonnegut, New York Times Book Review In 1971, the inmates of Attica revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. The rebels demandedand were grantedthe presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators. Tom Wicker, then the associate editor of the New York Times, was one of those summoned. This is his account.
A Time to Die
The essential firsthand account of the Attica Prison rebellion, back in print for the fortieth anniversary of the uprising.
Tom Wicker (19262011), a former reporter, Washington bureau chief, and columnist for the New York Times, is the author of
several books, including On the Record.
Joining the Power of Teacher Unions to the Heart of Teaching Lois Weiner
In Reversing the Assault on Public Education, Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite their passion for teaching with eorts to democratize and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research and her own experience as a public school teacher and union activist, Weiner explains how to create the teachers unions public education desperately needs.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-262-9 $16.00 Paperback September 2012 World
Lois Weiner has been a life-long teacher and union activist, who has served as an officer of three different union locals.
She is the author of Urban Teaching: The Essentials.
A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.
This book is a moving memoir experience: a must read. Bobby Seale, founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party from 1966 to 1974
ISBN: 978-1-60846-178-3 $17.95 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-179-0 Ebook July 2012 World
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain is the most authentic book ever written by a member of the Black Panther Party. Aaron Dixon does an absolutely superb job of presenting life in the Party from the perspective of a foot soldiera warrior for the cause of revolutionary change and Black Power in America. He pulls no punches and holds nothing back in writing honestly about those times (late 1960s and during the 1970s) as he successfully presents a visual picture of the courage, commitment, and, sometimes, shocking brutality of life as a Panther activist in Seattle, Washington, and Oakland, California. This is an unforgettable must-read book! Larry Gossett, Chair, Metropolitan King County Council
In an era of stark racial injustice and decisive action, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to the struggle for change, founding the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 at age nineteen. Through his eyesin a memoir that begins with the story of his enslaved ancestors and takes us on a journey throughout Americawe see the courage of a generation and the unforgettable legacy of Black Power.
Aaron Dixon was cofounder and captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. He has remained engaged in politics
since, launching various nonprofits for Seattle youth and running as a Green Party candidate in the 2006 Senate race. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Black autoworkers fought back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the sixties and seventies.
First-rate and absolutely fascinating. This particular piece of American history has never been covered in such depth. . . . Everyone who is concerned with political change will learn a lot from this book. New York Times
Insights offered by the league. . . remain as urgent and relevant today as they were in the 1970s. H-Net Book Review A historical narrative of the single most significant political experience of the 1960s. Fredric Jameson
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying is a beautiful, riveting account of one of the most important radical movements of our centurya movement led by black revolutionaries whose vision of emancipation for all is sorely needed today. Robin D. G. Kelley
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. Georgakass and Surkins account of the movement is widely heralded as one of the most important books on the Black liberation movement and labor struggles in US history.
Marvin Surkin is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He conducts workshops on workplace and community organizing, urban political economy, and urban renewal in the United States. Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a longtime interest in social movements. He co-edited Solidarity
Forever: An Oral History of the IWW, Encyclopedia of the American Left, and The Immigrant Left in the United States and is a longtime editor of Cineaste magazine.
An unblinking look at the Democrats that shows why they continue to disappoint so many supporters.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-192-9 $16.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-049-6 Ebook May 2012 World
Lance Selfa has written one book that should be mandatory reading for everyone concerned with politics in the United States. The Democrats: A Critical History systematically debunks the notion that the Democratic Party is a progressive force, and that it can be pushed to the left by its voting base. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Selfas conclusion, he presents a case that cannot be ignored. Robert McChesney, coauthor, The Death and Life of American Journalism
The historic 2008 elections put a Democrat in the White House and in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change have been deeply disappointed. Lance Selfa looks at the Democrats in broad historical perspective, showing the institutional roots of todays betrayals. With an updated Introduction and a new chapter on the Obama presidency.
Lance Selfa is a frequent contributor to International Socialist Review and writes a column on US politics for SocialistWorker.org.
The inside story of the protest that has given birth to Americas most important progressive movement in half a century.
There are many books about #OWS but none has the pedigree of Occupying Wall Street. Created by more than 60 people from the movement, it runs through its beginnings, and provides a fascinating look at how Zucotti Park functioned, the disagreements and difficulties in running the community, and contains first-hand accounts of some of its most dramatic moments. Part souvenir, part how-to guide, this is a remarkable and unique book. Huffington Post
For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to hundreds of protestors, the park became a communion of sharing and consensus in the heart of a citadel defined by greed and oligarchy. In the early hours of Tuesday, November 15th, the occupiers camp was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square, tearing down the tents, library, kitchen, and medical center and arresting hundreds. But if the occupation at Zuccotti was destroyed that night, the movement it spawned across America has only just begun. Issues of equality and democracy, absent from mainstream political discussion in the United States for decades, are today springing up everywhere. Occupying Wall Street draws on extensive interviews with those who took part in the action to bring an authentic, inside-the-square history to life. In a vivid, fast-paced narrative, Writers for the 99% detail the key events of the occupation. Woven throughout are stories of daily life in the square, focusing on how the kitchen, library, media center, clean-up, hospital, and decision-making at the General Assembly functioned, all in the words of the people who were there.
Writers for the 99% is a group of writers and researchers active in Occupy Wall Street who came together to
create this book.
A lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples.
Marxs ideas remain crucial for comprehending the modern world, and no one does a better job of explaining them and showing how to apply them to contemporary issues than Paul DAmato. This book is a treasury of powerful arguments illustrating the continuing relevance of class politics. A superb introduction to the Marxist method. Phil Gasper, editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to Historys Most Important Political Document
ISBN: 978-1-60846-250-6 $15.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-256-8 Ebook September 2012 World
When it comes to thinking about the continuing relevance of Marxist principles and perspectives for todays political struggles, Paul DAmato is one of the best writers around. Every progressive activist has something to learn from this volume. William Keach, Brown University Paul DAmato reintroduces us to the classical Marxist tradition, showing how revolutionary socialist ideas remain the most powerful tools for changing the upside-down world of 21st-century capitalism. Lance Newman, Westminster College
Long considered dead by mainstream critics, the basic ideas of Karl Marx are brought to life in this overview of his thought. is book argues that Marxs ideas on globalization, oppression, and social change are more important than ever.
Paul DAmato is the associate editor of the International Socialist Review. His writing has appeared in CounterPunch, Socialist Worker.org, and Selves and Others.
A socialist perspective on womens oppression and liberation, exploring the connection between womens rights and equality for all.
An excellent resource for anyone concerned with womens liberation and an antidote to the mystification which permeates gender politics today. Its attention to the oppressions visited on women generallythe denial of abortion rights and the dead hand of organized religionmake it a fresh and immediate read. It very effectively arms us with the necessary arguments and ideas to set about this business of ending womens oppression. Socialist Democracy A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up. Mike Davis, author, Prisoners of the American Dream and City of Quartz
ISBN: 978-1-60846-180-6 $14.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-062-5 Ebook July 2012 World
The struggle for gender equality continues more than thirty years after the height of the womens liberation movement, yet women remain secondclass citizens. Feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1960s. This updated collection of essays examines womens oppression from a Marxist perspective that is badly needed today. Locating the source of womens oppression in class society, Smith argues that only a movement that integrates the fight for womens liberation with a struggle against a system that puts profit above human needs can end womens oppressionalong with all other forms of inequality.
Sharon Smith is the author of Subterranean Fire, also published by Haymarket Books, as well as many articles on womens
liberation and the US working class. Her writings appear regularly at SocialistWorker.org and in International Socialist Review.
Probably Americas most prominent Marxist economist. New York Times Magazine
Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism Richard D. Wolff
Bold, thoughtful, transformativea powerful and challenging vision of that takes us beyond both corporate capitalism and state socialism. Richard Wolff at his best! Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism
ISBN: 978-1-60846-247-6 $17.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-257-5 Ebook November 2012 World
Ideas of economic democracy are very much in the air, as they should be, with increasing urgency in the midst of today's serious crises. Richard Wolff's constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times. Noam Chomsky
A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change, Wolff writes, in this compelling new manifesto for a democratic alternative based on workers directing their own workplaces. Capitalism as a system has spawned a deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers directing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. Here Wolff lays out a hopeful and clear vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded that economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action.
Richard D. Wolff is an emeritus professor of economics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at New School University in New York. Wolff is the author of many books, including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He hosts the weekly hour-long radio program Economic Update on WBAI (Pacifica Radio) and writes regularly for the Guardian, Truthout.org, and MRZine.
Islamophobia examines the origins of the ongoing assault on Muslims and Arabs in the United States and through the War on Terror.
[Outside the Box] offers valuable lessons, and is a must read for everyone in the labor movement. Ron Carey, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
[Outside the Box] is an outstanding book. All media students, and the rest of us, should read it. John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker
Drawing on excellent research, [Outside the Box] demonstrates how American workers were able to make a major corporation back down. It documents a turning point in US labor history and breaks new ground in communication research on labor. Vincent Mosco, Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queens University, Canada
ISBN: 978-1-60846-211-7 $17.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-212-4 Ebook July 2012 World
In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a War on Terror, ushering in an era of intensified anti-Muslim racismIslamophobia. However, 9/11 did not create Islamophobia, an ideology that has become the handmaiden of imperialism; its roots lie much deeper. Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire is an authoritative examination of the historic relationship between Islamophobia and the agenda of empire-building.
Deepa Kumar is an associate professor of media studies and Middle East studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike. She has contributed her analysis of Islamophobia to numerous outlets around the world, including the BBC, USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mexicos Proseco, China Radio International, and Gulf News from Dubai.
2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Biography/Autobiography
John Carlos is one of the grand figures of the 20th century. His incredible political courage, indisputable athletic excellence and indestructible 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. Cornel West, from the Foreword
ISBN: 978-1-60846-224-7 $15.95 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-133-2 Ebook December 2012 World
Dave Zirin is the smartest and gutsiest sportswriter in America. Robert Lipsyte
John Carlos is an American hero. And finally he has written a memoir to tell us his storyand a powerful story it is. I couldnt put this book down. Michael Moore
An intelligent and insightful look into the journey of one of our most underrated heroes. Mr. Carlos' passion for justice and fairness has changed our world. You can feel his passion (and his anger) in every word. Jemele Hill, ESPN columnist and television analyst
Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smiths 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 behind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos.
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 Whats 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 publications first sports editor.
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 caused much political controversy.
As the financial crisis continues to shake the global economy, it has begun to expose cracks in the ideological edifice long used to justify neoliberal policies of privatization and austerity. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-experts among the 99 percent to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1 percent.
ISBN: 978-1-60846-254-4 $4.95 Pamphlet September 2012 Eric Toussaint is president of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) and author of numerous books on economic policy.
Daviss work is the cruel and perpetual folly of the ruling elites. The New York Times With wit, humor, and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the poor and working class by the 1 percent, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This inspired pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the strugglewhat is to be done next?
Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events. Library Journal Woolworths department store was the Wal-Mart of the early twentieth century. The women who worked the counters, cash registers, and storerooms were overworked, underpaid, and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how these courageous women fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.
Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books. Perhaps his best-known book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles has been translated into eight languages.
It is hard to read [Piven] without recognizing that our system has been historically skewed in favor of more privileged voters and vote influencers. New York Review of Books Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the struggles of the Depression era if we are going to advance present-day struggles for liberation and justice.
Frances Fox Piven is the author of the bestselling Regulating the Poor and many other books.
Always On Strike
Arnold Stead
ough widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the Worlds leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the rst book-length biography of Frank Little. Stead focuses on his activities among miners and other itinerant workers in the West, and chronicles Littles role in the IWWs free speech ghts, the strikes he led, and the antiwar agitation he carried out against the First World War. Famously lynched by Pinkertons for his pro-union activities, Little is remembered as a martyr whose life oers innumerable lessons for working-class people facing many of the same economic injustices in todays world.
ISBN: 978-1-160846-220-9 $16.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-160846-226-1 Ebook December 2012 World
A history of the IWWs golden years as lived by one of its guiding lights.
Arnold Stead holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of MissouriColumbia. He is a poet, fiction writer, historian, playwright, and jazz and film critic. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and family.
Lucy Parsons
A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who deed all conventions of her turbulent era. An outspoken woman of color, radical writer, and labor organizer, Parsons led the defense campaign for the Haymarket Martyrs, including her husband Albert Parsons, and remained active in struggles of the oppressed throughout her life. is is her story.
The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.
Carolyn Ashbaugh has worked with the Maricopa County Organizing Project and the Centro Adelante Campesino farmworkers center in El Mirage, Arizona.
The Mexican Revolution: A Short History is an excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy. Erudite and theoretically sophisticated, yet broadly accessible and completely jargon free, this study combines qualities not usually found in a single volume. Stuart Easterling has made an important contribution to the study of revolutions. A must-read! Samuel Farber
Long aer its outbreak, the revolution remains the dening moment in Mexicos modern history. Yet elements of its history continue to be debated today. Who were the winners and losers? Why was there so much internal conict? Did its heroes accomplish their goals? is title addresses these questions in an accessible style, aimed at students and general readers.
The Mexican Revolution is a powerful work of historical synthesis. Jeffery R. Webber, Queen Mary, University of London
ISBN: 978-1-60846-182-0 $14.00 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60846-183-7 Ebook june 2012 World
Here is a book that rips through the falsehoods and false noise that have deepened the silence about Kashmir. Arundhati Roy A brave and resourceful new generation of Kashmiris is finally shattering the Valleys long solitude. Pankaj Mishra
e pieces in this volume voice the rage and helplessness sweeping through the Kashmir Valley while oering rare insights into the lives of those caught in the crossre. With contributions from journalists, academics, and artists, this book is a timely collection of some of the most exciting writing that has recently emerged from within Kashmir and about it.
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A collection of authoritative essays mapping Kashmir's turbulent past, present, and possible futures.
Sanjay Kak is an independent documentary filmmaker. His film In the Forest Hangs a Bridge received the Golden Lotus award for Best Documentary Film at the 1999 National Film Awards in India.
Is socialism an impossible, discredited dream or the only realistic path for human survival? If youre not sure of the answer, or are just curious about what the Left really believes in, you need to read Maass. Hes the Tom Paine of the contemporary American left.
Global capitalism is in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployment is growing. Americas imperial wars rage on. In this Spanishlanguage translation of his brilliant polemic, Maass argues that the alternative is a democratically planned economy based on workers control.
Only the Stalinist gospel of convenient quotations is dead, not Marxist writing. Michael Lo wy illustrates the vitality of the latter. His collection of essays, combining scholarship with passion, impresses by its sweep and scope.
Daniel Singer
This collection of essaysincluding several translated into English for the first timecover a wide range of topics often neglected in Marxist literature. With a particular focus on the important role played by Romanticism in Marxist thought, topics include religion, Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Walter Benjamin.
When Lenin and the Bolshevik Party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers state was gripped by a civil war, the revolutions leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe. From the treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the growing dangers posed by Stalins bureaucracy, this third and final volume of Tony Cliff s political biography of Lenin focuses on the challenges faced during the final years of the Russian revolutionarys life.
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An Illustrated Introduction
Leon Trotsky
Amusing, well-researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and wit, Ali and Evans trace his political career, from prison to the pinnacle of revolutionary power to his eventual exile and murder by Stalin.
These irreverent cartoons will amuse and surprise with their sophisticated portrait of Trotsky's life and works.
Tariq Ali is a 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. His website is tariqali.org. Phil Evans is a longtime political cartoonist based in England. He has illustrated Marxs Kapital for Beginners and Understanding Economics, among many other books.
Admirers of C. L. R. James have long known that he developed a theory of the Soviet Union as a state capitalist society. But until recently, his most important writings on the topic have been unobtainable. Incorporating material overlooked by previous accounts of his life and thought, e Dialectics of State Capitalism provides the denitive guide to a central element of Jamess work.
A major Marxist thinkers analysis of Stalins counterrevolution, available here for the first time.
Scott McLemee is the editor of C. L. R. James on the Negro Question. He writes the weekly column Intellectual Affairs for Inside Higher Ed and received the National Book Critics Circles award for excellence in reviewing in 2004.
C. L. R. James (19011989) was a novelist, activist, and political theorist who worked with Leon Trotsky and Richard Wright, among others. He wrote the classic history of the Haitian Revolution The Black Jacobins.
Theory as History
Jairus Banaji
ISBN: 978-1-60846-143-1 $28 Paperback November 2011 Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
e essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source-based historical work in a wide range of languages with sophisticated discussions of Marxs notion of modes of production. From the emergence of medieval relations of production, the origins of capitalism, the dichotomy between free and unfree labor, and essays in agrarian history that range widely from Byzantine Egypt to nineteenth-century colonialism, the essays demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history back into historical materialism.
Unable to analyze the dynamics of specic forms of social labor in the antebellum United States, most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots, Post applies theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the United States to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism.
Everywhere the market goes, it spawns monsters in its wake. From Frankenstein to zombies, McNally analyzes these and other creatures of capitalism. Drawing on folklore, literature, and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and connects these to Marxs persistent use of monster metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally oers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market system.
More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of classics.
Selected Writings 19531974 edited by Paul Blackledge and Neal Davidson The Detour of Theory Gregory Elliott
Discovering Imperialism
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Social Democracy to World War I edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido Philosophical, Economic, and Political Dimensions Jacques Bidet Costas Lapavitsas
Making History
Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory Alex Callinicos Toward a Red and Green Political Economy Paul Burkett Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Following Marx
19171923 Pierre Broue
Globalization
Niccolo Machiavelli and Louis Althussers ` Aleatory Materialism Mikko Lahtinen Michael Lowy
Impersonal Power
History and Theory of the Bourgeois State Heidi Gerstenberger
Criticism of Heaven
On Marxism and Theology Roland Boer On Marxism and Theology II Roland Boer
Criticism of Religion
On Marxism and Theology III Roland Boer
Criticism of Theology
Amarnath Amarasingam
US fair and aordable housing policy has been constrained by neoliberal ideologies that emphasize market-based approaches to program implementation. Public policy aimed at ameliorating housing discrimination and expanding access to housing markets for minorities and the poor has remained underdeveloped, underfunded, and poorly implemented. is edited book adds to our understanding of the trends, outcomes, and future directions of fair and aordable housing policy.
Covert Racism
Rodney D. Coates
e term new atheism has been given to the recent barrage of bestselling books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others. ese books and their authors have had a signicant media presence and have only grown in popularity over the years. is volume brings together scholars from religious studies, science, sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy, and theology to engage the new atheism and place it in the context of broader scholarly discourse.
is volume emphasizes that the ongoing transformation of knowledge must be understood as a reection of the larger changes in the social structures within which it is produced, translated, and reproduced. As the process of globalization has unleashed a new political economy of knowledge, researchers, scholars, and institutions must grapple with the social and materialistic contexts informing these transformations. is is necessary because the process of globalization has not only created new challenges for society but also forces various institutions to rearm their identity and place.
Covert racism, subtle in application, oen appears hidden by norms of association, aliation, group membership and/or identity. As such, covert racism is oen excused or confused with mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, ritual and ceremony, acceptance and rejection. Covert racism operates as a boundarykeeping mechanism whose primary purpose is to maintain social distance between racial majorities and racial minorities. Such boundary mechanisms work best when they are assumed natural, legitimate, and normal. ey are typically taught subconsciously or even unconsciously within social institutions and groups. is volume deals with the theories, institutions, and experiences associated with covert racism.
Laura Westra
Theoretical and Empirical Examinations edited by Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy
Studies in Critical Sociology edited by Stephen Pfohl, et al. The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society Milan Zafirovski
The Enduring Verities and Contemporary Face of Capitalism: Essays in Honor of James Petras edited by Henry Veltmeyer
Across Time, Space, and Discipline edited by Rodney D. Coates edited by Richard A. Dello Buono and David Fasenfest
Dialectic of Solidarity
European Bloc Imperialism The Future of Religion Globalization and the Environment
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Dennis C. Canterbury
Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era edited by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer From the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond Katherine ODonnell
Collection of Essays by Marian Mal-owist edited by Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer
Latin America
Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales Jeffery Webber
Essays
Using interviews with Bolivian activists who went from being oppositionists to government officials, Webber examines the contradictions of Evo Moraless first term in office.
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 itand change it.
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Wallace Shawn
The Dispossessed
L-vis Lives
Here in their own words are the stories of the dispossessed, the thousands of Colombians displaced by years of war and state-backed terrorism, funded in part by the United States.
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Environment
A meditation on race, racism, art, and appropriation, disguised as a poetic novella. Its the tale of an unexpected archetype, a distinctly American clich: the white boy drawn into and reared by Black culture.
The majority of solutions to the ecological crisis, from using efficient lightbulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes. Yet the scale of the crisis requires a movement that demands qualitative changes.
The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports Dave Zirin, Foreword by Chuck D
Kivalina
From the bashing of Barry Bonds to the stormy marriage between hip-hop and the NBA, Zirin looks past the shiny surface coverage to whats really happening in the sports world.
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 devastation of their homes and culture.
Zirin shows how sports express the best and worst features of our society, rediscovering a history of athletes who charted a new course with their athletic ability and their outspoken views.
This reprint examines the connection between religion and politics. It unearths the historical roots of religion and how it serves as a tool of both reaction and revolution.
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Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs and can alterour understanding of the world. This new edition features an essay and full explanatory notes from William Keach.
South African artist, activist, and writer Breyten Breytenbachs new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political trauma and the renewal of hope.
Breyten Breytenbach
This vital, original collection of interviews, poetry, and essays of the anti-apartheid leader is the first book of its kind to bring together the full, forceful range of his work.
A Dennis Brutus Reader Dennis Brutus edited by Aisha Karim and Lee Sustar
Young Adult
The premise of this witty and insightful play on history is that Karl Marx has agitated the 978-1-931859-80-6 authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear $16 (2 discs) his name.
Marx in Soho
How do the very well-to-do keep their edge? InRich People Things, Chris Lehmann lays bare the various dogmas and delusions that prop up plutocratic rule in the post-meltdown age.
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Life in occupied Palestine, through the eyes of a young boy. Winner of the Middle East Outreach Council Youth Literature Award, 2006, and the US Board on Books for Young Peoples Outstanding International Book Award, 2007.
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 uplifting look at the power of the human spirit.
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Elizabeth Laird
The first-ever book-length interview with Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a novelist widely regarded as the artist who gave expression to revolutionary vision in Indonesia.
Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer Andre Vltcheck and Rosie Indira edited by Nagesh Rao
Exile
Sometimes I just think that if you could see what my eyes see you would be able to understand what I mean. These are the words of IraqiGirl, a teenage girl blogging from Mosul.
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IraqiGirl
Zombie Capitalism
101 Changemakers
Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History edited by Michele Bollinger and Dao X. Tran
En Espanol
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While for most mainstream commentators the financial crisis that opened in 2007 signaled the failure of regulation and accountability, Chris Harman describes the ongoing economic turmoil as a by-product of capitalisms structural deficiencies.
Blackwater
Education
In the great tradition of Howard Zinn, 101 Changemakers offers a peoples history version of the individuals who have shaped our country, written for middle school students.
Jeremy Scahills New York Times bestselling expos, in a fully revised and updated paperback edition, in Spanish.
Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread myths and misinformed beliefs about immigrants and immigration. Available here in an unabridged Spanish edition.
Economics
Bowles and Gintis argue that a radical transformation of society is required to improve schools.
Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Amy Goodman and David Goodman expose the lies and crimes of the power elite and media conglomerates. The unabridged Spanish edition of Exception to the Rulers.
Estatica
Now available in this unabridged Spanish edition, Amy Goodman and David Goodman expose the governments efforts to control information while championing those everywhere who dare to fight back.
In communities around the United States, courageous individuals have struggled to stop the madness of Washingtons wars. This book details their struggles. Unabridged Spanish edition.
Enfrentando la Locura
Struggles have emerged in Bolivia over the cost of access to basic resources. This title contextualizes this battle between corporate and peoples power.
Las luchas por los recursos naturales y los movimientos sociales en Bolivia Benjamin Dangl translated by Ruxandra Guidi
Two of the issues most insightful and prominent critical voices survey the fallout from Israels conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israels long-standing occupation 978-1-60846-097-7 of Palestine.
Reflections on Israels War on the Palestinians Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe edited by Frank Barat
Gaza in Crisis
Intervenciones
This compilation of essays, edited by a Palestinian writer and an Israeli journalist, constitutes a challenge to critically rethink the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror Tikva Honig-Parnass and Toufic Haddad
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Noam Chomskys New York Times bestseller Interventions, available for the first time in Spanish.
Noam Chomsky
Mike Daviss and Justin Akers Chacns incisive account of the history of anti-immigrant racism and the struggle for equality, now available in Spanish.
Nadie Es Ilegal
Hanna Lvy-Hass stands as the only resistance fighter to record her experience under Nazi internment, and does so with unflinching clarity and attention to the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
Diary of Bergen-Belsen
Israel/Palestine
BDS efforts helped topple South Africa's apartheid regime. Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based BDS campaign to stop Israel's occupation and colonization of the Palestinian people.
This book reveals why the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla may be the beginning of the end for an apartheid Palestine. 978-1-60846-121-9
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict edited by Moustafa Bayoumi
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The Struggle for Palestine gets behind the headlines and myths about the occupation and the peace process to expose the role of the US government in sponsoring Israels war against the Palestinians.
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Leon Trotsky
Mosh Machovers essays, written as an Israeli socialist in solidarity with the Palestinian people, are collected here for the first time.
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Russian History
In conversation with David Barsamian, Said covers a broad range of topics. What emerges are historical insights necessary for understanding the Israel/Palestine conflict today.
Based on research in four factory-specific archives, this title focuses on Soviet workers frequently changing responses to state labor policies, meticulously reconstructing everyday life.
This history authoritatively restores the Russian Revolutions primary social actorsworkers, soldiers, and peasantsto their rightful place at the center of the revolutionary process.
Trotskys Marxism
In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, Hallas analyzes four strands in the latters writings: the theory of permanent revolution, the critique of Stalinism, revolutionary strategy and tactics, and the relationship between party and class.
Revolution in Danger
From child laborers in Dickensian England to the gun-toting railway strikers in Americas Wild West, this book celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice.
Upon his arrival in Petrograd in 1919, Victor Serge found a society nearly shattered by civil war. In these essays he sketches a portrait of the darkest hours faced by the fledgling revolution and defends the new regime against its critics.
Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree. 978-1-60846-119-6
Workers Control from the Commune to the Present edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini
Labor
This history of the US labor movement examines the hidden story of workers resistance from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Subterranean Fire
A veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American Dream. These biting shop-floor bulletins chronicle a decade of autoworker resistance to ever-expanding concessions imposed upon them by union bureaucrats 978-1-60846-142-4 $17 Paperback and company men alike. 978-1-60846-163-9 Ebook
Steve Early explains why the progressive wing of US labor erupted into internecine battle between 2008 and 2010.
Birth of a New Workers Movement or Death Throes of the Old? Steve Early
Fields of Resistance
In one Florida town, farmworkers organized themselves into the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and launched campaigns that forced several fast-food giants to recognize their demands for workers rights.
From founding unions to responding to sexism and fear in the ranks, Rank and File brings the militancy of organizers across six decades to life. An oral history classic.
Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers edited by Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd
The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by explosive struggles. Lens chronicles these early battles, from the first famous labor martyrs to the crucial workers victories of the 1930s.
Sin Patron
Inside Stories from Argentinas Worker-Run Factories edited by the lavaca collective Foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Revolution in Seattle
A Memoir Harvey OConnor
This political memoir captures the courage and defiance of workers on the march against the First World War, the dramatic inequality that marked the era, and the militancy of the early labor movement embodied in the 1919 general strike.
In 2001, the Argentine economy collapsed and a movement of workers who took over their factories was born.
A History of the American Worker, 19201933 Irving Bernstein Foreword by Frances Fox Piven
Characterized by widespread inequality and forgotten struggles, the decade leading up to FDRs inauguration formed the prelude to the great labor victories of the 1930s.
Organizer, self-taught scholar, presidential candidate, and prisoner Eugene Debss commitment to the fight for a better world is chronicled in this unparalleled biography.
A History of the American Worker, 19331941 Irving Bernstein Foreword by Frances Fox Piven
American History/Politics
American Insurgents
A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism Richard Seymour
This groundbreaking work of labor history uncovers a period when working-class power became the rallying cry for millions of workers in the workplaces of America.
In 1859, John Brown led a historic attack on the Harpers Ferry Armory. Nelson captures the high drama of the event while helping the reader to understand its significance.
In Praise of Barbarians
Essays Against Empire Mike Davis
No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. This blistering collection of essays attacks the current fashion for empire and white mens burdens.
There is a forgotten and buried tradition of American anti-imperialismfrom Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.
North Star
Camejos memoir describes a life devoted to the fight for a better world. The book serves both as a record of his uncompromising commitment to justice and equality and as a guide for the struggles to come.
Capturing the spirit and actions of the sixties, Palante features essays by members, oral histories, and photos of their vibrant membership and actions.
The Young Lords Party The Young Lords Photographs by Michael Abramson
Palante
Soldiers in Revolt documents one of the leastknown and most important aspects of the Vietnam War: the rebellion among US soldiers opposed to the war.
G.I. Resistance During the Vietnam War David Cortright Foreword by Howard Zinn
Soldiers in Revolt
Leading independent and Green Party activists ask: can we break the two-party stranglehold on US politics? Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, and others assess the 2000 and 2004 elections and debate their electoral strategy.
Independent Politics
Jamails account of life in Iraq under occupation offers personal reflection, incisive analysis, and groundbreaking reportage, including previously unpublished details of the occupations first year.
Goodman breaks through the corporate medias lies, sound bites, and silence in this collection of articles. Voices the corporate media exclude and ignore come through loud and clear.
Even as he explores the worlds challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism, and the bailoutsChomsky still sees hope for the future in the democratic wave emanating from Latin America.
Noam Chomsky
The remarkable story of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq, rescued by an Italian Secret Service agent, and shot by US forces.
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Friendly Fire
Tom Engelhardt takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that has yet to end.
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Schwartz demolishes the myths used to sell an endless War on Terror centered in Iraq, showing how the United States real interests in Iraq have been rooted in the geopolitics of oil.
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Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz Foreword by Anthony Swofford
Winter Soldiers
An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War Richard Stacewicz
Vietnam
In the spring of 2008, IVAW gathered veterans outside Washington, D.C., to tell the truth about the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. These are their words.
The (Last) War the U.S. Lost Joe Allen Foreword by John Pilger
Anti-oppression
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Rarely do the worlds of the US Vietnam veteran and the antiwar demonstrator come together. Yet in Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), the two made common cause.
In addition to debunking the mythology surrounding the war in Vietnam, Allen analyzes the three elements that led to the United States defeat: the Vietnamese resistance, the antiwar movement, and the soldiers revolt.
The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia: An Iraq War Memoir Camilo Mejia
Staff Sergeant Meja became a leading voice for the antiwar movement when he applied for discharge from the army as a conscientious objector. This is his story.
Tom Engelhardt
No One Is Illegal
Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.Mexico Border Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon
Debunking the ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, the authors reveal the backlashs deep roots in US history.
Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan Dahr Jamail Foreword by Chris Hedges
Dahr Jamails study of todays military resisters sheds new light on dissent within the ranks of the US military.
This classic anthropological study debunks the myths behind the idea of natural male superiority. Leacock demonstrates that claims of inherent male dominance are based on carefully constructed falsehoods with no historical basis.
From post-Katrina evacuee camps and torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines in Lousiana.
Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six Jordan Flaherty Foreword by Amy Goodman
Floodlines
Here, with critical notes and context, are Lenin and Bukharins foundational texts developing a Marxist theory of imperialism. Essential readings for understanding the na978-1-931859-66-0 ture of imperialism and war.
Lenins Imperialism and Bukharins Imperialism and World Economy V. I. Lenin, and Nikolai Bukharin edited by Phil Gasper
$14 Paperback
The compelling story of a campaign willing to stand up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement began.
This classic details the internal political dynamics that led the Popular Front to hold back radical measures that would have galvanized the working class and the peasant base of the revolution.
Revolutionary Rehearsals
Five times in the last forty years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo. In each of these cases, the actions of workers themselves were the driving force of struggles with revolutionary potential.
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Muslims and Arab Americans are increasingly under attack as a result of the US War on Terror. This title explores the impact on these communities.
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone
On History
Employing Marxist theory to address the postcolonial problems of several different countries, experts analyze such issues as the renewal of Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt, debt relief, trade union movements, and strike actions.
Growing numbers of people are disgusted by the disaster of poverty, war, oppression, and environmental destruction caused by global capitalism. But is there an alternative? Alan Maass argues that socialism is rational, necessary, and possible.
Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike Rosa Luxemburg edited by Helen Scott
Victor Serge
This introduction to Rosa Luxemburgs two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes.
The Comintern
Duncan Hallas
A brief history of the Communist International, from its beginnings in 1919 at the center of world revolution, through its degeneration at the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Rich with historical lessons relevant for todays activists.
This fully annotated edition of The Communist Manifesto is complete with historical references and explication, additional related texts, and a thorough glossary.
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When the First World War broke out, socialist parties across Europe backed their own governments war efforts. From the ashes of this betrayal, Lenin fought for a new Communist International.
Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism R. Craig Nation
War on War
Vive la Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg
An uproariously serious work of history. Steel puts regular people back at the center of the French Revolution, telling this remarkable story as it has never been told before.
Tracing Rosa Luxemburgs development from her childhood in Poland to her role in founding the German Communist Party, Frlichs biography paints the picture of one of the most remarkable women leaders of the international socialist movement.
Donny Gluckstein sets out to place Nazism in the context of a world economic crisis and a failed workers revolution to draw lessons for everyone interested in preventing the return of fascism.
Donny Gluckstein
Defeated revolutions are soon forgotten. Yet the working class upheaval in Germany from 1919 to 1923, precisely because of its tragic defeat, in many ways laid the basis for the barbarisms of the twentieth century.
Lwys book analyzes how the theories of combined and uneven development and permanent revolution emerged in the writings of Marx and Engels and were developed later by Leon Trotsky.
State and Revolution elaborates the Marxist conception of the state as a structure of class domination. This fully annotated edition aims to bring to life for new readers one of Lenins most important works.
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Davidson defends a conception of bourgeois revolution that accounts for variability across space and time while maintaining the concepts essence: that the globalized economy is the result of a turbulent process marked by 978-1-60846-067-0 dramatic revolutions. $20 Paperback
Neil Davidson
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To survive, democracy needs a truly radical, truly independent press more than ever before. We need to create a culture in this country in which reading and resistance go hand-in-hand. Thats why Im a proud supporter of Haymarket Books, which has inherited the critical, fighting spirit of its namesakes. I encourage readers to purchase directly from haymarketbooks.org. By doing so, youll help support the vital role independent publishing plays in making sure democracy not only survives, but flourishes. Howard Zinn
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Haymarket is thriving in this tumultuous time because it publishes books that no conglomerate would touch. Haymarket, blissfully free of the preoccupation with profit, has a higher calling: to publish books that build movements. Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein