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  • Berkeley

    by Hal Draper

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

  • The Socialist Challenge Today

    by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

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

  • The Adventures of The Communist Manifesto

    by Hal Draper

    A new, definitive, translation of the Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' Communist Mannifesto by American socialist luminary, Hal Draper.

  • The Ballot, the Streets—or Both

    by August H. Nimtz

    Lenin's Electoral Strategy focuses on Lenin's approach to electoral politics and what he and other Marxists terms the institutions of bourgeois democracy, drawing on Bolshevik debates and Marx and Engel's own writings to show this to be a central feature of their revolutionary strategy.

  • The Jewish Question

    by Enzo Traverso

    In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the "Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.

  • Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction

    by Martha E. Giménez

    This essential volume selects the key essays of renowned Marxist Feminist, and theorist of social reproduction, Martha E. Giménez.

  • In the Red Corner

    by Mike Gonzalez
    The first English-language biography of one of Latin America’s most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers.

  • Capitalism and Disability

    by Marta Russell

    This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara

    Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx’s masterpiece, Capital.

  • Ten Days that Shook the World

    by John Reed

    A new edition of John Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, 100 years since its first publication.

  • The Communist Movement at a Crossroads

    Edited by Mike Taber

    An invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the Communist movement, this volume collects the proceedings and resolutions of the ECCI

  • Marx’s Capital

    Edited by Gerald Hubmann and Marcel van der Linden

    When he died, Marx left his opus Capital unfinished. But how incomplete was the project? This volume offers the first comprehensive answer.

  • Keywords

    by John Patrick Leary

    A lexicon of our age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership.

  • Class, Party, Revolution

    Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, et al.
    An expertly selected collection of articles on class, party, and revolution from one of the world’s most important socialist journals

  • Capitalism and Theory: Selected Writings of Michael Kidron

    by Michael Kidron

    The essential writings of one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of recent decades, collected in one volume for the first time

  • Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

    by Raju J. Das
    A persuasive and thorough response to those fashionable social theorists who challenge both the explanatory and emancipatory power of ‘class.’

  • Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith

    This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • Communards and Other Cultural Histories

    by Adrian Rifkin
    A wide-ranging collection of essays from Adrian Rifkin, covering cultural production, urbanism, and social conflict from a critical Marxist perspective.

  • The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)

    by Philippe Bourrinet
    The most substantial history to date of the famous ‘ultra-left’ tendency within the international Communist movement.

  • Revolutionary Democracy

    by Soma Marik
    Complete with a new introduction, Revolutionary Democracy argues that Marxism, including pre-revolution Bolshevism, has historically been firmly aligned with democracy.

  • Althusser and Theology

    Edited by Agon Hamza
    A major contribution to Althusser scholarship, as well as to our understanding of the Left’s relation to religion and theology.

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Alastair Davidson
    This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

  • C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee
    CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism collects some of the most important, but difficult to obtain, articles from the legendary Trinidadian-Marxist.