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  • Aftershocks of Disaster

    Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

    An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

  • 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.

  • Solito, Solita

    Edited by Jonathan Freedman and Steven Mayers

    They are a mass migration of thousands of young people from Central America, yet each one travels alone: solito, solita.

  • The Long Honduran Night

    by Dana Frank

    A story of resistance, repression, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.

  • 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.

  • No One is Illegal (Updated Edition)

    by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis
    No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

  • What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Dan La Botz
    An indispensable reexamination of the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.

  • Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela

    by Dario Azzellini
    A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

  • Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America

    by Karla Hernández Mares and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
    In their stirring analysis Pérez-Bustillo and Hernández Mares explore the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights.

  • Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina

    by Agustin Santella
    A compelling case study of the impacts of Neoliberalism on Argentina’s auto industry.

  • Power and Resistance

    by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
    Two of the left’s most important academics analyze the politics and economics of US imperialism’s relationship with Latin America.

  • Urban Revolt

    Edited by Immanuel Ness, Trevor Ngwane, et al.
    Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.

  • The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same

    by Jeffery R. Webber
    This book offers an overarching political and economic evaluation of the Latin American Left between the late 1990s and 2016.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

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

  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil (Updated Olympics Edition)

    by Dave Zirin
    The leading US commentator on the politics of sports explores the coming Olympics in Brazil.

  • Critical Marxism in Mexico

    by Stefan Gandler
    A seminal work of interpretation, introducing English speaking readers to two of Mexico’s leading theorists.

  • The Politics of Che Guevara

    by Samuel Farber
    A political portrait focused on Guevara’s thought and political record aimed at dispelling many of the myths about the revolutionary.

  • Recovering the Sacred

    by Winona LaDuke
    Only the power to define what is sacred—and access it—will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.

  • Bananeras

    by Dana Frank
    Women banana workers—bananeras—are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

  • Extractive Imperialism in the Americas

    by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
    In this wide-ranging volume two leading scholars of the region critically examine the new extractive-imperialism bearing down on the Americas

  • BRICS

    Edited by Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia
    A critical examination of the contradictory rise to power of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

  • Turning the Tide

    by Noam Chomsky
    US Central American policies project broader US economic, military, and social aims, impacting millions in Central America.

  • On Power and Ideology

    by Noam Chomsky
    This succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky's foreign policy analysis.

  • Marx and Latin America

    by José Aricó
    An important rebuttal of those who accuse Marx of 'Eurocentrism,' through a close reading of his views on Latin America.