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  • Palante

    by Young Lords Party
    Interviews and photographic essays highlight the spirit of the 70's New York-based organization of Puerto Rican radicals, the Young Lords.

  • The Border Crossed Us

    by Justin Akers Chacón

    A compelling argument that re-building unions requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Milagro

    by Penelope Alegria

    Penelope Alegria's Milagro is a retracing of parental lineage, a recount of the stories that course through the veins of family. The...

  • Ours to Master and to Own

    Edited by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness
    Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree

  • Revolutionary Rehearsals

    Edited by Colin Barker
    Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo.

  • Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age

    Edited by Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, et al.

    This indispensable volume surveys revolutionary upheavals across the world between 1989 and 2019, drawing lessons for theorizing revolution today.

  • 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.

  • Hopes and Prospects

    by Noam Chomsky
    In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century.

  • Intervenciones

    by Noam Chomsky
    Short, forceful commentaries on US politics from Latin America to the Middle East.

  • "¡Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos!"

    by Aviva Chomsky
    This timely and accessible guide debunks the twenty-one biggest myths and stereotypes in today's immigration debate.

  • On Power and Ideology

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

  • Turning the Tide

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

  • The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
    Analyzes U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa media and the role of the media in misreporting these policies.

  • The Mexican Revolution

    by Stuart Easterling
    Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?

  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    by Samuel Farber
    One of the Cuban Revolution's most informed and insightful historians assesses -- from the left -- its impact and legacy.

  • Bananeras

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

  • 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.

  • Black Power Afterlives

    Edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis

    A powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • All Our Relations

    by Winona LaDuke
    A beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.

  • 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.