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  • Leon Trotsky

    by Tariq Ali
    This illustrated introduction's irreverent cartoons will amuse readers, and surprise them with its sophisticated portrait of Trotsky's life and works.

  • Lucy Parsons

    by Carolyn Ashbaugh
    The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • North Star

    by Peter Camejo
    Green Party leader and prominent social justice activist tells the story of his life of struggle.

  • All Power to the Soviets

    by Tony Cliff

    Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of...

  • Building the Party

    by Tony Cliff
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that...

  • The Revolution Besieged

    by Tony Cliff
    The last installment of Tony Cliff's biography of Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin, available for the first time in the U.S.

  • Angela Davis

    by Angela Y. Davis

    Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.

  • My People Are Rising

    by Aaron Dixon
    A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.

  • Worth Fighting For

    by Rory Fanning
    Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.

  • Rosa Luxemburg

    by Paul Frölich
    The definitive partisan biography of Rosa Luxemburg, as only a contemporary and comrade could know her.

  • The Bending Cross

    by Ray Ginger
    The classic biography of Debs, one of the most important thinkers and activists in US.

  • A Great and Terrible World

    by Antonio Gramsci
    This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he lived.

  • Communist Insurgent

    by Doug Enaa Greene
    This book discusses the life and political activity of French Communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui and the problems of his political current.

  • A James Connolly Reader

    by James Connolly
    A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.

  • IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq

    by IraqiGirl
    In a country torn apart by war, a teenage girl blogs her story of family, friendship, and life under American occupation.

  • Reminiscences of Lenin

    by Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya
    A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.

  • Mayor 1%

    by Kari Lydersen
    Lydersen lambasts Chicago's nationally recognized mayor for his obedient endorsement of the devastating austerity agenda set forth by the one-percent.

  • Rank and File

    by Alice and Staughton Lynd
    The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s—1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.

  • I Am Troy Davis

    by Troy Davis, Martina Davis-Correia, et al.
    A riveting eyewitness account of the Davis family's courageous struggle against America's flawed criminal justice system.

  • The Road from Ar Ramadi

    by Camilo Mejía
    The inspiring story of a soldier who, after fighting in Iraq, publicly refused to return to the war.

  • Haunted by Slavery

    by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

    A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.

  • The Dispossessed

    by Aviva Chomsky and Alfredo Molano
    The stories of ordinary Colombians displaced by war who are struggling, with dignity, to live.

  • George Orwell Illustrated

    by David Smith
    George Orwell’s story told in full, with a light touch and copious illustrations