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  • If God Is a Virus

    by Seema Yasmin

    Merging documentary poetry from the epicenter of an epidemic with the story of viruses in the evolution of humanity, If God Is A Virus gives voice to the infected and the virus.

  • Capitalism, Technology, Labor

    Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, et al.

    This volume offers a radical critique of techno-utopianism, instead seeing innovation as a field of ongoing class struggle.

  • Digging Our Own Graves

    by Barbara Ellen Smith

    This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community 's struggle against the deadly black lung disease.

  • How We Go Home

    Edited by Sara Sinclair

    How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.

  • The Tragedy of American Science

    by Clifford D. Conner

    A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States.

  • Bit Tyrants

    by Rob Larson

    For all their famed disruption of the economy, Big Tech’s secret sauce turns out to be Capitalism’s standard issue blend of exploitation and corporate maleficence.

  • Yellow Earth

    by John Sayles

    Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose.

  • 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.

  • La Batalla Por el Paraíso

    by Naomi Klein

    Entre los escombros del huracán Maria, los puertorriqueños y los “Puertopians” ultra-ricos están atrapados en una...

  • Not In Our Genes

    by Leon J. Kamin, Richard Lewontin, et al.
    Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

  • Splinterlands

    by John Feffer
    Julian West, looking backwards from 2050, tries to understand why the world and his family have fallen apart.

  • Confronting Injustice

    by Umair Muhammad
    Urgent and powerful call to build the mass movements necessary to overcome global climate & save the planet.

  • Ecosocialism

    by Michael Löwy
    Revolutionary ideas and strategies to save the planet.

  • Marx and Nature

    by Paul Burkett
    Marx’s treatment of natural conditions possesses an inner logic, coherence, and analytical power which has not been previously recognized

  • Too Many People?

    by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
    An evocative and well-documented refutation of the idea that overpopulation is at the root of our many environmental problems today.

  • Kivalina

    by Christine Shearer
    While corporate funded science continues to deny climate change, one native village is already facing total destruction at its hands.

  • Ecology and Socialism

    by Chris Williams
    A timely, well-grounded analysis that reveals an inconvenient truth: we can't save capitalism and save the planet.