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  • Be Realistic

    by Mike Davis
    Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.

  • Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

    by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
    Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.

  • A Glance in the Rear View Mirror

    by Eric Toussaint
    An introductory guide to the neo-liberal ideology of the global 1%. Perfect for those of us without economics degrees.

  • African Struggles Today

    by Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig
    This groundbreaking analysis examines the gains, contradictions, and frustrations of twenty-first century prodemocracy struggles across Southern Africa

  • The Democrats

    by Lance Selfa

    "A smart, readable history of the Democrats that reminds us of the party's allegiance to capital."—Indypendent

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?

    by Neil Davidson
    A historical defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth.

  • Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

    by Deepa Kumar
    Islamophobia examines the origins of the ongoing assault on Muslims and Arabs in the U.S., and the "war on terror"

  • The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class

    by Donny Gluckstein
    A contribution to the debate about the nature of Nazism and why understanding it still matters today.

  • 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.

  • Selections from Cultural Writings

    by Antonio Gramsci
    The most comprehensive collection of Antonio Gramsci's writings on the relationship between culture and politics available in the English language.

  • Lessons for Our Struggle

    by Frances Fox Piven
    The healthy growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement depends on a proper understanding of past struggles.

  • Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

    by Dana Frank
    The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.

  • Red Sky in the Morning

    by Elizabeth Laird
    A moving narrative about a young girl's experience with disability, loss, and the power of unconditional love.

  • American Insurgents

    by Richard Seymour
    From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.

  • Israelis and Palestinians

    by Moshé Machover
    A lifelong activist, Moshé Machover's essays, written as an Israeli socialist in solidarity with the Palestinian people, are collected here.

  • Education and Capitalism

    Edited by Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp
    In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room “reformers.”

  • Occupying Wall Street

    by A.J. Bauer, Christine Baumgarthuber, et al.
    The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America’s most important progressive movement in a half century.

  • Is Just a Movie

    by Earl Lovelace
    Rich, inventive, and funny, here is the first novel in over a decade from the great Caribbean novelist Earl Lovelace.

  • Autoworkers Under the Gun

    by Gregg Shotwell
    In an industry under constant attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American Dream.

  • 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.

  • The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx

    by Alex Callinicos
    An accessible, enlightening, and compelling introduction to Karl Marx's ideas, with an emphasis on their enduring relevance.

  • 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.

  • The United States of Fear

    by Tom Engelhardt
    With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.

  • The False Prophets of Peace

    by Tikva Honig-Parnass
    This critique of Left Zionism argues a Jewish-only state cannot offer peace or justice for Palestinians