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  • Essays

    by Wallace Shawn
    Probing essays and observations by acclaimed actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, in his first nonfiction collection.

  • 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.

  • Floodlines

    by Jordan Flaherty
    A People's History of community organizing in New Orleans in the years before and after Katrina.

  • The American Way of War

    by Tom Engelhardt
    The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.

  • El precio del fuego

    by Benjamin Dangl
    The ongoing clashes between corporate and peoples' power in Bolivia, told with historic and cultural context.

  • The Lean Years

    by Irving Bernstein
    A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the "roaring twenties" through the Great Depression.

  • Live Working or Die Fighting

    by Paul Mason
    The two hundred-year story of the global working class and its many struggles for justice.

  • Marx in Soho (Audio CD)

    by Howard Zinn
    America's leading historian Howard Zinn brings Karl Marx back to life for a new generation.

  • The Political Economy of Racism

    by Melvin Leiman
    A forceful, well-researched historical analysis of racism's roots and its persistence in the institutions of American society.

  • The Turbulent Years

    by Irving Bernstein
    The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians.

  • Breaking the Sound Barrier (audiobook)

    by Amy Goodman
    Amy Goodman gives voice to the heroic stories of people the corporate media exclude and ignore.

  • North Star

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

  • Essays (unabridged audiobook)

    by Wallace Shawn
    Probing essays by actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, read by the author in unabridged audiobook format

  • The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

    by Harold Isaacs
    The story of how China's modern development rests on the tragically supressed struggle for true socialism.

  • The Case for Socialism (Updated Edition)

    by Alan Maass
    A clear, bold case for a socialist alternative to democratically meet people's needs here and abroad.

  • The Pen and the Sword

    by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said
    Interviews with the late Edward Said, world-renowned literary scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights.

  • Notes from the Middle World

    by Breyten Breytenbach
    An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.

  • Lenin's Political Thought

    by Neil Harding
    A comprehensive history of the political and philosophical evolution of history's most controversial revolutionary.

  • 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.

  • War on War

    by R. Craig Nation
    World War One divided the socialist movement internationally: collaboration or resistance? Here is the resisters' story.

  • Revolution in Seattle

    by Harvey O'Connor
    Blow-by-blow, an eyewitness account of a hidden chapter in labor history: the Seattle General Strike of 1919.

  • Sexuality and Socialism

    by Sherry Wolf
    An indispensable history and contemporary guide to the struggle for authentic sexual equality and liberation.

  • Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa

    Edited by Leo Zeilig
    This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.

  • The Labor Wars

    by Sidney Lens
    One of America's great labor historians tells the stories of America's great labor struggles.