History & Politics

Phil Mailer
After a military coup, the overthrow of almost fifty years of Fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed 18 months of intense, democratic social transformation which challenged every aspect of society.

George Katsiaficas
A detailed analysis of the social movements and major uprisings that have patterned South Korea's politics and society.

Marge Piercy
Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel follows the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society, as they rebel against a military draft and “the system.”

Sean Stewart
In four short years (1965–1969), the U.S. underground press grew from five small newspapers to over 500 newspapers. Completely circumventing (and subverting) the establishment media.

David Goodway
Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.

Howard Zinn
In this instant classic, recorded on the eve of the quincentennial, legendary historian Howard Zinn returns to the themes he popularized in his masterful A People's History of the United States.

Editor: David Alan Corbin
The dramatic stories of union battles as seen by the leaders, rank-and-file participants, and the journalists who came to West Virginia to cover them.

Editor: Joyce L. Kornbluh
This new edition of a classic is by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore.

Freedom Archives
This DVD exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the U.S. government in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.

Inside reporting from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq; and domestic stories on the stepped up military recruitment of Latinos and the FBI’s use of paid informants to entrap Muslims.

S. Brian Willson
A guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect, and empathy.

Paul Buhle • Illustrators: Chris Hutchinson, Gary Dumm, and Sharon Rudahl
Paul Buhle brings a new dimension to Robin Hood, helping to explain why an outlaw from the 14th Century is still a left wing hero today.

Michael Fox
Change we can believe in? Travel with Michael Fox and Silvia Leindecker across the United States in 2008 and 2010 and hear the voices of the people impacted by the financial meltdown and its aftermath.

Allen Ruff
The history of the most significant translator, publisher, and distributor of left-wing literature in the United States.

Farquhar McHarg
A thrilling tale of adventure, treachery, and betrayal... a fascinating insight into the ideas and optimism that set the world ablaze in the first part of the twentieth century.

Geronimo
Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990 with the legendary German Konkret journal concluding that "the movement had produced its own classic.

A DVD/CD pack of two of the most venerable figures on the American Left—Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. This special four-piece combination package retails regularly for $80, but we offer it to you 50% off—for $40.

Big Noise Films
With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.

Big Noise Films
This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a co-production of the IMC and Big Noise Films, weaves the footage of over 100 videographers into a gripping document of what really happened on Seattle’s streets in November 1999.

Big Noise Films
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the War on Terror The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated.

Jeremy Scahill investigates Blackwater's role in the Nisur Square massacre, Greg Palast tracks American debt speculators to Liberia, Big Noise goes inside the resurgent white power movement in America, and we visit East St. Louis.

Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Sasha Lilley
Howard Zinn, in one of his final interviews, and Noam Chomsky talk with Against the Grain's Sasha Lilley about their lives, motivating politics, and tumultuous times.

Nicolas Walter
Nicolas Walter scorned the pomp and frequent ignorance of the powerful and detested the obfuscatory prose and intellectual limitations of academia. The items collected in this volume display him at his considerable best.

Noam Chomsky
The world’s most influential living intellectual, Noam Chomsky, holds forth on the root causes of the conflicts in the Middle East, and talks about hopes for future social change.

Noam Chomsky
The world's most influential living intellectual, Noam Chomsky, holds forth on the root causes of the conflicts in the Middle East, and talks about hopes for future social change.