History & Politics

Working Class History
An enduring repository for your thoughts, dreams, and battle plans for collective action.

Hugh Hodges
This book collects five hundred interesting songs that addressed one alarming feature of Thatcher’s Britain or another.

James Kelman & Noam Chomsky
The State relies on our suffocation, that we cannot hope to learn “the truth.” But whether we can or not is beside “the point.” Finally, there is no “point.” We must grasp the nettle, we assume control.

Noam Chomsky
A selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014.

Peter Kropotkin • Introduction: David Berry
Kropotkin’s most substantial historical work.

Margrit Schiller
Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction and her story recounts her experiences with the group from founding to her her eventual prison sentence.

Bill Campbell • Illustrator: Bizhan Khodabandeh
A fictionalized retelling of a KKK riot that occurred in Carnegie, PA, in 1923 and the resistance to it.

Noam Chomsky
A conversational interview between Michael Albert and Chomsky spanning a wide range of topics.

N.O. Bonzo
A coloring book that brings back the whimsy and delight of the olden days, when more often than not it was the maiden who slayed the dragon, and the heads of tyrants were carried off at the end of a pike.

Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez
The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.

Ralf Ruckus
An in-depth exploration of the central role that the Chinese Communist Party played in China’s transformation from socialism to capitalism.

Rebecca Subar • Illustrator: Rosi Greenberg • Forewords by Esteban Kelly and Douglas Stone
A conversation between talkers and fighters.

Koni Benson • Illustrators: André Trantraal, Nathan Trantraal, and Ashley E. Marais • Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
A graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle in Cape Town over half a century.

Peter Cole • Foreword: Robin D.G. Kelley
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.

Bob Ostertag
Ostertag explores how we are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music, to how we have sex, to what we do to survive, and who we imagine ourselves to be.

Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.

James W. Loewen
The intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Working Class History • Foreword by Noam Chomsky
This handbook of grassroots movements, curated by the popular Working Class History project, features many hidden histories and untold stories, reinforced with inspiring images.

Bas Umali
The start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the global south.

Jeremy Brecher
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.

Jeremy Brecher
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.

Ted Glick
The incredible story of the Catholic Left—also known as the Ultra Resistance—from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s.

David Pilgrim & Franklin Hughes
Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university’s official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!

Simon Springer
Fuck neoliberalism! Do we need to say more?

Abdullah Öcalan
The second volume of Öcalan’s five-volume work making the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization.