History & Politics

Peter Linebaugh
This majestic tour de force takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops.

Editors: Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein
This book brings together voices from the movements (indigenous, campesinos, students, LGBT, unemployed, etc.) behind the change that swept Latin America at the turn of the 21st century.

The James Connolly Songs of Freedom Band
Far from the archival preservation of embalmed corpses, the inspired performance of a rocking band turns the timeless lyrics of James Connolly into timely manifestos for today’s young rebels.

James Connolly • Editor: Mat Callahan
Songs of Freedom is a celebration of the life and work of James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary socialist. It is at once a collection of stirring revolutionary songs and a vital history.

C.L.R. James
This volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C.L.R. James. An essential introduction to a body of work as necessary and illuminating for this century as it proved for the last.

Beverly Hope Slapin with Guillermo Prado
The history, material culture, mores, and lifeways of the Caucasian Americans have often been discussed but rarely comprehended. Until now.

Peter Kuper
Drawn to New York is a reflection of one artist's thirty-four years on twelve miles of island with eight million people in a city whose story is ever being written.

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.

Editors: J. Smith and André Moncourt
The long-awaited Volume 2 studying the Red Army Faction—West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization's near-total decimation in 1977.

Oscar López Rivera • Editor: Luis Nieves Falcón
Through photographs, paintings, and graphic content, Oscar's life is made strikingly accessible—so all can understand why this man has been deemed dangerous to the U.S. government.

Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.

Iain McIntyre
This book reveals Australia's radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, creative direct action, street art, media pranks, squatting, etc.

Staughton Lynd
Accompanying distinguishes two strategies of social change, "organizing" and "accompaniment," and applies them to five social movements.

Peter Linebaugh
Linebaugh enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.

Ronald A. Kuykendall
This alternative perspective on the problem of American race relations takes sharp aim at issues of status, power, and political class.

Editors: Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter, and Matt Meyer
A collection of articles from scholars and activists exploring the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine and what needs to be done.

John Curl
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines American cooperative movements for social change that have been all but erased from collective memory.

Editors: Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi
This anthology begins with a historical introduction to al-Mutanabbi Street and includes the writing of Iraqis and international poets and writers who were outraged by the 2007, car bomb attack.

C.L.R. James
Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance.

José Peirats
Volume 3 tells of the CNT's last push for the anarchist revolution.

José Peirats
Volume 2 focuses on the battles raging at both the front and rear guards.

George Katsiaficas
Ten years in the making, this book provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades.

Selma James
Spanning six decades, Selma James's work set a new political perspective for millions of unwaged women, redefining the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as marginal.

Edited and Translated by: Gabriel Kuhn
Manifestos, speeches, articles, and letters from the German Revolution.

Editors: Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, and Cal Winslow
Explores the roots and legacies of the pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption.