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Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
A new, comprehensive biography of the life and work of Karl MarxFor over a century, Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements. Now, recent economic crises...
The Long Revolution of the Global South
The final writings of Samir Amin—a mix of personal experiences and theoretical analysis of global challenges and movementsIn this second volume of his memoirs, Amin takes us on a journey to a dizzying...
A Socialist Defector
The rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the German Democratic Republic told in personal detail by activist and writer Victor GrossmanThe circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman,...
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the...
Harbors Rich with Ships
A bold new collection of the writings of Miroslav Krleža, in English for the first time Miroslav Krleža was a giant of Yugoslav literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in English....
The American War in Vietnam
On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the...
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial...
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique...
Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties
Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beginning in the early 19th-century, white settlers began...
Your Time Is Done Now
Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence...
Silvertown
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver’s rubber and electrical factorywas the site of a massive worker revolt that upended the Londonindustrial district which bore his name: Silvertown. Once referredto...
From Solidarity to Sellout
In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that...
American Literature Root and Flower
A companion to Rubinstein's celebrated study of English literature, American Literature Root and Flower examines the lives and works of over fifty important American novelists, poets, and dramatists....
American Literature Root and Flower 2
A companion to Rubinstein's celebrated study of English literature, American Literature Root and Flower examines the lives and works of over fifty important American novelists, poets, and dramatists....
A History of the Philippines
Unlike other conventional histories, the unifying thread of A History of the Philippines is the struggle of the peoples themselves against various forms of oppression, from Spanish conquest and colonization...