Twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse activists are still confronted by the legacy of Stalinism. This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the origins, impacts, and enduring prominence
This collection of lively and insightful essays?including several translated into English for the first time?covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Mar
The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today’s crisis when social and ecological systems clash. This book concretely demonstrates the necessity of a Marxist ap
The Age of Knowledge emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, both within universities and for society more generally, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the
2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work?Biography/Autobiography"A powerful and poignant memoir."?Cornel West, from the foreword"John Carlos is an American hero. And finally he has
Lucy Parsons’ life energy was directed toward freeing the working class from capitalism. She attributed the inferior position of women and minority racial groups in American society to class inequali
Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as ?military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones
The proceedings of the last Comintern congress in which Lenin participated, at last available in English, reveals a Communist world movement grappling to reconcile the goal of unifying workers and col
Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales’ to become the country's first indigenous presiden
In their new book, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan provide a vivid record of the events, conflicts, and social movements shaping our society today. They give voice to ordinary people standing up to cor
In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. Zinn explo
The postwar boom in the U.S. brought about massive changes in U.S. society and culture. In this accessible volume, historian Howard Zinn offers a view from below on these vital years in American histo
In this lively collection of essays, Zinn discusses a wide range of historical and political topics, from the role of the Supreme Court in U.S. history to the nature of higher education today.
Of the many books that challenged the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn’s stands out as one of the best?and most influential. It helped sparked national debate on the war. It includes a powerful speech written
The South has long been surrounded in mystique. In this powerful volume, drawing on Zinn’s own experiences teaching in the South and working within the Southern civil rights movement, Zinn challenges
Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht, he successfully bui
The term ?new atheism” has been given to the recent barrage of bestselling books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others. Their books have had a significant media presence an
State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes vary but it has been, and remains, central to understanding modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called Co
Many scholars see science and politics as mutually exclusive, where the latter's influence contaminates the former's purity. Karl Marx's detractors often criticize him on these grounds. Paolucci shows
Recent debates on imperialism have focused on the means by which Euro-American capital is spread around the globe. The Economic Partnership Agreements being foisted on the African, Caribbean and Pacif
Weaving Transnational Solidarity from the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond analyzes the grassroots, economic justice work of three groups-two Mexican organizations, Jolom Mayaetik, Mayan women's weavin
Calling international law a failed enterprise, this book explores how we may yet reconstruct a true system of international rights enforced by international laws, and contemplates the limitations of i
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organ
Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeDrawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables
The historic 2008 elections put a Democrat in the White House and in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change have been deeply disappointed. Lance Selfa looks at the Democr
Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the "bourgeois revolution" has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this
"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."—The Nation Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if we
As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into t
“Quite simply, a wonderfully moving story about the power of love." —Times Educational Supplement “A wry first-person narrative. . . . Discussion of handicaps, death and bereavement, and religious bel
All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the US the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism that expose
These essays, written between 1966 and 2010 by lifelong Israeli activist and theorist Moshe Machover, cover diverse aspects of Israeli society and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elaborating on the
Short Listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ig
"An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain."?Jonathan Lethem"[Occupying Wall Street] runs through OWS' beginnings
Andy Blunden presents an immanent critique of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, the pschychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing the roots of this theory from Goethe, Hegel and M
The world has entered a sustained period of crisis, and in order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the
20th-century European Fascism is conventionally described as a fierce assault on liberal politics, culture and economics. Departing from this analysis, Landa highlights the long overlooked critical af
Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and doctrines. As a correction, this book shows that as
This book by Gregg Shotwell, a rank and file auto worker and the author of the famous Live Bait & Ammo broadside widely distributed among auto workers on factory floors over the past decade, provi
Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provide
The Israeli Left has long held the view that the historic Zionist Labor movement stands firmly in the humanistic, democratic, and even socialist traditions. These progressive credentials are routinely
