This volume by George Novack (1905-1992), a leader of the Socialist Workers Party (US), explains the relationship between humanism and Marxist historical materialism over the course of eight chapters
Waters, editor of New International magazine and president of Pathfinder press, has teamed with Koppel (managing editor, The Militant newsweekly) to underscore the social transformations of the capit
"There will be a victorious revolution in the United States before there will be a victorious counterrevolution in Cuba." That 1961 statement by Fidel Castro remains as true today as when it was spok
This volume reproduces two speeches by Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), delivered shortly after V.I. Lenin's death and prior to Trotsky's expulsion from the Bolshevik Party. The first, "Perspectives of World
Hansen (1910-79) was editor of The Militant, the newspaper reflecting the views of the Socialist Workers party, in 1954 when a sharp debate erupted in its pages regarding how marketing cosmetics and
Between 1975 and 1991 some 425,000 Cubans fought in Angola, newly independent of Portugal, on the side of the government led by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against Western
Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? explains the sharpening class inequalities in the United States and the resulting conflicts accelerated by today’s slow-burning world depression. It takes apart th
This volume of New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory contains four articles, two by Jack Barnes, the current National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The articles by B
This volume, a reprint from 1978, compiles essays by the late Reed, an author of many works on the origins of the oppression of women and the fight for their emancipation. Ranging in date from 1957 to
Collects speeches that the revolutionary leader delivered to university students and other youth groups between 1959 and 1964, along with a tribute to Guevara given by Fidel Castro in 1997.
Eight speeches the legendary Cuban guerilla fighter delivered between 1959 and 1964 to such groups as the First Latin American Youth Congress, international volunteer work brigades, and the Ministry o
Still timely 40 years after its original publication, Reed's book examines the economic and social roots of women's oppression from earliest times to the contemporary capitalist world. She suggests th
Luis Alfonso Zayas, a general in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, recounts his experiences over five decades in the Cuban Revolution. From a teenage combatant in the clandestine struggle and 1956
Based on interviews with Alfonso Zayas in 2007 and 2009 this volume recounts his involvement in the Cuban Revolution beginning as a teenager in the guerrilla forces' earliest battles in the Sierra Mae
Malcolm X was one of the most important revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. He fought for African American rights during the 1960s and brought the issue into the world's conscience, a soci
Thomas Sankara led the revolution of 1983 to 1987 in Burkina Faso. In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, he explains how the peasants and workers of this West African country established a
“The young generation of whites, Blacks, browns, whatever else there is—you're living at a time of revolution,” Malcolm told young people in the United Kingdom in December 1964. “And I for one will jo
Political and economic lessons from the 1921 mutiny at Kronstadt naval base—hailed by Washington, London, and Paris—and the deadly threat it posed to the young Soviet Republic.
This book is a collection of lectures given in 1942 that comprise a defense and explanation of the logical method of Marxist dialectical materialism, and its relevance to the working class movement. T
This is a reprint of a 1965 book in which American communist politician and Marxist theoretician Novack (1905-1992) examines the first steps in the development of the materialist conception of the wor