How the class-struggle Teamsters leadership in the Upper Midwest organized to fight union busting, racism, and colonial oppression, as they opposed the mobilization of labor behind U.S. imperialist wa
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
“Without understanding the devastation of the lives of working-class families in regions like West Virginia, and the vast increase in class inequality since the 2008 crisis, you can’t understand what’
A selection of articles from the Militant newspaper on the fight to free Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez. The Cuban Five, as they have become
A selection of articles from the Militant newspaper on the fight to free Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez. The Cuban Five, as they have become
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
In 1937, the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, chaired by American philosopher John Dewey and including other prominent members of the progressive
This volume collects articles, pamphlets, letters, and other materials from the press of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States (which emerged out of the Trotskyist sections of the Communist
In this work, the late Marxist theorist and longstanding leader of the Socialist Workers Party (US), George Novack, offers a series of 11 essays defending the dialectical materialism of Marx, Engels,
Seigle, Dobbs and Clark chronicle the Socialist Workers Party’s fifteen-year struggle which ultimately led to a victory in federal court (still standing) for the working class after a federal judge in
This book, first published in 1942, centers around testimony from the 1941 trial of leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Upper Midwest labor movement. They had organized labor opposition to the
"A revolution within the revolution" was Fidel Castro's way of referring to the politicization of women during Cuba's socialist revolution. Vilma EspA-n, Asela de Los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer were w
This is a classic work originally published in 1900. Luxemburg, a young, Polish-born Jewish woman and founder of the Polish Social Democratic Party (SPD) had recently completed her doctorate in Switze
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
Thomas Sankara led the revolution that took place in the West African country Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. In this collection of speeches and interviews, Sankara explains how during those years the
Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-58. In this firsthand account by a historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, we meet men and women who led the urban underground in the figh
This volume reproduces four talks given by Barnes, the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, the Trotskyist offshoot of the Communist Party USA, between 1992 and 1995, as well as party di
Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine by birth, became a central leader of the Cuban revolution and one of the outstanding communists of the 20th century. This book is his firsthand account of the military
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
Part of a 12 volume set chronologically reproducing the writings of communist leader and theorist Leon Trotsky during the years of exile from 1929 to 1940, this volume collects writings from his month
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
The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to cities and factories
The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to cities and factorie
One of the most active and visible communists of his era, Novack (1905-92) collected essays on various aspects of US history that had appeared over the course of 40 years in the International Socialis
Containing the speeches made by Castro and Mandela at a 1991 rally in Matanzas, Cuba, this volume catches both men at interesting points in their political careers. Castro would shortly be coping with
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
Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong—three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry—threw themselves into the great proletarian battle that defined their generation. They became combatants in
This volume is the first in a series The Communist International in Lenin's Time collecting historical documents related to the formation and early political history of the Communist International (al
In 1937, the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, chaired by American philosopher John Dewey and including other prominent members of the left, conduc
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
A traveling organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I, James P. Cannon was a leader of the communist movement in the United States following the Russian revolutio
The late Preis, a long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party and staff writer for the SWP's newsweekly The Militant, narrates the history of the first twenty years of the Congress of Industrial O
