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  • Border and Rule

    by Harsha Walia

    An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

  • The New Authoritarians

    by David Renton

    An original and compelling analysis of how a newly emboldened and radicalizing right has come to global political ascendance in the years after 9/11, culminating in the victories of Trump and Brexit.

  • Marxists in the Face of Fascism

    Edited by David Beetham

    An unparalleled documentation of the most important Marxist analyses of fascism and the struggle to resist it.

  • A James Connolly Reader

    by James Connolly
    A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.

  • Communist Insurgent

    by Doug Enaa Greene
    This book discusses the life and political activity of French Communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui and the problems of his political current.

  • Fighting Fascism

    by Clara Zetkin
    Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.

  • The Lost Revolution

    by Chris Harman
    Without understanding the defeat of the German Revolution, the great barbarisms that swept Europe in the 1930s cannot be understood.

  • Struggle or Starve

    by Seán Mitchell
    The story of how thousands of Catholics and Protestants united to challenge poverty and unemployment in Belfast, Ireland.

  • The Spectre of Babeuf

    by Ian Birchall
    Gracchus Babeuf has long been recognized as an important precursor of the revolutionary socialist tradition.

  • Europe in Revolt

    Edited by Catarina Príncipe and Bhaskar Sunkara
    A gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity that have shaken Europe.

  • Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy

    Edited by William A Pelz
    Key writings and speeches by one of the major figures of the labor movement of the 19th century.

  • We Cannot Escape History

    by Neil Davidson
    The latest collection of essays from the Deutscher Prize winning Marxist scholar, Neil Davidson.

  • Clara Zetkin

    by Clara Zetkin
    Essays and speeches from 1889–1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.

  • Diary of Bergen-Belsen

    by Hanna Levy-Hass
    The sole surviving diary of a Holocaust resistance fighter, written from inside the Nazi concentration camps.

  • A Great and Terrible World

    by Antonio Gramsci
    This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he lived.

  • Prelude to Revolution

    by Daniel Singer
    A riveting eye-witness account of the 1968 Paris student-worker revolt that shook France and threatened the very roots of capitalism.

  • The Stalinist Legacy

    Edited by Tariq Ali
    Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?

    by Neil Davidson
    A historical defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth.

  • The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class

    by Donny Gluckstein
    A contribution to the debate about the nature of Nazism and why understanding it still matters today.

  • The Paris Commune

    by Donny Gluckstein
    This comprehensive history—based in primary source accounts—of worker’s control in Paris considers historic and contemporary debates on the Commune's legacy

  • Witness to the German Revolution

    by Victor Serge
    In 1923 history stood at a cross roads. Serge unapologetically lent his pen to those fighting for international workers' revolution.

  • Ours to Master and to Own

    Edited by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness
    Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree

  • The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain

    by Pierre Broué and Émile Témime
    An outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory.

  • The Women Incendiaries

    by Edith Thomas
    The long out-of-print classic about women in the Paris Commune of 1871.