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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Vive la Revolution

    by Mark Steel
    Steel's guide to the French Revolution displays serious scholarship, as well as comic genius.