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  • The American Socialist Movement 1897-1912

    by Ira Kipnis

    “This is the epic story of the struggle to build a mass socialist movement in ragtime America. Kipnis was a brilliant historian, and this is...

  • The Battle For Paradise

    by Naomi Klein

    "Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—a battle that...

  • La Batalla Por el Paraíso

    by Naomi Klein

    Entre los escombros del huracán Maria, los puertorriqueños y los “Puertopians” ultra-ricos están atrapados en una...

  • No Is Not Enough

    by Naomi Klein

    “This year's most immediately useful political book.” —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

  • Education and Capitalism

    Edited by Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp
    In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room “reformers.”

  • Karl Marx

    by Karl Korsch
    A bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marx’s thought, by a major figure of twentieth-century Western Marxism.

  • Capitalism's Future

    Edited by Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell
    This book outlines conjoined critiques of commodity-fetishism and authority fetishism as the emancipatory agenda of 21st century critical theory.

  • NASCAR, Sturgis, and the New Economy of Spectacle

    by Daniel Krier and William J. Swart
    A brilliant and compelling application of the analytic tools of Critical Theory to NASCAR and Motor Cycle rallies.

  • Reminiscences of Lenin

    by Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya
    A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.

  • Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

    by Deepa Kumar
    Islamophobia examines the origins of the ongoing assault on Muslims and Arabs in the U.S., and the "war on terror"

  • Marx's Theory of the Genesis of Money

    by Samezō Kuruma

    In this volume, Kuruma analyses Marx's approach to the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, vol I., including a discussion of the theory of the value-form and other important theoretical questions posed by Marx.

     

  • What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Dan La Botz
    An indispensable reexamination of the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.

  • All Our Relations

    by Winona LaDuke
    A beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.

  • Recovering the Sacred

    by Winona LaDuke
    Only the power to define what is sacred—and access it—will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.

  • The Making of Capitalism in France

    by Xavier Lafrance

    Political Scientist Xavier Lafrance provides a pathbreaking account of the emergence of capitalism in France.

  • Politics and Philosophy

    by Mikko Lahtinen
    Often portrayed as an aloof philosopher, Lahtinen argues that his work on Machiavelli reveals Althusser's deep commitment to political practice

  • A Little Piece of Ground

    by Elizabeth Laird
    An extraordinary book about war and peace through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.

  • Oranges in No Man's Land

    by Elizabeth Laird
    A gripping story of a girl risking death to make a lifesaving dash through wartorn Beirut.

  • Red Sky in the Morning

    by Elizabeth Laird
    A moving narrative about a young girl's experience with disability, loss, and the power of unconditional love.

  • The Apprentice's Sorcerer

    by Ishay Landa
    Far from being diametrically opposed, this provocative book convincingly argues that Fascism is indelibly linked to the liberal tradition.

  • God, Guns, Gold and Glory

    by Lauren Langman and George Lundskow
    The past, present and future of Puritanism as a defining feature of the American social character

  • Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism

    Edited by Lauren Langman and David A. Smith

    Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism collects critiques of Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book from different perspectives, such as those of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Marx or the Marxist tradition.

  • In the Hotel Abyss

    by Robert Lanning
    Adorno is often celebrated as among the most important cultural-theorists. This volume argues that his theoretical perspectives were deeply flawed.

  • The Whiskey of our Discontent

    Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.