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  • No One is Illegal (Updated Edition)

    by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis
    No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

  • Class War, USA

    by Brandon Weber
    An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

  • Striking to Survive

    by Fan Shigang

    In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones...

  • The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

    Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, et al.
    A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

  • Communards and Other Cultural Histories

    by Adrian Rifkin
    A wide-ranging collection of essays from Adrian Rifkin, covering cultural production, urbanism, and social conflict from a critical Marxist perspective.

  • The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)

    by Philippe Bourrinet
    The most substantial history to date of the famous ‘ultra-left’ tendency within the international Communist movement.

  • 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.

  • Revolutionary Democracy

    by Soma Marik
    Complete with a new introduction, Revolutionary Democracy argues that Marxism, including pre-revolution Bolshevism, has historically been firmly aligned with democracy.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • The Agrarian Seeds of Empire

    by Brad Bauerly
    An innovative discussion of the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US state building between 1840 and 1980.

  • The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver

    by Daniel Egan
    An illuminating examination of the role that the metaphors ‘war of position’ and ‘war of maneuver’ play in Gramsci’s theory.

  • Hip Hop's Hostile Gospel

    by Daniel White Hodge
    Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel is a wide-ranging and highly enjoyable attempt to unearth the theology of Hip Hop

  • Human Highlight

    by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin
    Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin pay poetic homage to slam dunk virtuoso Dominique Wilkins, and creativity & improvisation in the game of basketball.

  • "Is the Turk a White Man?"

    by Murat Ergin
    A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

  • Rethinking Private Higher Education

    by Daniele Cantini
    In-depth ethnographic studies of universities as rapidly evolving, key contemporary institutions, interrogating in particular the fast-growing private sector

  • Althusser and Theology

    Edited by Agon Hamza
    A major contribution to Althusser scholarship, as well as to our understanding of the Left’s relation to religion and theology.

  • China: Promise or Threat?

    by Horst J. Helle
    An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.

  • 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.

  • Politics of Precarity

    Edited by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Carl-Ulrik Schierup
    A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe

  • The Poverty of Work

    by David Van Arsdale
    This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.

  • Fuego subterráneo

    by Sharon Smith
    Accessible, radical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the history of workers' resistance, in Spanish for the first time.

  • Extracting Profit

    by Lee Wengraf
    A piercing historical explanation for poverty and inequality in African societies today, and social impact of resource-driven growth.

  • The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940

    Edited by Tim Davenport and Paul Le Blanc

    Few figures in the history of the American Left can claim a more significant and yet contradictory legacy as Jay Lovestone.

    Lovestone and his...

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Alastair Davidson
    This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.