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  • 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.

  • Power and Resistance

    by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
    Two of the left’s most important academics analyze the politics and economics of US imperialism’s relationship with Latin America.

  • Powers and Prospects

    by Noam Chomsky
    Chomsky lifts the veil of distortions that conceals the workings of history and social policy.

  • The Practical Essence of Man

    Edited by Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen
    This book depicts in detail the rise and fall of a remarkable phenomenon in Soviet Marxism: ‘The Activity Approach.’

  • 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 Preobrazhensky Papers: Archival Documents and Materials

    by Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky
    The documents in this volume, newly discovered and translated into English for the first time, reveal a previously unknown Preobrazhensky.

  • The Prisms of Gramsci

    by Marcos Del Roio
    Del Roio argues, against prevailing wisdom, that throughout Gramsci's life there existed a total continuity between political-praxis and philosophical reflection

  • Profitable Ideas

    by Micheal O'Flynn
    O'Flynn demonstrates the way that liberal ideas have served the interests of capitalist development from their very beginning.

  • Propaganda and the Public Mind

    by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky
    Chomsky offers hope for the future and shows how ordinary citizens, working together, have the power to make change.

  • Prophets Unarmed

    Edited by Gregor Benton
    Drawing on numerous oral history interviews with survivors, this study of Chinese Trotskyism is exhaustive and groundbreaking.

  • Race and Ethnicity

    Edited by Rodney D. Coates
    Scholars dare to contemplate, to evaluate, and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity today.

  • Radical Unionism

    by Ralph Darlington
    Though often seen as opposing ideas, Darlington engagingly traces the entwined legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • Rank and File

    by Alice and Staughton Lynd
    The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s—1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara

    Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx’s masterpiece, Capital.

  • Reading Gramsci

    by Francisco Fernández Buey
    An illuminating and original collection of essays by Spain’s most famous Gramsci scholar, translated to English for the first time.

  • Reading Revolution

    by Ashwin Desai
    Shakespeare's work gives hope and inspiration to the political prisoners held on apartheid South Africa's infamous Robben Island.

  • 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 Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

    by Reiner Tosstorff
    The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.

  • Red October

    by Jeffery R. Webber
    Using extensive field data from hundreds of interviews, Webber surveys the origins of Bolivia's revolutionary wave of 2000 to 2005.

  • Red Petrograd

    by S. A. Smith
    A deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia’s revolutionary year.

  • 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.

  • Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners

    by Martyn Ives
    In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.

  • Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism

    Edited by John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring
    Though far from a 'post-racial' society, the form of race and racism in the U.S. has changed over the years.