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Class War Reading List

In celebration of May Day—international workers' day—and the radical history of the working class, we've put together this Class War Reading List. All of these books are 40% Off until the end of May!

Each book comes with a free ebook (where available), and we offer free shipping inside the US on orders over $35 and inside the UK on orders over £25.

Unite and Win

Unite and Win

by Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
Pamphlet
$10.00
With free bundled ebook
Overworked? Underpaid? Frustrated with your boss?  This guide, based on the collective experience of organizers and workers in non-unionized workplaces, is a critical tool to help you and your cow...
Unions of Our Own

Unions of Our Own

by Daniel Gross
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win. Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or...
Song for a Hard-Hit People

Song for a Hard-Hit People

by Beth Howard
Hardback
$29.95 $26.96 10% off
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An Appalachian organizer’s excavation of the past, her own and her people’s, to spark a collective fight for a future where we all have what we need and deserve In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth...
Class Struggle Unionism

Class Struggle Unionism

by Joe Burns
Paperback
$17.95 $14.36 20% off
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An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers.
Class War, USA

Class War, USA

by Brandon Weber
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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An engaging collection of little known stories of working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.
I Didn't Come Here to Lie

I Didn't Come Here to Lie

by Karen G.J. Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland
Hardback
$27.95 $25.16 10% off
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An intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan. In 2012, Karen Lewis led t...
No Neutrals There

No Neutrals There

by Jeff Schuhrke
Paperback
$24.95 $19.96 20% off
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The definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists ...
Trouble! at Coal Creek

Trouble! at Coal Creek

by Austin Sauerbrei
Paperback
$22.95 $18.36 20% off
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This gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War—one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings in the history of the United States. Told through...
Fake Work

Fake Work

by Leigh Claire La Berge
Hardback
$25.95 $23.36 10% off
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A darkly funny journey into the absurdity of corporate work and Capitalism. "[A] memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil...superbly committed to its own beliefs—truthful, dryly funny...
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent

by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis
Paperback
$17.95 $14.36 20% off
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Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written...
Set the Earth on Fire

Set the Earth on Fire

by David Correia
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern policing. In the early years of the twen...
The Border Crossed Us

The Border Crossed Us

by Justin Akers Chacón
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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A compelling argument that re-building unions requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders.
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

by Andrew Stone Higgins
Paperback
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From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members. The Independent Socialis...
The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

by Frederick Engels and Karl Marx
Paperback
$17.95 $14.36 20% off
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The definitive introduction to history’s most influential and controversial political document, updated for a new generation of readers. Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto ...
Care

Care

by Premilla Nadasen
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care ...
Going for Broke

Going for Broke

Edited by Alissa Quart and David Wallis
Paperback
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A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Execut...
Occupation: Organizer

Occupation: Organizer

by Clément Petitjean
Paperback
$22.95 $18.36 20% off
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A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past. The community organ...
Digging Our Own Graves

Digging Our Own Graves

by Barbara Ellen Smith
Paperback
$23.95 $19.16 20% off
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This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community’s struggle against the deadly black lung disease.
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

by Helen Shiller
Paperback
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Helen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Panther Party alliance to Mayor Harold Washington’s 26th vote to lonely voice against Mayor Richard M. Daley on a myriad of issues.
The Long Deep Grudge

The Long Deep Grudge

by Toni Gilpin
Paperback
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A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American Heartland.
Not Your Rescue Project

Not Your Rescue Project

by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam
Paperback
$21.95 $17.56 20% off
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A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the “anti-trafficking industry”—and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers ...
The Sinking Middle Class

The Sinking Middle Class

by David Roediger
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age

Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age

Edited by Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, et al.
Paperback
$24.00 $19.20 20% off
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This indispensable volume surveys revolutionary upheavals across the world between 1989 and 2019, drawing lessons for theorizing revolution today.
Dying for an iPhone

Dying for an iPhone

by Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, et al.
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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A harrowing look at the lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.
On New Terrain

On New Terrain

by Kim Moody
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US.
Breaking the Impasse

Breaking the Impasse

by Kim Moody
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.
Ours to Master and to Own

Ours to Master and to Own

Edited by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness
Paperback
$20.00 $16.00 20% off
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Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

by Paul Le Blanc
Paperback
$20.00 $16.00 20% off
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Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of the often neglected laboring majority.
Disposable Domestics

Disposable Domestics

by Grace Chang
Paperback
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This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.
Rank and File

Rank and File

Edited by Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd
Paperback
$22.95 $18.36 20% off
The trials and tribulations of firebrand union organizers, from the 1930s 1970s, are brought to life here, in their own words.
The Labor Wars

The Labor Wars

by Sidney Lens
Paperback
$20.00 $16.00 20% off
One of America's great labor historians tells the stories of America's great labor struggles.
Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981

Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981

by Philip S. Foner
Paperback
$22.00 $17.60 20% off
A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (Updated Edition)

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (Updated Edition)

by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
Paperback
$19.95

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Since its original publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the Black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United Sta...
Women and the American Labor Movement

Women and the American Labor Movement

by Philip S. Foner
Paperback
$25.00 $20.00 20% off
A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.
Radicals in the Barrio

Radicals in the Barrio

by Justin Akers Chacón
Paperback
$27.95 $22.36 20% off
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A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.
Bananeras

Bananeras

by Dana Frank
Paperback
$19.95 $15.96 20% off
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Women banana workers—bananeras—are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.
Sin Patrón

Sin Patrón

by lavaca collective
Paperback
$16.00 $12.80 20% off
The inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves.
The Bending Cross

The Bending Cross

by Ray Ginger
Paperback
$24.95 $19.96 20% off
The classic biography of Debs, one of the most important thinkers and activists in US.
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