History

Hesitant Comrades. The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement

Geoffrey Bell

The first published history of the troubled relationship between the British working class and the movement for Irish independence covering the revolutionary period of 1916-21 .

War Against the People. Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

Jeff Halper

War Against the People focuses on Israel's unique role in international affairs, highlighting how it promotes a global system of militarism and domestic control – a form of "global Palestine." Jeff Halper investigates how Israel exports the weaponry and techniques of occupation. He shows how it uses the West Bank and Gaza as a "laboratory" for the development of these weapons, instruments of population control and models of permanent pacification. These are used not only to armies but internal security agencies and police forces as well. Halper locates Israel's system of pacification within the broader project of global "transcapital pacification." War Against the People provides a valuable window into the workings of pacification on a global level and the latest in military and counter-insurgency doctrine, outlining critical aspects of global politics that activists often miss in their struggle for global justice.

The Women Incendiaries

Edith Thomas

The long out-of-print classic about women in the Paris Commune of 1871.

The Political Economy of Racism

Melvin Leiman

"An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States."--Science & Society Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it.

Sexuality And Socialism. History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation

Sherry Wolf

Sexuality and Socialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Inside are essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression--including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory--and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality. "Sexuality and Socialism is the most intelligent and enlightened discussion on sexuality to come from the Left in a long time. No other work that comes to my mind explains the history of sexuality and sexual repression in the United States as comprehensively and compellingly."--Ron Jacobs, Dissident Voice "Sherry Wolf: Lesbian, Activist, Communist & Badass-ist... spoke to a pre-National Equality March rally. She. Blew. It. Up."--Austin Chronicle "Sherry speaks with such eloquence and plain common sense that I can't help but want to know more about her ideas and convictions."--Derek Washington, "In the LV" radio host, Director of LGBT Outreach, Clark County Democratic Black Caucus "The icons of the new generation of activists are people like Lady Gaga, Dustin Lance Black, Judy Shephard, Lt. Daniel Choi (ret.) and Sherry Wolf (author of Sexuality and Socialism)."--Don Gorton, Join the Impact Board Member "Surprisingly funny, very readable and a fitting tome for a new movement in these troubled times."--Dave Zirin for Progressive's Best Books of 2009 "'What humans have constructed they can tear down.' This is the powerful insight of this rare book that is at once politically important, theoretically and historically sophisticated, and clearly written. Sexuality and Socialism is enlivened in its engagement with a number of controversies, including those over the alleged biological determination of homosexuality, the myth of Black homophobia, and the consequences of postmodernist theories for the politics of gay liberation. Above all else, Wolf puts forward a cogent defense of the Marxist tradition--long and wrongly reviled as homophobic in itself--as a way to explain how LGBT oppression arose and what we can do to put it to bed."--Dana Cloud, University of Texas at Austin Sherry Wolf is the associate editor of the International Socialist Review. She was on the executive committee of the National Equality March Oct. 11, 2009 and has written for publications including the Nation, MRZine, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, and Socialist Worker and speaks frequently across the country on the struggle for LGBT liberation as well as a wide range of social and economic justice issue.

The Essence Of Capitalism. The Origins of Our Future.

Humphrey McQueen

Their End is Our Beginning. Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition

Brian Bean

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did "modern policing" as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates policing? In this clear and comprehensive account of why and how the police--the linchpin of capitalism--function and exist, organizer and author brian bean presents a clear case for the abolition of policing and capitalism. Their End Is Our Beginning traces the roots and development of policing in global capitalism through colonial rule, racist enslavement, and class oppression, along the way arguing how police power can be challenged and, ultimately, abolished. bean draws from extensive interviews with activists from Mexico to Ireland to Egypt, all of whom share compelling and knowledgeable perspectives on what it takes to--even if temporarily--take down the cops and build a thriving community-organized society, free from the police. The lessons they offer bring nuance to the meaning of "solidarity" and clarity to what "abolition" and "revolution" look like in practice. Featuring illustrations by Chicago-based artist Charlie Aleck, Their End Is Our Beginning is an incendiary book that offers a socialist analysis of policing and the capitalist state, a vital discussion of the contours of abolition at large, and the revolutionary logic needed for liberation.

Revolutionary Rehearsals In The Neoliberal Age

Colin Barker, Gareth Dale & Neil Davidson (eds)

This indispensable volume surveys revolutionary upheavals across the world between 1989 and 2019, drawing lessons for theorizing revolution today.

Red International and Black Caribbean. Communists in New York, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939

Margaret Stevens

The Red Army Faction A Documentary History. Volume 2: Dancing With Imperialism

J. Smith & André Moncourt

Vol. 1 presents all of the translated manifestos and communiquaes issued by the Red Army Faction between 1970 and 1977. Vol. 2 will present those issued through 1993. The set includes additional essays.

One Hundred Red Hot Years. Big Moments of the 20^th^ Century

Deborah Shnookal (ed)

A thrilling ride through a century of revolution, reaction and resistance

Revolutions in Danger. Writings From Russia 1919-1921.

Victor Serge

Assailed by counter-revolution from within and without, Victor Serge brings to life the unwavering revolutionary commitment of red Petrograd.

The Kronstadt Uprising

Ida Mett

The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 was one of the most important yet often overlooked events of the Russian civil war. The bloody suppression of the rebels by the 'government of the workers and peasants' marked the final blow to any hopes of a genuine popular revolution based on democratic self-management.

Pit Sense Versus the State. A History of Militant Miners in the Doncaster Area.

David Douglass

Sylvia Pankhurst a Life in Radical Politics

Mary Davis

Israel's foreign policy is perceived to be essentially a defensive one by the international community. Why then is it the only nuclear power which refuses to sign the Non-Poliferation Treaty? What are its true foreign and nuclear policies? Using the Hebrew press as his main source, veteran human rights campaigner Israel Shahak reveals Israel's strategic foreign policy as presented through its own domestic media: ie what other Israeli Jews are told. He argues that the Israeli government, with the support of the US Jewish lobby, are conducting a global policy aiming to control virtually the whole of the Middle East for their own purposes.

New Forms of Worker Organisation. The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism

Immanuel Ness

Bureaucratic labour unions are under assault throughout the world. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-20th century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. The decline of labour unions has exposed workers throughout the world to capitalist absolutism, and now many workers are rejecting leaders and forming unions rooted in direct action. This is the first book to compile workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.

Under The Socialist Banner. Resolutions of the Second International 1889-1912

Mike Taber (ed)

A collection of all the resolutions adopted by Second International congresses during the movement's revolutionary Marxist period of 1889-1912.

Imperialism and War. Classic Writings by V. I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukharin

Vladimir I. Lenin, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

The two founding texts of the analysis of capitalism and imperialism in one volume, with annotation.

Clara Zetkin Selected Writings

Philip S. Foner (ed)

Essays and speeches from 1889-1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.

The Stalinist Legacy. It's Impact on Twentieth-Century World Politics

Traiq Ali (ed)

Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.

The Unknown Revolution

Voline

The untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries.

The Seizure of State Power

Michael Velli

Making Sense of Anarchism. Errico Malatesta's Experiments With Revolution, 1889-1900

Davide Turcato

Davide Turcato makes the relevance of history dynamically clear. Through a biographical account of Errico Malatesta's revolutionary exploits over a decade, Making Sense of Anarchism is simultaneously a critique of how history is written and an outline of political tensions and debates that continue to this day. Taking traditional historians of anarchism to task for prejudicial characterisation of anarchism as 'irrational', Turcato shows how treating anarchists as rational can help make sense of anarchist tendencies of all eras, including today.

May Days Barcelona 1937

Augustin Souchy et. al

Eyewitness reports of the crushing counter-revolution from Augustin Souchy, Jose Peirats, Burnett Bolloten and Emma Goldman. This 'minor' incident in the Spanish Civil War claimed more casualties in the armed struggle that took place, than in the first week of the military uprising in Barcelona on July 19th 1936.