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Recent Z Books
Collective: Space for Movement?
Aug 14, 2010
In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Boliviaâ??s first indigenous president called for a World Peopleâ??s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). Was this the necessary space for social movements to respond where governments and the UN have failed? Was it an attempt to co-opt radical demands? Following the CMPCC in Cochabamba, April 2010, this booklet reflects on the lessons from Bolivia and the role of movements in the fight for climate justice.
Curren: Power Without Responsibility
Aug 13, 2010
Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. How much power do the media have? Who really controls the media? And what is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays.
Milne: The Enemy Within
Aug 13, 2010
Margaret Thatcher branded Arthur Scargill and the other leaders of the 1984-5 miners' strike ;'the enemy within'. With the publication of this bestselling book a decade later, the full irony of that accusation became clear. There was an enemy within. But it was not the National Union of Mineworkers that was out to subvert liberty. It was the secret services of the British state - operating inside the NUM itself.
Zinn: The Bomb
Aug 12, 2010
Howard Zinn (1922 –2010) was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. Under the GI Bill he went to college and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University
Thompson: English Working Class
Aug 12, 2010
"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement
Zinn: Three Strikes
Aug 12, 2010
When the National Guard arrived in Ludlow, Colorado, in the fall of 1913, striking coal miners cheered. Five months later the Guard opened fire on them and their families. So begins Three Strikes, a collaboration by acclaimed American historians.
Yates: Why Unions Matter
Aug 12, 2010
In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian.
Brecher: Strike!
Aug 12, 2010
Originally published in 1972, "Strike!" describes the story of repeated, massive and often violent revolts by ordinary working people in America.
Tripathi: The Bush Legacy
Aug 12, 2010
Evaluates the Bush presidency's legacy in terms of the "war on terror"
Mokhiber: Corporate Predators
Aug 12, 2010
How are corporations tightening their grip on the global political economy? How does this affect you?
Tabb: The Amoral Elephant
Aug 12, 2010
In November 1999, when more than forty thousand demonstrators in Seattle effectively shut down a World Trade Organization (WTO) conference, we saw what may well have been this country’s largest popular protest of the last twenty years or more.
Bello: Dark Victory
Aug 12, 2010
As we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger.
Tucker: The Queer Question
Aug 12, 2010
The author, a gay health activist and journalist, offers a progressive vision of democracy as an experiment, a process in need of constant renewal, as seen through the lens of the gay rights movement.
Gainsborough: Vietnam
Aug 12, 2010
Vietnam: Rethinking the state offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society
Montgomery: Workers' Control in America
Aug 12, 2010
David Montgomry, a leading American historian and former CP trade unionist, provides classic historical essays from a shop-floor and syndicalist sort of approach.
Tripathi: Breeding Ground
Aug 12, 2010
How Afghanistan became, and may remain,a safe haven for terrorists
Harman: A People's History of the World
Aug 12, 2010
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild - from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the twentieth century. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism, and asks, in a world riven as never before by suffering and inequality, why we imagine that it can - or should - survive much longer. Ambitious, provocative and invigorating, A People's History of the World delivers a vital corrective to traditional history, as well as a powerful sense of the deep currents of humanity which surge beneath the froth of government.
Weis: Global Food Economy
Aug 11, 2010
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women
Aug 11, 2010
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues that the "feminization of poverty" is not a recent development but dates back to colonial times.
Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness
Aug 11, 2010
Powerful presentation of feminist theory and analysis...
