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Gorz: Strategy for Labor
Book, August, 16 2010
A Program for labor including the idea of non reformist struggles for reforms...
Orwell: Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Book, August, 16 2010
Though a work of fiction, this piece is perhaps the best window into the actual life that Orwell lived through. It captures the many subtle ways that money can pervade and poison "middle-class" life; so much so that the actual poverty of middle c...
Jensen: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Book, August, 14 2010
Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin...
Jensen: All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Book, August, 14 2010
At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl.
Jensen: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
Book, August, 14 2010
In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re...
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Book, August, 14 2010
French thinker and writer Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the United States of America in the mid-nineteenth century.
Collective: Space for Movement?
Book, August, 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 movemen...
Curren: Power Without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain
Book, August, 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 boo...
Milne: The Enemy Within: Thatcher's Secret War Against the Miners
Book, August, 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 with...
Zinn: The Bomb
Book, August, 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 r...
Thompson: Making of the English Working Class
Book, August, 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."-...
Zinn: Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Book, August, 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
Book, August, 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 be...
Brecher: Strike!
Book, August, 12 2010
Originally published in 1972, "Strike!" describes the story of repeated, massive and often violent revolts by ordinary working people in America.
Tripathi: Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan
Book, August, 12 2010
Evaluates the Bush presidency's legacy in terms of the "war on terror"
Mokhiber: Corporate Predators: The Hunt For Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy
Book, August, 12 2010
How are corporations tightening their grip on the global political economy? How does this affect you?
Tabb: The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Book, August, 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
Book, August, 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: Essays on Desire and Democracy
Book, August, 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.
