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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.
Gainsborough: Vietnam: Rethinking the State
Book, August, 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: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles
Book, August, 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: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism
Book, August, 12 2010
How Afghanistan became, and may remain,a safe haven for terrorists
Harman: A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Book, August, 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 ...
Weis: The Global Food Economy
Book, August, 11 2010
The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.
Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
Book, August, 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, Man's World
Book, August, 11 2010
Powerful presentation of feminist theory and analysis...
Rowbotham: Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Book, August, 11 2010
As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham's A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States is a monumental study--scholarly, readable, well-illustrated, well-indexed--of Western women's experience in the 20th century.
Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
Book, August, 11 2010
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Weinbaum: The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism
Book, August, 11 2010
A classic text...
Hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Book, August, 11 2010
In this South End Press classic, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
Tokar: Toward Climate Justice
Book, August, 11 2010
Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies, and dissects the events that shaped the diplom...
Bookchin: Remaking Society
Book, August, 11 2010
Remaking Society is a primer on Murray Bookchin's ideas.
Bramhall: The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee
Book, August, 10 2010
Intense government harassment leads a 54-year old psychiatrist, single mother and community activist to close her 25-year Seattle practice to begin a new life in New Zealand.
Anderson: Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment
Book, August, 10 2010
"A terrific resource. The very essence of the case against genetic engineering--clearly, simply, and authoritatively explained. -- Bob Phelps
Shiva: Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
Book, August, 10 2010
In this pioneering work, Vandana Shiva looks at the history of development and progress, stripping away the neutral language of science to reveal third-world development policy as the global twin of the industrial revolution.
Shiva: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Book, August, 10 2010
Starting in the 16th century with the initial enclosure of the British commons, Shiva reveals how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and privatized.
Shiva: Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Book, August, 10 2010
Vandana Shiva continues her path-breaking work on uncovering the devastating human and environmental impacts of corporate-engineered international trade agreements.
Shiva: Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Book, August, 10 2010
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.
Shiva: Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Book, August, 10 2010
A world-renowned environmental leader presents an expose of the privatization of water that threatens the livelihood of the people in the South.
Guerin: No Gods, No Masters
Book, August, 07 2010
Guerin's classic anthology of anarchism translated and reprinted, available for the first time in a single volume.
Guerin: Anarchism: Theory and Practice
Book, August, 07 2010
"One of the ablest leaders and writers of the French New Left describes the two realms of â??anarchismâ???its intellectual substance, and its actual practice through the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Factory Councils, an...
Hahnel: ABC's of Political Economy
Book, August, 07 2010
The ABCs of Political Economy is an accessible introduction to modern political economy. While informed by the work of Marx, Keynes, Veblen, Kalecki and other great political economists, Robin Hahnel teaches the reader the essential tools necessar...
Albert: Marxism and Socialist Theory
Book, August, 07 2010
In this volume, Albert and Hahnel offer an assessment of previous theories such as orthodox Marxism, feminism, and nationalism. They propose a unique new perspective for developing an alternative socialist vision.
Albert: Socialism Today and Tomorrow
Book, August, 07 2010
Albert and Hahnel critically evaluate the post-capitalist experiences of the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, and present a relevant alternative to the US and other industrialized countries.
Albert: Political Economy of Participatory Economics
Book, August, 07 2010
After explaining why hierarchical production, inegalitarian consumption, central planning, and market allocations are incompatible with "classlessness," the authors present an alternative model of democratic workers' and consumers' councils operat...
Bookchin: Post Scarcity Anarchism
Book, August, 07 2010
Considers the connections between ecological and revolutionary thought, presents arguments that the world had newly arrived at conditions of post-scarcity and technological efficiency that offer liberatory potentials for industrial and agricultura...
Albert: Thought Dreams
Book, August, 07 2010
How do social and political theories work, and how do they relate to each other? In Thought Dreams, Michael Albert discusses these questions. It will help readers better understand progressive theories and begin to create their own theoretical per...
Albert: Realizing Hope
Book, August, 07 2010
A broad look at diverse sides of social life - proposing alternatives and strategy - economics, politics, kinship, culture, ecology, international relations, and more...
Albert: Thinking Forward
Book, August, 07 2010
A highly accessible and unorthodox approach to thinking about economics. It subverts the elitist and codified world of academic economics by empowering the reader with the tools needed to conceptualize an economy based on progressive and humane va...
Braverman: Labor and Monopoly Capital
Book, August, 07 2010
This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship ...
Albert: Trajectory of Change
Book, August, 07 2010
The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization.
Albert: Unorthodox Marxism
Book, August, 07 2010
Presents and Critiques Marxist Theory then moving on to address diverse other perspectives...
Albert: Looking Forward
Book, August, 07 2010
A classic and very accessible work on particpatory economics and alternatives to the market.
Kropotkin: Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets
Book, August, 07 2010
The collected writings of Peter Kropotkin.
Rocker: Anarcho Syndicalism
Book, August, 07 2010
An introduction to anarchist ideas, a history of the international workers movement and an outline of the strategies and tactics embraced at the time. A prolific writer and speaker,
Chomsky: New World of Indigenous Resistance
Book, August, 06 2010
Indigenous societies today face difficult choices: can they develop, modernize, and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal identity?
Bookchin: The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868–1936
Book, July, 20 2010
This popular, well-researched book opens with the Italian Anarchist Fanelli's stirring visit to Spain in 1868 and traces the movement's checkered but steady growth for the next seventy years.
TISSOT-TEVANIAN: Les Mots Sont Importants
Book, July, 18 2010
Articles parus sur www.lmsi.net entre 2000 et 2010.
Wolff: Capitalism Hits the Fan
Book, July, 13 2010
Economist Richard Wolff provides a diary like account of the development of the latest capitalist downturn.
Bateman: Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism
Book, July, 08 2010
In this provocative and controversial analysis, Milford Bateman reveals that microfinance doesn't actually work. Using a multitude of case studies from across the globe he exposes why many of its most fundamental building blocks are largely myths.
Zibechi: Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
Book, July, 01 2010
This, Raúl Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like the movements it describes, e...
Roy: Listening to Grasshoppers
Book, June, 20 2010
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy
Conant: A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency
Book, June, 19 2010
"Being a true tale of a possible better world in its first untamed imaginings."
Allen: The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality
Book, March, 11 2010
Authoritative but provocative, The Lord's Resistance Army provides the most comprehensive analysis of the group available, dismantling numerous myths and providing a wealth of information that is not widely known.
Vltchek: Oceania
Book, March, 04 2010
"André Vltchek has compiled a stunning record in evoking the reality of the contemporary world, not as perceived through the distorting prisms of power and privilege, but as lived by the myriad victims. He has also not failed to trace the painful ...
Vltchek: Oceania
Book, March, 04 2010
"André Vltchek has compiled a stunning record in evoking the reality of the contemporary world, not as perceived through the distorting prisms of power and privilege, but as lived by the myriad victims. He has also not failed to trace the painful ...
Shah: The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Book, February, 23 2010
An urgent, far-reaching examination of one of the deadliest diseases in history. In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have ...
Vltchek: Oceania
Book, February, 13 2010
"André Vltchek has compiled a stunning record in evoking the reality of the contemporary world, not as perceived through the distorting prisms of power and privilege, but as lived by the myriad victims. He has also not failed to trace the painful ...
Vltchek: Saya Terbakar Amarah Sendirian: Pramoedya Ananta Toer dalam perbincangan dengan Andre Vltchek dan Rossie Indira
Book, February, 13 2010
Pramoedya Ananta Toer telah memutuskan untuk berhenti berkarya dan buku ini membeberkan alasan mengapa keputusan itu diambil. Pramoedya membeberkan alasan-alasannya yang tidak lain merupakan kelanjutan dari apa yang sudah ditulis dalam buku-buku P...
Vltchek: Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad
Book, February, 13 2010
Western Terror is a book of essays and political commentaries by Andre Vltchek that revisits many complex regional conflicts on our planet, including in the United States, Iraq, India, East Timor, Indonesia, and Latin America.
Vltchek: Point of No Return
Book, February, 13 2010
Point of No Return shows the world through the eyes of a war correspondent, visiting places that are rarely covered by the mainstream media, offering provocative points of view about the pitiful state of today's world, its disparities and scandalo...
Vltchek: EXILE: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Book, February, 12 2010
“Fascinating... endlessly sad.”—Noam Chomsky In these remarkable interviews with André Vltchek and Rossie Indira, Indonesia’s most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses pe...
Bricmont: Impostures intellectuelles
Book, February, 07 2010
Impostures Intellectuelles est un ouvrage d'Alan Sokal et Jean Bricmont publié en 1997.
Davis: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Book, February, 02 2010
A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the powerful story of an enslaved youth coming into social and moral consciousness by disobeying his white slavemasters and secretly teaching himself to read. Achievin...
