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Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other US historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and US history, many never before published, covers more than four decades of his active engagement with the audiences he inspired with his...
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Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed AmericaAn essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.--Jonathan Lethem Occupying Wall Street] runs through OWS' beginnings and provides a fascinating look at how Zucotti Park functioned, the disagreements and difficulties in running the community,...
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The Meaning of MarxismLong-considered dead by mainstream critics, the basic ideas of Karl Marx are brought to life in this overview of his thought. This book argues that instead of irrelevant, Marx's ideas of globalization, oppression, and social change are more important than ever.Paul D'Amato is managing...
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Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-DownThis sparkling story of intrepid young women is not just a strike narrative of the Great Depression, but echoes down to our own times. Dana Frank is always on the side of those who are willing to fight --Nelson Lichtenstein, Director, Center for the...
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Lessons for Our StrugglePiven has embodied the best of American democracy.--The Nation Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if we are going to advance the struggles of the present. Frances Fox Piven is the...
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Women and Socialism (Revised and Updated Edition): Class, Race and CapitalMore than forty years after the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women's movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that...
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The Democrats: A Critical History (Updated Edition)Offering a broad historical perspective, Selfa shows how the Democratic Party has time and again betrayed the aspirations of ordinary people while pursuing an agenda favorable to Wall Street and U.S. imperial ambitions. He examines the relationship between party leaders and social movements, from...
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Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical AssessmentUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the revolution's impact and legacy.Author: Samuel FarberPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 12/13/2011Pages:...
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The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and MarxismWinner of the Premio internazionale Giuseppe Sormani 2011, awarded by the Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci in Turin for the best book/article on Gramsci in the period between 2007-2011 internationally. Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and...
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Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of MarxWe've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September-October 2008,...
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Rosa LuxemburgStriking the right balance between personal insight and political analysis, this biography traces Rosa Luxemburg's development from a humble Polish girl with a keen interest in herding geese to the most important leader of the German Communist Party.Author: Paul FrölichPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 11/16/2010Pages: 340Binding...
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Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent RevolutionLöwy's book is the first attempt to analyze, in a systematic way, how the theories of uneven and combined development, and of the permanent revolution &mdash inseparably linked &mdash emerged in the writings of thinkers such as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Such radical...
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Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena SixThis is the most important book I've read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called 'The People's History of the Storm.' Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines.--Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues...
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Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political EconomyThis book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can make a substantial contribution to ecological economics. The analysis is developed in terms of four basic issues: (1) nature and economic...
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The Audacity of Hope"A government that truly represents these Americans-that truly serves these Americans-will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won't be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to...
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The Ohio Politics Almanac: Third Edition, Revised and UpdatedThe "Bible" of Ohio politics Roughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, "I think there is only one thing in the world I can't understand, and that is Ohio politics." If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have...
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The Election of 1860 ReconsideredThe election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate in the bloodiest conflict the United States had ever...
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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires: A New History of the BorderlandsThe task of implementing an effective US policy and cementing Afghani rule is hampered by what Isby sees as separate but overlapping conflicts between terrorism, narcotics, and regional rivalries, each requiring different strategies to resolve. Pulling these various threads together will be the challenge...
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Trauma Room One: The JFK Medical Coverup ExposedThe doctors who tried to save President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Hospital in November of 1963 agreed-either out of respect or fear-not to publish what they had seen, heard, and felt. Then in 1990, one of the Dallas surgeons who worked on JFK...
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The Social ContractWise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood. There are a thousand kinds of ideas which it is impossible to translate into popular language. Conceptions that are too general and...
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