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Imperialism & War

  • After the Cataclysm

    by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
    Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and
    the Pol Pot regime.

  • Aftershocks of Disaster

    Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

    An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

  • American Insurgents

    by Richard Seymour
    From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.

  • The American Way of War

    by Tom Engelhardt
    The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.

  • The Battle For Paradise

    by Naomi Klein

    “We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it...

  • Beyond the Green Zone

    by Dahr Jamail
    The critically acclaimed account of life in Iraq under US occupation with a new afterword.

  • Blood and Money

    by David McNally

    Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human bondage.

  • Border and Rule

    by Harsha Walia

    An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

  • The Changing Face of Empire

    by Nick Turse
    The Changing Face of Empire is a devastating anatomy of the U.S. military’s new six-point program for twenty-first-century war.

  • Concerning Violence

    Edited by Göran Olsson and Sophie Vukovic
    A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the '60s and 70's.

  • Confronting Empire

    by Eqbal Ahmad and David Barsamian
    Brilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Culture and Resistance

    by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said

    Edward W. Said discusses the importance and centrality of popular resistance in the framework of culture, history, and struggle. He reveals...

  • Culture of Terrorism

    by Noam Chomsky
    This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal.

  • The Debt System

    by Éric Toussaint

    This compelling, provocative, and accessible volume offers a rejoinder to the prevailing wisdom that views debt as holy writ.

  • Diary of Bergen-Belsen

    by Hanna Levy-Hass
    The sole surviving diary of a Holocaust resistance fighter, written from inside the Nazi concentration camps.

  • Dissent: Voices of Conscience

    by Susan Dixon and Ann Wright
    Stories of men and women, who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom for truth.

  • The End of Imagination

    by Arundhati Roy
    Brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time.

  • Fateful Triangle

    by Noam Chomsky
    A comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the "disgraceful and extremely dangerous" policy the US has enacted towards Israel.

  • The Forging of the American Empire

    by Sidney Lens
    This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • Friendly Fire

    by Giuliana Sgrena
    Giuliana Sgrena brings us inside the U.S. occupation of Iraq as no other journalist has.

  • Hopes and Prospects

    by Noam Chomsky
    In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century.

  • Imperialism and War

    by Nikolai Bukharin and V. I. Lenin
    The two founding texts of the analysis of capitalism and imperialism in one volume, with annotation.

  • Impossible Revolution

    by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
    Saleh urges us to oppose intervention of imperialist powers in Syria, and reject the tyranny of the Assad regime.