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  • The Austrian Revolution

    by Otto Bauer

    The definitive work on Eastern Europe’s revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna

  • Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age

    Edited by Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, et al.

    This indispensable volume surveys revolutionary upheavals across the world between 1989 and 2019, drawing lessons for theorizing revolution today.

  • Under the Socialist Banner

    Edited by Mike Taber

    A collection of all the resolutions adopted by Second International congresses during the movement 's revolutionary Marxist period of 1889-1912.

  • Capitalism, Technology, Labor

    Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, et al.

    This volume offers a radical critique of techno-utopianism, instead seeing innovation as a field of ongoing class struggle.

  • Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

    Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

    This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in socialist organizing and of socialism in the struggle to free Palestine.

  • Revolutions

    by Michael Löwy

    Revolutions is a unique collection of rare photographs documenting some of the most important revolutionary upheavals, from the 1871 Paris Commune to the Zapatista rebellion of the 1990s.

  • A People's Guide to Capitalism

    by Hadas Thier

    A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%

  • Berkeley

    by Hal Draper

    Brimming with lessons still relevant for today's activists, Berkeley: The Student Revolt is a classic of on-the-ground historical reportage.

  • The Socialist Challenge Today

    by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    A newly updated and expanded primer for 21st-century democratic socialists from acclaimed scholars Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, with Stephen Maher.

  • The Living Flame

    by Paul Le Blanc

    A remarkable collection of essays illuminating Rosa Luxemburg's tremendous contributions to revolutionary struggle and enduring relevance.

  • The Adventures of The Communist Manifesto

    by Hal Draper

    A new, definitive, translation of the Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' Communist Mannifesto by American socialist luminary, Hal Draper.

  • The Ballot, the Streets—or Both

    by August H. Nimtz

    Lenin's Electoral Strategy focuses on Lenin's approach to electoral politics and what he and other Marxists terms the institutions of bourgeois democracy, drawing on Bolshevik debates and Marx and Engel's own writings to show this to be a central feature of their revolutionary strategy.

  • In the Red Corner

    by Mike Gonzalez
    The first English-language biography of one of Latin America’s most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers.

  • Capitalism and Disability

    by Marta Russell

    This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara

    Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx’s masterpiece, Capital.

  • Socialism From Below

    by Hal Draper

    In exploring the question: "What do we mean by socialism?,” Hal Draper argues genuine liberation can be won only through self-emancipation.

  • Ten Days that Shook the World

    by John Reed

    A new edition of John Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, 100 years since its first publication.

  • Keywords

    by John Patrick Leary

    A lexicon of our age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership.

  • Class, Party, Revolution

    Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, et al.
    An expertly selected collection of articles on class, party, and revolution from one of the world’s most important socialist journals

  • Capitalism and Theory: Selected Writings of Michael Kidron

    by Michael Kidron

    The essential writings of one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of recent decades, collected in one volume for the first time

  • Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith

    This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • A James Connolly Reader

    by James Connolly
    A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.

  • Revolutionary Democracy

    by Soma Marik
    Complete with a new introduction, Revolutionary Democracy argues that Marxism, including pre-revolution Bolshevism, has historically been firmly aligned with democracy.