Topic: World Revolutionary History


$9.75 Add to Cart	May Day: A Short History 1886 - 1996 This is the story of May Day, a holiday born in the U.S. a hundred years ago and since 1890 celebrated by working people the world over. In this short history, Philip Foner clarifies the dramatic origins of labor's May Day and recounts many highlights of May Day celebrations through the years. A history that continues to be written, in light of the millions strong immigrant rights marches on the first of May, 2006. MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	The Defense Speaks for History and the Future Opening defense statement at The Hague by President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic. With and introduction by Ramsey Clark. MORE INFO
$17.95 Add to Cart	A People's History of Science Miners Midwives and Low Mechaniks By Clifford D. Conner "A delightfully refreshing new look at the history of science."—Howard Zinn MORE INFO
$10.95 Add to Cart	Malcolm X on Afro-American History When we send our children to school they learn nothing about us other than that we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; ... and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. ...—Malcolm X, June 28th,1964 MORE INFO
$17.95 Add to Cart	Negroes With Guns by Robert F Williams First published in 1962, "Negroes with Guns" is the story of a Southern Black community's struggle to defend itself with guns against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. MORE INFO
$15.00 Add to Cart	Forever Free by Eric Foner Illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown The story of emancipation and reconstruction. No event in the history of the United States is more important than the social revolution that emancipated four million enslaved Africans. MORE INFO
$17.95 Add to Cart	The Huey P Newton Reader The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the Black Liberation era. MORE INFO
$6.95 Add to Cart	John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois On October 16, 1859, John Brown and a group of 22 men launched a courageous attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia to obtain weapons and arm the slaves... "…this book is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real souls of black folk."—W.E.B. DuBois MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces por Ignacio Ramonet Sociólogo, teórico de la cultura, periodista y una de las voces más representativas del movimiento altermundista, Ignacio Ramonet ha logrado desvelar —tres semanas de intensas conversaciones— las claves de la Revolución cubana a través de la biografía humana y política del último monstruo sagrado, de la política internacional: el polémico Fidel Castro. MORE INFO
$15.95 Add to Cart	Fidel: En la Memoria del Joven Que Es Con estas palabras, Fidel Castro describe cómo pueden transcurrir más de setenta años de vida y continuar siendo el joven que, en el decir del Che Guevara, se rebeló "en contra de las oligarquias y los dogmas revolucionarios". MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	Cuban Revolution Reader: A Documentary History of 40 Key Moments of the Cuban Revolution Edited by Julio Garcia Luis. The Cuban Revolution was one of the defining moments of the 20th century, reaching far beyond the shores of the tiny Caribbean island. This new Reader documents the past four decades of Cuban history and its tumultuous revolution. MORE INFO
$24.95 Add to Cart	The Annexation of Mexico: From the Aztecs to the I.M.F. by John Ross From a 1995 winner of the American Book Award (Rebellion From the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas) comes a rip-roaring review of Mexico's 500-year resistance to annexation. MORE INFO
$18.95 Add to Cart	War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles by John Ross John Ross is a celebrated chronicler of Mexico's indigenous Zapatista rebels whose January 1st, 1994 uprising—in the first hours of the North American Free Trade Agreement—set off a chain of events that continues to challenge the corporate globalization of the planet. MORE INFO
$16.95 Add to Cart	The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti A Peoples's History of Ancient Rome Why did a coterie of Roman senators assassinate their fellow aristocrat and celebrated ruler, Julius Caesar? An inquiry into this incident reveals something important about the nature of political rule, class power and a people's struggle for democracy and social justice—issues that are still very much with us. MORE INFO
$11.95 Add to Cart	Rebel Lives: Sacco & Vanzetti edited by John Davis Italian immigrants and anarchists framed by the state and executed for murder in Boston during the Red Scare of the 1920’s. An illuminating example of how immigrants, anarchists and communists were the “terrorists” of yesteryear ... MORE INFO
$9.95 Add to Cart	Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed The book featured in Warren Beatty's film "Reds." Covering the decisive moment of the Bolshevik revolution, John Reed's first-hand portrayal is a classic of world revolutionary history. MORE INFO
$7.95 Add to Cart	One Hundred Red Hot Years Big Moments of the 20th Century Preface by Eduardo Galeano. This book presents a thrilling ride through the 20th Century — 100 years of revolution, reaction and resistance. MORE INFO
$12.00 Add to Cart	War Talk The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Arundhati Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things. MORE INFO
$29.95 Add to Cart	State of the Race Creating our 21st Century The State of the Race is a collection of cutting edge essays by renowned activists, organizers and scholars examining the critical local, national, and international perspectives of African Americans, African Caribbeans, African Latina/os and other African people. MORE INFO
$18.95 Add to Cart	The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer, evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle.—Coretta Scott King MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	Cuba y Venezuela - reflexiones y debates Cuba y Venezuela es un resúmen analítico sobre la Revolución cubana, y a la vez una comparación histórica entre la misma y el proceso de cambios que hoy acontece en Venezuela con la Revolución bolivariana. MORE INFO
$15.95 Add to Cart	The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	Through A Glass Darkly by William Hinton Moving from large questions to concrete details, often drawn from his own experiences, Hinton brings everyday life in revolutionary China graphically to life. MORE INFO
$5.00 Add to Cart	Indonesia: The Second Greatest Crime of the Century By Deirdre Griswold. This pamphlet tells of the massacres following the October 1, 1965, military takeover that decimated the Indonesian left. MORE INFO
$18.95 Add to Cart	Che Guevara and the Latin American Revolution The author, Manuel Piñeiro known as "Barbarroja," or "Red Beard," was a figure of great mystery for decades. This book includes many extraordinary new revelations about Cuba's role in Latin America and some profound insights into Che Guevara's life and legacy. MORE INFO
$10.95 Add to Cart	Cold War: Warnings for a Unipolar World by Fidel Castro Who won the Cold War? In an astonishingly frank interview, Cuba's Fidel Castro makes some remarkable revelations about the conflict that took the world to the brink of annihilation. MORE INFO
$18.00 Add to Cart	Market Elections: How Democracy Serves the Rich Every four years, big money chooses the presidential candidates. Their war chests filled to the brim, they are then packaged by the media as "the people's choice." It's U.S.-style democracy-of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. But how do these chosen politicians win the votes of the millions as well as the millionaires? MORE INFO
$6.95 Add to Cart	The Bolsheviks and War by Sam Marcy What distinguished the Bolsheviks from the other parties in the Socialist International? Was Lenin's focus on building the party a distraction from the anti-war struggle—or a necessary part of it? Sam Marcy in this book reexamines questions long at issue in the progressive movement ... MORE INFO
$29.95 Add to Cart	America, My Brother, My Blood América, Mi Hermano, Mi Sangre This is a stunning book of poetry and art by Pablo Neruda and Oswaldo Guayasamín. Bilingual in English and Spanish. MORE INFO
$16.95 Add to Cart	Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur, long projected by the media and the state. MORE INFO
$17.95 Add to Cart	Humanitarian Imperialism Using Human Rights to Sell War By Jean Bricmont. Human rights as a justification for U.S. intervention is examined and exposed as arbitrary, self-serving and extremely destructive. MORE INFO
$15.95 Add to Cart	Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to "do something," you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book. MORE INFO