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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
This shares much in common with Z Magazine. It's monthly. It's fiercely anti-capitalist, and independent. It's superb. It ought to be mandatory reading for anyone/everyone w ho cares even a teensy bit about what's going on, and how to change it for the better. Each month brings one a digest-sized, spined, 64 page magazine, typically with three lengthy essays/articles, and a plethora of reviews, and an...
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The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933–1940 - Irving Bernstein and Frances Fox Piven (Introduction by)
From the birth of the CIO to the sit-down strikes that helped to organize the auto industry, the 1930s have come to define the high point of labor militancy. In this groundbreaking work of labor history, Irving Bernstein uncovers a period when industrial trade unionism, working-class power, and socialism became rallying cries for millions of workers in the fields, mills, mines, and factories of America. ...
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The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933 - Irving Bernstein and Frances Fox Piven (Introduction by)
The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the "roaring twenties" looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to p...
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Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class - Jefferson Cowie
An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore—makes new sense of the '70s as...
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Malcolm X, Black Liberation & the Road to Workers Power - Jack Barnes
The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to cities and factories across the continent, drawn by capital's insatiable need for labor power—and cannon fodder for its wars. Malcolm X emerged from this rising struggle as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colo...
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Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis - Kari Lydersen
December 5, 2008: It wasn't supposed to work like this. Days after getting a $45 billion bailout from the USgovernment, Bank of America shut down a line of credit that kept Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory operating. The bosses, who knew what was coming, had been sneaking machinery out in the middle of the night. They closed the factory and sent the workers home. Then something surprising happened:...
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Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global - Paul Mason
The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I.

It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candleligh...
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ASR: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
It's been far too long since we carried this venerable journal,and it's a pleasure to have it back. Venerable it may be, but it remains perhaps the most vital, engaging, relevant and informative anarchist magazine today. The essays and articles pertain more than most, both theoretically, and practically, not just to 'everyday' concerns, but those that ought to concern anyone interested in putting the movemen...
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Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World - Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
This title is now available! Order now to get 25% off the regular list price of $24.00!

The world's energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, and its future is up for grabs.

A worldwide struggle over who controls the sector, and for what purposes, is intensifying. "Green capitalism" is the word of the hour, and we're being told that it's finally time to "save the planet" in o...
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Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay - Ilan Stavans
Who was César Chávez? Here, an essay and photographs restore this man to his place in American history.

The real César Chávez got lost in the hoopla. Many think he was a Mexican boxer. Young people think he's that guy on the stamp or that statue in the park. No wonder it's difficult, especially for our young people, to understand his human complexities and the struggles to ...
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