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  I, Rigoberta Menchú

  by Rigoberta Menchú

  Introduction by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

  Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

  Translated by Ann Wright

  Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross i...
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  Trampling Out the Vintage

  by Frank Bardacke

  In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan “Yes, we can”—in the form “¡Sí, Se Puede!”—winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm worker...
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  City of Quartz

  by Mike Davis

  No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mi...
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  An Act of State

  by William F. Pepper

  On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers ...
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  American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

  by Perry Anderson

  Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...
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  Moral Abdication

  by Didier Fassin

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Wes...
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  The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

  by Andreas Malm

  Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted ...
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  You Can't Please All

  by Tariq Ali

  The revolutionary upsurge of 1968–1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of You Can’t Please All. Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to w...
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  A History of Vodka

  by William Pokhlebkin

  Translated by Renfrey Clarke

  Savored by peasants and Tsars, condemned by clerics and the architects of perestroika, vodka has been the joy and scourge of the Russian nation for centuries. But what are the origins of the Russia...