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Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

20 posts
Elegy for Mary Turner

by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork

3 posts
Plowshares into Swords

by Arno Mayer

A critical history of Israel and the Arab–Israeli conflict

3 posts
The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68

Edited by Gavin Walker

The story of Japan’s forgotten radical 1968

1 post

The Common Wind

by Julius S. Scott

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

11 posts
Red Flag Wounded

by Ronald Grigor Suny

Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution
The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

41 posts
Radical Hamilton

by Christian Parenti

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism

1 post

The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci

by Perry Anderson

7 posts
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

44 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

28 posts
Searching for Socialism

by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch

A new and essential history of the Labour New Left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn

11 posts

The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

12 posts
A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?
Algiers, Third World Capital

by Elaine Mokhtefi

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics

17 posts
War and Revolution

by Domenico Losurdo

Author of the acclaimed Liberalism: A Counter-History dissects the revisionist attempts to expunge or criminalize revolutions

13 posts

Liberty Against the Law

by Christopher Hill

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of seventeenth-century England
Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

4 posts
The Declaration of Independence

by Thomas Jefferson

The explosive manifesto for the American Revolution, introduced by the co-author of Empire

3 posts
The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic
5 posts

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