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My First Life

by Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words

8 posts
Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

2 posts
Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

Political theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

55 posts
The Age of Jihad

by Patrick Cockburn

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration

23 posts

Rethinking the French Revolution

by George Comninel
“Bold and convincing.”—Village Voice
7 posts
Pinochet and Me

by Marc Cooper
“Masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy.”—Warren Beatty
4 posts
The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post
Iran Without Borders

by Hamid Dabashi
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
6 posts

Iran Without Borders

by Hamid Dabashi
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
6 posts
Buda’s Wagon

by Mike Davis
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
17 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

23 posts
Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

4 posts

If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

71 posts
Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World

20 posts
The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism

by Mike Davis

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes - the Avian flu, SARS, and now, Covid-19

3 posts
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

by Mike Davis

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States

27 posts

Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

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

20 posts
Auschwitz Report

by Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi
Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery
4 posts
Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East

by Mike de Seve

Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy

12 posts
The Assassination of Lumumba

by Ludo De Witte

Re-issue of a classic investigation into the CIA and Belgian state plot in the Congo

4 posts

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