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Seizing Freedom

by David R. Roediger

Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil War

16 posts
The Seasons of Trouble

by Rohini Mohan

“Gripping and profoundly moving ... an astonishing feat of reportage.” – NPR Guide to 2014’s Great Reads

8 posts
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

10 posts
Operation Ajax

by Mike de Seve
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy
11 posts

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
5 posts
The Dignity of Chartism

by Dorothy Thompson

Groundbreaking studies of Britain’s first major working-class movement

6 posts
The Beach Beneath the Street

by McKenzie Wark

The acclaimed, readable history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto

61 posts
La Lucha

by Jon Sack

A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands

13 posts

Somanatha

by Romila Thapar
An explosive account, dispelling the myths and inventions of Hindu nationalism.
1 post
The Darkest Days

by Douglas Newton

A radical re-examination of the events surrounding Britain’s entry into the Great War

7 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
An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd

“France’s leading Marxist public intellectual.” –Tariq Ali

23 posts

The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain

17 posts
The Prophet

by Isaac Deutscher
Classic biography of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, now collected in a single volume
31 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

by Rosa Luxemburg

First volume of a major project to publish the complete works of a remarkable social theorist

37 posts
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

3 posts

A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
“Among the few indisputable masterpieces of contemporary history.” —Financial Times
14 posts
Narcoland

by Anabel Hernández
Explosive, best-selling account of Mexico’s drug cartels and the government-business nexus that enables them
19 posts
Outcast London

by Gareth Stedman Jones

At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators....
Captain Swing

by Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
1 post

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