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A History of the Barricade

by Eric Hazan

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history

33 posts
Peasant-Citizen and Slave

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive...
16 posts
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the...

20 posts
The "S" Word

by John Nichols

A short, sharp, irreverent rejoinder to right-wing red-baiting.

20 posts

Seizing Freedom

by David R. Roediger

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

15 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

11 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

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

8 posts
The Beach Beneath the Street

by McKenzie Wark

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

62 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

36 posts
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

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

2 posts

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