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Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

1 post
A World to Win

by Sven-Eric Liedman

The definitive biography of Karl Marx

11 posts
The Lives of Michel Foucault

by David Macey
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography

by J.P. Nettl

4 posts

The Day After the Revolution

by V. I. Lenin

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today

13 posts
A Writer of Our Time

by Joshua Sperling

The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger

10 posts
So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

by Michael Rosen

The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner

4 posts
A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir

by Benedict Anderson

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities

13 posts

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.

A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain

8 posts
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

9 posts
Eleanor Marx

by Yvonne Kapp

Yvonne Kapp’s monumental biography of the daughter of Karl Marx who became a radical activist

11 posts
The Dilemmas of Lenin

by Tariq Ali

The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia

24 posts

Street Fighting Years

by Tariq Ali

One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement

22 posts
Che

by Spain Rodriguez

The classic graphic biography of Che Guevara—the most iconic revolutionary of the twentieth century

12 posts
Making Trouble

by Lynne Segal

2 posts
Modernism in the Streets

by Marshall Berman

Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker

7 posts

Trans

by Juliet Jacques
An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture
31 posts
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois
Essential reading for students of African-American history
16 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

45 posts
My First Life

by Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words

8 posts

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