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Yesterday’s Man

by Branko Marcetic

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political values

5 posts
Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

3 posts
Carlos Slim

by Diego Osorno

Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person?

2 posts
Imperial Intimacies

by Hazel V. Carby

A haunting, evocative history of British Empire, told through one woman’s family story

8 posts

Outsider in the White House

by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography

33 posts
Promise of a Dream

by Sheila Rowbotham

A sparkling portrait of a time when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world
Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

6 posts
A World to Win

by Sven-Eric Liedman

The definitive biography of Karl Marx

14 posts

The Lives of Michel Foucault

by David Macey

3 posts
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography

by J.P. Nettl

10 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

11 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

19 posts
Eleanor Marx

by Yvonne Kapp

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

13 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

21 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

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