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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

3 posts
A World to Win

by Sven-Eric Liedman

The definitive biography of Karl Marx

10 posts
The Lives of Michel Foucault

by David Macey

2 posts

Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography

by J.P. Nettl

6 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

9 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

9 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

13 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

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

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
32 posts
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois
Essential reading for students of African-American history
17 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

44 posts

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