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Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary

by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek

The future of black, queer, and trans liberation from a legendary transgender elder and activist
The Dilemmas of Lenin

by Tariq Ali

The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia

25 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
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

by Tariq Ali

A coruscating portrait of Britain’s greatest imperialist

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 Enemy

by Gopal Balakrishnan

“A book which everyone interested in modern political theory should read.”—Michael Mann

8 posts
Walter Benjamin's Archive

by Walter Benjamin

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents.

21 posts
An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd

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

23 posts

Modernism in the Streets

by Marshall Berman

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

9 posts
Walter Benjamin

by Momme Brodersen

“The definitive biography.”—Observer

10 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

25 posts
Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

8 posts

Che Wants to See You

by Ciro Bustos
Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara’s Argentine lieutenant
7 posts
Discovery of the World

by Luciana Castellina

Coming of age and political consciousness in turbulent times

15 posts
My Grandmother

by Fethiye Cetin
A passionate memoir of the author’s discovery of her grandmother’s true identity.
1 post
My First Life

by Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words

8 posts

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut

Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier

14 posts
A Colossal Wreck

by Alexander Cockburn

A roller coaster ride through the ruins of modern America from the most influential journalist of his generation

9 posts
Pinochet and Me

by Marc Cooper
“Masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy.”—Warren Beatty
4 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

73 posts

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