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Over 80 titles available: Social criticism, History, and more.
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The Workers Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: The Fight for
Workers Democracy in the Soviet Union
by Alexandra Kollontai. ISBN 978-1-934941-70-6. Paperback 6x9, 84pp,
List Price $10.99. A manifesto of the Workers Opposition, a group
within the USSR's Communist Party that rejected Leninist
centralization and Stalinist dictatorship, and argued for direct
worker control of the industries, democratic socialism, the rights of
labor unions, the right of free criticism of Party leaders and
programs, the end of Party repression, and a return to the original
worker-organized Council-based state structure. Most of the Workers
Opposition died in Stalin's jails.
Reds, White and Blue: An Anthology of American Socialism and Communism
1880-1920
ISBN 978-1-934941-44-7. Paperback 6x9, 388pp, List Price $16.99. A
history of American socialism and communism. Selected from the
writings of America's most prominent leftists, including Robert Owen,
Eugene V Debs, Jack London, Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Robert
LaFollette, Norman Thomas, Louis Fraina, and others.
Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
by Carlos Marighella, ISBN 978-1-934941-30-0. Paperback 6x9, 80pp,
list price $10.99. Written in 1969 by Brazilian revolutionary Carlos
Marighella, the Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla is a practical
handbook of urban warfare. As such, it has served as a Bible for
guerrilla groups and resistance networks around the world. The
Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla remains today, decades after it was
written, one of the most comprehensive manuals of urban resistance
ever written.
My Two Years in Russia: An American Anarchist's Disillusionment, and
the Betrayal of the Russian Revolution by Lenin's Soviet Union
by Emma Goldman, ISBN 9781934941249. Paperback 6x9, 256pp, list price
$13.99.A scathing look at the Russian Revolution in the aftermath of
the Bolshevik takeover. Prominent anarchist Emma Goldman describes the
repression practiced by the Leninists against political dissidents and
their own workers, in order to maintain their system of centralized
party-dominated state capitalism.
Writings on the Paris Commune
by Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Lenin. ISBN
978-1-934941-28-7. Paperback 6x9, 125pp. List price $11.99. The Paris
Commune in 1871 played a key role in the development of socialist
thought. In the midst of a siege by German troops, the workers of
Paris rose in revolt and established their own government. Both
communists and anarchists claimed the Commune for their own. This
volume includes essays on the Paris Commune by Karl Marx, Friedrich
Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Vladimir Lenin.
Writings of Eugene V Debs: A Collection of Essays by America's Most
Famous Socialist
by Eugene V Debs. ISBN 978-1-934941-48-5. Paperback 6x9, 172pp, List
Price $12.99. A collection of speeches, pamphlets and writings from
Eugene V Debs, from 1888 to
1925. Beginning his career as an organizer for the American Railway
Union, Debs ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket 5 times,
polling up to 6 percent of the total vote in 1912. Jailed in 1919 for
an antiwar speech in Ohio, Debs ran for President from his jail cell
in 1920, polling almost a million votes -- 3.4 percent of the total
votes cast.
Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings from James Connolly
by James Connolly, ISBN 9781934941362. Paperback 6x9, 263pp, list
price $14.99. Labor organizer James Connolly combined Irish
nationalism with socialist criticism and a willingness for armed
insurrection. His influence extended as far as the United States,
where he played an active role in the Industrial Workers of the World
(the "Wobblies"), to Russia, where they guided Lenin's thoughts on
imperialism and colonialism. Connolly was executed by the British
Government for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
Writings of Daniel DeLeon: A Collection of Essays by One of the
Founders of American Revolutionary Socialism
by Daniel DeLeon, ISBN 978-1-934941-38-6. Paperback 6x9, 220pp, List
price $12.99 American socialist Daniel DeLeon was born in 1852 on the
Caribbean island of Curacao. He joined the Socialist Labor Party on
1890 and soon became one of its leading figures. DeLeon was a fierce
critic of the American trade union movement, dismissing its reformist
goals. As a syndicalist and industrial unionist, he helped to form
the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905.
History of the Paris Commune of 1871
By Prosper Olivier Lissagaray, Translated by Eleanor Marx. ISBN
978-0-979-1813-4-4. Paperback 6x9, 364pp. List price $14.99. The Paris
Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought. It
had such a profound effect on Karl Marx that he amended a portion of
his "Communist Manifesto" in response to it. "History of the Paris
Commune" is an eyewitness account of the Commune, written in its
immediate aftermath by a French worker who participated in the events
he describes. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs.
"This is not a light read, but for the historically minded willing to
put in the effort to engage it, it will yield a wonderful treasure of
knowledge that will take the reader directly into the meetings of the
Communard government and also right into the thick of the street
fighting. It is hard to find a more detailed work on the Paris
Commune, and Lissagaray even goes so far as to explore in detail the
short lived Communard uprising that rose up in French provinces at the
same time, a subject usually neglected by contemporary histories." --
from Amazon.Com review
Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils
by Gorter, Pannekoek, Pankhurst and Ruhle. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-6-8.
Paperback 6x9, 174pp. List price $11.99. The recent collapse of the
Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist
theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an
entirely different trend of socialist thought had briefly flowered in
Europe, a trend which rejected the Leninist model of centralized party
and state, and instead affirmed the democratic self-emancipation of
the working class. This movement was "council communism". "Non-
Leninist Marxism" presents a selection of the most influential
writings from the council communists, including Hermann Gorter, Anton
Pannekoek, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Otto Ruhl.
"This is an important and well selected of writings by some of the
leading figures in the Council Communist tendency of revolutionary
Marxism. Most of the writings included in this volume have been
largely unavailable in print for some time and their return to
publication is an extremely welcome development." --from Amazon.Com
review
Marxist Economics: A Popular Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl
Marx's Das Kapital
by Ernest Untermann. ISBN 978-1-934941-71-3. Paperback 6x9, 196pp,
List Price $12.99. The classic explanation of Karl Marx's economic
theories, by American socialist Ernest Untermann. The theory of
historical materialism, the labor theory of value, the theory of
surplus value, wage labor and profits, pre-capitalist societies, and
the economic transition from feudalism to capitalism. Written for an
audience of rank-and-file working people during the early union
movement, "Marxist Economics" presents the most influential economic
theories in history, in a non-technical way for non-economists.
Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism
by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-8-2. Paperback 6x9. 136pp. List
price $11.99. A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint
of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed
leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in
the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods
and organizations must be broad-based, mass-supported, and based on
the decentralized self-organization of the producers. That is the
essence of the Worker's Council.
Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism
By John Spargo. ISBN 978-1-934941-67-6. Paperback 6x9. 136pp, List
Price $11.99. A history of the Syndicalist movement, and a critique of
the Syndicalist program from the point of view of parliamentary
Socialism.
History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviks: US
Military Intervention in Russia 1918-1919
by Capt Joel R Moore, Lt Harry H Meade, and Lt Lewis E Jahns. ISBN:
978-1-934941-22-5. Paperback 6x9. 360pp. List price $15.99 In the
aftermath of the First World War, the United States sent 13,000 troops
into the Soviet Union in support of the Tsarist White Russian army, in
an attempt to crush the Bolshevik government that had assumed power in
the Russian Revolution. Written by three American doughboys who
fought in Russia, this is a firsthand account of the only time in
history that American troops directly fought Red Army troops.
"This book addresses a little known history of the US military and its
involvement in Russia in the aftermath of the Communist
revolution. . . . Due to the date of its writing some of the language
appears stilted but that doesn't detract from the story told. This is
an important book for any true history fan and can explain a lot about
the rocky relationship Russia (USSR) and the US experience till this
day." --from Amazon.Com review
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
by Betrand Russell. ISBN 978-1-934941-74-4. Paperback 6x9, 162pp, List
Price $11.99 Bertrand Russell's classic treatise. The strengths and
weaknesses of the social systems proposed by the socialists,
anarchists and syndicalists.
Guild Socialism: A Plan for Economic Democracy
by GDH Cole. ISBN 978-1-8934941-75-1. Paperback 6x9, 148pp, List
Price $11.99. Guild Socialism was a British version of French
Syndicalism, which advocated that economic and political functions be
united into structures called "guilds", by which workers would
directly control industry through elected councils, while consumers
would also be represented by elected councils. This is GDH Cole's
classis treatise on the theory and practice of Guild Socialism.
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In the works for 2010:
The Great French Revolution, by Peter Kropotkin
Writings of Karl Radek
Writings on Chinese Communism
Socialism and Philosophy, by Antonio Labriola
Evolutionary Socialism, by Eduard Bernstein
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg
Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel
The Black Flag; Writings of Peter Kropotkin
Writings of Mikhail Bakunin
Writings of the Utopian Socialists, by Bellamy, Fourier and Owen
Writings of William Z Foster
Our Own Path: Writings on Yugoslav Communism
Writings of Thomas Paine
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