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The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

by Michael Nash, Melvin Small

Written with passion and intelligence, the letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in World War II express the raw idealism of anti-fascist soldiers who experienced the war in boot camps, cockpits, and foxholes, but never lost sight of the great global issues at stake. When the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the fascist enemy on... (more)

The Case of Joe HillPhilip S. Foner

The Case of Joe Hill

by Philip S. Foner

Drag King Dreams

by Leslie Feinberg

Long before films like Boys Don't Cry alerted the world to the challenges--and extreme violence--transgendered people experience, Leslie Feinberg's blockbuster classic, Stone Butch Blues, offered a harrowing window onto transgendered life. Her brutally candid autobiographical novel about a blue-collar butch lesbian coming of age in pre-Stonewall Buffalo, New York electrified readers everywhere, particularly ... (more)

Loaves and Fishes

by Dorothy Day

The Haymarket Tragedy

by Paul Avrich

What makes <this book> so valuable is that Avrich has shown us a time when anarchism breathed life into American politics, and not simply when it drew its last breath in Chicago. -- Review

The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States

The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States

by Patrick Renshaw

The story of how the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World, planned to combine the American working class into one big labor union.

Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement (ILR Press Books)

Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement (ILR Press Books)

by Staughton Lynd

The photograph of three men spattered with red paint, their arms linked, marching to protest the Vietnam War, is an icon of the 1960s movement for social justice. David Dellinger is on one side, Robert Moses on the other. In the middle is Staughton Lynd, chairperson of the first march on Washington against the war, and former director of the Mississippi Freedom Schools. Thirty years later, Staughton Lynd here... (more)

Rebel Voices: An Iww Anthology

Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Kornbluh's Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art and lore. Besides the full text and illustrations of the original, this new and expanded edition includes 32 pages of additional material: a new introduction and updated bibliography by old-time Wobbly organizer and scholar Fred Thompson; an informative essay on... (more)

The essential Trotsky (Unwin Books)Leon Trotsky

The essential Trotsky (Unwin Books)

by Leon Trotsky

WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN LABNOR MOVEMENT FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE EVE OF WORLD WAR IPhilip S. Foner

WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN LABNOR MOVEMENT FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I

by Philip S. Foner

May Day: A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986Philip Sheldon Foner

May Day: A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986

by Philip Sheldon Foner

The Rebel Girl;: An autobiography, my first life (1906-1926)

The Rebel Girl;: An autobiography, my first life (1906-1926)

by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

The Everett massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industryWalker C Smith

The Everett massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry

by Walker C Smith

Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs

Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs

by Philip S. Foner

"A carefully prepared and useful study of the bombing event in Chicago in May, 1886, which marked a bloody turn in the American labor history. As such it is pertinent to all courses in American labor history... It is an important piece of American social history ..." -- KLIATT, Fall 1978

My Life

by Leon Trotsky

Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy.

El trovador guanaco : poesi?a de Santa Luci?a

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The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

by Michael Nash, Melvin Small

The Case of Joe Hill

by Philip S. Foner

Drag King Dreams

by Leslie Feinberg

Loaves and Fishes

by Dorothy Day

The Haymarket Tragedy

by Paul Avrich

The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States

by Patrick Renshaw

Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement (ILR Press Books)

by Staughton Lynd

Rebel Voices: An Iww Anthology

The essential Trotsky (Unwin Books)

by Leon Trotsky

WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN LABNOR MOVEMENT FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I

by Philip S. Foner

May Day: A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986

by Philip Sheldon Foner

The Rebel Girl;: An autobiography, my first life (1906-1926)

by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

The Everett massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry

by Walker C Smith

Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs

by Philip S. Foner

My Life

by Leon Trotsky

El trovador guanaco : poesi?a de Santa Luci?a

by Rau?l Antonio Fuentes