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The classic historical biography reissued for the 150th anniversary of John Brown's celebrated uprising against slavery.

The inspiring story of a soldier who, after fighting in Iraq, publicly refused to return to the war.

The nation's sharpest sportswriter explores the contested politics of sports and profiles athletes making change.

Globalization brings growth? Think again. Debt--engineered by the IMF and World Bank--sucks countries dry.

When he died, Marx left his opus Capital unfinished. But how incomplete was the project? This volume offers the first comprehensive answer.

A sweeping, essential analysis of how, following 9/11, Middle Eastern Studies was transformed in the service of Empire

An essential volume making available in English for the first time the key works of Polish Marxist Sociologist Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.

Resisting Trump must begin with an honest accounting of how he came to power.

No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe

I am 27 and have never killed a manbut I know the face of death as if heirloommy country memorizes murder as lullabyfrom For FahdTextured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.Praise for Aja Monet:[Monet] is the true definition of an artist.Harry BelafonteIn Paris, she walked out onto the stage, opened her mouth and spoke. At the first utterance I heard that rare something that said this is special and knew immediately that Aja Monet was one of the Ones who will mark the sound of the ages. She brings depth of voice to the voiceless, and through her we sing a powerful song.Carrie Mae WeemsOf Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. Monet is also the youngest person to win the legendary Nuyorican Poets Caf Grand Slam title.

"e;[A] superb tribute . . . [an] essential collection"e; of essays analyzing the works of the preeminent twentieth-century poet and voice of social justice (Booklist).Winner of the Central New York Book Award for NonfictionFinalist for the Chicago Review of Books AwardPoet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture.The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate, Brook's poetry, fiction, and social commentary shed light on the beauty of humanity, the distinct qualities of black life and community, and the destructive effects of racism, sexism, and class inequality.A collection of thirty essays combining critical analysis and personal reflection, The Whiskey of Our Discontent, presents essential elements of Brooks' oeuvre-on race, gender, class, community, and poetic craft, while also examining her life as poet, reporter, mentor, sage, activist, and educator."e;Gwendolyn Brooks wrote and performed her magnificent poetry for and about the Black people of Chicago, and yet it was also read with anguish, delight, and awe by white people, successive waves of immigrants, and ultimately the world."e; -Bill Ayers, from the Introduction

An unparalleled documentation of the most important Marxist analyses of fascism and the struggle to resist it.

Simmel's influence on Sociology has been immense. This volume aims to re-examine that legacy and draw lessons for today's scholars.

Scholars dare to contemplate, to evaluate, and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity today.

This timely and accessible guide debunks the twenty-one biggest myths and stereotypes in today's immigration debate.

Examines the emergence of the movement of resistance that has arisen to challenge neoliberal globalization.

This book brings new insight to the methodological principles that animate Marx's writings

This collection of essays brings together scholars who use Marxist frameworks to analyze religion.

The construction of a Marxist theory of language as a social, material and political phenomenon .

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century.

Eugene V. Debs Selected Works will provide activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.

A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers' political power.

The ';courageous and clarion' Booker Prizewinner ';continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism' (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product.Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. ';A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India's impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ';privatization of everything,' andbecause these must not be impeded no matter whatgenerous doses of state violence.' The Nation ';A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular... an impassioned manifesto.' Kirkus Reviews ';Roy's central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book's title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.' Publishers Weekly

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." -Combahee River Collective Statement

A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

Powerful, provocative narratives of people surviving the devastating affects of life in long term incarceration.