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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | author Mexico Unconquered Chronicles of Power and Revolt John Gibler A young journalist's chronicles of Mexican social movements and the powers attempting to repress them. Between Barack and a Hard Place Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama Tim Wise How Barack Obama's rise is reshaping the meaning of race in the United States today. Voices of the Chicago Eight A Generation on Trial Tom Hayden, Frank Condon, Ron Sossi Dramatically edited transcripts from the explosive 1969 conspiracy trial are paired with historic contextual writings to provide the essential Chicago Conspiracy handbook Writings For A Democratic Society The Tom Hayden Reader Tom Hayden The best of Tom Hayden's writings from the turbulent 1960s to the Iraq war. Poetry As Insurgent Art Lawrence Ferlinghetti After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet's ars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding. From the groundbreaking (and bestselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of... A Power Governments Cannot Suppress Howard Zinn A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is Howard Zinn's major new collection of essays on American history, class, immigration, justice, and ordinary citizens who have made a difference. The Political Edge Chris Carlsson In the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of an underdog campaign to elect Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco, The Political Edge analyzes emergent political energies, where they came from and where they're... Globalize Liberation How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World David Solnit The attacks of 9/11 have renewed a hunger for ideas about how to effect change. The strategies and hard-won victories of dedicated activists from global justice and community struggles can provide vision and hope, and in this collection of 33... The Consul Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time Ralph Rumney Ralph Rumney has been in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's traveling companions-Guy... The Tribe Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time Jean-Michel Mension Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular... The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations 2nd Edition This oversize book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and... Revolutionary Romanticism A Drunken Boat Anthology Max Blechman Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and... Achieving Our Country Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America Richard Rorty Required reading for any progressive American. Here, Rorty plots the philosophical underpinnings of American liberalism, points out its past pitfalls, and predicts the coming of the Obama movement: a wave of progressives who work together to change... Blackshirts and Reds Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Michael Parenti Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>