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Hundreds of titles available free, Click here to access selections by topic<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n Harry Haywood\u2019s Black Bolshevik.<\/a><\/strong> \u2018\u201dThe extreme importance of this book is that in one longish volume Haywood has given us an indispensable history, as reference and sum-up of practical struggles, of not only his particular thirty-six years in the Communist Party USA, including his road into and out of it, but equally has given us a good portion of political history.\u2019 \u2013Amiri Baraka\u2026 Essay on the debate\u00a0 in the 1960s by Harry Haywood and Harold Cruise, HERE<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n Gramsci was interested in both popular and high-art culture, and the writings in this selection include his reflections on Futurism as well as the detective novel, on linguistics and journalism, on \u2018national-popular\u2019 culture and folklore. The volume\u2019s extensive introductory material and explanatory notes offer useful background information on the wider context of Gramsci\u2019s work. Click the title above for access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The SAGE Handbook of Marxism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 1800-page ‘Handbook’ \u00a0<\/strong>showcases this cutting-edge of today\u2019s Marxism. It advances the debate with essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have provided the groundwork and main currents for Marxist theory, and showcases interventions that set the agenda for Marxist research in the 21st century.\u00a0 A rigorous and challenging collection of scholarship, this book contains a stunning range of contributions from contemporary academics, writers and theorists from around the world and across disciplines, invaluable to scholars and graduate students alike.\u00a0 Click title above to download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity<\/a><\/strong> The classic work on globalization and transnational capital by William I Robinson.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n The CLR James Reader.<\/a><\/strong> A good 400 page collection.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE TOPIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Also available from Verso in a single volume with a new foreword.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Ted Allen: The Invention of the White Race, Vol 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Ted Allen: The Invention of the White Race, Vol 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n \u00a0Lenin Rediscovered: Lars Linh<\/strong><\/a>. A re-examination of \u2018What Is To Be Done?\u2019<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n History of the Korean War by Bruce Cummings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Fascism and Dictatorship by Poulantzas<\/a>:<\/strong> Important background in the rise of rightwing populism in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE<\/strong>.<\/a> Here are more than 50\u00a0carefully selected<\/a>\u00a0lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Political Economy of Stalinism<\/a><\/strong>. Based on evidence from the secret archive opened after the collapse of the USSR. Covers all the economic innovations and projects from the death of Lenin to the death of Stalin. By Paul R Gregory.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Cooperatives and Socialism: A View from Cuba. Edited by Camila Pi\u00f1eiro Harnecker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Communism in the 21st Century (3 vols)<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>Edited by Shannon Brincat, a Griffith University, Australia research fellow. His research is focused on the Frankfurt School and critical international relations theory. A compelling three-volume exploration of the philosophical, social, and political facets of the theory and practice of communism within the conditions of 21st-century world politics and late capitalism. It presents viewpoints from leading Marxist philosophers, economists, and historians alongside those from experts critical of communist ideas to provide a balanced, diverse collection on modern communism. It also re-examines established debates within communist and radical politics to show how these discussions have been reconfigured to how communism is currently situated in world politics and may develop in the future. Finally the nearly 880 pages explores Marx\u2019s vision from various interpretive backgrounds, including the socialist, economic, humanist, cosmopolitan, post-modern, feminist, environmental, and cultural, to engage a wide readership: students, academics, activists, and laypersons<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n CHINA AND NEW LEFT VISIONS<\/a>.<\/strong> This is the first book to take on the formidable rise of China\u2019s New Left \u2018School of Thought\u2019 primarily from the point of view of artistic expression. Most existing treatments give the impression that the New Left is constituted entirely of cultural and economic theory, but Ban Wang and Jie Lu\u2019s book dramatizes and illuminates the re-animation of popular culture, theater, and literature under New Left influence. The editors have assembled some of the most exciting commentators currently writing on the Chinese cultural scene. This book is a must read for the thoughtful China watcher. \u2013Charles A. Laughlin, Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Virginia.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n THE EAST IS BLACK<\/strong><\/a> is one of the most brilliant examinations of the possibilities and limits of the global radical imaginary to appear in the last quarter century. In charting the encounters of six black intellectuals\/activists with Mao\u2019s China, Frazier offers a sophisticated, sobering view of transnational solidarity. He skillfully peels back the romantic exterior of revolution, revealing a complex set of misunderstandings, misrepresentations, and political dissembling alongside powerful moments of recognition and revelation. If, as Stuart Hall famously wrote, \u2018hegemony is hard work,\u2019 then Frazier demonstrates that global counter-hegemony is even harder.\u201d (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times<\/em>)<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n The Bending Cross<\/a><\/strong>. 500+ page biography of Eugene Debs. By Ray Ginger, with a new introduction by Mike Davis.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n GRAMSCI, LENIN AND THE UNITED FRONT<\/a><\/strong>: The Prisms of Gramsci: The Political Formula of the United Front, by Marcos Del Roio.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Nicos Poulantzas: The Crisis of the Dictatorships<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n One of the first Marxist studies of democratization in modern Europe, the 1975 work deals with Spain, Portugal. Poulantzas argued that the rise of democracy in each country was the outcome of a political conflict between two key factions of the capitalist class, the domestic and comprador bourgeoisie. A good prologue to current battles.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Kevin Anderson\u2019s Marx at the Margins<\/a><\/strong>\u201cAnderson may just have provided the burgeoning Marx industry with another major focus for its research and debates. Marx at the Margins<\/em> reveals a dimension of Marx that is very little known and even less understood. Anderson makes an overwhelming case for the importance of Marx\u2019s views on non-Western societies, ethnicity, nationalism, and race to our interpretations of his thinking over a wide range of topics. This is an incredibly innovative, interesting, and terribly important book that will greatly benefit any of its readers.\u201d \u2013Bertell Ollman, New York University.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Mao Zedong and China in the 20th Century: A Concise History.<\/a><\/strong> From a Review by Tariq Ali: \u2018Karl gives admirably succinct accounts of the main tensions and debates that ran through the Maoist period\u2014the opposition between bureaucracy and revolution, disagreements over developmental paths, relations between Party, army and masses. \u2018<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Blues People (Negro Music in White America)<\/strong><\/a> is a seminal study of Afro-American<\/a> music (and culture generally) by Amiri Baraka<\/a>, who published it as LeRoi Jones in 1963.[1]<\/a><\/sup> In Blues People<\/em> Baraka explores the possibility that the history of black Americans can be traced through the evolution of their music. It is considered a classic work on jazz and blues music in American culture. This book documents the effects jazz and blues had on America on an economic, musical, and social level.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n William Z Foster: Two Classics.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n \u2018Toward Soviet America<\/a>\u2018, Foster\u2019s campaign book for his 1932 election, reflects the Comintern \u2018Third Period\u2019 line in the U.S.\u00a0 Later, in 1952, Foster wrote his \u2018History of the Communist Party USA<\/a>\u2018 in an effort to correct a number of errors.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Duncan Foley\u2019s \u2018Understanding Capital\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n In this brilliantly lucid introduction to Marxist economic theory,\u00a0 Duncan Foley builds an understanding of the theory systematically, from first principles through the definition of central concepts to the development of important applications. All of the topics in the three volumes of Capital are included, providing the reader with a complete view of Marxist economics. Foley begins with a helpful discussion of philosophical problems readers often encounter in tackling Marx.<\/p>\n How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism.<\/strong><\/a> Eric Hobsbawn\u2019s 440 page masterwork, the book is divided into two sections.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Part 1 is entitled \u2018Marx and Engels\u2019 and consists of \u2018Marx Today\u2019, \u2018Marx, Engels and pre-Marxian Socialism\u2019, \u2018Marx, Engels and Politics\u2019, \u2018On Engels\u2019 The Condition of the Working Class\u2019, \u2018On the Communist Manifesto\u2019, \u2018Discovering the Grundrisse\u2019, \u2018Marx on pre-Capitalist Formations\u2019 and \u2018The Fortunes of Marx\u2019s and Engels\u2019 Writings\u2019.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Part 2 \u2013 \u2018Marxism\u2019 \u2013 includes \u2018Dr Marx and the Victorian Critics\u2019, \u2018The Influence of Marxism 1880-1914\u2032, \u2018In the Era of Anti-fascism 1929-45\u2032, \u2018Gramsci\u2019, \u2018The Reception of Gramsci\u2019, \u2018The Influence of Marxism 1945-83\u2032, \u2018Marxism in Recession 1983-2000\u2032 and finally \u2018Marx and Labour: the Long Century\u2019.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n The Making of Marx\u2019s \u2018Capital\u2019.<\/a><\/strong> Roman Rosdolsky\u2019s book is a major work of interpretation and criticism, written over fifteen years by one of the foremost representatives of the European Marxist tradition. Rosdolsky investigates the relationship between various versions of Capital and explains the reasons for Marx\u2019s successive reworkings; he provides a textual exegesis of Marx\u2019s Grundrisse, now widely available, and reveals its methodological riches.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n PALESTINE:<\/strong> the largest online library of free ebooks on Palestine, the Palestinians, and Palestinian history\u00a0available anywhere. Download and read a free ebook on Palestine now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Capital in the 21st Century.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> Thomas Piketty\u2019s controversial empirical study linking capital\u2019s growth with growing inequality, and arguing for creating a new social-democratic political space.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study<\/a><\/strong> by Heather Brown. This is the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx\u2019s perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns. Although Marx\u2019s writings sometimes exhibit sexism his work often transcends these phrases. Brown studies his writings on gender, as well as his 1879-1882 notebooks on precapitalist societies and gender.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n This Monstrous War.<\/a><\/strong> Wilfred G Burchett\u2019s book on the history of the Korean War, based on his on-the-spot reporting. Excellent background for understanding the ongoing Korean crises today.<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n Economic Theory of the Leisure Class by Nicolai Bukharin<\/strong><\/a>. A classic 137-page work from the early 1900s offering a Marxist critique of the Austrian School, the forerunners of today\u2019s neoliberals. 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