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Excerpts Labor Pains: Inside America’s New Union Movement by Suzan Erem Labor Pains is an insider’s account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer and brings that experience to life, enabling us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement. Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commies: The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966 by Eric Thomas Chester In this fascinating account, Eric Thomas Chester makes extensive use of recently declassified diplomatic and intelligence documents to create a stunning portrait of how the U.S. government used the Dominican Republic as a tool for its imperial arrogance. Rag-Tags is a nuanced and textured study of the workings of covert and diplomatic initiatives during that period and an insightful analysis of U.S. cold war policy in the Caribbean. Law and the Rise of Capitalism “A
thought-provoking interpretation of the role of legal ideology in the
bourgeoisie’s ascendance to state power.” Originally published in 1977, Law and the Rise of Capitalism has been translated into several languages to international acclaim. Tigar's new introduction and extended Afterword discuss the struggle for human rights over the past two decades and shed light on the challenges facing today's social movements. Tigar draws on his own experiences as a fighter for democratic rights in the United States, Europe and South Africa, while adding new historical insights to human rights issues in the United States including the plight of political prisoners and the death penalty.  Days and Nights of Love and
War (New Edition)
Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly documents the myriad acts of courage and resistance of the Latin American people during a period of intense violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and humor, Days and Nights pays loving tribute to those who continue to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence. Hungry for Profit:
The Agribusiness Threat
to Farmers, Food, Hungry for Profit presents an incisive overview of the issues and debates surrounding the global commodification of agriculture. Contributors address the growing public concern over food safety and controversial developments in agricultural biotechnology. Hungry for Profit demystifies the reasons why hunger proliferates and examines the extent to which our environmental, social, and economic problems are intertwined with the structure of global agriculture as it now exists. Korea:
Division, Reunification,
and U.S. Foreign Policy “Korean
unification is one of the most important issues on the international agenda
today. Hart-Landsberg's broad-ranging inquiry develops a perspective that is
rarely heard, and that merits careful attention. It is a valuable contribution
to a debate that should not be delayed.”
“In the best
tradition of Marxist scholarship, John Bellamy Foster uses the history of ideas
not as a courtesy to the past but as an integral part of current issues. He
demonstrates the centrality of ecology for a materialist conception of history,
and of historical materialism for an ecological movement.” Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias:
Socialist Register 2000
“The Socialist
Register has been the intellectual lodestone for the international left
since 1965. The millennium issue Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias
powerfully argues the urgency of truly radical politics in the coming decades
of humanity's greatest hopes and dangers.” Not Automatic:
Women and the Left in the
Forging of the Auto Workers' Union by Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson
Dollinger “Sol Dollinger's
remembrance of UAW's early days are juicy and provocative. His recall of those
goofy internecine political battles within the union is tragic-comic. Yet they,
united even though hollering at each other, made GM, Ford, et al, recognize the
union. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937
sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring.” Whose Millennium?: Theirs or Ours? by Daniel Singer “Daniel Singer
identifies the forces that could construct an altogether new Europe and a new
world on the basis of a different logic and priorities, an alternative to the
unbelievably destructive, symbiotic logic of the universal free-marketeers and
the local despots and ethnic cleansers.” Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current
Intellectual Fashions “A lively book
that challenges prevailing views.... [Amin] covers much territory within the
space of this slim volume and deserves much credit for making the book quite
readable, even for those without great knowledge of postmodernism, marxism, or
formal economics.” |
