Political and Social Criticism
by James Connolly, ISBN 9781934941362. Paperback 6x9, 263pp, list price $14.99.
Labor organizer James Connolly combined Irish nationalism with socialist criticism and a willingness for armed insurrection. His influence extended as far as the United States, where he played an active role in the Industrial Workers of the World (the "Wobblies"), to Russia, where they guided Lenin's thoughts on imperialism and colonialism. Connolly was executed by the British Government for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
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Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Marxism, Capitalism And Their Relation to Sexism, Racism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism
by Lenny Flank, ISBN 978-0-979-1813-7-5. Paperback 6x9, 176pp. List price $11.99
A critical examination of the relationship between Marxism and other social justice movements, including feminism, anti-racism, gay liberation, environmentalism, anarchism and Native activism. The capitalist social order is like a Hydra, a many-headed dragon. Try to cut off one head, and the others will kill you. The only way to kill the beast is to cut off all its heads at once. The social revolution must grow to encompass not merely the economic means of production, but the entire mode of social life, including its familial, sexual, racial, national, gender and authority roles. The tactics of the traditional Leninists are entirely unsuited for that task. Only a wider-ranging social movement can hope to defeat capitalist hegemony.
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IWW: A Documentary History
Edited by Lenny Flank, ISBN 978-0-9791813-5-1. Paperback 6 x 9, 280pp. List price $13.99 .
A history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the "Wobblies", in their own words, from the opening speech at the IWW's founding convention in 1905, to the tactics of strike and sabotage which made it the most feared labor union in the US, to its role in the 1919 General Strike that shut down the city of Seattle. With 12 pages of photographs.
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History of the Paris Commune of 1871
By Prosper Olivier Lissagaray, Translated by Eleanor Marx. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-4-4. Paperback 6x9, 364pp. List price $14.99.
The Paris Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought. It had such a profound effect on Karl Marx that he amended a portion of his "Communist Manifesto" in response to it. "History of the Paris Commune" is an eyewitness account of the Commune, written in its immediate aftermath by a French worker who participated in the events he describes. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs.
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by Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Lenin. ISBN 978-1-934941-28-7. Paperback 6x9, 125pp. List price $11.99.
The Paris Commune in 1871 played a key role in the development of socialist thought. In the midst of a siege by German troops, the workers of Paris rose in revolt and established their own government. Both communists and anarchists claimed the Commune for their own. This volume includes essays on the Paris Commune by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Vladimir Lenin.
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Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils
by Gorter, Pannekoek, Pankhurst and Ruhle. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-6-8. Paperback 6x9, 174pp. List price $11.99.
The recent collapse of the Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an entirely different trend of socialist thought had briefly flowered in Europe, a trend which rejected the Leninist model of centralized party and state, and instead affirmed the democratic self-emancipation of the working class. This movement was "council communism". "Non-Leninist Marxism" presents a selection of the most influential writings from the council communists, including Hermann Gorter, Anton Pannekoek, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Otto Ruhl.
"This is an important and well selected of writings by some of the leading figures in the Council Communist tendency of revolutionary Marxism. Most of the writings included in this volume have been largely unavailable in print for some time and their return to publication is an extremely welcome development."
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Contradictions of Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-9-9. Paperback 6x9. 120pp. List price $11.99.
A beginner's guide to Marxist economics, from the beginnings of capitalism within the feudalist system, to its modern incarnation as corporate monopoly. Also covers the rise and fall of the non-market Leninist economies.
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Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism
by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-8-2. Paperback 6x9. 136pp. List price $11.99.
A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must be broad-based, mass-supported, and based on the decentralized self-organization of the producers. That is the essence of the Worker's Council.
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