Monthly Review Press: 144 books
by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1983
"Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence...
Rethinking Democracy
Socialist Register 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian politics in many countries. Concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like are gaining...
Wall Street's Think Tank
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percentage of government officials, media figures, and establishment elite. For decades it kept a low profile even while it shaped policy, advised presidents,...
Magnus Hirschfeld
The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, Hirschfeld’s legacy resonates throughout the twentieth-century and around the world. Guided by his...
One Day in December
Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July Movement...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party...
by Elizabeth Ewen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Describes the daily experiences of Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York City.
by Aimé Césaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role. --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront...
We Are the Poors
Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority of oppressed South Africans, however. Material...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
A Chronological History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements...
by Ernst Fischer, Franz Marek
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
A brief, clear, and faithful exposition of Marx's major premises, with particular attention to historical context.
The Economic War Against Cuba
A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress....