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Author : David North
Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 0929087747
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Workers League & the Founding of the Socialist Equality Party written by David North and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 1893638073
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Historical & International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party written by and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David North
Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 0929087003
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Heritage We Defend written by David North and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable reading for all those seeking a serious analysis of the central political problems confronting the working class in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. This Marxist polemic reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938, and gives a detailed objective assessment of the political contribution and evolution of James P. Cannon, Trotsky's most important cothinker in the US Based on extensive research, with detailed references to original documents and programmatic statements from the archives of the Trotskyist movement..
Author : Janja A. Lalich
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520384024
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Bounded Choice written by Janja A. Lalich and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves. This book, a compelling look at the cult phenomenon written for a wide audience, dispels such simple formulations by explaining how normal, intelligent people can give up years of their lives—and sometimes their very lives—to groups and beliefs that appear bizarre and irrational. Looking closely at Heaven's Gate and at the Democratic Workers Party, a radical political group of the 1970s and 1980s, Janja Lalich gives us a rare insider's look at these two cults and advances a new theoretical framework that will reshape our understanding of those who join such groups. Lalich's fascinating discussion includes her in-depth interviews with cult devotees as well as reflections gained from her own experience as a high-ranking member of the Democratic Workers Party. Incorporating classical sociological concepts such as "charisma" and "commitment" with more recent work on the social psychology of influence and control, she develops a new approach for understanding how charismatic cult leaders are able to dominate their devotees. She shows how members are led into a state of "bounded choice," in which they make seemingly irrational decisions within a context that makes perfect sense to them and is, in fact, consistent with their highest aspirations. In addition to illuminating the cult phenomenon in the United States and around the world, this important book also addresses our pressing need to know more about the mentality of those true believers who take extreme or violent measures in the name of a cause.
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Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 0929087518
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Death on the Picket Line written by and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randi Storch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252032063
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Red Chicago written by Randi Storch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realities of the street-level American Communist experience during the worst years of the Depression "Red Chicago" is a social history of American Communism set within the context of Chicago's neighborhoods, industries, and radical traditions. Using local party records, oral histories, union records, party newspapers, and government documents, Randi Storch fills the gap between Leninist principles and the day-to-day activities of Chicago's rank-and-file Communists. Uncovering rich new evidence from Moscow's former party archive, Storch argues that although the American Communist Party was an international organization strongly influenced by the Soviet Union, at the city level it was a more vibrant and flexible organization responsible to local needs and concerns. Thus, while working for a better welfare system, fairer unions, and racial equality, Chicago's Communists created a movement that at times departed from international party leaders' intentions. By focusing on the experience of Chicago's Communists, who included a large working-class, African American, and ethnic population, this study reexamines party members' actions as an integral part of the communities in which they lived and the industries where they worked. "A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz"
Author : Mark Kruger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496228928
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The St. Louis Commune Of 1877 written by Mark Kruger and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those corporate entities grew and spread across the country, leaving bribery and exploitation in their wake. This alliance between corporate America and the political class came to a screeching halt during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, when the U.S. workers in the railroad, mining, canal, and manufacturing industries called a general strike against monopoly capitalism and brought the country to an economic standstill. In The St. Louis Commune of 1877 Mark Kruger tells the riveting story of how workers assumed political control in St. Louis, Missouri. Kruger examines the roots of the St. Louis Commune--focusing on the 1848 German revolution, the Paris Commune, and the First International. Not only was 1877 the first instance of a general strike in U.S. history; it was also the first time workers took control of a major American city and the first time a city was ruled by a communist party.
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585950
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book It's Up to the Women written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
Author : David North
Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 9780929087788
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)
Download or read book A Tribute to Tom Henehan, 1951-1977 written by David North and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745343594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Organizing Insurgency written by Immanuel Ness and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism. Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and South Africa, this book affirms the significance of political and economic representation to the struggles of workers against deepening levels of poverty and inequality that oppress the majority of people on the planet. Immanuel Ness shows that workers are eager to mobilise to improve their conditions, and can achieve lasting gains if they have sustenance and support from political organisations. From the Dickensian industrial zones of Delhi to the agrarian oligarchy on the island of Mindanao, a common element remains – when workers organise they move closer to the realisation of socialism, solidarity and equality.
Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763892
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Daring to Hope written by Sheila Rowbotham and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life. After addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks, communal houses and squats, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.
Author : Dan Georgakas
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896085718
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Detroit, I Do Mind Dying written by Dan Georgakas and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic--along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past threee decades by Georgakas and Surkin.
Author : David North
Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 1893638057
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book In Defense of Leon Trotsky written by David North and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178873551X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book The Romance of American Communism written by Vivian Gornick and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.
Author : Jo Freeman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847698059
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book A Room at a Time written by Jo Freeman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important volume, Jo Freeman brings us the very full, rich story of how American women entered into political life and party politics-well before suffrage and, in many cases, completely separate from it. She shows how women carefully and methodically learned about the issues, the candidates, and the institutions, put themselves to work, and made themselves indispensable not only to the men running for office, but to the political system overall.
Author : Ahmed Shawki
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1931859264
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Black Liberation and Socialism written by Ahmed Shawki and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp and insightful analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States--from the separatism of Marcus Garvey, to the militancy of Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party, to the eloquence of Martin Luther King Jr. and much more--with essential lessons for today's struggles. In the 40 years since the civil rights movement, many gains have been made--but there is still far to go to win genuine change. Here is a badly needed primer on the history and future of the struggle against racism. Ahmed Shawki is the editor of the International Socialist Review. A member of the National Writers Union, he is also a contributor to The Struggle for Palestine (Haymarket). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Author : Barry Sheppard
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 9781931859349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The Party written by Barry Sheppard and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring memoir by a leading activist in the antiwar and socialist movement in the 1960s.
