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Special Offer! All three $30
Available in English and Spanish The Turn to Industry and
Tribunes of the People
and the Trade Unions $20
Either book plus Malcolm X, Black Liberation,
and the Road to Workers Power $25
Three books to be read as one...
...about building the only kind of party worthy of the
name “revolutionary”
in the imperialist epoch.
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A party that’s working class in program, composition, and
action.
A party that recognizes, in word and deed, the most
revolutionary fact of our time:
That working people—those the bosses and privileged layers
who serve them fear as “deplorables,” “criminals,” or just
plain “trash”—have the power to create a different world as
we organize and act together to defend our own interests, not
those of the class that grows rich off exploiting our labor. That
as we advance along that revolutionary course, we’ll transform
ourselves and awaken to our capacities—to our own worth.
Three books about building such a party in the US and worldwide.
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The Turn to Industry Forging a Proletarian Party is about the working-class program, composition, and course of conduct of the only kind of party worthy of the name ‘revolutionary’ in the imperialist epoch.
The only kind of party that can recognize the most revolutionary fact of this epoch—the worth of working people,and our power to change society when we organize and act against the capitalist class in all its economic, social, and political forms.
This book is about building such a party in the United States and in other capitalist countries around the world.
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Malcolm
X, Black Liberation,
and the Road to Workers Power
By Jack
Barnes
Price: $20
Also available in
Spanish,
French,
Greek,
Farsi,
Arabic
“Don’t start with Blacks as an oppressed nationality. Start with
the vanguard place and weight of workers who are Black in broad
proletarian-led social and political struggles in the United
States. From the Civil War to today, the record is mind-boggling.
It’s the strength and resilience, not the oppression, that bowls
you over.”
—Jack Barnes
Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings,
author’s introduction, index, glossary.
“… A powerful and persuasive political testimony, enhanced with
black-and-white photographs, a glossary, and an
index.”
—Midwest Book Review
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Are They Rich Because
They’re Smart?
Class, Privilege, and Learning
under Capitalism
By
Jack Barnes
Now available in
Spanish,
French and
Farsi
Price: $10
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Are They Rich Because They’re
Smart? explains the sharpening class inequalities in the United
States and the resulting conflicts accelerated by today’s
slow-burning world depression. It takes apart the self-serving rationalizations of a growing layer of well-paid professionals that their schooling and “brightness” equip them to “regulate” the lives of working people, who can’t be trusted to know what’s in our own interests.
In the coming battles forced upon us by the capitalist rulers, says
Jack Barnes, workers will begin to transform ourselves and our
attitudes toward life, work, and each other. Only then will we
discover our own worth and learn what we’re capable of
becoming.
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The Clintons' Anti-Working-Class Record
Why Washington Fears Working People
By
Jack Barnes
Also available in Spanish, French,
Farsi and
Greek
Price: $10
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"It’s their system that’s deplorable, not us!"
Laying bare the record of the Clintons’ White House and 2016 presidential campaign, Jack Barnes explains why more and more working people and unionists reject being targets of the US rulers’ economic and cultural crisis and brutal wars and are looking for ways to understand—and to resist—the profit-driven course of the capitalists, their government, and their political parties
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"It’s the Poor Who
Face the Savagery of the US ’Justice’
System"
The Cuban Five talk about their
lives within the US working class
By
Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, René González, Fernando González
Also available in
Spanish and
Farsi
Price: $10
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Five Cuban revolutionaries, framed up by the U.S. government in
1998, spent up to 16 years as part of the U.S. working class behind
bars. Each reached out to fellow prisoners with respect,
solidarity, and through their own example—and won respect and
support in return.
What prepared the Cuban Five to act as each did? Above all, it was
Cuba’s socialist revolution, whose class character and values their
conduct exemplifies. With understanding, objectivity and humor, in
this 2015 interview they talk about U.S. capitalist society and its
“justice” system. And about the future of the Cuban Revolution.
Includes 40 photos from their years in prison and since the Cuban
Five won their freedom and returned to Cuba.
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The
Changing Face of U.S. Politics
By Jack
Barnes
Price: $23
Also available in
French, Greek,
Spanish, Swedish,
Farsi
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people need to prepare for coming class battles through which they
will revolutionize themselves, their unions, and all society. A
handbook for those seeking the road toward effective action to
overturn the exploitative system of capitalism and join in
reconstructing the world on new, socialist foundations. |
Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution
Within the Revolution
From Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army to the Birth of the
Federation of Cuban Women
By Vilma Espín, Asela de
los Santos, and Yolanda
Ferrer
Price: $17
Also available in
Spanish and Greek
As working people in Cuba fought to bring down a bloody tyranny in
the 1950s, the unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and
leadership of the struggle was not an aberration. It was
inseparably intertwined with the proletarian course of the
leadership of the Cuban Revolution from the start.
Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the
Revolution is the story of that revolution and how it
transformed the women and men who made it. The book was introduced
at the 2012 Havana International Book Fair by a panel of speakers
from Cuba and the US. Women and Revolution: The Living Example
of the Cuban Revolution contains the presentations from that
event.
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50 Years of Covert Operations in the US
Washington’s Political Police and the American Working
Class
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Socialism
on Trial
Testimony at Minneapolis Sedition Trial
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By Larry
Seigle,
Steve Clark, Farrell
Dobbs
Price: $10
Also available in
Spanish and
Farsi
The 15-year political campaign of the Socialist Workers Party to
expose decades of spying and disruption by the FBI and other
federal cop agencies targeting working class organizations and
other opponents of government policies. Traces the origins of
bipartisan efforts to expand presidential powers and build the
“national security” state essential to maintaining capitalist rule.
Includes “Imperialist War and the Working Class” by Farrell
Dobbs.
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By
James P. Cannon
Price: $15
Also available in
Spanish, French
and
Farsi
The revolutionary program of the working class, as presented during
the 1941 trial of leaders of the Minneapolis labor movement and the
Socialist Workers Party for “seditious conspiracy.” Includes
Cannon’s answer to ultraleft critics of the defendants, drawing
lessons from the working-class movement from Marx and Engels to the
October Revolution and beyond. |
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Pombo: A Man of Che's guerrilla
With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966–68
By
Harry Villegas
Price: $20
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A firsthand account of the 1966–68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. This is the story of Pombo—the nom de guerre of Harry Villegas, a young fighter still in his 20s, who was a member of Guevara’s general staff. Villegas led the small group of combatants who survived the Bolivian army’s encirclement and lived to recount this epic chapter in the history of the Americas.
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Aldabonazo
Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952–58, a participant’s account
By
Armando Hart
Price: $20
Also available in
Spanish
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In this firsthand account by a historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, we meet men and women who led the urban underground in the fight against the brutal U.S.-backed tyranny in the 1950s. Together with their comrades-in-arms in the Rebel Army, they not only overthrew the dictatorship. Their revolutionary actions and example worldwide changed the history of the 20th century—and the century to come.
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The Jewish Question
A Marxist Interpretation
By
Abram Leon,
Price: $15
Also available in
Greek
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Traces the historical rationalizations of anti-Semitism to the fact that, in the centuries preceding the domination of industrial capitalism, Jews emerged as a “people-class” of merchants, moneylenders, and traders. Leon explains why the propertied rulers incite renewed Jew-hatred in the epoch of capitalism’s decline.
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Red Zone
Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa
By
Enrique Ubieta
Special Price: $14
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“Just as the Cuban combatants in Angola set an example that can never be erased, the heroic actions of Cuba’s army of white coats will occupy a place of honor.” —FIDEL CASTRO, OCTOBER 2014
In 2014 three West African countries were hit by the largest epidemic on record of the deadly Ebola virus. In response to an international call for help, Cuba’s revolutionary socialist government provided what was needed most—and what no other country even tried to deliver. In a matter of weeks, more than 250 volunteer Cuban doctors, nurses, technicians, and public health specialists were on the ground providing hands-on care to thousands of desperately ill human beings and their traumatized families and communities.
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Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions
By
Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Farrell Dobbs, and Jack Barnes
Price: $12
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“A tribune of the people reacts to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears.”
The authors of this book draw on generations of revolutionary struggles by working people to explain why organizing to strengthen the unions is not only essential to the fighting unity and political striking power of the working class. It’s central to building a revolutionary proletarian party as well.
But the activity of a workers party neither begins nor ends there. It begins by extending the party’s political reach in all directions, to cities, towns, and farms. By exchanging views and experiences with all layers of workers, farmers, and other toilers— irrespective of skin color, language, religion or sex. By broadening cultural horizons and knowledge of history and the world.
A tribune of the people uses every manifestation of capitalist oppression to explain why it’s workers and our allies who can and will—in the course of struggles by the unions and beyond— lay the foundations for a world based not on violence and competition, but on solidarity among working people worldwide.
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Our History Is Still Being Written
The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution
By
Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, Moisés Sío Wong, Mary‑Alice Waters
Also available in Spanish, French, Chinese and Farsi
Price: $15
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"What was the principal measure to uproot discrimination against Chinese and blacks? Cuba’s socialist revolution itself."
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In Defense of the US Working Class
By
Mary-Alice Waters
Special price: $5
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“Without understanding the devastation of the lives of working-class families in regions like West Virginia, and the vast increase in class inequality since the 2008 crisis, you can’t understand what’s happening in the United States.”
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Now with more than 130 photos and illustrations!
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Price: $16 each
How the class-struggle Teamsters leadership in the Upper Midwest organized to fight union busting, racism, and colonial oppression, as they opposed the mobilization of labor behind U.S. imperialist war aims in World War II. How Washington—backed by top AFL, CIO, and Teamsters officials—acted to gag class-conscious workers.
The last of four books on the 1930s strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns that transformed the Teamsters union in Minnesota and much of the Midwest into a fighting industrial union movement. Written by a leader of the communist movement in the U.S. and organizer of the Teamsters union during the rise of the CIO. Indispensable tools for advancing revolutionary politics, organization, and effective trade unionism.
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Farrell Dobbs, a central leader of the labor battles and debates
recorded here, tells how in the 1930s the leadership of Teamsters
Local 544 in Minneapolis fought to lead workers across the Midwest
onto an independent working-class political course.
- How they organized the unemployed and truck
owner-operators into fighting union auxiliaries.
- Deployed a Union Defense Guard to stop the
fascist Silver Shirts.
- Campaigned for workers to break politically
from the bosses and organize a labor party based on the
unions.
- And mobilized labor opposition to U.S.
imperialism’s entry into World War II.
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Cuba and Angola
The War for Freedom
By
Harry Villegas “Pombo”
Also available in Spanish
Price: $10
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“When we face new and unexpected challenges we will always be able to recall the epic of Angola with gratitude, because without Angola we would not be as strong as we are today.”
—Raúl Castro May 1991
Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of
southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500
years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s
white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded
Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to
Pretoria and imperialism.
Angola’s government appealed for help. The response of
Cuba’s leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought
war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale,
with the crushing defeat of South Africa’s army by
Angolan, Cuban, and Namibian combatants.
This is the story of Cuba’s unparalleled contribution to the
fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in
the doing, Cuba’s socialist revolution also was strengthened.
Companion volume to...
Cuba and Angola
Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and Our Own
By Fidel
Castro, Raúl Castro, Nelson Mandela, and others
Also available in
Spanish
Price: $12
How Far We Slaves Have Come!
South Africa and Cuba in Today’s World
By Nelson Mandela, Fidel
Castro
Also available in
Spanish and
Farsi
Price: $7
In Defense of Socialism
Four speeches on the 30th anniversary of the Cuban revolution
By Fidel
Castro
Also available in
Greek
Price: $12
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Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa
Reports from Equatorial Guinea
By
Mary-Alice Waters,
Martín Koppel
Price: $10
Also available in
Spanish and Farsi
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Reporting from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa, the authors focus on the social transformations unfolding, as revenues from offshore oil extraction are used to build infrastructure on which rising labor productivity, industry, and progress depend. Pulled into the world market as never before, both a capitalist class and a working class are being born.
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Includes firsthand accounts of the work of Cuban medical brigades in Equatorial Guinea, now extending to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea-Conakry as hundreds of Cuban volunteer medics combat the Ebola epidemic. Here we see the living example of the Cuban Revolution, exemplified by the international solidarity of workers and farmers who took political power into their own hands five decades ago.
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Woven together, these seemingly disparate threads—the beginning transformation of production and class relations in Equatorial Guinea, and the proletarian course of the Cuban Revolution—show a future to be fought for today.
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Cuba and the Coming American Revolution
By Jack Barnes
Price: $10
Also available in
Spanish,
French and
Farsi
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 had a worldwide political impact, including on workers and youth in the imperialist heartland. As the proletarian-based struggle for Black rights was advancing in the U.S., the social transformation fought for and won by Cuban toilers set an example that socialist revolution is not only necessary—it can be made and defended.
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Fidel Castro’s day-by-day account of the final months of the
revolutionary war in Cuba to bring down the US-backed Batista
dictatorship. Tells how worker and peasant combatants defeated the
“final offensive” by an army more than 30 times their size,
launched a 147-day counteroffensive to extend the revolutionary
struggle to the rest of the country, and took power January 1,
1959. Includes communiqués, letters, maps, and photos. Two
volumes.
Published by Cuba’s Council of State. Distributed by
Pathfinder.
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3 Study Guides on Lenin's Writings
Price: $10
3 Study Guides on Lenin’s Writings, originally published as separate pamphlets, are presented here in a single collection.
These study guides were prepared for weekly classes organized in the 1980s by branches of the Socialist Workers Party.
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Newly reissued:
What Is American Fascism?
By James P. Cannon, Joseph Hansen
Price: $5
Analyzing examples in the 20th century—Father Charles Coughlin, Jersey City mayor Frank Hague, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy—this collection looks at the features distinguishing fascist movements and demagogues in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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