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Are They Rich Because
They’re Smart?
Class, Privilege, and Learning
under Capitalism
By
Jack Barnes
Now available in
Spanish and
French
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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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More than 70 new photos and illustrations!
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Teamster
Politics
Política Teamster
By Farrell
Dobbs
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$19
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Now in Spanish!
Now in
Spanish!
Now in Spanish!
Now in Spanish! More than 70
new photos
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Price: $19
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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The
Workers and Farmers Government
Price: $12
How experiences in post-World War II revolutions in Yugoslavia,
China, Algeria, and Cuba enriched communists’ theoretical and
practical understanding of revolutionary governments of the workers
and farmers. "What is involved is governmental power," writes
Hansen, "the possibility of smashing the old structure and
overturning capitalism."
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| Sixty years ago, an article
published in the socialist weekly the Militant sparked a
lively debate on how the cosmetics and “fashion” industries play on
the economic and emotional insecurities of women and youth to rake
in profits. Today that exchange, contained in this book, a Marxist
classic, offers an introduction to the origin of women’s oppression
and the struggle for liberation.
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The
Changing Face of U.S. Politics
By Jack
Barnes
Price: $24
Also available in
French, Greek,
Spanish,
Swedish,
Farsi
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| Building the kind of party working
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. |
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The Cuban Five talk about their
lives within the US working class
"It’s the Poor Who
Face the Savagery of the US 'Justice'
System"
By
Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, René González, Fernando González
Also available in
Spanish and
Farsi
Price: $15
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“They chose five distant
points for us to serve our unjust sentences. . . . But nothing
could stop the Five from marching together with our people and our
supporters the world over in the long battle for freedom.”
—Antonio Guerrero
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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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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Cuba
and Angola
Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and Our Own
By Fidel
Castro, Raúl Castro,
Nelson
Mandela, and others
Price: $12
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In March 1988, the army of South
Africa’s apartheid regime was dealt a crushing defeat by Cuban,
Angolan, and Namibian combatants at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale
in Angola. In what Mandela called “a milestone in the history of
the struggle for southern African liberation,” Angola’s sovereignty
was secured. Namibia’s independence was won. The deepening
revolutionary struggle in South Africa received a powerful
boost.
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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: $12
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: $16
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
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The Jewish Question
A Marxist Interpretation
By Abram
Leon
Price: $25
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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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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 communiquès, letters, maps, and photos. Two
volumes.
Published by Cuba’s Council of State. Distributed by
Pathfinder.
Get both books for $50.
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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: $20
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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