Pathfinder is making substantial improvements to its 400-plus titles. Our aim is to make them more useful to working people and youth looking for the political ideas and historical experience they need to fight effectively in today’s world.

We will be adding indexes to books that have not had them before. New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory distributed by Pathfinder, will also now be indexed. Photo sections, illustrations, and maps that bring to life events taken up in the books are being expanded. Type size is larger, making the books easier to read. Many will feature new introductions, glossaries, and chronologies that help place events and individuals in historical context.

New International contributing editor Jack Barnes explained the importance of these improvements. “Every issue of New International,” he wrote, “contains political and theoretical articles that are challenging to read and absorb.… Everything each of us strives to do … in every book we produce is to the same end: to get rid of obstacles to having fighting workers and farmers, and young people attracted to their struggles, read and consider the politics, and together use those books to help change ourselves as we change the world.”

As each upgraded Pathfinder title comes off the press, we will offer a special discount to members of the Pathfinder Readers Club. We encourage long-time readers of Pathfinder books, along with those picking them up for the first time, to take advantage of the discount to add these greatly improved editions to their libraries. If you are not yet a member of the Pathfinder Readers Club, click here to find out how to join.

Below is a full list of upgraded titles. The 30% discount will be applied in the shopping cart and is visible if logged into your Readers Club account. Click here to learn how to create your online Readers Club account. Discounted prices shown are valid until the expiration date. Please note that the discounted prices are available on Pathfinder titles only. Cover prices of the New International magazine reflect a substantial discount in relation to costs. Click on any title for more information.

“For international revolution.” Demonstration near Smolny, Petrograd, at time of Second Congress. (Humbert-Droz Archives)

This series brings together documents, reports, and speeches by working-class political leaders who fought in the early decades of the twentieth century to oppose imperialist war by organizing the working class and farmers to overthrow their capitalist rulers.

The series begins with debates in the working class movement over war, colonialism, and reform and revolution in the years leading up to the First World War and the Russian revolution. Later volumes take up the Russian revolution itself, the postwar revolutionary upsurge in Germany, the first two congresses of the Communist International, and the Congress of the Peoples of the East, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1920.

Much of the material appears in print in English for the first time. Each volume includes photos, annotation, a glossary, a chronology, and an index.

“This is the definitive version. Should be in all academic libraries.”—Choice

“Brings together an excellent choice of important and revealing documents.… The entire series will be important resources for any library of twentieth-century history.”—Robert V. Daniels, editor, A Documentary History of Communism

Titles in the series:

	Lenin's Struggle for a Revolutionary International Documents, 1907-1916 The Preparatory Years   841 pages Price: $35.95 ISBN: 978-0-87348-928-7		The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power Documents, 1918-1919 Preparing the Founding Congress   687 pages Price: $36.00 ISBN: 978-0-87348-917-1
	Founding the Communist International Proceedings and Documents of the First Congress, March 1919   503 pages Price: $30.95 ISBN: 978-0-87348-943-0		Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 1)   632 pages Price: $36.00 ISBN: 978-0-87348-940-9
	Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 2)   592 pages Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-87348-941-6		To See the Dawn Baku, 1920 First Congress of the Peoples of the East   368 pages Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-0-87348-769-6

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero, and René González are working-class fighters who were arrested in 1998 on frame-up charges that they were part of a “Cuban spy network” in Florida. They were keeping the Cuban government informed about rightist groups that have a long record of carrying out armed attacks on Cuba from U.S. soil.

These books help explain the stakes in the case.