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Malcolm X, Black Liberation,
and the Road to Workers Power
By Jack Barnes
Price: $20
Coming March 2010 in Spanish
“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
Malcolm X emerged from the the Black liberation struggle that opened in the mid-1950s as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colossal movement was part of a worldwide clash “between those who want freedom, justice, and equality and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.”
Drawing lessons from a century and a half of struggle, this book helps us understand why it is the revolutionary conquest of power by the working class that will make possible the final battle for Black freedom—and open the way to a world based not on exploitation, violence, and racism but human solidarity. A socialist world.
Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings, author’s introduction, index,
glossary.
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New from Cuba
The Inevitable
Battle
From the Bay of Pigs to Playa Girón
By Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Published in Cuba by Editorial Capitán San Luis. Distributed by Pathfinder.
Price: $20
Also available in Spanish
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The U.S.-led invasion of Cuba in April 1961 was defeated in 66 hours by militia battalions composed of
worker and peasant volunteers, along with soldiers from the Cuban armed forces. Cuban historian Juan Carlos
Rodríguez explains that the human material available to Washington could not match the courage and
determination of a people fighting to defend what they had gained through the continent's first
socialist revolution.
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New editions
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Lenin's Final Fight and
La última lucha de Lenin
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By V.I. Lenin
Price: $20
As capitalism in the twenty-first century enters its deepest economic and social crisis since the decades spanning the first and second imperialist world wars, programmatic and strategic matters in dispute in the communist workers movement in the early 1920s once again weigh heavily in prospects for the working class worldwide to advance along its historic line of march
toward the conquest of power.
In 1922 and 1923, V.I. Lenin, central leader of the world’s first socialist revolution, waged what was to be his last political battle. At stake was whether that revolution would remain on the proletarian course that had brought workers and peasants in the former tsarist empire to power in October 1917—and laid the foundations for a truly worldwide revolutionary movement of toilers organizing to emulate the Bolsheviks’ example.
Lenin’s Final Fight brings together, for the first time, the reports, articles, and letters through which Lenin
waged this political battle. Many were suppressed for decades, and some have never before appeared in English. Second edition
includes new introduction by Jack Barnes and Steve Clark.
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Is
Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible?
A Necessary Debate
By Mary-Alice
Waters
Price: $7
Also available in: Spanish, French
In two talks, presented as part of a wide-ranging debate at the 2007 and 2008 Venezuela
International Book Fairs, Mary-Alice Waters explains why a socialist revolution in the United States is
possible. Revolutionary struggles by working people are inevitable. They will be initiated not by the
toilers, but will be forced upon us by the crisis-driven assaults by the propertied classes on our
conditions of life and labor. In growing solidarity and the emergence of a fighting vanguard of working
people, the outlines of these coming class battles can be seen.
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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
Price: $20
Readers club price: $17
Also available in: Spanish, Chinese
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A chapter in the chronicle of the
Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando
Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong talk about the historic place of
Chinese immigration to Cuba, as well as more than five decades of revolutionary
action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Through their stories the social and political forces that gave birth to the Cuban
nation and still shape our epoch unfold. We see how millions of ordinary men and
women like them changed the course of history, becoming different human beings in the
process.
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Pathfinder is upgrading its books to better, easier to use
editions. As each upgraded title comes off the press, members
of the Pathfinder Readers Club can buy them at a
special discount of 30%.
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Labor's Giant Step
By Art Preis
Price: $30
Readers Club price: $21
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Che Guevara Speaks
By Ernesto Che Guevara
Price: $15
Readers Club price: $10.50
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The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions. And how those
unions became the vanguard of a mass social movement that began transforming U.S. society.
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In twenty speeches, interviews, and letters, Guevara dissects the workings of the imperialist system with scientific clarity,
unflinching truthfulness, and biting humor.
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Fighting Racism in World War II
From the pages of the Militant
Price: $25
Readers Club price: $17.50
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A week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of efforts to advance the Black rights struggle in face of patriotic appeals to
postpone resistance to lynch-mob terror and racist discrimination until after U.S. “victory” in World War II.
These struggles—of a piece with rising anti-imperialist battles in Africa, Asia, and the Americas—helped lay the
basis for the mass civil rights movement in the postwar decades.
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Pathfinder Was Born
with the October
Revolution
in English,
Spanish, and French
By Mary-Alice Waters
Price: $4
Readers Club price: $2.80
Pathfinder Press traces its continuity to those who launched the worldwide effort to defend and emulate the first socialist
revolution—the October 1917 revolution in Russia. Pathfinder books aim to “advance the understanding, confidence,
and combativity of working people.”
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New French translation from Pathfinder
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Le manifeste
communiste
The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx, Frederick Engels
Price: $5
Readers Club price: $3.50
Also in English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi
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Founding document of the modern revolutionary workers movement, published in 1848. Explains why communism
is not a set of preconceived principles but the line of march of the working class toward power, “springing
from an existing class struggle, a historical movement going on under our very eyes.” Introduction by Leon
Trotsky, notes, index.
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Why abortion rights are central not only to the fight for the full emancipation of women, but to forging a
united and fighting labor movement.
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