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Each piece, whether topical, hortatory, elegiac, or comic served to educate, agitate, and emancipate workers. A handful of Wobbly numbers have become classics, still sung by labor groups and folk singers. They include Joe Hill’s sardonic “The Preacher and the Slave” (sometimes known by its famous phrase “Pie in the Sky”) and Ralph Chaplin’s “Solidarity Forever.” Songs lost or found, sacred or irreverent, touted or neglected, serious or zany, singable or not, are here. The Wobblies and their friends have been singing for a century. 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The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Oppressed mothers create a generous space for life in the face of life-threatening limits, activate a powerful vision of the future while navigating tangible concerns in the present, move beyond individual narratives of choice toward collective solutions, live for more than ourselves, and remain accountable to a future that we cannot always see.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams, and with a preface by Loretta J. Ross. 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There is no dogma here, just fresh ideas and women of color taking on capitalism, anti-racist, anti-sexist theory-building that is rooted in the most primal of human connections, the making of two people from the body of one: mothering.”\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Jensen, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For women of color, mothering—the art of mothering—has been framed by the most virulent systems, historically: enslavement, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism. We have had few opportunities to define mothering not only as an aspect of individual lives and choices, but as the processes of love and as a way of structuring community.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003earrives as a needed balm.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alexis De Veaux, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWarrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Although it is primarily written for mothers of all ages, the issues that are raised—about family, love, struggle, sacrifice, and acceptance—are universal as they speak to the revolutionary that exists within all of us.”\u003cbr\u003e—Karsonya Wise Whitehead, PhD, assistant professor of communication and African and African American studies, Loyola University Maryland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis juicy, gutsy, vulnerable, and very brave. These women insist on having their children in a society that does not welcome them, in a world that is rapidly falling apart. Their dream for their children, based on their love of them, encompasses the sorrow and the joy that mothers everywhere, whether human, animal, or plant, feel at this time. A radical vision, many radical visions of how to mother in a time of resistance and of pain.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is the book for readers who know mothering is not just about a baby and a mother or parents in an isolated suburban nursery, but that mothering happens in a context of generations, a context of racial history, and in a spiritual context; that it takes place from the shore line to the front line, in times of scarcity and abundance; that it is queer and love-filled. Here, revolution, love, and mothering are an inseparable unity.”\u003cbr\u003e—Faith Holsaert, coeditor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas the first person to dig through the archives of several radical black feminist mothers including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara while writing her dissertation\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e, a 500-page work. Alexis was named one of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUTNE Reader\u003c\/em\u003e’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World in 2009, a Reproductive Reality Check Shero, and a Black Woman Rising nominee in 2010, and was awarded one of the first ever Too Sexy for 501c3 trophies in 2011! Alexis’s work as co-creator of the Mobile Homecoming experiential archive and documentary project has been featured in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCurve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, in Durham Magazine and on NPR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChina Martens\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a writer, glamazon, and empty-nest low-income anti-racist white radical single mother. She is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Atomic Book Company, 2007), and coeditor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(PM Press, 2012). Since 2003, China has cofacilitated numerous workshops to create support for parents and children in activist and radical communities at universities, conferences, and healing spaces across the United States and Canada including the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, Allied Media Conference, and book fairs from Montreal to New Orleans; Minneapolis to Santa Fe; and New York City to San Francisco. She also was a cofounder of Kidz City, a radical childcare collective in Baltimore (2009–2013) and is connected to a national circle of radical childcare collectives established at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMai’a Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the creator and director of Water Studio, which supports and co-creates with underground community artists and revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt, and she organizes with the Revolutionary Youth Councils of Cairo, which were among the leading forces during the 2011 ouster of Mubarak. It was her living and working with Palestinian, Congolese, and Central American indigenous mothers in resistance communities, that initially inspired her to become a mother and continues to guide her as she practices this life-giving work called radical mothering. Her essays, short stories and poetry have been published in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003emake\/shift\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMamaphiles\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTenacious\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePopshot\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman’s Work\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLilith Devotional\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eColored Girls\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the instigator of the Outlaw Midwives movement, zines, and blog, which shifts the discourse around birth, life, death, and healing by offering a vision of radical empowerment and accountability. In 2008, she published the anthology\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Motherhood\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of writing and visual art about mothering on the margins, which became the inspiration for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSKU:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9781629631103\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdited:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams • Preface by Loretta J. 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From its design and production to the way it is sold, used, resold, and eventually demolished, it is crisscrossed by conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second edition of\u003cem\u003e The Housing Monster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone passed you on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. The text is accompanied by clean black-and-white illustrations that are mocking, beautiful, and bleak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes analysis situating and exploring the text's impact around the world by Lazo Ediciones in Argentina, Ben Kritikos in Scotland, and Sean KB in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A thorough and easy-to-read analysis of the fight at the construction site and what the conditions are for the struggle in the city and for the land.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kämpa Tillsammans!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Part illustrated guide to Marx, part analysis of the everyday consequences of producing and consuming housing as a commodity, and part revolutionary call to arms!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAufheben\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Looking for a place to dwell? Or even for an entirely new world to live in? But maybe you’re afraid radical theory is boring? 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His texts are an attempt to bring this personal experience of living in capitalist society into contact with history and theory he's read. He writes anonymously for practical reasons but also on principle. Ideas are no one's property, and even original thinkers are only putting possibilities from the real world into words. The point is not to build up an authorial persona. Ideas or arguments shouldn't be judged on whether the author has or doesn't have academic, working-class, or militant credentials. The point is to try to learn from other people today and in the past, to recognize how things work today, so that we change them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLazo Ediciones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a group who write, translate, and publish communist, anarchist, and working-class texts in Spanish. 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He cohosts the podcast\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpaghetti for Brains\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as writing and hosting the radio show\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed White Blues: An Anthology of America’s Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efor Radio Buena Vida, a community radio station based in Glasgow. He’s provided voiceover for film, radio, and audiobooks, including the audiobook version of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Housing Monster\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally available for the first time in a single book format,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolish Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecombines two influential and well-circulated pamphlets written from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from the anonymous workers at Prole.info offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolish Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe classic “Abolish Restaurants“ is an illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anti-capitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms. An additional piece, “Work, Community, Politics, War“ is a comic book introduction to modern society, identifying both the oppressive and subversive tendencies that exist today in order to completely remake society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraise:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The entire booklet is enthralling, perhaps especially so if you don’t already know what goes on behind the scenes for underpaid, non-unionized restaurant workers in the United States.“ —Brittany Shoot, Change.org\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The stress of the dinner rush, the fights with co-workers, the split shifts, the lousy tippers, the aching backs . . . It is not just random individual misfortune. It is a functional and necessary part of a larger system that creates similar conditions everywhere. 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Kelley’s substantial introduction contextualizes the work in the history and ferment of the times, and explores its ongoing relevance today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA History of Pan-African Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis one of those rare books that continues to strike a chord of urgency, even half a century after it was first published. Time and time again, its lessons have proven to be valuable and relevant for understanding liberation movements in Africa and the diaspora. Each generation who has had the opportunity to read this small book finds new insights, new lessons, new visions for their own age…. No piece of literature can substitute for a crystal ball, and only religious fundamentalists believe that a book can provide comprehensive answers to all questions. But if nothing else,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA History of Pan-African Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eleaves us with two incontrovertible facts. First, as long as black people are denied freedom, humanity and a decent standard of living, they will continue to revolt. Second, unless these revolts involve the ordinary masses and take place on their own terms, they have no hope of succeeding.” —Robin D.G. Kelley, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I wish my readers to understand the history of Pan-African Revolt. They fought, they suffered—they are still fighting. Once we understand that, we can tackle our problems with the necessary mental equilibrium.” —C.L.R. James\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Kudos for reissuing C.L.R. James’s pioneering work on black resistance. Many brilliant embryonic ideas articulated in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA History of Pan-African Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etwenty years later became the way to study black social movements. Robin Kelley’s introduction superbly situates James and his thought in the world of Pan-African and Marxist intellectuals.” —Sundiata Cha-Jua, Penn State University\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A mine of ideas advancing far ahead of its time.” —Walter Rodney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“When one looks back over the last twenty years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of.” —E.P. Thompson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“C.L.R. 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In this, the experiences and activities of the RAF are unique in the lessons they might teach organizers in Western capitalist milieus. In our own context, it is likely that future conditions of radical social change, and certainly revolutionary struggles, will more closely approximate those engaged by the RAF in 1970s West Germany than the much more influential examples of Russia in 1917 or Spain in 1936.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jeff Shantz,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The editors of this work, J. Smith and André Moncourt, have created an intelligently political work that honestly discusses the politics of the Red Army Faction during its early years. Their commentary explains the theoretical writings of the RAF from a left perspective and puts their politics and actions in the context of the situation present in Germany and the world at the time. It is an extended work that is worth the commitment required to read and digest it. Not only a historical document, the fact that it is history provides us with the ability to comprehend the phenomenon that was the RAF in ways not possible thirty years ago\"\u003cbr\u003e—Ron Jacobs,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the pseudonym of an activist who has been involved in the radical left for over twenty years.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndré Moncourt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the pseudonym of a writer with his political roots in the movements of the seventies and eighties. Together they co-edited\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume 1: Projectiles for the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-authored\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaring to Struggle, Failing to Win\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSKU:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e9781604860306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEditors:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJ. 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As newly-emerging grassroots movements challenge state violence against Black people in the U.S., it is essential that new generations learn anew, and that older ones are reminded, of police and FBI tools of repression deployed to demobilize Black radical activism and its growing influence on the Black working class in the ’60s. These remembrances, by those framed in the NY Panther 21 case, are vital building blocks for reconstructing the history of one of the least understood chapters of the Black Panther Party. They are also indispensable reading for those seeking to understand how individual activists and their movements were able to hold their center in the face of harrowing government repression.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJohanna Fernandez\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of History, Baruch College Department of Black and Latino Studies, City University of New York; co-curator, ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Meyer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a New York City–based educator, organizer, and author who serves as War Resisters International Africa Support Network Coordinator, and who represents the International Peace Research Association at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. A former draft registration resister, Meyer’s extensive human rights work has included support for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, solidarity with Puerto Rico and the Black Liberation Movement, and board membership on the A.J. 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Edited by Peter Hudis, translated by David Fernbach, Joseph Fracchia, and George Shriver. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.workingclasshistory.com\/collections\/books\/products\/the-complete-works-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-2\"\u003eVolume II\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.workingclasshistory.com\/collections\/books\/products\/the-letters-of-rosa-luxemburg\"\u003eLetters\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eComplete Works\u003c\/em\u003e, entitled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEconomic Writings 1\u003c\/em\u003e, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, “The Industrial Development of Poland,” Volume I includes the first complete English-language publication of her “Introduction to Political Economy,” which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on non- capitalist social strata in the developing world. Also appearing here are ten recently discovered manuscripts, none of which has ever before been published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed ‘the history of possibility.’” – Christopher Hitchens,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Luxemburg’s criticism of Marxism as dogma and her stress on consciousness exerted an influence on the women’s liberation movement which emerged in the late ’60s and early ’70s.” – Sheila Rowbotham,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimension whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her in the company of the truly impressive.” – Vivian Gornick,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003eAuthor: Rosa Luxemburg\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781781687659\u003cbr\u003ePublished: November 2014\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePage count: 620\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31838307647573,"sku":null,"price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0006\/7554\/5141\/products\/Rosa-complete-1.jpg?v=1583377527"},{"product_id":"the-complete-works-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-2","title":"The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US and UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eEconomic Writings 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Rosa Luxemburg\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Peter Hudis and Paul Le Blanc\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Nicholas Gray and George Shriver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.workingclasshistory.com\/collections\/books\/products\/the-complete-works-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-i\"\u003eVolume I\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.workingclasshistory.com\/collections\/books\/products\/the-letters-of-rosa-luxemburg\"\u003eLetters\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eComplete Works\u003c\/em\u003e, entitled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEconomic Writings 2\u003c\/em\u003e, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most important works ever composed on capitalism’s incessant drive for self-expansion and the integral connection between capitalism and imperialism. This new translation is the first to present the full work as composed by the author. It also contains her book-length response to her critics,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Accumulation of Capital, Or, What the Epigones Have Made Out of Marx’s Theory—An Anti-Critique\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Much of this correspondence appears for the first time in English translation; all of it helps to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. 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The self-portrait in these pages is that of a professional revolutionary whose vocation is, if you'll pardon the expression, spiritual. Reading ... this book, I could not help falling in love with you, dear Rosa.” – Scott McLemee, Bookforum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Paced almost like a novel, the 28 years covered by this collection pass by almost too quickly.” – Joel Schalit, Jewish Daily Forward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is a ... kind of memorial, a kind of sliver of one woman’s life bound together in one place ... Rosa Luxemburg comes alive in these pages ... if you love or admire or are just fascinated by [her], then you’ve no excuse not to buy this excellent book.” – PopMatters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This huge project is long overdue. Luxemburg’s correspondence reveals an extraordinary range and breadth of concerns and interests” – Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote, the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals.” – John Berger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg come as near as anything to the way this extraordinary woman talked with loved ones and friend ... a wonderfully compelling record, both poignant and timely.” – Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Rosa] Luxemburg expressed unfailing passion in her letters ... This volume gives personal insight into a remarkable (and controversial) woman and adds meaningful context to any study of early Western socialism.”– Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Useful and exciting.” – Emily Witt, New York Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating ... these passionate letters, which commemorate the 140th anniversary of Luxemburg’s birth, show the living, breathing and loving woman behind the legend of 'Red Rosa.'” – Irene Gammel, Toronto Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Rosa Luxemburg's] letters, with all their exquisite details, read as well as any novel ... Personal or political [they] are beautiful, powerful, and succinct.” – Kaye Cain-Nielsen, Idiom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This English-language edition of selected letters of Polish-born Marxist thinker and founder of the German Communist Party, Rosa Luxemburg, who was assassinated in 1919, is the most comprehensive published in English, with over two-thirds of the letters translated here for the first time.” – Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg includes everything from Luxemberg’s youthful mash notes to her theoretical arguments, as well as her uncanny prediction of 'pogroms against Jews in Germany.'” – Tablet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verso is once again to be congratulated for this publishing inititiative, in an excellent translation by George Shriver ... [The letters] give a unique insight into her character, her deep humanity as well as her passionate commitment to the struggle for socialism.” – Morning Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Luxemburg's letters] are extremely well written, elegant in their use of language as well as exciting in their expression of ideas. The letters within this thick volume show indeed how much we have lost our ability to communicate with the decline of letter-writing ... taking the time to actually correspond (as Luxemburg did throughout her life), to actually compose a letter, produces art as well as communication. And that is at the heart of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, that is precisely what makes this book so absorbing and so pleasurable to read.” – George Fish, New Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003eAuthor: Rosa Luxemburg\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781781681077\u003cbr\u003ePublished: August 2013\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePage count: 656\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31838346870869,"sku":null,"price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0006\/7554\/5141\/products\/Rosa-letters.jpg?v=1583378499"},{"product_id":"voices-of-the-paris-commune","title":"Voices of the Paris Commune – Mitchell Abidor, ed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Paris Commune of 1871, the first instance of a working-class seizure of power, has been subject to countless interpretations; reviled by its enemies as a murderous bacchanalia of the unwashed while praised by supporters as an exemplar of proletarian anarchism in action. As both a successful model to be imitated and as a devastating failure to be avoided. All of the interpretations are tendentious. Historians view the working class’s three-month rule through their own prism, distant in time and space.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoices of the Paris Commune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes a different tack. In this book only those who were present in the spring of 1871, who lived through and participated in the Commune, are heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Paris Commune had a vibrant press, and it is represented here by its most important newspaper,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Cri du Peuple\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Jules Vallès, member of the First International. Like any legitimate government, the Paris Commune held parliamentary sessions and issued daily printed reports of the heated, contentious deliberations that belie any accusation of dictatorship. 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The second is, to what extent can Wobbly ideas be made part of a local union with a collective bargaining agreement so that what results is ‘a radical yet stable union.’ Here the evidence is more mixed, but the question is an essential one and every reader should feel challenged to find their own answer.”\u003cbr\u003e—Staughton Lynd, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLabor Law for the Rank and Filer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Prior to A. Philip Randolph, Ben Fletcher was one of the most important black labor figures of the twentieth century. He led an interracial, multiethnic union with a racially diverse leadership. Fletcher was a Wobbly through and through, an unapologetic radical who envisioned a postcapitalist, revolutionary society. Yet his vision did not inhibit him from actively engaging in the reform struggle. In fact, the antiracist component of their radical vision was central to the day-to-day unionism he advanced. Cole’s book is an important intervention in discussions regarding the state of organized labor today.”\u003cbr\u003e—Bill Fletcher Jr., racial justice, labor, and international activist, and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“They’re Bankrupting Us!” and 20 Other Myths about Unions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In a unionism noted for great organizers, Fellow Worker Fletcher was one of the greatest. Nearly a hundred years, Local 8’s great achievements are still a model for us all.”\u003cbr\u003e—Carlos Cortez, poet, artist, social activist, member of the IWW for more than six decades\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ben Fletcher’s all-out, front-door-to-back revolutionary industrial unionism exemplifies Wobbly-style working-class solidarity at its creative best. 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