Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. The gripping story of a multi-racial group of women who put their bodies on the line to gain a foothold in the male and largely white electrical trades at Seattle's publicly owned utility in the 1970s. Female pi...
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Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. TALKING BACK: VOICES OF COLOR is a dynamic anthology featuring voices of youth, political p...
Nonfiction. Political Science. Social Theory & History. Translated from the Russian by John G. Wright, Brian Pearce, et al. Introduction by Luma Nichol. The theory of permanent revolution is one of the defining principles of Trotskyism. Yet Trotsky'...
Literary Nonfiction. Political Science. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. A lively and accessible investigation of Mexican American militancy from the U.S. occupation of Northern Mexico in the 19th century to civil rights struggles in the present...
CULTURAL WRITING. This brief look at the life of Trotsky begins with his first meeting with Lenin in exile, in 1902, and ends with Trotsky's assassination, late in exile, in Mexico, in 1940. Ideological and practical conflicts with the other major p...
Cultural Writing. The three premises of this pamphlet are that revolution in America is essential to any larger program of world revolution, that revolution in America is coming sooner, rather than later, and that Trotskyists will be decisive to the...
Cultural Writing. African American studies. The defiance of one woman, Rosa Parks, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and inaugurated a new era in American politics. It was no accident that a Black woman worker played this role. Two hundred years of...
Cultural Writing. Asian American studies. "I had supposed that I was practicing passive resistance to stereotyping, but it was so passive no one noticed I was resisting. To finally recognize our own invisibility is to finally be on the path toward v...
Cultural Writing. Action for action's sake, unprincipled coalitions for the sake of"bigness" or status, and capitulation to the lowest ideological commondenominator of the movement have all resulted in a tragic, unnecessaryand extremely dangerous ba...
Cultural Writing. Women's well-justified resentment at our economic exploitation andpsychological mutilation logically transforms itself into open warfare with our oppressors. To squelch our rebellion, the protectors of sexist mentality brought in t...
Cultural Writing. Edited by Helen Gilbert. Are you starved for some "truth-based" commentary to share with coworkers and friends? "THE NEW WAR ORDER," the fourth title in the Red Banner Reader series (the first three are also available from SPD), pr...
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Literary Nonfiction. Politics. SOCIALISM FOR SKEPTICS (Red Banner Reader #2) is a delightful collection of witty, imaginative and pithy essays that skewer misconceptions about socialism. A zestful introduction to radical politics from the perspectiv...
Literary Nonfiction. Political Activism. By harking back in her title to the revolutionary anthem "The International," author Andrea Bauer expresses both the defiant optimism and the political heritage put forward in these pages. The form her writin...
Cultural Writing. The story of how and why the Socialist Workers Party abandoned its revolutionary program is an important chapter in American history. The party was the inheritor of the ideas of the Russian Revolution and Leon Trotsky, but when the...
Literary Nonfiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Both newcomers and veterans, students and teachers, will benefit from this pithy booklet--a classic of the 1970s--which reviews the legacy of queer defiance and proposes bold strategies for achieving the...