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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
This shares much in common with Z Magazine. It's monthly. It's fiercely anti-capitalist, and independent. It's superb. It ought to be mandatory reading for anyone/everyone w ho cares even a teensy bit about what's going on, and how to change it for the better. Each month brings one a digest-sized, spined, 64 page magazine, typically with three lengthy essays/articles, and a plethora of reviews, and an...
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Malcolm X, Black Liberation & the Road to Workers Power - Jack Barnes
The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to cities and factories across the continent, drawn by capital's insatiable need for labor power—and cannon fodder for its wars. Malcolm X emerged from this rising struggle as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colo...
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Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis - Kari Lydersen
December 5, 2008: It wasn't supposed to work like this. Days after getting a $45 billion bailout from the USgovernment, Bank of America shut down a line of credit that kept Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory operating. The bosses, who knew what was coming, had been sneaking machinery out in the middle of the night. They closed the factory and sent the workers home. Then something surprising happened:...
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Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion).

To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy-fields a...
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Survival Without Rent - Anonymous
An urban squatting manual from NYC, possibly originally written in 1986, this pamphlet is still practical today. Sections include "How to Form a Group," "Finding a Building," "Getting In," "Emergency Repairs," "Heat, Light and Fire Safety," "Legal Hassles," and the all-important "Makeshift Toilets." The pamphlet also has a list of organizations that might be helpful (not just NYC-related either!).
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The Political Economy of Racism - Melvin M. Leiman
Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it.
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Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion - Joseph P. Farrell
The modern-day financial crisis and scam is nothing really new reveals master researcher Joseph P. Farrell In Babylon's Banksters. Banking has been tinkered with and controlled for the past thousand years of human history.

· See how a seductively simple formula devised by a large and powerful Chinese family led to the "credit default swaps" bust.

· Read how astrology and a ...
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Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education - Nancy Folbre
In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach—and trying to learn—at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a...
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The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy - Lisa Dodson
"I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make."
—Supervisor of a fast-food pizza place

Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans with impossible schedules, paychecks, and lives. Whether it is a nurse choosing to treat an uninsured child, a supervisor deciding to overlook infractions...
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Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios - Antonio Negri (Afterword By), Christian Marazzi (Contributor), Andrea Fumagalli (Editor), and Sandro Mezzadra (Editor)
Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile "multiversity" of the UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months immediately following the first signals of the current financial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first organic and interdisciplinary attempt to analyze...
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