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Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left

Richard Iton

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A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism. But these arguments, says Richard Iton, overlook a crucial factor -- the powerful influence of race upon American life. Iton argues that the failure of the American Left lies in its inability to come to grips with the centrality of race in the American experience. Placing the history of the American Left in an illuminating comparative context, he also broadens our definition of the Left to include not just political parties and labor unions but also public policy and popular culture -- an important source for the kind of cultural consensus needed to sustain broad social and collectivist efforts, Iton says. In short, by exposing the impact of race on the development of the American Left, Iton offers a provocative new way of understanding the unique orientation of American politics.

Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism

Straughton Lynd

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Haymarket Scrapbook

David R. Roediger

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A truly immense, staggering, and wonderful anthology - profusely illustrated - focussing on the most world-reverberating vent in American labor history: the Haymarket Affair of 1886-67, and on the vast, incredibly varied and enduring influence it has exerted in the United States and across the globe. Divided into three massive sections - The Martyrs & Their Movements, Defense & Amnesty and The Heritage, contributors include William J Adelman, Carlotta Anderson, Paul Avrich, Sam Dolgoff, Richard Drinnon, Philip Foner, Joseph Jablonski, Bruce Nelson, Fred Thompson and many more. It features reprints of hard-to-find speeches and writings from the likes of the Haymarket martyrs themselves, Oscar Ameringer, Edward Bellamy, Ralph Chaplin, Voltaiarine de Cleyre, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Sam Gompers, Mother Jones, Peter Kropotkin, Jo Labadie, Lucy Parsons, Kenneth Rexroth, Carl Sandburg and a whole lot more. Also included are an abundance of cartoons and other illustrations from the likes of Flavio Constantini, Walter Crane, Robert Green, Mike Konopacki, Ernest Riebe, Art Young, and numerous others. Truly a comprehensive, engaging, and enlightening work. 250 massive pages, oversize and abundant.

Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism: Non-conformity in Eighteenth-Century Politics and Society

James E. Bradley

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In the age of the American Revolution, the political issues surrounding John Wilkes, the colonies, and parliamentary reform agitated the nation, and recent studies of party ideology and voting behavior have shown how these national issues divided England. But subsequent work on the peerage and Anglican political theory has depicted a more placid, deferential populace. This book engages the discussion by drawing attention to the social and political activities of the English Dissenters. The Nonconformists' legal standing, social status, and political behavior help illumine a number of unexamined causes for both the social stability and the political stresses of Hanoverian England. Legal inequities provoked strong opposition to the government's American policy from the dissenting elite, and while the ministers' publications suggest the depth of popular discontent, previous accounts have been unable to show how popular sentiment was transformed into radical behavior. By comparing sermons, political pamphlets, and election ephemera to poll books, city directories, and baptismal registers, this book offers an integrated approach to the study of ideology and behavior.

Writing from the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics (The Haymarket)

Alan M. Wald

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Encyclopedia of the American Left

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An important tool that belongs in your shop. Yet.... 4 out of 5 stars.
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The new Oxford edition is a big improvement on the first. At least the two major practicing bodies of Marxist-Leninist thought today (ISO & RCP) are at least mentioned by name this time! The context is informative and the critical edge is penetrating. Those of us who have marched with those groups will appreciate a little uninfatuated, academic, outside perspective. The RCP's fading post 70's glory is mercilessly skewered, and the ISO's sectarian hair-splitting is given necessary historical background. But there's something missing from the analysis. Any practicing worker or Marxist/activist will want to know what is GOOD about the parties that survive today. Shouldn't there be some forward thinking? We are still out here, organizing against police brutality, fighting the right-wing backlash, advocating workers' power, fighting for freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. There is a vanguard of a real democracy we see only glimmers of in the history of the Left.

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This is the throughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a groundbreaking reference source--the most comprehensive guide available to the history of radical and progressive movements in America. More than 600 articles (100 new to this edition) written by 300 leading historians cover key figures, events, issues, organizations, and concepts, from Tom paine to the Black Panther Party.

Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain

Catherine McNicol Stock

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For centuries Americans have thought of rural people as hardworking, trustworthy, and dedicated to their family, representing the moral backbone of our country. But when Timothy McVeigh was indicted in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, the nation was suddenly made aware of a thriving network of militiamen, conspiracists, survivalists, and white supremacists in all parts of America's heartland. The sudden media attention made it seem as though rural extremism were a new phenomenon, but as this illuminating study makes clear, the tradition of rural radicalism is older than the country itself. Tracing the history of patriotic intolerance as far back as 1676, noted historian Catherine McNicol Stock explains how rural Virginians took up arms to protest what they considered to be economic and political injustices. She examines recurring themes in rural radical movements, including anti-federalism, white supremacy, populism, and vigilantism--and reveals how for centuries these themes have been played out in a clash of private and public interests that is distinctly rural and distinctly American.

The Moderniser's Dilemma: Radical Politics in the Age of Blair

Anne Coddington, Mark Perryman

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A very valuable overview of modern British politics. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I highly recommend this book --both time and money are well spent on this excellent collection of essays.

Anne Coddington and Mark Perryman have gathered together a group of very bright intellects to discuss the future of radical politics and the results are fascinating indeed.

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The essays in The Moderniser's Dilemma cover a broad range of opinions, theories and experiences, demonstrating the central concerns that advocates, opponents and observers face when seeking to determine their position in relation to the politics of Blairism. Party reform, the re-structuring of the British state, the competing claims of the theories of modernisation and the potential appeal of an alternative politics of the new are chronicled in detail, providing a critical examination of both the modernisation we know, and of one yet to be discovered.

Talking About a Revolution: Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn

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On its twentieth anniversary, the South End Press collective has gathered the left's most prominent intellectuals for a wide-ranging discussion of the past twenty years and the next twenty years of progressive social movements in the United States. In nine accessible, personal interviews, Chomsky, Zinn, Hooks, Ehrenreich, Marable, and the other activists and writers included let readers know their most deeply held beliefs and hopes for the progressive movements they have worked to build over the last two decades. Everyone who would like to see a revitalized, more effective movement for social change in the United States whether feminist, anti-racist, populist, anarchist, socialist, or union activist will want to read Talking About a Revolution. Talking About a Revolution offers an easy and lively introduction to the ideas of some of the leading intellectuals on the left today.An accessible collection of original interviews with the left's best intellectuals and activists.

A Dreamer's Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (Revolutionary Series)

Paul Buhle

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Louis C Fraina was an Italian immigrant intellectual who rose to prominence as a precocious culture critic and a leader of the extreme left, then later, under the name of Lewis Corey, achieved considerable recognition as an economist and political theorist. "A Dreamer's Paradise Lost" is the first account of this remarkable life.