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International Publishers has two outstanding biographies of John Brown (born May 9, 1800 hanged December 2, 1859): JOHN BROWN, by W.E.B DuBois. With scholarship and passion, DuBois understands and explains John Brown. This is the 1962 edition, in which Du Bois updates his original 1909 work. 312 pages. Index. $12.99. ISBN: 978-0-7178-0375-0. William Edward Burghardt W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963) was a leading African-American sociologist, writer and activist. DuBois is wide...ly recognized for his pursuit of social justice, for his literary imagination, and for his pioneering scholarly research. JOHN BROWN THE COST OF FREEDOM SELECTIONS FROM HIS LIFE AND LETTERS, by Louis A. Decaro, Jr., Ph.D. A compelling, brief biography that gives new insights into John Brown. It is supported by texts of selected letters written by John Brown to his family and contemporaries. 192 pages. Illustrated. Notes. Index. $14.00. ISBN: 978-0-7178-0742-0. Decaro is Associate Professor of church history and Director of the New York City campus of Alliance Theological Seminary. He has become a prolific John Brown biographer.

On the anniversary of his birth, here are a few good books from International Publishers by Frederick Engels, (born Nov. 28, 1820, Barmen, Rhine province, Prussia [Germany]died Aug. 5, 1895, London, Eng.) German activist, author, editor, philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and the closest friend and collaborator of Karl Marx. ENGELS ON "CAPITAL" Helpful to any student or reader of CAPITAL, THE PROCESS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION, Vol. 1, by Karl Marx. Contains Engels' ...Continue reading

Are you starting or expanding your reference library? Here is a selection of books from International Publishers by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for you personal, union local, school, or community center library that every organizer can read. A few good books by Karl Marx. CAPITAL, the Process of Capitalist Production, Vol. 01. Edited by Frederick Engels...Continue reading

POWERFUL WOMEN AUTHORS ANGELA DAVIS, An Autobiography. Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor, and conviction, with a 1988 Introduction by the author. 416 pages, paperback, $16.00, ISBN: 978-0-7178-0667-6. From her childhood in an activist home fighting for justice in the Jim Crow South, through her student years, her experiences with the Black Panthers and the CPUSA, her murder trial and ultimate victory. Angela’s photograph was known everywhere,...Continue reading

BACK IN PRINT! American Trade Unionism by William Z. Foster. $19.99 Originally published in 1947, Foster shows the role of a militant Left in the trade unions, without which significant progress has proved impossible. Foster selected and edited his writings for this volume and supplied an introduction and epilogue. Foster was a militant labor organizer and served as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/american-trade-unionism/

NEW at Internationa Publishers FAITH in the Masses, ESSAYS Celebrating 100 years of the Communist party USA. $19,99, Faith in the Masses is a collection of 12 essays by historians and activist-scholars on various aspects of the 100-year history of the CPUSA.... FAITH in the Masses, ESSAYS Celebrating 100 years of the Communist Party USA. $19,99,t to equality, workers’ rights, peace, and socialism. They highlight the struggle for African American equality, Black liberation, and women’s rights, and place athletic, cultural, and literary activities well within the scope of CPUSA work. This book asserts that the CPUSA played a leading role in the social and economic justice struggles of the 20th century. Included in this collection are three essays that challenge the narrative dominant within traditional academic circles that the CPUSA became a marginal political force post-1956. Faith in the Masses adds the historiography of the CPUSA with a discussion of Communist involvement in the 1960s and 1970s youth and student upsurge, peace, civil rights, and the movement for environmental sustainability. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/faith-in-the-masses/

Author and activist Bea Lumpkin in the news! She is the author of "Always Bring a Crowd, Frank Lumpkin Steel Worker" and "Joy in the Struggle, My Life and Love" both available from International Publishers.

And read International Publishers book by Phil Stein who spent 10 years as his assistant: "Siqueiros: His Life and Works" This month on PBS https://www.pbssocal.org//siqueiros-walls-of-passion-eiuw/

New from International Publishers: "The Electrical Unions and the Cold War," by John Bennett Sears. $19.99, SKU: 9780717807703 ISBN: 9780717807703. Electrical workers and their unions were at the vortex of the arguments that shook the labor movement and the country during the Cold War. This book recounts and interprets that experience. While international issues were widely considered beyond the bailiwick of workers, they split the labor movement, impacted heavily on the e...lectrical unions, and were the subject of passionate debate among workers. Questioning the dominant assumptions of United States foreign policy from a labor standpoint required extraordinary vision and courage, but a significant body of trade unionists felt that such questioning was simply the common-sense approach for labor leaders and unions to take. https://www.intpubnyc.com//the-electrical-unions-and-the-/ See more

NEW from International Publishers, the English language translation of the novel by Alvaro Cunhal, "Five Days, Five Nights," written under the pseudonym Manuel Tiago. This book is the first to appear in English. International Publishers s proud to present this unusual novella as a long-overdue expression of gratitude for Alvaro Cunhal’s self-sacrificing leadership of the Portuguese Communists during most of the half-century of fascism in his land. Translate by Eric A. Gordon.... Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography, and the translator (from Portuguese) of a memoir by Brazilian author Hadasa Cytrynowicz. He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. He chaired the Southern California chapter of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 UAW (AFL-CIO) for two terms and is director emeritus of The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District. In 2015 he produced City of the Future, a CD of Soviet Yiddish songs by Samuel Polonski. He received the Better Lemons "Up Late" Critic Award for 2019, awarded to the most prolific critic. Ilustrations by Ilse Gordon. Paperback, $15.99, SKU: 9780717807895 ISBN: 9780717807895. Soon to be available in electronic format. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/five-days-five-nights/

International Publishers is proud to carry 3 books by renowned journalist Tim Wheeler. Tim Wheeler estimates he has written 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. He lives in Sequim, Wash., in the home he shared with his beloved late wife Joyce Wheeler. "News From Rain Shadow Country" is a collection of writing...s by Tim Wheeler from his years as a writer and editor. First at the Worker. then at the Daily World and finally People’s World newspapers. The present collection features much semi-biographical material focusing on his experiences as a child and youth growing up on a dairy farm in Sequim, Washington. Wheeler’s family had first taken up farming during the infamous witch hunt period of the late 1940s / early 1950s but, eventually triumphed over fear and hatred. As Wheeler reports, the family was eventually welcomed and befriended by their neighbors and were hosts to such luminaries as the famed folk singer, Pete Seeger. This new book also includes Wheeler’s coverage of the trials and tribulations of other farmers and workers of the region. He also writes extensively about the region's Native tribes and their defense of their sovereignty and treaty rights. Throughout he is governed by the Marxist principle that all working people must unite to be successful in their struggles with the exploiting class and the extreme right wing. Tim’s motto was and is, People and Nature Before Profits. "News for the 99%, Volume 1 and Volume 2" A compilation of news articles written for the Worker, Daily World, People’s World and Peoples Weekly World over the last 50 years of the 20th Century representing a kind of history of the nation and the world from a working persons point of view. In pulling together this compilation Wheeler mined research libraries across the country. Originally written on assignment for the Worker, Daily World, People’s World, and People’s Weekly World, his articles represent a history of our nation and of the world from Wheeler’s progressive point of view. More than just a compilation of articles, however, the book represents a documentation of Wheeler’s life’s journey, at least in relation to his reporting, and includes little personal gems, like his impressions of various public figures and other reporters. Ordering information in the comments below.

This new edition makes easily available the really living parts of the first exposition of the new revolutionary philosophy, written by Marx and Engels with all the freshness of a new discovery. It includes the vital first part of the book, which remains a basic text for every student of Marxism and also includes the most telling points, fully relevant today, of the polemics which occupy the rest of the work. Added as appendices are Marx’s famous theses on Feuerbach and his u...nfinished Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy, not previously published in English. The present edition has been edited by C.J. Arthur, of the School of Social Studies at Sussex, England. In his introduction, Arthur discusses the role played by the work in the evolution of Marxism. Paperback, $6.50. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/german-ideology/

The dangerous movement of "stormtroopers" to major U.S. cities where they are working in conjunction with corrupt cops to attack and haul off protesters brings to mind the important contributions by Italian anti-fascist Palmiro Togliatti and Bulgarian anti-fascist George Dimitrov. Lectures on Fascism, Palmiro Togliatti, paperback, 172 pages, $12.00, SKU: 978-0-7178-0757-4, ISBN: 978-07178-0757-4. Lectures on Fascism consists of a 1935 series of lectures given by Togliatt...Continue reading

Celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Helen Keller, June 27, 1880, one of Alabama's most famous natives. See the International Publishers title: HELEN KELLER: HER SOCIALIST YEARS, edited by Philip S. Foner. This book includes her arguments for women's suffrage, her opposition to World War I, her defense of the "Wobblies," her views on birth control, her support of the socialist Eugene V. Debs, her pleas on behalf of the unemployed, and her defense of the newborn Soviet Union and its leader, V.I. Lenin. Paperback, 128 pages, $6.00. ISBN: 978-0-7178-0748-2. https://www.intpubnyc.com//helen-keller-her-socialist-yea/

June 21, 1877 That was the day that ten Irish miners were hung in Pennsylvania. They were part of a group of twenty who had been sentenced to death for being part of the Molly Maguires, a group of radical Irish miners. Miners were on strike in the Schuylkill County anthracite coal region. THE MOLLY MAGUIRES, by Anthony Bimba, 144 pages. (July 2000 reprint), $12.99, ISBN: 978-0-7178-0273-9, The story of the frameup.... The Coal Region included the Pennsylvania counties of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Schuylkill, Carbon, and Northumberland. Wages were low, working conditions were atrocious, and deaths and serious injuries numbered in the hundreds each year. Twenty Mollies were executed by hanging in 1877 and 1878 for their activism among Irish-American and immigrant Irish coal miners in often bloody struggles against the mine owners’ Coal and Iron Police, Pinkerton detectives, and hired vigilantes. Antanas "Anthony" Bimba Jr. (18941982) was a Lithuanian-born U.S. newspaper editor, historian, and radical political activist. An editor of a number of Lithuanian-language Marxist periodicals published in the United States, Bimba was the defendant in a sensational 1926 legal case in which he was charged with sedition and violation of a 229-year-old law against blasphemy in the state of Massachusetts. Bimba was once again in the news in 1963 when the U.S. Department of Justice began deportation proceedings against him, charging that he committed perjury during the course of his 1927 naturalization as a U.S. citizen. The effort was contested and ultimately dropped by the government in the summer of 1967. Bimba's papers are housed at the Immigration History Research Center, located at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

As part of the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, in Brussels, Belgium, protesters clambered onto the statue of former King Leopold II and chanted reparations, according to video posted on social media. The word shame was also graffitied on the monument, reference to the fact that Leopold reigned over the mass death of 10 million Congolese. From International Publishers: KING LEOPOLD’S SOLILOQUY. Twain’s biting satire on the gruesome Belgian reign over the Congo. Rare...Continue reading