History

 

Solidarity Forever
An Oral History of the IWW
By Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer
"This study of the Wobblies is a vital part of our history that has never appeared in the traditional chronicles. It's time...we knew of this indigenous American movement. An excellent book."
—Studs Terkel

Black Bolshevik
Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
By Harry Haywood
A dramatic and personal narrative of fifty years of the black struggle and the American left from the twenties through the sixties, with first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, and the Spanish Civil War.

The Mossadegh Era
Roots of the Iranian Revolution
By Sepehr Zabih
"By far the most comprehensive and objective account of a major event in modern Iranian history."
—Choice

Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer
By Michael Steven Smith
"If there ever was a time for more lawyers like Mike Smith, it is now."—William Kunstler

Fruits of Apartheid
Experiencing Independence in a Transkeian Village
By Julia Segar
The transition to "independence" in one of the "homelands" of the apartheid regime, from the point of view of the villagers.

Women in Cuba: 20 Years Later
By Margaret Randall
Introduction by Michelle Russell
A first-hand account of how revolution has changed the situation of Cuban women by the US-born poet whom the US State Dept. has tried for years to deport.