Authors:Yolanda Alaniz, Megan Cornish,
Publisher: Red Letter Press
Keywords: identity, resistance, chicano, history, raza, viva
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0932323286
ISBN-13: 9780932323286

A riveting account of the struggle for Chicana/o liberation. Describes monumental battles in U.S. agriculture, mines and factories, and analyzes the vibrant movimiento of the 1960s and ’70s. The authors dissect the origins of racial and national oppression and focus unique attention on the role of women and the emergence of Latina/o lesbians and gays.

Author: Radical Women
Publisher: Red Letter Press
Keywords: program, organizational, structure, theory, feminist, women, manifesto, socialist, radical
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $8.00
ISBN-10: 0932323111
ISBN-13: 9780932323118

Required reading for rebel grrrlz, working women, and sisters of all colors! This exciting new edition of a women’s liberation classic is an exhilarating exploration of socialist feminist ideas. Third Wave militants, grassroots organizers, and Women Studies scholars will find it a unique and valuable resource — and great reading. Radical Women’s impressive 33-year career as a multi-racial, queer and straight, workingclass feminist organization makes the Manifesto an unrivaled and time-tested guide to activism.

Authors:Clara Fraser, Richard Fraser,
Publisher: Red Letter Press
Keywords: critique, revolutionary, leadership, crisis
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0932323081
ISBN-13: 9780932323088

A revolutionary critique of the growth of conservatism and erosion of democracy in the Socialist Workers Party amid the tumultuous 1960s. Written in 1965 by partisans of the fight to reorient the Socialist Workers Party, CRISIS AND LEADERSHIP provides a visionary analysis of economic and political developments and a fascinating appraisal of the Black movement and the conditions of women and labor during that pivotal period. The authors went on to found the Freedom Socialist Party, the first and only Bolshevik feminist party. Its founding documents are published for the first time i

Author: Leon Trotsky
Publisher: Red Letter Press
Keywords: prospects, results, amp, revolution, permanent
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-07-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0932323294
ISBN-13: 9780932323293

The theory of permanent revolution is one of the defining principles of Trotskyism. Yet Leon Trotsky’s essential works on the question have long been unavailable in book form to U.S. readers. Now Red Letter Press has issued an attractive and corrected new edition that will be appreciated by both newcomers to socialist ideas and old hands. Leon Trotsky first advanced the concept in 1905 as the strategy for overthrowing czarism and liberating Russian workers and peasants. The theory’s relevance to global revolt later became one of the key issues in the political battle between Trotsk

Author: Ricardas Gavelis
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: poker, vilnius
Number of Pages: 485
Published: 2009-01-14
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1934824054
ISBN-13: 9781934824054

Vytautas Vargalys is stuck in an absurd job, helping to create a digital catalog for a library in Soviet-ruled Vilnius that no one is allowed to access. A survivor of the labor camps, an experience which has left him both physically and mentally damaged, Vargalys is obsessed with finding out "what

Author: Bragi Olafsson
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: pets
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1934824011
ISBN-13: 9781934824016

From the bassist for The Sugarcubes comes this hilarious novel of cowardice, comeuppance, and assumed identity. Emil is back in Reykjavik from a trip to London. On the plane ride home he met a beautiful girl named Greta. He’s hoping Greta will call--and that she won’t call while he’s on the phone with his girlfriend, Vigdis. The moment he settles down at home, Havard, a drunken, violent lout from Emil’s past, shows up on his doorstep. Spying Havard through a window--and not wanting to have anything to do with him--Emil does the only sensible thing he can think of: he

Author: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: confession, rupert
Number of Pages: 131
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1934824097
ISBN-13: 9781934824092

Rupert has been accused of a terrible crime, and his imagined defense begins the night he met the love of his life, Mira. By turns shockingly honest, incredibly funny, and clearly unhinged, Rupert’s defense includes rants about the properly formed insult and men who wear comfortable sweaters. It also visits the memory-sites of Rupert and Mira’s short-lived affair: her apartment, their favorite caf