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  • Fake Silk

    The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon

    by Paul David Blanc ...
    When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken?This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of "fake silk," or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution, Democracy, Socialism

    Selected Writings of V.I. Lenin

    by V. I. Lenin ...
    Series series Get Political
    Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.This is an entirely new collection of Lenin's writing. For the first time it brings together crucial shorter works, to show that Lenin held a life-long commitment to freedom and democracy. Le Blanc has written a comprehensive introduction, which gives an accessible ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

    From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    "His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds" ( Booklist).In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation.Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lenin and the Revolutionary Party

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    For generations, historians of the right, left, and center have all debated the best way to understand V. I. Lenin’s role in shaping the Bolshevik party in the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. At their worst, these studies locate his influence in the forcefulness of his personality. At their best, they show how Lenin moved other Bolsheviks through patient argument and political debate. ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Living Flame

    The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    A collection of essays illuminating the historic Polish philosopher, economist, and activist's tremendous contributions to revolutionary struggle.Rosa Luxemburg, brilliant early twentieth century German revolutionary, comes alive in a rich set of essays on her life, ideas, and lasting influence. The essays deal not only with her remarkable contributions to political, social and economic theory, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trotskyism in the United States

    Historical Essays and Reconsiderations

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc, Alan Wald, George Breitman ...
    In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le Blanc offers fresh reflections on this history for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century. Includes a preface written especially for the new edition of this distinctive work.Paul Le Blanc is a professor of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Lenin

    Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    “A welcome gift ... Highlighting Lenin’s flexibility and cultivation of collective leadership, Le Blanc brings out the practical activism and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet” Jodi Dean, author of Comrade“Crackling with intellectual life” Lars T. Lih, author of Lenin Rediscovered“A wonderful sketch of Lenin’s life and times ... Perhaps the ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism

    Selected Writings

    by Rosa Luxemburg ...
    Series series Get Political
    Rosa Luxemburg's writings reveal one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. Through the letters, pamphlets and theorising, we see an outstanding social and economic theorist, a dedicated political activist and a devoted confidant.Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologised. Her ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leon Trotsky

    Writings in Exile

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    Series series Get Political
    Leon Trotsky was a key political figure of the twentieth century – a leader of the Russian Revolution, founder of the Red Army, author of books on literature, history, morality and politics.Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile contains some of his most insightful and penetrating works. Thrown out of Russia by Stalin, Trotsky settled in Mexico, and turned to the only weapon he had left – words. In these ... Read more

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  • Leon Trotsky

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    Series Book 58 - Critical Lives
    There are few more divisive names in modern history than that of the diehard revolutionary Leon Trotsky. To some he was a hypocritical totalitarian, while to many others he was a revolutionary liberator, an idealist determined to crush an outdated, oppressive dynasty in order to replace it with a proletarian socialist commonwealth. But one thing is agreed: his impact as a leader in the Russian ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • October Song

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc ...
    A panoramic account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath animated by the lives, ideas and experiences of workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries of diverse persuasions October Song vividly narrates the triumphs of those who struggled for a new society and created a revolutionary workers state. Yet despite profoundly democratic and humanistic aspirations, the ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Work and Struggle

    Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc ...
    Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essential elements in the working-class movement from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Showcasing some of labor's most important leaders, Work and Struggle offers students and instructors a variety of voices to learn from -- each ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD