New Arrivals For
May — August 2015 |
A listing of new books and items added to our collection for May through August in 2015. Most of these were made through a contribution by Michael Hoffman.
Book Arrivals:
The Political Economy Of Racism by Melvin M. Leiman
Ecology and Socialism : [solutions to capitalist ecological crisis] by Chris Williams
The Comintern by Duncan Hallas
The New Imperialism by David Harvey
Witness to the German Revolution: Writings from Germany, 1923 by Victor Serge
More Years for the Locust: The Origins of the SWP by Jim Higgins
Revolution In Danger : Writings from Russia, 1919/1921 by Serge, Victor,
Diary of Bergen-Belsen by Hanna Lévy-Hass
Beyond Chutzpah : On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein
Education and Capitalism : Struggles for Learning and Liberation by Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp
The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
Revolution and Counterrevolution : Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory by Kevin Murphy
Smash the Church, Smash the State! : The Early Years Of Gay Liberation by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and The Roots Of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D'Amato
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy?! : The Classic Self-Help Book For Adults With Attention Deficit Disorder by
Kate Kelly
Sexuality And Socialism : History, Politics, And Theory Of LGBT Liberation by Sherry Wolf
The Fire Last Time : 1968 And After by Chris Harman
Imperialism In The 21St Century : Updating Lenin's Theory A Century Later by PSL
The Neighbour From Hell : Two Centuries Of Australian Imperialism by Tom O'Lincoln
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New Arrivals For
April 2015 |
A listing of new books and items added to our collection for the month of April in 2015
Book Arrivals:
The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929 by Jacob A. Zumoff.
(2014)
War on War. Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Oirigns of communist
Internationalism by C. Craig Nation. (2009)
Marx on Latin America by José Aricó. (2014)
Always on Strike Frank Little and the Western Wobblies by Arnold Stead
(2014)
Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party by
Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Twiss. Introduction by George Breitman (2014)
Doing History from the Bottom Up. On E. P. Thompsin, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the
Labor Movement from Below. by Staughton Lynd (2014)
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New Arrival Special Notice
INDEX BOOKS |
New Book Arrival Review:
Book Arrival Reviews
The Holt Labor Library
has received a donation from Index Books, the decendents of New Park Publications in London, at one time the largest Trotskyist publishing house in that country. |
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New Book Arrival Review:
Book Arrival Reviews
The Holt Labor Library
Is starting a New Arrival Review Section of new books recieved from publishers or writers. We will usually
repring the the publishers own description of the book as well as any special comments we think are noteworthy
about the book. The first review is from Steve Early's 2010 work The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor, Birth of a New
Workers Movement of the Death Throes of the Old? |
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Left Opposition Digitization Project
http://marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/themilitant/index.htm
We are pleased to announce a joint project between the Holt Labor Library, the Raizinov Library and the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: The Left Opposition Digitization Project which is in the process of digitizing much of the North American Oppositionist/Trotskyist publications: The Militant, Fourth International, Labor Action and other early US and Canadian Left Opposition publications. Using the extensive holdings of original publications at Holt Labor and Raizinov,we are digitizing these publications into PDFs and make them available by way of the ETOL. The first years of The Militant are available now. |
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Holt Labor Library Audio Collection
http://marxists.architexturez.net/history/etol/audio/index.htm
We are pleased to announce a selection of the library's audio
collection is now online in mp3 format, hosted by the
Marxists Internet Archive. Currently, lectures by George
Breitman, James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Tom Kerry, Ernest Mandel, Evelyn
Reed, Harry Ring, and Larry Trainor are available, with more to be
added. |
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Taft-Hartley
Exhibit |
Berta
Green Langston Papers Finding
Aid
http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/Langston%20Finding%20Aid.htm
Correspondence,
newsletters, newspaper articles, and miscellaneous writings
and memorabilia concerning the Alexander Defense Committee,
Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee, the Committee to Aid the Monroe Defendants,
and the Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle
East.
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 Mattingly
Button Exhibit
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LaborTech 2008: The Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy
http://www.labortech.net/
The "Archives of Dissent" panel held at U.C. Berkeley 9/18/2008 can now be seen on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvRu_6qkAmA
The panel was part of a week-long series of Bay Area events titled "The Great Rehearsal" commemorating the worldwide upheavals of 1968, their impacts and legacies. Shannon Sheppard, director of the Holt Labor Library was invited to give extended remarks from the floor following the panel (midway through the video).
The
mission of the Holt Labor Library is to make available to
working people, activists, and scholars the theoretical,
historical, and experiential dimensions of the class
struggle in the advanced industrialized world in the 19th through 21st centuries. We invite
you to utilize the resources we have collected by browsing
our web pages and visiting our library in San
Francisco.
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Publications of the Left Opposition project 
May
Day Exhibit 