No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

9 best books like No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Jane F. McAlevey): How to Be an Antiracist, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

How to Be an Antiracist

Author	Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN	0525509283

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Author	Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
ISBN	1608468550

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

Author	China Miéville
ISBN	1784782777

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked...

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Author

Adrienne Maree Brown

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing...

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Author	Silvia Federici
ISBN	1570270597

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Author	Cinzia Arruzza
ISBN	1788734424

From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.

Recent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of...

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

Author	Bhaskar Sunkara
ISBN	1541617398

From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today
With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is...

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Author	Robin D.G. Kelley
ISBN	0807842885

Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama -- the center of Party activity in the Depression South. Hammer and Hoe documents the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political reforms....

Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

Author

Laboria Cuboniks

The Good:
--Feminist critique and (often neglected) embrace/control of high-technology is desperately needed, given the alarming centralization of technological reach and power under capitalism.

The Bad:
--The delivery needs a complete overhaul if a wider audience is desired....