United States

Books about the history and politics of the United States, American Imperialism, and the Communist Party of the USA.

Classes in the United States

Workers Against Capitalists

Author: Charles Loren

This work pictures the classes in the U.S. and conducts a lively debate about class versus fashionable substitute categories like occup-ation and income. Using Census and other data in a readable discussion, Loren argues that the working class now makes up 90% of the population, capitalists two percent, and an intermediate class of petty producers eight percent. At the same time, the book analyzes the remarkable survival power of petty bourgeois ideas and attitudes. Among the themes Loren confronts are those dwelling on the new middle class, the new working class, post-industrial society, and petty bourgeois strata.

A People's History of the United States

Author: Howard Zinn


Voting is not Harm Reduction

An Indigenous Perspective

Indigenous Action


Black Reconstruction in America

Author: W. E. B. DuBois

One of the most important and foundational texts in Black Historiography, Black Recon-struction covers the history and achievements of Black people in the United States during the Reconstruction era (1860-1880) and seeks to combat the popular narrative of the era that sidelines Black men and women in favor of the white perspective.

Settlers:

The Mythology of the White Proletariat

Author: J. Sakai


Hammer and Hoe:

Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Author: Robin D. G. Kelley


An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


International Criticism of Webb's "A Party of Socialism for the 21st Century"

Communist Party of Greece, Communist Party of Mexico, German Communist Party, Communist Party of Canada


Negro Liberation

Author: Harry Haywood

Published in 1948, this is undoubtedly Harry Haywood's most important work. In it, he discusses the Black national question inside the United States through the lens of Marxism-Leninism. He provides a materialist analysis of the Black belt in the south, how it constitutes an oppressed nation within a nation, and why the liberation of Black people is key to the greater liberation struggle of the American working class.

The Peril of Fascism

The Crisis of American Democracy

Authors: A. B. Magil and Henry Stevens


The Pentagon Papers

The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking in Vietnam

Senator Gravel Edition Vol. I-V

US Department of Defense


Documents of United States Indian Policy

Editor: Francis Paul Prucha