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Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim
T-Bone Slim

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1985

"A working stuff, a hobo, and an irreconcilable revolutionist...second only to Joe Hill as the IWW's most popular songwriter, T-Bone Slim incontestably was the Wobblie's greatest ‘man of letters.’ For two decades, readers of IWW publications recognized him as the Union's ‘most noted columnist.’ America's finest hobo wordsmith and a remarkable ...
  
  











  



  
Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1988

They Had The Best Songs
"Rebel Voices" is a peerless collection of primary evidence on the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies. It preserves a most diverse array of material, including pamphlets, newspaper articles and court transcripts, but also less conventional sources such as ...
  
  











  



  
An Appeal to the Young (Trans from Russia)
Peter Kropotkin

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1984
  
  











  



  
Mysteries of St. Louis: A Novel (Foreign-Language American Left Series) (Foreign-Language American Left ...
Henry Boernstein

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1990

A wonderfully dark novel of St. Louis, written in the 1850s, by a virulently anti-clerical German immigrant, who composed this novel in French!
  
  











  



  
Harlem Glory: A Fragment of Aframerican Life
Claude McKAY

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1988

Written in the late 1940s but unpublished till now, this superb portrayal of Black life during the Great Depression and the New Deal is virtually a sequel to the classic Home to Harlem. Mckay's vivid, warm evocations of the omnipresent numbers racket, all-night jazz parties and the whole exuberant and cacophonous clash of social movements and ...
  
  











  



  
The Golden Book of Springfield (Lost Utopias Series) (Lost Utopias Series)
Vachel Lindsay

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1999

The High Priest of Illinois
The Golden Book of Springfield is a super arcane, esoteric gem!! It should be required reading in every Illinois school. Lindsey attempts to do justice to his home state, by creating a futuristic Illinios filled with life and dignity. So unlike the Illinois of his ...
  
  











  



  
The New Radicals in the Multiversity and Other Sds Writings on Student Syndicalism (Sixties Series)
Carl Davidson

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1990

During the late 1960s, when students all over American were practicing direct democracy on campus by waging massive student strikes and taking over their university buildings, the three essays collected here for the first time were among the most widely read pieces of student radical literature. Their author, Carl Davidson, was national ...
  
  











  



  
A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Skidmore (Young America Series No. 2)
Amos A. Gilbert

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1988

the only complete biography of Thomas Skidmore, 1790-1832
Thomas Skidmore would have been surprised, Amos Gilbert wrote in his biographical preface, that Gilbert would turn out to be his biographer. He's have found it far less surprising that Gilbert, thirty years later, would also be a biographer of the flamboyant ...
  
  











  



  
The New Radicals in the Multiversity and Other Students for a Democratic Society (Sds) Writings on Student ...
Carl Davidson

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1990

During the late 1960s, when students all over American were practicing direct democracy on campus by waging massive student strikes and taking over their university buildings, the three essays collected here for the first time were among the most widely read pieces of student radical literature. Their author, Carl Davidson, was national ...
  
  











  



  
Walls & Bars: Prisons and Prison Life
Eugene V Debs

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 2000

Deb's only full-length book (first published in 1927) is a lively memoir as well as a stirring critique, drawing on his own prison experiences. He served time for his leading role in the Pullman Strike in 1894, subsequently sent to the penitentiary again in 1919 for opposing World War I. In 1920, as Convict N. 9653, he ran for President on the ...
  
  











  



  
Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1990

This book was writen, 100 years ahead of his time
I read this book, translated to the portuguese, here in Brazil.This book was writen, in XIX century.About socialism, this book is prophetic. This book doesn't talks, only about socialism, but also about other things.This book is short, very easy to read, and even ...
  
  











  



  
Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam
oscar ameringer

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 1985

Excellent Book
I ran into this book at a garage sale. It is an excellent, funny, fast read that totally changed my perspective on US history. So much so that I went back to my high school history teacher and gave her my copy. It's great for high school kids taking US history ...
  
  











  



  
Labor Struggles in the Deep South & Other Writings
Covington Hall

Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, 2000

In the half-century since it was written, Hall's Labor Struggles In The Deep South , published here for the first time, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall—journalist, organizer, rebel, professor, and poet—brings to life the dramatic early 20th century struggles of the ...
  
  











  



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