FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISTS THAT CARE:

A EVENTUAL BUT SHORT MUST READ LIST

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Howard Zinn (the story of our peoples if we'd had the time, materials and means to share it. plus a definitive bibliography)

NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME, James Baldwin ( his mind against racism)

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, Naomi Klein (you, me, all of us and the environment)

HARVEST OF EMPIRE, Juan Gonzales (Caribbean and South America)

LEWIS AND CLARK, Alvin Josephy Jr, Vine Deloria... (the indigenous side of the story)

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

THE COUNTER REVOLUTION OF 1776, Gerald Horne (the construction of racism) 

LABOR AND MONOPOLY CAPITAL, Harry Braverman (the engineering of the working class)

IDEAS FOR ACTION, Cynthia Kaufman (what we can do here at home)

ONE DAY IN DECEMBER, Nancy Stout (women's view of the Cuban Revolution)

OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA, Eduardo Galeano (empire building and the people of South America)

NAMING THE SYSTEM, Micheal Yates ( defining or foreign policy as imperialism)

NEO COLONIALISM, Kwame Nkrumah (modern colonialism inAfrica)

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH, Paul Baran (for the working class & peasants here and of the 3rd world worker's economics)

De CALORES MEANS EVERYBODY, Elizabeth Martinez (unraveling our oppression together)

HISTORY OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Philip Foner (ten volumes of working class history)

RADICALS IN THE BARRIO,Justin Akers Chacon (story of the workings struggles both sides of the southern boarder up to Montana & Colorado from 1900s -1930s revealing our connections to the socialist, anarchists, mutualistas, co-operatives and Mexican revolutionaries)

VOICES OF FREEDOM, Henry Hampton & Steve Fayer (civil rights movement primer for liberation politics)

ON THE JUSTICE OF ROASTING CHICKENS, Ward Churchill (400 armed interventions)

WHAT EVERY ENVIRONMENTALIST NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ECONOMY, 

John Bellamy Foster (short aand provides clarity)

THE CRISIS IN THE WORKING CLASS, John McDermott (shortest labor history included)

PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED, Paulo Freire (how we oppressed can learn)

THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, Frantze Fannon (the social psychology of oppression)

DEMOCRACY AT WORK & Capitalism Hits the Fan, Richard Wolff (1930s and Now, helps you understand how the system works and how if electoral politics is going to work for us we need to make our independent presence felt in the community, workplace and campuses)

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME. Harriet Fraad & Richard Wolff (political economy of home)

THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT, Barbara Sinclair Deckard (thorough history)

THE APOCALYPSE OF SETTLER COLONIALISM, Gerald Horne (roots of slavery, white supremacy racism, capitalism and its expansion)

FOLLOW THE MONEY, Riva Enteen (tracking how money in politics is much more decisive that meets the eye) 

HARD TIMES, THE GOOD WAR AND WORKING  (three books of interview, our oral history through the depression and world war II)

MOTHER JONES' BOOK AND BIG BILL HAYWOOD'S BOOK (for those who want to get a feel for working class culture as a sense of what we're missing)

THE PHILIPPINE READER, Schirmer & shalom (many writers on what "we've done in the Philippines)

More coming including Anna Louise Strong, Lincoln Stephens, Meridel LeSuere, C Wright Mills, 

Margaret Randall, Stokley Carmichael. Tom Hayden and