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Propaganda and the Public Mind
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Haymarket Books, 2015; 256 pages. Out of print for several years, this classic has just been reissued with a new introduction by Chomsky. In this collection of interviews with David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky interrogates the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. Whether discussing […]
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 2007; 240 pages. In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran’s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left […]
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post 9-11 World
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan/Holt, 2005; 228 pages. (More than 60,000 copies in print.) Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed, this volume of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S. policies in the increasingly unstable post-9/11 world. In these exchanges, appearing for the first time in print, Chomsky offers […]
Power Systems
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky
Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire Interviews with David Barsamian pp 211, 2013. In this collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of […]
The Democracy Fix
Caroline Fredrickson
In The Democracy Fix, the president of the American Constitution Society argues for progressives to focus on winning by learning from the Right that policy follows power, not the other way around. Caroline Fredrickson points to judicial elections, state power, election law and other policy areas that change the rules of the game. Fredrickson shows […]
How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance
L.A. Kauffman
By L.A. Kauffman 152 pages When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It […]
Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
Richard Wolff, David Barsamian
In these eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the root causes of the current economic crisis, its unjust social consequences and what can and should be done to turn things around. While others blame corrupt bankers and unregulated speculators or the government or even the poor who borrowed, the authors show […]
Confronting Empire
Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian
Long out of print. Haymarket has published it now with a new forward by Pervez Hoodbhoy. Confronting Empire is probably Barsamian’s most influential interview book. “Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, [was] a man of enormous charisma and incorruptible ideals. He had an almost instinctive attraction to […]
Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Tariq Ali. The New Press, 2005; 240 pages. COLLECTOR’s ITEM. OUT OF PRINT. A prolific and eloquent writer, Tariq Ali is also a captivating conversationalist. Speaking of Empire and Resistance captures him at his provocative best. This series of interviews with David Barsamian brings together Ali’s view on a wide range of […]
Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?
Frances Fox Piven
“Piven, throughout her career as an activist and academic, has embodied the best of American democracy.” —The Nation How is it that Frances Fox Piven, a distinguished university professor, past president of the American Sociological Association, and recipient of numerous awards and accolades for her work could suddenly find herself all over the Internet—and Fox […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Sohaila Abdulali
A beautifully written, brilliant, searingly honest—and ultimately hopeful—examination of sexual assault and the global discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is a book for this #MeToo and #TimesUp age that will stay with readers—men and women alike—for a long, […]
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
Jenny Brown
With an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and cases. This spirited book shows how feminism can start winning again. Jenny Brown uncovers a century of legal abortion in the […]

Propaganda and the Public Mind

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post 9-11 World

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Power Systems

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

The Democracy Fix

Caroline Fredrickson

How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance

L.A. Kauffman

Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism

Richard Wolff, David Barsamian

Confronting Empire

Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian

Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali, David Barsamian

Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?

Frances Fox Piven

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

Sohaila Abdulali

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

Jenny Brown