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 Reading List

basic marxist readings
Communist Manifesto by Kark Marx
The 3 Component Parts of Marxism by V.I. Lenin
The Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky
Vanguard Parties by Ernest Mandel

Below is a list of novels and biographies that are worth checking out from your local library:

canadian labour history
Canadian Bolsheviks by Ian Angus

novels
Native Son by Richard Wright
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright
Year One of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge
The Mother by Gorky
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Born of the Fourth of July by Ron Kovics
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver
Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Blood Child by Octavia Butler
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Dispossessed by Ursala LeGuin
The Left hand of Darkness by Ursala LeGuin
The Iron Heel by Jack London

eyewitness accounts
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
Negroes With Guns by Williams
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobs

biographies
The Rebel Girl by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
The Bending Cross (Debs bio) by Ray Ginger
Autobiography of Frederick Douglas
Autobiorgraphy of W.E.B. Dubois
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
My Life by Leon Trotsky
John L. Lewis by Robert Zieger
Stalin by Leon Trotsky
Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
The Prophet Armed (Vol. 1 of Trotsky bio) by Isaac Deutscher
The Prophet Unarmed (Vol. 2) by Isaac Deutscher
The Prophet Outcast (Vol. 3) by Isaac Deutscher
My Brother, My Comrade: Remembering Jake Cooper by Mark Harris
Joe Hill by John McDermott

Please feel free to email us any suggestions that you have to add to our list!

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