Essential Reading

Individual books:

Black Bolshevik Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist (PDF)
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (PDF)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (PDF)
Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance by Jeff Shantz
Bash The Fash: Anti-Fascist Recollections 1984-93 by K. Bullstreet (archive)
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It by Leon Trotsky (PDF)
Reform or Revolution and Other Writings by Rosa Luxemburg (archive)
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin (archive)
The Housing Question by Frederick Engels (PDF)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin (archive)
Resistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism by Maria Bargh
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies
Selected Works of Karl Marx (PDF)
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (pdf)
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin (archive)
The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850 by Karl Marx (PDF)
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey (PDF)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Strategy for a Black Agenda by Henry Winston (PDF)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
History of the World Crisis by Jose Carlos Mariategui (archive)
Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis (PDF)
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (PDF)
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels (PDF)
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind
Capital by Karl Marx (PDF Vol.1) (PDF Vol.2) (PDF Vol.3)
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution by John Womack
Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hanh
Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-based Society by Andre Gorz (PDF)
The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life by George Katsiaficas (PDF)
Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder by Gerry Spence
Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) by Luis Alberto Fernandez
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams (PDF - note needs to be zoomed in a lot but it comes out clear)
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance by Peter Linebaugh
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law
The People’s Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution by Samir Amin
Fire the Cops! by Kristian Williams
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion by Ryan Conrad
Direct Action: An Ethnography by David Graeber (PDF)
Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance by M. Testa
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton (PDF)
What Is To Be Done? By Vladimir Lenin (archive) (PDF)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Benjamin Walter (PDF)
Our Synthetic Environment by Murray Bookchin (PDF)
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (PDF)
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years by Murray Bookchin (PDF)
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin (PDF)
Social Ecology and Communalism by Murray Bookchin (PDF)
The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era by Murray Bookchin (link)
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm by Murray Bookchin (PDF)
Labor and Freedom by Eugene V. Debs (link) (alternative link)
Walls & Bars by Eugene V. Debs (link)
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (PDF)
Instead Of Prisons: A Handbook For Abolitionists
The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition by Lee Griffith
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Davis
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley (PDF)
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul
Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary by Dennis Childs

Full Archives:

Marx on audio, and a few free audiobooks, and here’s a Youtube page that reads chapters from communist books.

By Topic - links will have definitions, books, audio, other readings, etc. :

Independent Newspapers & Zines*:

Red Flag - A not-for-profit leftist newspaper, you can subscribe to the newspaper but they also offer their articles for free and you can flip through their old issues for free too.

Native Zinestress - Two Diné women publishing zines dealing with Native American feminism, Standing Rock, Attawapiskat youth, and the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada.

*NOTE! If you publish antifa zines or zines related to the topics above please send us your information and how to purchase your zine so we can list it here.