Section 1: Introductory Works for Combating Anti-Communist Mythology in the 21st Century

  • Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & The Overthrow of Communism, by Michael Parenti

  • Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad

  • The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins

  • The Triumph of Evil, by Austin Murphy

  • War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century, by Domenico Losurdo

  • The Face of Imperialism, by Michael Parenti

  • To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, by Michael Parenti

  • History as Mystery, by Michael Parenti

Section 2: Marxist Philosophy and Fundamentals

  • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, by Frederich Engels

  • The State and Revolution: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State, by V.I. Lenin

  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism, by Joseph Stalin

  • Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin

  • What is to be Done? by V.I. Lenin

  • The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx & Frederich Engels

  • Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxemburg

  • Foundations of Leninism, by Joseph Stalin

Section 3: On Ultra-Left Deviations

  • “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin

  • Socialism or Anarchism? by Joseph Stalin

  • On Authority, by Frederich Engels

Section 4: On Fascism

  • Against Fascism and War, by Georgi Dimitrov

  • Fascism & Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt

  • Lectures on Fascism, by Palmiro Togliatti 

  • Fascism & Big Business, by Daniel Guérin

  • Fascism in the Colonies, by George Padmore

Section 5: Marxist Feminism

  • The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Frederich Engels

  • Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Davis

  • Guidelines for the Communist Women’s Movement, by Clara Zetkin

  • Red Love, by Alexandra Kollontai 

  • A Great Love, by Alexandra Kollontai

  • The Woman Question, by Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling

  • The Woman Worker, by Nadezhda Krupskaya

  • Preface to The Emancipation of Women (from Writings of V.I. Lenin) by Nadezhda Krupskaya

  • Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, by Silvia Federici

  • Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, by Kristen Ghodsee

  • Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle, by Thomas Sankara

Section 6: On Nations, Nationalism, and Colonialism

  • Red Star Over the Third World, by Vijay Prashad

  • The Right of Nations to Self-Determination, by V.I. Lenin

  • The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, by Vijay Prashad

  • The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination, by V.I. Lenin

  • Marxism & the National Question, by Joseph Stalin

  • Marx at the Margins, On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, by Kevin B. Anderson

  • Liberate the Colonies! Edited by John Riddell, Vijay Prashad, and Nazeef Mollah

  • On Colonialism, by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels (compilation of texts published by Aakar Books, 2016)

  • Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chavez, Edited by Manolo De Los Santos, Carlos Ron, and Vijay Prashad

  • Communist Histories, Edited by Vijay Prashad

  • The East Was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World, by Vijay Prashad

  • India in Transition, by M.N. Roy

  • Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and After the USSR, by Jeremy Smith

  • Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano

  • The Motorcycle Diaries, by Ernesto Che Guevara

  • Decolonial Marxism, by Walter Rodney

  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney

  • Neo-Colonialism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism, by Kwame Nkrumah

  • Africa Must Unite, by Kwame Nkrumah

  • The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, by C.L.R. James

  • Discourse on Colonialism, by Aimé Césaire

  • The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, by Gerald Horne

  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, by Gerald Horne

  • Washington’s Secret War Against Afghanistan, by Phillip Bonosky

  • Selected Ho Chi Minh, Edited by Vijay Prashad

  • How the National Question was Solved in Soviet Central Asia, by R. Tuzhmuhamedov

Section 7: Marxist Analyses of the Soviet Union and the October Revolution

  • The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, by Carlos Martinez

  • The Russian Revolution, by Walter Rodney

  • Red October: The Russian Revolution and the Communist Horizon, Edited by Vijay Prashad

  • Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today, by Albert Szymanski

  • Human Rights in the Soviet Union, Including Comparisons with the U.S.A., by Albert Szymanski

  • Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed

  • Heroic Struggle, Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the Dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR, by Bahman Azad

  • Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny

  • A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle, by Harry Haywood

  • Perestroika: Its Rise & Fall, by Mike Davidow

  • Another View of Stalin, by Ludo Martens

  • Stalin: The History & Critique of a Black Legend, by Domenico Losurdo

  • Soviet Democracy, by Pat Sloan

  • The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World, by Galia Golan

Section 8: Canadian Authors

  • The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art, by Larry Hannant

  • Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada, by Yves Engler

  • Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, by Yves Engler

  • Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, by Yves Engler

  • Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military, by Yves Engler

  • Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, by Yves Engler

  • The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, by Yves Engler

  • The One-and-a-Half Men: The Story of Jim Brady and Malcolm Norris, by Murray Dobbin

  • Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Holodomor Myth from Hitler to Harvard, by Douglas Tottle

  • From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919, by Benjamin Isitt

  • Thirty Years: 1922-1952, The Story of the Communist Movement in Canada, by Tim Buck

  • Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, by Glen Sean Coulthard

  • The North-West Is Our Mother, by Jean Teillet 

Section 9: Advanced Marxist Philosophy and Academic Works

  • Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy, by V.I. Lenin

  • Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, A Soviet Textbook, by the Marx Engels Lenin Institute

  • Das Kapital, by Karl Marx

  • The German Ideology, by Karl Marx

  • Grundrisse, Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx

  • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, by Karl Marx

  • Theses on Feuerbach, by Karl Marx

  • The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx

  • Anti-Dühring, Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, by Frederich Engels

  • Dialectics of Nature, by Frederich Engels

  • Liberalism: A Counter History, by Domenico Losurdo

  • The Logic of Imperialism, by Albert Szymanski