Resources + Reading List

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Trainings, Resources, Online Libraries

• Working Mass’ Labor Dictionary
• EWOC’s video trainings
• EWOC’s organizing basics
• EWOC Organizing Guide
• Midwest Academy Strategy Chart
• Outline of a Communications Strategy
• National DSA Press Release Template
• Amazon Labor Union’s Digital Library
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer – Training Guide
• Marxist Internet Archive

Socialist-Labor Strategy and History

• The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
• DSA guide to Rank and File Strategy
• Principles and Program of the Trade Union Education League
• Labor Herald Archives – published by the TUEL
• What Is To Be Done (1901) by Vladimir Lenin
• The Mass Strike, The Political Party, and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
• Communism and Syndicalism by Leon Trotsky
• Lenin and the Trade Union Movement by Lozovsky
• Revolutionary Teamsters in the Minneapolis Truck Drivers Strike by Bryan Palmer
• Learn From Minneapolis (1934) James P. Cannon

On Organizing

• Secrets of a Successful Organizer
• Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinksy
• Trouble-Makers Handbook (2004) by Jane Slaughter
• No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey
• How To Organize and Conduct a Study Class (1924) by James P Cannon
• Confessions of a Union Buster by Martin J. Levitt and Terry Conrow
• Strike Strategy (1926) by William Z. Foster
• Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry (1936) by William Z. Foster
• A Manual of Industrial Unionism (1937) by William Z. Foster

General Labor History

• A Short History of the U.S. WORKING CLASS – From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century by PAUL LE BLANC
• Labor In American: A History by Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles
• Rethinking the American Labor Movement by Elizabeth Faue
• Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement (1922) by William Z Foster

Labor Law, Employment Law

• Labor Law – A Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act by David E. Strecker
• NLRB – An Outline of Law and Procedure in Representation Cases
• LABOR GUIDE TO LABOR LAW by Bruce S. Feldacker and Michael J. Hayes
• Employment Law by Deborah J. Lockton

Marxist Theory

• Overviews of Marxism
  • Socialism – Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
  • The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by Vladimir Lenin
  • Fundamental Problems of Marxism (1907) by Georgi Plekhanov
  • What Is Orthodox Marxism (1919) by Georg Lukacs
• Philosophy, Materialism, Dialectics
  • Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx
  • The German Ideology (1845) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • Preface to Contribution to Critique of Political Economy (1859) by Karl Marx
  • Anti-Duhring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
  • Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886) by Friedrich Engels
  • On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
  • The ABCs of Materialist Dialectics (1939) by Leon Trotsky
  • An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism by George Novack
  • The Meaning of Hegel’s Logic (1997) by Andy Blunden
• Theory of Historical Materialism
  • Essays on the Materialist Conception of History (1896) by Antonio Labriola
  • Letter to J Bloch on Base and Superstructure (1890) by Friedrich Engels
  • On Historical Materialism (1893) by Franz Mehring
• Marxist Economics
  • Wage Labor and Capital by Karl Marx
  • The Economic Doctrines of Marxism (1907) by Karl Kautsky
  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) by Vladimir Lenin
  • An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory (1967) by Ernest Mandel
• Marxist Politics
  • Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
  • State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
  • Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin
  • Reform or Revolution (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
  • Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky
• Major Historical Works
  • The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) by Karl Marx
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (1852) by Friedrich Engels
  • The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
  • Writings on the US Civil War (1861) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • 1905 (1907) by Leon Trotsky
  • The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
  • The History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow