Beyond the Internationale features many works translated for the first time into English, as well as several illustrations. Many people the world over know the Internationale. Since its appearance as a battle song on the barricades in May 1871, near the end of the short-lived but inspiring Paris Commune, the Internationale has been published or recorded in more than eighty languages in addition to the original French and remains the foremost anthem of transnational struggles for social justice and equality.
“Arising from the ashes of the Paris Commune, the Internationale went on to become the anthem for worker’s struggle across the globe, yet little is known of its author, Eugène Pottier. Here Loren Kruger presents new translations of his speeches, poems, and songs that echo down the ages to inspire us still." – Billy Bragg
Dimensions: 5.5 X 8.5," 151 pages
Materials: Softcover book
Charles H. Kerr Publishing
(South Chicago)
Founded by Charles Hope Kerr, a son of abolitionists, in 1886, Charles H. Kerr Publishing is the oldest continuously running radical publisher in the US, offering "subversive literature for the whole family." Close to the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World, Kerr brought out many Marxist classics, including the first complete English edition of Capital (1906–1909), as well as works by anarchist Peter Kropotkin, feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, Irish revolutionist James Connolly, animal rights crusader J. Howard Moore, such noted U.S. socialists as Eugene V. Debs, “Mother” Jones, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Gustavus Myers, Carl Sandburg, William D. Haywood, Mary E. Marcy—whose Shop Talks on Economics (1911) sold over two million copies—and, more recently, Staughton Lynd, C. L. R. James, and Carlos Cortez.