I just started reading a book on the Russian Revolution, but wanna read more leftist history. Anything from revolutions and labor movements to biographies. Doesn't matter to me if it's written by a Marxist historian, I just wanna read some good history books.
Eric Hobsbawm’s books were recommended to me, in particular the “Age of ...” trilogy. It’s general western history for the most part, going from the French Revolution on. From what I remember, I’d say the books focus on the feedback loop between material conditions and historical events—or at least spend much more time giving a sense of material conditions, compared to other history books.
I listened to the first and part of the second at work, since my local library partnered with something called Hoopla and I could stream the audiobooks from the app.