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Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, Алексей Навальный
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020... -
Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings... -
لا تصالح by أمل دنقل
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsالأداء الصوتى الرائع للشاعر محمد الشموتى و مشروع صبا الصوت للقصائد و الكتب الصوتيةhttp://www.sebasound.com/أوقصيدة لا تصــالح - بصوت أمل دنقل: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1F0Hc... (1)لا تصالحْ!ولو منحوك الذهبْأترى حين أفقأ عينيكَثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما..هل ترى..؟هي أشياء لا تشترى..:ذكريات الطفولة بين أخيك وبينك،حسُّكما - فجأةً - بالرجولةِ،هذا الحياء الذي يكبت الشوق. -
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel, Kofi Klu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause: capitalism. Our economic system is based on perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth... -
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette... -
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down...Categorized as:
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities...Categorized as:
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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia, Robin D.G. Kelley
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation...Categorized as:
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis book contains accounts of the major lectures given by Walter Rodney in the late 1960s...Categorized as:
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The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century... -
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Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWashington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point...Categorized as:
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance... -
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBobby Seale, Chairman of th eBlack Panther Party, defendant in the Chicago conspiracy case, and one of the New Haven Panther 14, writes from jail about himself, his party, and its leadership- the black men who have changed themselves, have canged America, and in the course of it, have caused an enormouscontroversy about our liberties and institutions...Categorized as:
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1967, this revolutionary work defined a phrase that had become a central part of the Civil Rights vocabulary. In Black Power, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a viable political framework for reform...Categorized as:
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Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZionist Colonialism in Palestine traces the historical roots of the Zionist movement and the uprooting of the ancient Palestinian Arab people from their ancestral homeland...Categorized as:
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism...Categorized as:
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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIndigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality... -
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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWritten between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization...Categorized as:
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No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests...Categorized as:
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Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of Europe’s leading intellectual historians deconstructs the dark side of liberalism, sifting through 3 centuries of liberal writings by John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others... -
Die Nigger Die! by H. Rap Brown, Jamil al-Amin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMore than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary... -
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten, Stefano Harney
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique...Categorized as:
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system...Categorized as:
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