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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. -
![Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan]()
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... -
![A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes]()
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... -
![Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti]()
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... -
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![Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson]()
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... -
![Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin]()
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history... -
![Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale]()
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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![Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb]()
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis facsimile edition brings Charles Lamb's critically acclaimed and revered "Elia" essays back into print...Categorized as:
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![Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici]()
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]()
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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![Die Nigger Die! by H. Rap Brown, Jamil al-Amin]()
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... -
![Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty]()
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality... -
![Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller]()
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the worldBlueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them• identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control•...Categorized as:
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![Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer]()
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA polyphonic account of life in Albania under Enver Hoxha's regime, arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of allAfter breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism... -
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![The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Karl Marx]()
The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Communist Manifesto,is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has been shaken repeatedly by those who sought to make its declamations a reality.But the focus of this modern edition is not primarily the vivid history of Marx and Engels’ most important work... -
![النبى الأعزل - تروتسكى 1921 - 1929 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر]()
النبى الأعزل - تروتسكى 1921 - 1929 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political biographies of our time... -
![To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton]()
To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe writings of Huey P Newton African-American activist (1942–1989) who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966, an organization that advocated at various times black nationalism and racial equality, and engaged in several high-profile violent confrontations with police. Signed To Die for the The Writings of Huey P. Newton. First edition, later printing. Random House, 1972...Categorized as:
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![West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom The Devil Is Here in These Hills (Hardback) - Common by James R. Green]()
West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom The Devil Is Here in These Hills (Hardback) - Common by James R. Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence... -
![Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey]()
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned—and notorious—militant union organizer (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed ) In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest labor federation,... -
![Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel]()
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist... -
![النبى المسلح -تروتسكى 1879 - 1921 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر]()
النبى المسلح -تروتسكى 1879 - 1921 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience; and yet there was at one time a danger that his name would disappear altogether from history... -
![A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier]()
A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEconomists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts... -
![How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable]()
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContentsPrefaceHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America A Critical AssessmentIntroduction to the First EditionPart 1 The Black MajorityChapter 1 The Crisis of the Black Working ClassChapter 2 The Black PoorChapter 3 Grounding with My SistersChapter 4 Black Prisoners and Punishment in a Racist/Capitalist StatePart 2 The Black EliteChapter 5 Black CapitalismChapter 6 Black BrahminsChapter 7 The...Categorized as:
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![American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton]()
American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we've always told ourselves. Recent years have brought a reckoning in America... -
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![A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane F. McAlevey]()
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane F. McAlevey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S...Categorized as:
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![Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman]()
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989 he had transformed Soviet Communism... -
![The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy by Yanis Varoufakis, Leda Paulani]()
The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy by Yanis Varoufakis, Leda Paulani
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explores the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a ‘Global Minotaur’ was born... -
![Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey]()
Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy."My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament... -
![The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek]()
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors... -
![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"...
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