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Readers who enjoyed Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Ercan Ayboga, Anja Flach, David Graeber & Asya Abdullah also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Waiting for Fear by Oğuz Atay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOğuz Atay (1934-1977), one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Turkish literature, was not only a writer and a professor, but also a civil engineer. Aside from his widely acclaimed novels, in this book of collected stories, Atay engineers the language of a historically multilayered society that was in the midst of a cultural and political transition... -
![Sırça Köşk by Sabahattin Ali]()
Sırça Köşk by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSabahattin Ali’nin 1944-1947 yılları arasında yazdığı hikâyelerden derlediği Sırça Köşk, hayatını altüst eden, kendisini ölüme kadar götüren o keskin devrede yaşadığı ve hayatını şiddetle etkilemiş olayları da yansıtmaktadır. Ayrıca Sinop Cezaevi’nde karşısına çıkan mahkûmun başından geçenler gibi Rıfat Ilgaz’ın emniyetteki bir sorgusu da bu hikâyelere girmiştir... -
![Palestine by Hubert Haddad]()
Palestine by Hubert Haddad
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomewhere in the West Bank, an Israeli patrol is assaulted by a Palestinian commando. One Israeli soldier is killed and another is kidnapped. Wounded, in a state of shock, the hostage loses hold of reality and forgets everything, even his own name. Eventually he is rescued, taken in by two Palestinian women and his wounds heal... -
![Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]()
Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNutuk was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi... -
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![لا تصالح by أمل دنقل]()
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... -
![De la Syrie à la Turquie by Fabien Toulmé]()
De la Syrie à la Turquie by Fabien Toulmé
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsL’histoire vraie d’un homme qui a dû tout quitter : sa famille, ses amis, sa propre entreprise... parce que la guerre éclatait, parce qu’on l’avait torturé, parce que le pays voisin semblait pouvoir lui offrir un avenir et la sécurité. Un récit du réel, entre espoir et violence, qui raconte comment la guerre vous force à abandonner votre terre, ceux que vous aimez et fait de vous un réfugié... -
![Prisoners of Ourselves: Totalitarianism in everyday life by Gündüz Vassaf]()
Prisoners of Ourselves: Totalitarianism in everyday life by Gündüz Vassaf
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this influential and provocative book Vassaf deals with the psychology of totalitarianism in everyday life. Totalitarianism is maintained through oppression and by the individual's acceptance of a limited state of freedom. Those who don't create their own freedoms choose to live with things as they are, limiting themselves to what the establishment offers - "this" or "that"... -
![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... -
![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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![Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley]()
Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA soulful tour of Palestinian cooking today from the Ottolenghi restaurants' executive chef and partner--120 recipes shaped by his personal story as well as the history of Palestine.The story of Palestine's food is really the story of its people... -
![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... -
![Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan]()
Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate stalls of Akka, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, through evergreen oases of date plantations in the Jordan Valley, to the fading fish markets of Gaza City... -
![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... -
![Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother's Kitchen by Ria Osborne, Joudie Kalla]()
Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother's Kitchen by Ria Osborne, Joudie Kalla
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPalestinian food is not just found on the streets with the ka'ak (sesame) bread sellers and stalls selling za'atar chicken and mana'eesh (za'atar and sesame bread), but in the home too; in the kitchens all across the country, where families cook and eat together every day, in a way that generations before them have always done... -
![Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation]()
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating bigotry, racism, and national oppression as it expands economic, social, and political democracy... -
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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...
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