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This is a book that should be taught in classrooms.\" Liliana Segura, Associate Editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for previous editions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Attican events, described with primitive energy and workday language. . . . will surely appease the hunger of tens of thousands of us for an honest insider's account of what led to such a ferocious attack on virtually unarmed prisoners. . . . [I]t is a heartbroken rather than angry book. It is a superb documentary which would hold up in court.\" Kurt Vonnegut, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Time to Die\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and gripping account of a massacre that dramatized some appalling weaknesses in the fabric of our society.\" Robert E. 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His work is innovative and revolutionary on multiple levels:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis self-critical and fresh retelling of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. includes many practical and theoretical insights;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis analysis of the prison system, particularly in relation to capitalism, imperialism, and the drug war, takes us far beyond the recently-popular analysis of the Prison Industrial Complex, contained in books such as \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEyNDkwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-in-the-age-of-colorblindness\" title=\"The New Jim Crow\"\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/a\u003e;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis historical research and writings on Maroon communities throughout the Americas, drawing many insights from these societies in the fields of political and military revolutionary strategy are unprecedented; and finally\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHis sharp and profound understanding of the current historical moment, with clear proposals for how to move forward embracing new political concepts and practices (including but not limited to eco-socialism, matriarchy and eco-feminism, food security, prefiguration and the Occupy Wall Street movement) provide cutting-edge challenges for today’s movements for social change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/58226614\" width=\"500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/58226614\"\u003eMAROON THE IMPLACABLE\u003c\/a\u003e from \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/vgbnd\"\u003evagabond Beaumont\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\"\u003eVimeo\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book, \u003cem\u003eMaroon the Implacable\u003c\/em\u003e, is that very funky instruction manual on how to make revolution against Imperialist America.” —Amiri Baraka, former Poet Laureate of New Jersey “If the Great Dismal Swamp is no longer a refuge, nevertheless the message of the Maroons lives on, and Russell Maroon Shoatz is today its untamed voice. 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His body was incarcerated but his mind soared. My mentor!” —Frances Goldin, publisher of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Barbara Kingsolver, and Adrienne Rich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Russell Maroon Shoatz\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRussell Maroon Shoatz is a dedicated community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, former member of the Black Panther Party, and soldier in the Black Liberation Army. He is serving multiple life sentences as a U.S.-held prisoner of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Chuck D (Foreword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChuck D is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious hip-hop music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the group Public Enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Fred Ho (Editor)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFred Ho is a jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. 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There is much hard evidence to show that as each day passes, more and more ‘black’ prisoners identify themselves as \u003cem\u003eNew Afrikans\u003c\/em\u003e and work on behalf of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe New Afrikan Independence Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e” (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eNotes from a New Afrikan P.O.W., Journal, Book Three\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-5604\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the expanse of a couple of decades, We’ve seen the political consciousness of prisoners grow in proportion with their overstanding of what it actually means to be a prisoner in amerikkka, but also as nationals of captive nations held in partial paralysis by u.s. imperialism. Prisoners have slowly begun to take an objective view of the matrix of u.s. colonialism from a dialectical perspective that informs Us that the settler government holds, dominates and exploits both external\/internal colonies. And that the old facade of “disadvantaged minorities” is giving way to the stark reality of submerged nations here under the blurry veneer of a so-called “united states.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis developing consciousness springs from a Revolutionary Nationalist overstanding of social development. Informed by even the most rudimentary application of dialectical materialism, one is easily drawn to the reality of New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and the Indigenous People being submerged and colonized – whole nations existing under the false patina of amerikkkanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater Our overstanding of this reality, the less We are believing in, or relying on, the old obviously false social construct of “race” to define Ourselves and other oppressed people. Color, or “race” as a binary term to describe the shallow differences between humans – which has no scientific basis in reality – is not a deep enough, not sound, or reasonable enough, overstanding We can see to explain, confront and resolve Our problems. It’s been said that “the color of freedom in amerikkka is green.” This tells Us something about the false construct of “race,” no? It hints at the \u003cem\u003efact\u003c\/em\u003e that under the rubble of “race” is bedrock. And that bedrock, that solid foundation, is economics. Is capitalism. We can’t even discuss, or We shouldn’t even discuss, “racism” without mentioning and combining it with capitalism. For capitalism built around it the social construct of “race” as a motto, a defense and a justification for prolonged activity. Capitalism is the \u003cem\u003ematerial \u003c\/em\u003emanifestation; “race” is the \u003cem\u003eshadow\u003c\/em\u003e, or immaterial reality of what’s casted – as a consequence of the original form. It’s not that it’s wholly unreal. We can \u003cem\u003esee \u003c\/em\u003eit. The shadow, i mean. We can even feel it, but it is but a reflection. We’ll exhaust Ourselves to the point of madness trying to combat it alone without applying destructive force to the material thing that it reflects. To be “anti-racist” is to be anti-capitalist. We become anti-racists by not using binary terms constructed to promote and sustain “race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Any attempt to destroy ‘racism’ without an explicit link to the struggle against capitalism ultimately serves only to reinforce ‘racist’ ideology and to shield capitalism from attack.  On the other hand, an attempt to combat capitalism without an explicit link to anti-racist discourse and struggle allows capitalism to use the belief in ‘race’ held by oppressed peoples and appeal to the ‘racism’ of citizens of the oppressive state, thus undermining all revolutionary initiative. This combat also requires that we begin to de-link ourselves from the use of language that reinforces and reproduces racial ideology, e.g. the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ in references to the identity of peoples.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrade Owusu Yaki Yakubu, \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Our developing consciousness, which is necessarily New Afrikan, Revolutionary and Nationalist, We are needing new tools, new language, new ideas, means and ways to re-build Ourselves into a coherent whole for movement and struggle. We are talking about cadre development. This will come about only through arduous study and struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, here’s the basic thing: if you are calling yourself a New Afrikan, then you are at once saying that you are \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ean amerikkkan (of any stripe). You are rejecting the reactionary\/colonial identity placed arbitrarily on you by the enemy culture. You are implying that you are a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. Further, this means that you overstand that a \u003cem\u003eNew \u003c\/em\u003eAfrikan Nation exists and has existed, in north amerikkka, at least since 1660. Now, “nation” here is not to be confused with a \u003cem\u003estate \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003egovernment\u003c\/em\u003e. A nation is a cultural\/custom\/linguistic social development that is consolidated and evolves on a particular land mass and shares a definite collective awareness of itself. New Afrika, as a distinct entity, a total working-class \u003cem\u003enation\u003c\/em\u003e, has existed since 1660 here. The nation was given shape, name, general laws and a creed in 1968, with the founding of the Provisional Government by over 500 New Afrikan nationalists. Established at this historical convention was, The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, Code of Umoja (New Afrikan Constitution) and The New Afrikan Creed. A President, Vice-Presidents, People’s Center Councils and a People’s Revolutionary Leadership Council were elected to designate New Afrikan Population Districts, set up registration for a New Afrikan census, etc. This was the forming of a \u003cem\u003estate\u003c\/em\u003e, an organized body designed to coherently give shape and form to the already long existing New Afrikan nation. So, We are not trying to “create” a nation – the nation exists. We are trying to agitate, educate and organize the nation for land, independence and socialism. This can only be realized through revolution. And despite what We’ve recently seen in North Africa with their “Arab Spring,” We are under no illusions about Our struggle here being a protracted, long drawn out, revolutionary war. And, truthfully, necessarily so. We have a lot of cleansing to do after having been existing so close to the seat of world power for so long. We overstand Our level of contamination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are talking about being ideologically consistent. About pushing a particular line. Again, i want to go to the Comrade Yaki because his instructions are profound:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Angolan, Russian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, Cuban, Korean, Tanzanian – these are nationalities. Our nationality is New Afrikan. We don’t refer to ourselves as ‘black’ because We don’t base our nationality (nor our politics) on ‘race’ or color or a biological element of our being. Social factors are the primary determinations of our national identity (and Our politics)”.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the same reason, We don’t call ourselves “black” is also why We don’t call ourselves “African-American,” or “Negro,” “colored,” etc. These are \u003cem\u003echains, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich tie us to the plantation, to the colonial system. These are terms that substantiate, promote and sustain the colonial mentality and thus our oppression. Again, Comrade Yaki’s words instruct:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The ‘Native,’ the ‘Negro,’ the ‘colored,’ the ‘black’ and the ‘African-American’ have no identity apart from that given them by the colonizer – that is, not unless they RESIST colonialism, which entails: 1) their maintenance of an identity that is separate and distinct from that of the colonizer; 2) they begin to develop a NEW identity, through the process of ‘decolonization’ – through having remained separate and distinct, colonized people aren’t who they were prior to colonization and they can’t return to the past. Colonization has arrested their independent development, distorted who they are, and now they must become a NEW people during the process by which they regain their independence.”  (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s go a bit into this. Those who are calling themselves “African-Americans” are doing so for two real reasons. First, of course, there is an inherent overstanding that runs thoroughly through the New Afrikan nation that We are not \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003eamerikkkans. That We are in fact a people\/nation unto Ourselves. This used to be widely overstood with little notion of anything to the contrary. \u003cem\u003eNeo-\u003c\/em\u003ecolonialism has worked obsessively to change this awareness. The rapid de-colonization (“de-segregation”) of the nation, beginning in the late 50s, ushered in a new (neo) more thoroughly, and dare i say, \u003cem\u003erevolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e, form of control and exploitation: \u003cem\u003eneo-colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e. “Blacks” took over from “Negroes” to lead the masses into an integrated lockstep with capitalism, while they (the misleaders) were awarded nominal positions in local and regional government posts. Because the bourgeois media postulated these class enemies as being “successful,” in a new and improved amerikkka, it fostered  an image (crafted by Madison Avenue) that anybody could make it. “Now that segregation is over, you can grow up to be anything you want.” Except free, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more integration (which was supposed to mean “freedom and equality”) We got, the worst Our predicament became. The more bourgeois “freedom and equality” We struggled to obtain, the more critical our existence became, the stronger the “black” bourgeoisie got – compounded a hundred times by the u.s. ruling class. The stronger the “black” bourgeoisie became, the more Our revolutionary leadership was attacked, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. The more this became so, the worse the hoods got. The worse the hoods got, the more street orgs began to proliferate. More dope, more guns, more pigs – more prisons. This is what the losing of a sense of self brings. Integration \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eneo-colonialism. And it’s reactionary nationalism. But it would be unfair to say it’s not \u003cem\u003eprogress\u003c\/em\u003e. It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eprogress – it’s just not progress in \u003cem\u003eOur \u003c\/em\u003einterest. We are moving forward, but it is towards Our annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “black” bourgeoisie worked in tandem with its masters to keep the chains on New Afrika. They overstood the strong Nationalist sentiment that ran through the nation. So in order to placate this sentiment and please their masters, the “black” bourgeoisie introduced the term “African-American.” A split personality that straddled an ocean and a colonial existence. But because our “leaders” said it was right and “after all” the masses said, “We are Africans” – Voila!  This, of course, is not scientific or a reflection of any real reality. It is a term used to maintain a colonial relationship with New Afrika – now being run by remote control through the antics and colorful animation of the “African-American” bourgeoisie. You see them in the Congressional Black Caucus, the higher echelons of the Prince Hall Masons, in the persons of Oprah, Jesse, Al Sharpton, Robert Johnson, etc. etc. They’ve been appointed by the u.s. ruling class to lead the masses – into a neo-colonial marriage with amerikkka. The “African American” bourgeoisie is conjoined (face to ass) with the u.s. ruling class and no surgery short of protracted people’s war will lose them and free Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe masses, by and large, are innocently confused – they can be redeemed. It is Our job as cadres to do that. Which is why it is so important to study and struggle – to build up your revolutionary ideological, philosophical and theoretical overstanding so as to be able to distinguish the real from the false. The righteous from the reactionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our vision must be emphasized in opposition to the imperialist and neo-colonialist perspectives. Our vision demands that We stress the need to establish New Afrikan state power as the PREREQUISITE for the long term resolution of colonial violence, bad housing, miseducation, poor health, no jobs, etc. At present, the orientation underlying mass struggle is primarily neo-colonialist. We ask the u.s. government to do things for Us. Our struggle is AGAINST the u.s. government, to secure the power to prevent it from doing things to us and so that We can do things for ourselves, under our own government. Each issue that the masses struggle around must be infused (by the people’s vanguard) with the idea than none of our problems can be solved until We achieve national independence.”\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eVita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal, Book 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing then, i’d like to simply emphasize the need to study and struggle. Study Revolutionary Nationalism and struggle around the issues that are affecting Us. And, too, it’s a beautiful thing to see more prisoners becoming conscious of themselves as New Afrikans. This too is a prerequisite to getting free. Change your mind and you can change your conditions. Overstanding and appreciating the reality of one’s situation gives one a greater sense of appreciation for other oppressed nationals in the same or similar predicaments. I’m gonna fall out with a quote by Comrade Yaki that pretty much sums it all up – Though first, I’d like to send a clenched fisted salute to all the comrades in Canada that make 4SM possible, as well as to Comrade Jaan Laaman, for his outstanding editorial work and his continuous revolutionary commitment. We feel you!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone claiming to attack racism while claiming that racism is the only thing wrong with this system, is either terribly confused or an outright enemy of the people and their interests. If We truly wanna get rid of racism, We have to overthrow capitalism … first.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrad Yaki, \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRe-Build\u003cbr\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003cbr\u003ePelican Bay SHU – 47ADM*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*47 years after the death of Malik (Malcolm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i love his book \u003cem\u003eMonster\u003c\/em\u003e, because his military approach in things sets it up. One time there was a shooting in my block, and i asked the brother: ‘What do you think you are doing? Here, read this!’ And i gave him a copy of Monster. He took it real serious. Sanyika can reach people i can’t. Checking out his newest book, i’m glad he’s on our side.” —  Hondo T’chikwa, Spear \u0026amp; Shield Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Pentagon knows that the most famous soldier of his times never wore their uniform, but fought on the oppressed streets of L.A. Now, Sanyika Shakur is still a soldier for his people, but is a revolutionary teacher as well. His words here, his politics, are uncompromising as iron.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i thought i’d wait a long time after \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e for a new work that would provide a major building block to rebuild the movement. But here it is. The chapter on patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism is a bomb — study this.” — Butch Lee, author of \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781894946469\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 208 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175125168221,"sku":"9781894946469","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1228_studyandstruggle3_0.jpg?v=1654987585"},{"product_id":"waiting-for-lightning-to-strike-the-fundamentals-of-black-politics","title":"Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year that saw an African-American run for the presidency as the nominee of the Democratic Party for the first time in U.S. history also witnessed a truly remarkable silence—one that was scarcely coincidental. In all the millions of words written about a political ascent of one black man, there \u003cspan style=\"font-size:13px; line-height:1.6\"\u003ewas virtually nothing about the descent of black leadership into well nigh total ineffectiveness. Barack Obama's personal itinerary was mapped in minutest detail. The larger itinerary of African Americans was mostly ignored.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGray's take is radical and so his focus is always ample and humane. In these passionate pages he takes his readers into areas of darkness—South Carolina's heritage of slavery, for example—and into the vibrancy and heat of James Brown and Richard Pryor. Gray's intellectual footwork is as sure as Muhammad Ali's in his prime, and the k.o. is as deadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo one should venture a mile into the rough terrain of black politics and culture in America today without reading Gray's Waiting for Lightning to Strike. There's no keener mind, no sharper eye focused on the condition of black politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Alexander Gray \u0026amp; his younger sister Valerie were among the first blacks to attend the local all-white elementary school in rural, upstate South Carolina in 1968. Since then he has been involved in community organizing working on a variety of issues ranging from racial politics, police violence, third-world politics \u0026amp; relations, union organizing \u0026amp; workers' rights, grassroots political campaigns, marches, actions \u0026amp; political events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is currently organizing the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project in Columbia, South Carolina which focuses on community based political and cultural education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFounding member of the National Rainbow Coalition in 1986. Former co-chair of the Southern Rainbow Education Project—a coalition of southern activists. Former contributing editor—Independent Political Action Bulletin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGray was the South Carolina coordinator for the 1988 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson \u0026amp; 1992 southern political director for the presidential campaign of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. Gray was also the 2002 SC United Citizens' Party \u0026amp; Green Party Gubernatorial candidate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormer managing editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Palmetto Post\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlack News \u003c\/em\u003ein Columbia, South Carolina. He served as a national board member of the American Civil Liberties Union for 4 years \u0026amp; is a past eight-term president of the South Carolina affiliate of the ACLU. Advisory board member of DRC Net (Drug Policy Reform Coalition).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kevin Alexander Gray\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-631-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 320 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175153938525,"sku":"9781904859918","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/waitingforlightning.jpg?v=1654987702"},{"product_id":"settlers-the-mythology-of-the-white-proletariat-from-mayflower-to-modern","title":"Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e500 Years of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Black Liberation Army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When \u003ce\u003e“When \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/e\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. On the subject of his own past, and the writing of \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e, he has said:\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley. Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. The wife lost it and screamed, \" People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e was finished. Even then i didn't believe there was any audience for it, and planned to only photocopy fifty copies of my typed draft for internal education in the underground black liberation army coordinating committee. Comrades with more sense than myself insisted that we publish it as a book if only for the liberation movement. Over the years, we took it through three editions, but finally it's time to hand it on to new publishers. 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