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This collection seeks to return Connolly to his proper place in Irish and global history, and to inspire activists, students, and those interested in history today with his vision of an Ireland and world free from militarism, injustice, and deprivation. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175292842077,"sku":"9781608466467","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/jamesconnollyreader.jpg?v=1654988308"},{"product_id":"32-counties-the-failure-of-partition-and-the-case-for-a-united-ireland","title":"32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePartitioning Ireland was an experiment that has lasted a century. Now it is time for it to come to an end. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory strategy to defend the British Empire and has spawned a 'carnival of reaction' in Irish politics ever since. Over the last 100 years, conservative forces have dominated both states offering religious identity as a diversion from economic failures and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a sharp analysis of the history of partition, Kieran Allen rejects the view that the 'two cultures' of Catholic and Protestant communities lock people into permanent antagonism. Instead, the sectarian states have kept its citizens divided through political and economic measures like austerity, competition for reduced services and low wages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOverturning conventional narratives, 32 Counties evokes the tradition of James Connolly and calls for an Irish unity movement from below to unite the North and the Republic into a secular, socialist and united Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"'If we don't learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it', seems more apt about Ireland than anywhere else. To look at Ireland through the prism of class is to see not what might have been but what brightness the future might bring. Kieran Allen's new book is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today.\" Eamonn McCann, politician, journalist and political activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Showing how partition was not to separate two hostile cultures but a strategy to defend the British empire, it traces the grisly story through to the return of the national question today when Irish unity can be posed again on a new socialist basis. Essential reading for anyone who wants to change Irish society.\" Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An important contribution to a debate that has been reignited. It is an excellent tool for activists who are navigating the arguments in favour of ending partition\" Gerry Carroll, MLA Stormont Assembly for West Belfast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Authoritative, insightful and full of wonderful colour and incident - this is probably the best dissection of an 'environmental' movement, and its evolution over many decades, that I have read.\" Charles Secrett, environmental activist and former head of Friends of the Earth England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKieran Allen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin. 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This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique insurgency that emerged from the crucible of 1968. Based on extensive archival research, One Man’s Terrorist explores the relationship between the IRA, a clandestine army described as ‘one of the most ruthless and capable insurgent forces in modern history’, and the political movement that developed alongside it to challenge British rule. From Wilson and Heath to Thatcher and Blair, a generation of British politicians had to face an unprecedented subversive threat whose reach extended from West Belfast to Westminster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinn shows how Republicans fought a war on several fronts, making use of every weapon available to achieve their goal of a united Ireland, from car bombs to election campaigns, street marches to hunger strikes. Though driven by an uncompromising revolutionary politics that blended militant nationalism with left-wing ideology, their movement was never monolithic, its history punctuated by splits and internal conflicts. The IRA’s war ultimately ended in stalemate, with the peace process of the 1990s and the Good Friday Agreement that has maintained an uneasy balance ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Provides us with one of the best analyses available of the politics that motivated and drove different currents within insurrectionary Irish republicanism over the past 60 years. Well researched and scrupulously objective, the author is ever academically critical. Nevertheless, he does not suffer from the endemic hostility to his subject that mars so many other works in this genre.” Tommy McKearney, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Provisional IRA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“There are numerous current treatments of the modern IRA, its rivals, and its allies. Daniel Finn’s stands out for its concise clarity, and because, free of jargon, it is written from the left.” Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A fine, subtle analysis of the Provisional IRA’s armed campaign and the movement’s political development over three decades. Daniel Finn provides sharp insights into the leadership’s strategic thinking as it manoeuvred towards a ceasefire in the 1990s. He shows how this militant Republican movement transformed itself into an electorally successful left-wing political party in Ireland North and South.” Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Finn is] studious in his research and solid in his writing” \u003cem\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A concise yet detailed discussion of the modern Irish Republican movement.” Ron Jacobs, \u003cem\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book’s account of how Sinn Fein’s leaders played an instrumental role in making this possible is an indispensable guide to understanding how this template can — and cannot — be applied to resolving other terrorist conflicts, as well.” Joshua Sinai,\u003cem\u003e Washington Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This slim volume packs a resonant, intelligent power.” \u003cem\u003eRTÉ Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Given the outpouring of academic books and articles on the Northern Ireland conflict that has occurred since the 1960s … Does Daniel Finn’s book represent an oasis in this intellectual and moral desert? The judgement has to be a qualified affirmative.” \u003cem\u003eDublin Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A valuable read … robust … direct and accessible.” \u003cem\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“What sets Daniel Finn’s One Man’s Terrorist apart from others in the field is its combination of a rigorous—and very readable—assessment of the changing politics of the modern Republican movement alongside a thorough understanding of the wider forces that wracked the North of Ireland during the ‘Troubles,’ a journalistic euphemism for the period of low-level armed conflict that claimed the lives of some 4,000 people at the end of the last century.” Matt Collins, Jacobin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Daniel Finn\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781786636898\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 272 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175367815261,"sku":"9781786636898","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/one_mans_terrorist_624a966e-768a-4070-8a49-f5ef214a6466.jpg?v=1654988915"},{"product_id":"time-shadows-a-prison-memoir","title":"Time Shadows: A Prison Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1621 days naked in a prison cell\u003cbr\u003e1079 days without washing\u003cbr\u003e70 days on hunger strike \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr Laurence McKeown is a published author, poet, playwright, and filmmaker. He is also a former IRA political prisoner, having spent 16 years in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh: 1976-1992. It was during his incarceration that he became involved with academia and the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis memoir is about his first five years in prison when, along with several hundred other comrades, he endured the most extreme conditions during what is now regarded as the longest, collective, prison protest ever by Irish republican prisoners in their fight to be recognised as political prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this minutely observed account, Laurence unpacks the physical and psychological tactics used against the prisoners, and reveals the many ways in which the prisoners defied the regime. He reflects on his own personal journey during those torturous years and we learn precisely what led to his participation in the 1981 hunger strike in which ten of his comrades died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also the learn how and why he survived. He recalls visits with his family and friends during the hunger strike, some of his final moments with those who died, and how he dealt with their loss, all while confronting his own imminent death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is illustrated by Gabrielle Williams who is currently Minister for Women, Prevention of Family Violence, and Aboriginal Affairs for the State of Victoria, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe sequel, covering the period from the hunger strike to McKeown's release in 1992, is available \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/and-flowers-grew-up-through-the-concrete-a-prison-memoir-1981-1992\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1. The Back Table\u003cbr\u003e2. Naked\u003cbr\u003e3. Swinging and Cheeking\u003cbr\u003e4. Eggy, Beggy, Seggy, Fucken Weggy\u003cbr\u003e5. Shit and Maggots\u003cbr\u003e6. Eleven Cornflakes\u003cbr\u003e7. A New World Record\u003cbr\u003e8. Hatred 9. Promises Promises\u003cbr\u003e10. Hunger and Politics\u003cbr\u003e11. Stealing from the Dying\u003cbr\u003e12. Sounds of Death\u003cbr\u003e13. Ending It Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Laurence McKeown\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArtist: Gabrielle Williams\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-914318-11-5\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 302 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Beyond the Pale\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beyond the Pale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175399862365,"sku":"9781914318115","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/time_shadows_9781914318115.jpg?v=1654989124"},{"product_id":"anois-ar-theacht-an-tsamhraidh-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-revolution","title":"Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eColonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. And as Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston argue, Ireland’s experience is central to understanding the history of colonization and anti-colonial politics throughout the world. Part history, part analysis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIreland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e charts the centuries of Irish colonial history, from England’s proto-imperial engagement with Ireland in 1155 to the Union in 1801, and the subsequent struggles for Irish independence and the legacies of partition from 1921. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA century later, the plate tectonics of Irishness are shifting once again. The Union is in crisis and alternatives to partition are being seriously considered outside the Republican tradition for the first time in generations. These significant structural changes suggest that the coming times might finally see the completion of the decolonization project – the finishing of the revolution. In the words of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003er\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eevolutionary Pádraig Pearse: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnois ar theacht an tSamhraidh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e – now the summer is coming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMedia\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBill Rolston \u0026amp; Robbie McVeigh on their new book: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mAyyROYnx-4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"564\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can also hear the authors on the Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Podcast:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe height=\"90\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22474634\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" width=\"100%\" allowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e​​“An excellent and critically important book…The empire has no clothes and stands naked, ugly, bloated, blood-stained and exposed – which side are you on? Reading this fine book might help you pick one.” Dr Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh,\u003cem\u003e Irish News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Teaching any course on Ireland, Irish history, race and Ireland, as well as colonialism and decolonization without using this crucially necessary book as a key text will from now on be impossible; it is theoretically complex, comprehensive and a practical guide for Marxists wishing to finish Ireland’s unfinished decolonization.” Ronit Lentin, \u003cem\u003eRace \u0026amp; Class\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“One of the finest works of Irish and anti-imperialist historiography written to date.” Chris Beausang,\u003cem\u003e Liberated Texts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book brilliantly analyzes the history and legacy of colonialism and resistance in Ireland and beyond. In this moment where the whole planet is in flux, this powerful account offers indispensable insights for us all.\" Barbara Ransby, Professor of Black Studies and History, University of Illinois, and author of \u003cem\u003eMaking All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Timely, vital and necessary, a most powerful and captivating account of the continuing pull of colonialism – and its dark, lingering legacies.\" Philippe Sands, International Human Rights lawyer, and author of\u003cem\u003e East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With an 800 year history of harsh and often murderous foreign domination, Ireland provides ample evidence for the interplay of imperialism, colonialism and colonial state structure, along with race, class, and religion, topics explored here with subtlety and insight both in Ireland’s specific colonial experience and quest for decolonization, and in global history more generally. A very impressive contribution to understanding our world, how it arose, and why it must dramatically change.\" Noam Chomsky, Social critic and political activist, and author of \u003cem\u003eConsequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The election of Joe Biden as President of the United States reminds me of the old adage that Ireland is the only country in the world where English is spoken and the Irish don’t rule. Biden's term in office will focus minds on Ireland and its peace process. 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The themes of murals in republican areas include political prisoners, sectarian harassment, memorials around the 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strikes, the RUC\/PSNI and British Army, plastic bullets and international solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoyalist murals also cover memorials, as well as the peace process, mythology, loyalist military groups, territory, Ulster Scots history and culture, and royalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection Bill Rolston includes a number of unique photographs of murals from inside the H-Blocks taken shortly before the prison’s closure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroductory essay:\u003c\/strong\u003e Murals: a brief history; after the ceasefire, the frustrating politics of transition; the changing face of republican murals; what we have we hold - loyalist murals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRepublican murals:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peace process; sectarian harassment; prisoners; RUC and British Army; plastic bullets; memorials; hunger strike; mythology; history; international; other themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoyalist murals:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peace process; heroes; military; mythology; territory; memorials; history; Ulster Scots; royalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Bill Rolston\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781900960236\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 72 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Beyond the Pale\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beyond the Pale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175401369693,"sku":"9781900960236","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/drawing_support_3.jpg?v=1771510810"},{"product_id":"drawing-support-4-murals-and-conflict-transformation-in-northern-ireland","title":"Drawing Support 4: Murals and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the fourth of the five world-renowned \u003cem\u003eDrawing Support\u003c\/em\u003e books (see the other four \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/drawing-support-2-murals-war-and-peace\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/drawing-support-3-murals-and-transition-north-ireland\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/drawing-support-4-murals-and-conflict-transformation-northern-ireland\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e), and \u003ca href=\"leftwingbooks.net\/products\/drawing-support-5-murals-memory-and-identity-in-the-north-of-ireland\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e—or buy all five for a discount \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/drawing-support-four-book-bundle\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e) by sociologist Professor Bill Rolston, first published in 2013. Each of the books is an important and unique historical record of imagery relating to conflict and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost twenty years after the 1994 ceasefires in Northern Ireland and fifteen years since the signing of the historic Good Friday or Belfast Agreement, loyalists and republicans continue to paint murals as they have done - in the case of loyalists - since 1908, and - in the case of republicans - since 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the themes have changed. Where once military imagery dominated, especially in loyalist murals, now artists on both sides select from a wider palette when choosing themes. 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Des Wilson lived and worked in West Belfast since 1966. In 1975 he went to Ballymurphy, one of the most impoverished and demonized areas of the city. For forty years he drew inspiration from the community around him. In turn he inspired and supported many people to develop their own responses to the many social, economic and political crises confronting the community. As he wrote in The Way I See It , “one way to understand what happened in the north of Ireland is to think of a constant creation of alternative education, alternative welfare, alternative theatre, broadcasting, theological and political discussion, public inquiries and much else. They also created at various times alternative police and alternative armies. The authorities who had power over these in the past were and still are engaged in an equally constant struggle to regain total control of them. With only limited success, fortunately.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe died in November 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelow is the obituary published by the Irish Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePeacemaking Belfast priest Fr Des Wilson dies aged 94\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSinn Féin’s Gerry Adams has said there ‘would be no peace process’ without his work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelfast priest Fr Des Wilson, who acted as a mediator between rival Republican factions as well as between republicans and loyalists during the Troubles, died aged 94 on Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFr Wilson is credited with having played a key role in Northern Ireland and the west Belfast community for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRelatives for Justice, a support group for relatives of people bereaved, injured or affected by the Troubles, said it was “bereft” following his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“He was always on the side of the marginalised, the silenced and the oppressed,” it said. “His support for the families we work with was unwavering. We are diminished without him but remain all the better for having had him.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormer Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said there “would be no peace process” without the work of Fr Wilson and Fr Alex Reid, who was also involved in reaching out to unionists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The two priests also embarked on an outreach programme,” he said. “They spoke to unionist paramilitaries and facilitated meetings between republicans and loyalists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“They met officials from the British and Irish governments, and indeed anyone who would listen to them, in the hope that through dialogue they could assist the work of peace building. They pioneered this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“They never gave up despite setbacks and serial refusals to talk by the great and the good. Without Fr Des and Fr Alex there would be no peace process.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Fr Des Wilson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781900960281\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Beyond the Pale\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beyond the Pale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175401730141,"sku":"9781900960281","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/the_way_i_see_it_des_wilson.jpg?v=1654989134"},{"product_id":"drawing-support-four-book-bundle","title":"Drawing Support Five-Book Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world-renowned Drawing Support books edited by sociologist Professor Bill Rolston, were first published from 1992 to 2013, with a fifth covering murals painted between 2013 and 2021. Each of the books is an important and unique historical record of imagery relating to conflict and peace in the North of Ireland. Available here as a bundle at a discounted price. You can see each book individually \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/drawing-support\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e, or read below for each book's description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDrawing Support: Murals in the North of Ireland (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/drawing-support-murals-north-ireland\"\u003ealso available here\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1992. The political wall murals of the North of Ireland are an integral part of loyalist and republican communities. In its murals each group displays its hopes and fears, struggles and aspirations. Sometimes the murals are long-lived, more often their existence is fleeting. This unique collection of photographs captures a large section of the murals in their original colour and grandeur. It provides a revealing glimpse into the ideologies of the communities which produce this lively political art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroductory essay:\u003c\/strong\u003e Loyalist murals; republican murals; sources themes and process; the murals of Mo Chara; conflict and propaganda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoyalist murals:\u003c\/strong\u003e King Billy; Loyalist flags; Red Hand of Ulster; Historical events; Military images; Humorous and miscellaneous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRepublican murals:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hunger strike; Military images; Elections; Historical and mythological; Repression and resistance; Prison; International.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 pages of text, 60 pages of photographs (112 plates)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDrawing Support 2: Murals of War and Peace (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/drawing-support-2-murals-war-and-peace\"\u003ealso available here\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1998. Each of the books is an important and unique historical record of imagery relating to conflict and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can the political wall murals in the North of Ireland cope with the peace process and ceasefires? This second volume of unique photographs charts the changes in loyalist and republican mural painting between 1992 and 1995 and casts a tentative glance towards the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroductory essay: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe story so far; the story continues - loyalist murals; republican murals in the 1990s; 25 years on - the peace process; ceasefire; murals - the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoyalists:\u003c\/strong\u003e King Billy; flags; Red Hand of Ulster; military; memorials; prisoners; historical; humorous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRepublicans: \u003c\/strong\u003eMilitary; prisoners; repression\/resistance; elections; international; peace process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCeasefire:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDrawing Support 3: Murals and Transition in the North of Ireland (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/drawing-support-3-murals-and-transition-north-ireland\"\u003ealso available here\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2003; the long-awaited third volume of photographs of political wall murals looks at the period 1996 to 2003. 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Where once military imagery dominated, especially in loyalist murals, now artists on both sides select from a wider palette when choosing themes. There is still a strong political message in many of the murals as each community seeks to come to terms with the compromises necessary for peace and the slow task of conflict transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis unique collection of photographs explores the changes in mural painting in the last decade and briefly considers other sources of mural painting which have emerged during the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroductory essay\u003c\/strong\u003e: Murals in the North of Ireland - the background; murals and ‘the troubles’; peace process; the role of the state - re-imaging; a mixed economy of mural painting; the murals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRepublican murals\u003c\/strong\u003e: Military\/memorial; hunger strike; history; mythology; state force; children and young people; women; culture; elections; international; prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoyalist murals\u003c\/strong\u003e: Military\/memorial; home rule; first world war; war; identity and culture; victims\/peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRe-imaging\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther murals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Bill Rolston\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Beyond the Pale\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDrawing Support 5: Murals, Memory and Identity in the North of Ireland (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/drawing-support-5-murals-memory-and-identity-in-the-north-of-ireland\"\u003ealso available here\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe murals in\u003cem\u003e Drawing Support 5\u003c\/em\u003e were painted between 2013 and 2021. 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Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the fragile peace has been threatened by Brexit, the rise and fall of the DUP and the failure of power-sharing arrangement between the main parties at the Stormont Assembly. As the very future of Northern Ireland is now in jeopardy, will Britain face up to its imperial legacy and address the deep inequalities that remain in the aftermath of the Troubles, and the uneven development of the 'New Ireland'?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Bells offers an insightful history of Ulster Unionism from the 1960s to the present day. In recent years this has come to a crisis point. What is the future of the Union in the post-Brexit reality? How will the relationship between Northern Ireland and Westminster develop? 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In less than a decade, from 1952 to 1961, he wrote three books (\u003cem\u003eBlack Skin White Masks\u003c\/em\u003e, (1952), \u003cem\u003eA Dying Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e (1959) and \u003cem\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e (1961)) that have become recognized as classics of decolonization. After nearly four years working at Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in colonial Algeria, he officially joined the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) and began working full-time for the Algerian revolution while continuing his work as a psychiatrist in Tunis, where he opened a day hospital in 1958. Later, he became part of the Provisional Algerian Government (GPRA) as Ambassador to Ghana and represented the GPRA across West and North Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e reflected his ongoing philosophy about liberation. What would become “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness” was presented to the National Liberation Army at Ghardimao on the Algerian-Tunisian border. Notes from psychiatric cases, as well as his critique of the Algeria school of ethnopsychiatry, would be reframed in the chapter, “Colonial Wars and Mental Disorders,” and his presentation at The Congress of Black Writers and Artists conference in Rome was included in his chapter “On National Culture.” The presentation opened with the words, “each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf these words are but one expression of the Fanonian measure, then the ideas this book offers revolve around the importance of Fanon thought to the various peoples and cultures being subjugated by colonialization. How can Fanon help them in their quest to be free from subjugation? Alongside the courage of all those participating in these movements, counter-revolution, most brutally seen in its almost permanent state in Syria, aided by global and regional powers, demands a real reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFanon was one of the first theorists of the anticolonial revolution to warn that the counter-revolution was not simply external. It is importantly internal and often aided by neo-colonial forces. Fanon found that one of the greatest weaknesses of anticolonial movements was their failure to consider, let alone create, a genuinely decolonized society, because they lacked an explicit revolutionary-humanist philosophy grounded in the experience of the masses. The tragedy of the anticolonial struggles, Fanon argues, is framed by the macro-political outlooks of the anticolonial movement leaders, and by the intellectuals who fetishize political power and see taking over the colonial apparatus as their prize. Fanon’s insights have proved essential to our understanding of the failure of countless anticolonial struggles. From our present retrogressive reality, this book demands that we recast our vision and ask: What might this generation of intellectual revolutionaries and social movements ask of Fanon, and what might have Fanon asked of them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf we wish to move forward, everything, Fanon writes in \u003cem\u003eThe Wretched\u003c\/em\u003e, needs to be thought out again, and new beginnings should be fashioned in line with those caught up in local struggles. This return to the \u003cem\u003epeople\u003c\/em\u003e is by no means transparent, Fanon warns, because demoralization has been buried deep by years of colonization. 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This collection will further develop some of the latest thinking on Fanon by asking questions from another standpoint—as Fanon called it, the “rationality of revolt.” Fanon reminds us in \u003cem\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth \u003c\/em\u003ethat the anticolonial intellectuals, enamoured with state politics and state power as the object of politics, often deny these movements any traction. At best, popular revolts are viewed as supporters for elitist plans, so, as Fanon puts it, any criticisms become quickly silenced. What unites the attitudes of some left critics, as well as those of local and state governments, is the idea that the poor cannot speak for themselves; indeed, when they speak out they must be speaking for other interests and forces. The nationalist intellectuals, Fanon argues, is incapable of rationalizing popular praxis because of their “incapacity to attribute it any reason” (2004: 97).  This idea is essential to Fanon’s critique in \u003cem\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, as he emphasizes a dialectical relationship between thought and activity. This is the essence of what I have called “Fanonian practices.” In \u003cem\u003eFanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo\u003c\/em\u003e I argued that just as revolutionary thought and the development of new concepts in conversation with Fanon, such as Black Consciousness in South Africa, can give radical action its direction, mass movements, often from outside of the realm of the political give direction to radical theoreticians. The engagements with Fanon in \u003cem\u003eFanon Today: The Revolt and Reason of the Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e begins from these spaces—by shifting the geography of reason to the revolt of the discounted and marginalized. This collection will ask and answer the question: How can Fanon help think through and understand the myriad global crises we confront?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Rising of the Damned\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART I. FANONIAN MILITANTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Particular Lived Experience of the Black in Portugal\u003cbr\u003e Flavio Zenun Almada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Black Mind in Motion\u003cbr\u003e Gene Reid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Setting Afoot of a New People: Prison Intellectuals, New Afrikan Communism and the Making of Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e Toussaint Losier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Looking for Justice in a Compartmentalized World: Mothers and Police Killings in Kenya\u003cbr\u003e Wangui Kimari\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. From ‘Caliban’ to ‘Cockroaches’: The Construction of Profane Space, Wretched Others and Political Agency in a Postcolonial ‘Ghetto’ Johannah-Rae Reyes and Levi Gahman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Power of Abahlali and Our Living Politic Has Been Built with Our Blood\u003cbr\u003e S’bu Zikode\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Fanon and Palestine: The struggle for justice as the core of mental health\u003cbr\u003e Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Reading the Term ’White Syrian’ through Fanon: An Anti-Colorist Feminist Critique\u003cbr\u003e Razan Ghazzawi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Voice of the Revolution: Radio and Women’s Empowerment\u003cbr\u003e Annette Rimmer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART II. STILL FANON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Pakistan The Immediacy of Frantz Fanon\u003cbr\u003e Ayyaz Mallick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. All Quiet in this Non-Settler-Postcolony\u003cbr\u003e Ato Sekyi-Otu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. The Still Wretched of the Earth: A Critique of Imaginary Decoloniza- tion\u003cbr\u003e David Pavón-Cuéllar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Of Signs, Symptoms, and Stereotypes: Fanon, Institutional Racism, and Institutional Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e Miraj U. Desai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Fanon, Movement and Self-Movement\u003cbr\u003e Nigel C. Gibson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART III. FANONIAN PRACTICES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSection A: Fanonian Homes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. When Black Liberation Mattered: Frantz Fanon in the Theory and Practice of Pan-Africanism in the Black Power Era, 1965-1975\u003cbr\u003e Lou Turner and Kurtis Kelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. Fanon, Postcolonial Criticism and Theory: Notes in Latin American Contexts\u003cbr\u003e Alejandro de Oto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. “‘Ó Bhun Aníos’: The Irish Language Revival in the North of Ireland Power, Resistance and Decolonisation\u003cbr\u003e Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18. Generals to the Dustbin, Algeria Will Be Independent The New Alger- ian Revolution as a Fanonian Moment\u003cbr\u003e Hamza Hamouchene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. Discussing Fanon\u003cbr\u003e Abahlali baseMjondolo and Nigel C. Gibson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSection B: Fanonian Practices in Brazil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20. The Influence of Frantz Fanon’s Thought on Black Female Intellectual Production in Brazil\u003cbr\u003e Rosemere Ferreira da Silva\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21. The Wretched by COVID-19 and the Colonial Faces of Black Genocide in Brazil\u003cbr\u003e Deivison Faustino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22. Territorializing Existence as Resistance: a Fanonian Reading on the Munduruku and the Riverside Peoples Collective Self-determination Processes in Amazonia\u003cbr\u003e Léa Tosold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is entirely fitting that in this fine book, those engaged in the radical praxis of healing are movements that are subverting the institutions of private property as a path to an emancipated society. Fanon’s legacy today is kept alive in their struggle.\" \u003cstrong\u003eRaj Patel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary spirit lives on\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"Coming sixty years after the publication of The Wretched of the Earth and his death from leukemia at the age of 36, Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth, edited by activist and scholar Nigel Gibson, provides a solid overview of the relevance of Frantz Fanon to the work of those of us who still believe that a just and humane world is both necessary and possible. Throughout the volume the contributors provide space and examples of a Fanonist development of radical humanism, which provides for the psychological development of the person within the context of consciousness raising, collective action and structural change. Through a variety of examples, the book also clearly demonstrates the fact that the agents of change do not simply have to be the usual suspects of the industrial working class but includes – and must include – the peasantry and the various manifestations of the lumpenproletariat. As noted by Gibson, “Fanon’s new humanism is a politics of becoming, based on the fundamental transformation of paralyzed Black and colonized subjects into new human beings through the liberation struggle” (p. 300). Timothy Wild, \u003cstrong\u003eReview of African Political Economy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Dec 6, 2021.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This monumental compendium of cosmopolitical provocations and decolonial insights does more than just correct the misreadings that have threatened recently to engulf and mystify Fanon’s work. These exhilarating essays and commentaries put his incendiary contribution back where it belongs: in the insurgent speculations and reconstructive efforts of creative thinkers struggling to transform the imperiled predicament of our planet.\" \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Gilroy,\u003c\/strong\u003e founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful book. It succeeds in extracting Fanon’s thought (the \u003cem\u003eWretched\/Damned of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e in particular) from the realms of academia, Cultural Studies and Afropessimism and to locate it squarely where it originally belonged: within the domain of political practice, outside of which it makes very little sense. In academic reading, one remains a prisoner of the limits of the text itself; in a political reading, the text becomes a vehicle for addressing the problems raised by active militancy. Gibson has succeeded in bringing together an international array of brilliant contributors who all prove to be eloquent witnesses to the continued relevance of Fanonian concepts—such as the Manichean character of (neo)colonialism and racism, the corrupt nature of the so-called ‘national bourgeoisie’ and the continued relevance of ‘national consciousness’—in the contemporary expanded reproduction of racial capitalism on a world scale. What is particularly fascinating is the way in which intense studies of Fanon’s writings within the United States carceral system and South African informal settlements among other locations have enabled the production of political thought that takes Fanonian dialectical categories beyond their original subjective context, into concrete political practices combining the necessary experiences of particular struggles with conceptions of universal freedom. This is a militant work for militant readers.\u003cstrong\u003e\" Michael Neocosmos\u003c\/strong\u003e, Emeritus Professor in Humanities, Rhodes University, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"no-indent\"\u003e\"There is not one time, not one aspect of the world’s experience, that does not give credence to Fanon’s precepts. Our collective human history has taught us that the human  is bound to face attempts to crush her or his integrity, to condemn them to despicable exploitation, treacherous oppression. It is in the very nature of that experience that we have learned how Fanon shall never die. For his precepts and action remain always universally relevant. This is also what Fanon Today affirms. The book is fundamentally relevant and useful. It reminds us that in the face of exploitation and repression, the human and the humanist will always find ways to combat those. Dense and eclectic, strategically thought out and organized, critically stimulating, this book is as incisive as it is compelling.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eHanétha Véte-Congolo\u003c\/strong\u003e, President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"no-indent\"\u003e\"In this collective labor of love of the here and the now, voices of the damned—that pathologized, incarcerated, and evicted majority of the world’s population—rise! From Algeria to Brazil, Ireland to Kenya, Palestine to Portugal, South Africa to Trinidad and beyond, they are breathing life into and actively humanizing our precious and oh-so-fragile earth. Meeting brutal structural violence with the courageous construction of democratizing institutions that nurture mental health, well-being, and solidarity, Fanonian praxis emerges in each chapter. Evincing a thoughtful agency that questions everything, the volume forges new relations spanning generations and locales. Through it, sixty years since the publication of \u003cem\u003eLes damnés de la terre\u003c\/em\u003e, Fanon’s insights reach out to us, beckoning us to carry on the tireless work of building a world of the “we.”\u003cstrong\u003e\" Jane Anna Gordon\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eStatelessness and Contemporary Enslavement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"no-indent\"\u003e\"Coming out of the pandemic, the greatest challenge is how we express our anger, how we make it a \u003cem\u003edigna rabia\u003c\/em\u003e, a “dignified rage”, as the Zapatistas say. Fanon must be part of the answer. This magnificent collection of essays helps us to focus our minds on that challenge, to direct our anger to the task of making a different world. An important book, an exciting book.\u003cstrong\u003e\" John Holloway\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWe are the Crisis of Capital: A John Holloway Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"no-indent\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, edited and cordinated by Nigel C Gibson, gives the opportunity to several intellectuals and activists with different backgrounds from Brazil to Algeria, from Pakistan to South Africa, to tell how the struggle against injustice and racism inscribe itself into the continuity of the Fanonian visionary legacy. Not to be missed! \u003cstrong\u003e\" Hassane Mezine\u003c\/strong\u003e, Photographer, Film Director of \u003cem\u003eFanon hier, aujourd’hui\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"no-indent\"\u003e\"This is an indispensable book. It brings together many among the overlooked communities for whom Fanon actually wrote—the dispossessed, the downtrodden, the organic voices rising from the depths of misery on the verge of despair. What better way to commemorate the six decades since the publication of Les damnés de la terre than to remind readers of that great work that the people in solidarity with whom its ideas were generated not only speak but also write? Read and learn from these voices as, in those proverbial revolutionary words, the struggle continues.\u003cstrong\u003e\" Lewis R. Gordon\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom, Justice, and Decolonization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFanon \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e Nigel Gibson brings to life the Fanonian project of exploring the implications of radical theory in contemporary sites of struggles. This groundbreaking book commemorates the \u003cspan class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\"\u003e60th\u003c\/span\u003e anniversary of the Wretched of the Earth by exploring its significance in the work of intellectuals and organizers active in radical social movements.  Fanon Today is a timely book about the turbulent present and its connections to the long history of racial capitalism.  It is a landmark addition to the field of Fanonian studies and an absolutely necessary reading for anyone interested in decolonial thought and social movements.\u003cstrong\u003e\" Yasser Munif\u003c\/strong\u003e, author, \u003cem\u003eThe Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"no-indent\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Fanon Today\u003c\/em\u003e does not just bring Fanon into the immediate present, it also restores Fanon as a thinker of praxis, of organisation and struggle. There are a growing number of attempts to retrieve Fanon’s thought from its immediate historical context and put it to work in the present. But there are very few that show much interest in the fact that most of Fanon’s work was produced and grounded within struggle, within popular struggle. In keeping with Fanon’s own internationalism his thought is brought into struggles in Palestine, Pakistan, Ireland, South Africa, Kenya, the prisons in the United States and more. The worldliness of the work gathered here speaks, implicitly but lucidly, to the spirit of a thinker who was, always, in motion towards the world. Edited by Nigel Gibson, a leading Fanon scholar, including work by a group of exciting younger thinkers, and graced by a contribution from Ato Sekyi-Otu, also one of the best Fanon scholars, and a singular philosophical presence in the examination of the contemporary African condition, the book has real intellectual heft. It is essential reading for anyone who aims to engage Fanon as a comrade in struggle rather than solely as an interlocutor in more isolated and abstracted forms of academic theorizing.\" \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Pithouse\u003c\/strong\u003e, Editor, \u003cem\u003eNew Frame\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eBeing Human After 1492\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Fanon Today\u003c\/em\u003e is a dense and rich text written by authors from across the world interested in examining societal unrest and oppression through the lens of Fanon’s ideas. In the introduction, Gibson notes that Fanon’s Les Damnés de la Terre still resonates, 60 years after publication, due to the multiple crises we face and the realities of ‘those struggling not only to survive but also be free’. … the focus on mental health is woven through- out, as it examines the impact that colonialism and imperialism have on the individual and collective psyches of oppressed communities. Fanon Today is helpfully divided into three parts: Fanonian Militants, Still Fanon and Fanonian Practices.\" Kairo Maynard. \u003cem\u003eDramatherapy\u003c\/em\u003e 42(1-3) 78-9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Daraja Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141339979869,"sku":"9781990263019","price":42.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/fanon_today_17june-scaled.jpg?v=1694109395"},{"product_id":"struggle-or-starve-working-class-unity-in-belfasts-1932-outdoor-relief-riots","title":"Struggle Or Starve: Working-class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story of how thousands of Catholics and Protestants united to challenge poverty and unemployment in Belfast, Ireland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"facts-addl-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed police. Unemployed workers and, indeed, whole working-class communities, dug trenches and built barricades to hold off the police assault. The event became known as the Outdoor Relief Riot—one of a very few instances in which class sympathy managed to trump sectarian loyalties in a city famous for its divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e About the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeán Mitchell is a socialist activist based in Belfast. A founding member of the People Before Profit, he was the first person to stand for election under the party’s banner. He currently lives in Andersonstown in West Belfast, and works in Coláiste Feirste. He writes for the Irish Marxist Review.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"“Seán Mitchell's blow by blow account of the great Belfast Outdoor Relief workers' strike of 1932 masterfully recreates the drama of events as they unfolded, telling the story as it has never been told before, and in a way that is both intellectually rigorous and profoundly humane. By no means a disinterested academic, Mitchell proudly nails his colours to the mast: he is with the workers every inch of the way. But there is much more to this book than an exciting and moving reconstruction of historical events. Mitchell also provides a thoroughgoing analysis that uncovers fatal flaws in the politics of those who led the strike, flaws that prevented them from consolidating and building on their initial success, and he applies these lessons to the most important question of all: how can working class unity be achieved today, not just on single issues, but so as to transform society and consign sectarianism and the rotten political and economic system that breeds it, to the dustbin of history? This is a book to read, and then read again.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mike Milotte, award-winning journalist, former senior reporter and presenter on RTÉ s \"Prime Time\", and author of \u003ci\u003eCommunism in Modern Ireland: The Pursuit of the Worker's Republic Since 1916\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"[T]he ultimate message of this timely and absorbing book – that a class-based politics has operated in Northern Ireland, and thus might operate again – is in itself a useful reminder that the past can, given half a chance, offer lessons for the future.\"\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“This is an important story to tell, part of our lost history. It shows that the interests workers share far outweigh the artificial divisions of sectarianism. It is brilliant that Seán Mitchell has brought these great events backs to life. It will be an inspiration to unite again in today’s struggles.”\u003cstrong\u003e Ken Loach\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The BBC should commission a six part series of this virtually unknown story tomorrow. It has everything; the riveting contradictions of power and resistance in what was the industrial powerhouse of Belfast, unbelievable misery against the backdrop of the Great Depression, courage, cruelty, violence with the systematic barbarity of Outdoor Relief, charismatic intelligent characters deemed to be of the \"low working class type\", dreamers, troublemakers, ordinary citizens, up against spies, the brutality of the Specials, the Police, and the political elite, past masters of the dark arts of divide and rule. But this brilliantly researched story challenges the greatest lie of all, that the most humble and marginalised of communities cannot overcome the deadly poison of sectarianism. This story transcends Belfast, Catholic and Protestant. It is full of hope with the whiff of danger.....What happens when workers, the unemployed and their communities transcend differences of religion and identity and come together to resist those who control their lives? Perhaps that is why there are no public monuments to this epic struggle, why it has been ignored, and why the BBC won't be commissioning. But we can read this book and imagine.” \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Laverty is a Screenwriter, his films include \u003cem\u003eThe Wind That Shakes the Barley\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLooking for Eric and Jimmy’s Hall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seán Mitchell's blow by blow account of the great Belfast Outdoor Relief workers' strike of 1932 masterfully recreates the drama of events as they unfolded, telling the story as it has never been told before, and in a way that is both intellectually rigorous and profoundly humane. By no means a disinterested academic, Mitchell proudly nails his colours to the mast: he is with the workers every inch of the way. But there is much more to this book than an exciting and moving reconstruction of historical events. Mitchell also provides a thoroughgoing analysis that uncovers fatal flaws in the politics of those who led the strike, flaws that prevented them from consolidating and building on their initial success, and he applies these lessons to the most important question of all: how can working class unity be achieved today, not just on single issues, but so as to transform society and consign sectarianism and the rotten political and economic system that breeds it, to the dustbin of history? This is a book to read, and then read again.” \u003cstrong\u003eMike Milotte, award-winning journalist, former senior reporter and presenter on RTÉ s \"Prime Time\", and author of \u003cem\u003eCommunism in Modern Ireland: The Pursuit of the Worker's Republic Since 1916\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All the binary stereotypes of Belfast's history are challenged in this extraordinary account of how a small group of working-class Communists led an uprising of tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic unemployed in October 1932. As Mitchell so vividly shows, the Outdoor Relief Movement shook the sectarian North of Ireland statelet to its very foundations.\"  \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePlanet of Slums\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What happened in Belfast in 1932 contradicts just about everything conventional history tells us about relations between Catholics and Protestants in the North. Only decade into the existence of the new State, the plain people of the Shankill and the Falls linked arms to fight on picket lines and in the streets for common working-class interests. The events have either been written out of history or sentimentalised so as to drain them of all political relevance. The lesson drawn by Sean Mitchell from the tumult of the time is that the North sloughs off sectarianism when people come together on a basis which has nothing to do with the community they come from but everything to do with the class they belong to. Only class politics offers a practical alternative to communal division. This is history from below, raucous, sprawling, unconstrained by the imposition of an Orange\/Green paradigm on events which arose from an entirely different aspect of Belfast’s social being, bristling with intimations of a different way of political life. If the North is ever to deal with the past in a way which doesn’t divide us further, we must bring Belfast 1932 back into focus. Sean’s book makes a major contribution to this vital work.\" Eamonn McCann,  author, journalist and Civil Rights veteran\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“Mitchell demonstrates how the rottenness of the Northern Ireland state dominates workers’ lives and futures on the island of Ireland in 2017 and this well-written and captivating history of 1932 is an important step in showing people that people in Northern Ireland have more to gain from a united class struggle than sectarianism.”\u003cem\u003e Morning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“Far from being from a simple statement of facts, Mitchell’s new book offers an historical materialist analysis of the Northern state and its society that exposes the deep-seated, systematic sectarianism that has divided the working class.”\u003cem\u003e Andersontown News\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e[Mitchell] recaptures the events with clarity, and tells a great story. Crucially, he not only recognises the historic importance of the struggle, but also shows its relevance to the way forward in Northern Ireland today. He shows that there is an alternative to processes that enshrine divides, to peace walls, and to the sectarian backwater of the DUP-led Northern Irish State.” Pat Stack, \u003cem\u003ers21\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“The ultimate message of this timely and absorbing book – that a class-based politics has operated in Northern Ireland, and thus might operate again – is in itself a useful reminder that the past can, given half a chance, offer lessons for the future.” Neil Hegarty, the \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“Seán Mitchell, in crisp prose and with an eye for telling details, provides a gripping account of events in Belfast in October 1932.” \u003cem\u003eAn Phoblacht\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“Seán Mitchell, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and People Before Profit in Belfast, has written an important new book on a largely forgotten period in the city’s working class history, the 1932 Outdoor Relief Movement. It’s the story of how a small group of Belfast communists, with a former IRA man as their public figurehead, led a mass movement of unemployed Protestant and Catholic workers against the proto-fascist Stormont government for the right to have enough money to survive on.” \u003cem\u003eSocialist Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“In October 1932, Belfast's sectarian divisions were transcended by class politics. Sean Mitchell's book \u003cem\u003eStruggle or Starve\u003c\/em\u003e had a fascinating account of what became known as the 'relief riots', Catholic and Protestant workers coming together to protest against a harsh state relief programme. Shared need, albeit briefly, eclipsed religious divisions . . . Only when sectarian forces relinquish their control of our city, and a needs-based politics is cultivated that transcends religious divides, will we have a future that is genuinely shared – a long shot, I know; but one worth thinking about.” \u003cem\u003eBelfast Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eStruggle or Starve\u003c\/em\u003e encourages us to draw lessons from the past so that we may be better informed and equipped to address the needs of the future. Best of all though, this book provides a rich but readable text to stimulate the necessary discussion, debate and deliberations that socialists and republicans must have.” \u003cem\u003eIrish Marxist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“Mitchell’s book is an outstanding testimony to the centrality of united working class struggle, just as relevant today in the light of the Good Friday power sharing agreement which has institutionalised the sectarian divide.” \u003cem\u003eSocialist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section-title\"\u003e“Mitchell’s is by far the most thorough and well-researched account yet of a few weeks in Irish history that shook the ruling Unionist government probably more deeply than any other single event or sequence of events until 1968.” Geoffrey Bell, \u003cem\u003eHistory Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest books by Irish writers, 2017, \u003cem\u003eIrish Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141347811421,"sku":"9781608466788","price":23.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781608466788-f_medium-1fa15ec292f88656bbd7925efd4ea7dd.jpg?v=1694110339"},{"product_id":"she-who-struggles-revolutionary-women-who-shaped-the-world","title":"She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection examining the trailblazing lives and movements of radical women who have shaped the modern world\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao and Che in the pantheon of twentieth century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-redactor-tag=\"span\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eShe Who Struggles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003esets the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the world in endless ways: as leaders, rebels, trailblazers, guerrillas and writers; revolutionaries who also navigated their gendered roles as women, mothers, wives and daughters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThrough exclusive interviews and original historical research, including primary sources never before translated into English, readers are introduced to largely unknown revolutionary women from across the globe. The collection ultimately presents a hidden history of revolutionary internationalism that will be a must read for activists engaging in feminist, anticolonial and antiracist struggle today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMarral Shamshiri is a historian and activist. She is a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics and managing editor of the journal \u003cem\u003eCold War History\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSorcha Thomson is a historian and an associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She is co-editor of the book \u003cem\u003ePalestine in the World\u003c\/em\u003e and an editor of the \u003cem\u003eHistory Workshop\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Exhilarating and immensely valuable’\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Priyamvada Gopal, Professor, University of Cambridge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Captivating ... captures the resolute vision of revolutionary women in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, co-author of 'Revolutionary Learning'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Powerful, complex and compassionate ... a meaningful intervention – not only in women’s and revolutionary history, but in world history'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Dilar Dirik, author of 'The Kurdish Women’s Movement'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eIntroduction: \u003cem\u003eShe Who Struggles - Marral Shamshiri and Sorcha Thomson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e1. Melba Hernández: From Cuba to Vietnam, Under One Roof - \u003cem\u003eSorcha Thomson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e2. Mabel Dove and Aoua Kéita: Feminist and Internationalist Struggles from Ghana to Mali - \u003cem\u003eYatta Kiazolu and Madina Thiam\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e3. Mary Mooney: A Story of Irish and African Diaspora Solidarity - \u003cem\u003eMaurice J. Casey\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e4. TESTIMONY: The Power of Women’s International Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution - \u003cem\u003eJehan Helou\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Shigenobu Fusako: From Japan to Palestine in World Revolution - \u003cem\u003eJeremy Randall\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e6. Marziyeh Ahmadi Osku’i: Guerrilla Poetry between Iran, Afghanistan and India - \u003cem\u003eMarral Shamshiri\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e7. Madame Bình and Madame Nhu: The Vietnamese Woman as Icon of Solidarity in Palestine and Iran - \u003cem\u003eThy Phu, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Donya Ziaee\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e8. Sakine Cansız: Women’s Liberation and the Kurdistan Freedom Movement - \u003cem\u003eElif Sarican\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e9. Lindiwe Mabuza: Culture as a Weapon of Resistance in South Africa - \u003cem\u003eKebotlhale Motseothata\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e10. Where Are the Revolutionary Women of West Asia and North Africa? - \u003cem\u003eKanwal Hameed and Sara Salem\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e11. Delia Aguilar: Dissident Friendship and Filipino Feminist Thought - \u003cem\u003eKaren Buenavista Hanna\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e12. Sister Cities: Salvadoran Refugees and US-Salvadoran Solidarity in the Americas - \u003cem\u003eMolly Todd\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e13. INTERVIEW: Building Socialist Feminism on Southern Ground: The Women Democratic Front on the History and Politics of the Left in Pakistan - \u003cem\u003eMahvish Ahmad, Marvi Latifi, Ismat Shahjahan and Tooba Syed of the Women Democratic Front in Pakistan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41270231629917,"sku":"9780745348247","price":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780745348247.jpg?v=1698951890"},{"product_id":"navigating-the-zeitgeist","title":"Navigating the Zeitgeist","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era – a girl who, when she came of age, entered a convent – morph into an atheist, feminist, and Marxist? The answer is in Helena Sheehan’s fascinating account of her journey from her 1940s and 1950s beginnings, into the turbulent 1960s, when the Vietnam War, black power, and women’s liberation rocked her bedrock assumptions and prompted a volley of life-upending questions – questions shared by millions of young people of her generation. But, for Helena Sheehan, the increasingly radicalized answers deepened through the following decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning by overturning such certainties as America-is-the-world’s-greatest-country and the-Church-is-infallible, Sheehan went on to embrace existentialism, philosophical pragmatism, the new left, and eventually Marxism. Migrating from the United States to Ireland, she became involved with Irish republicanism and international communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Sheehan’s narrative vividly captures the global sweep and contradictions of second-wave feminism, antiwar activism, national liberation movements, and international communism in Eastern and Western Europe – as well as the quieter intellectual ferment of individuals living through these times. \u003cem\u003eNavigating the Zeitgeist\u003c\/em\u003e is an eloquently articulated voyage from faith to enlightenment to historical materialism that informs as well as entertains. This is the story of a well-lived political and philosophical life, told by a woman who continues to interrogate her times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"blurbwrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"blurb\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"How did a convent girl from Philadelphia end up as a soldier of the Official IRA and then reinvent herself as a renowned Marxist philosopher? An uncompromisingly honest and utterly fascinating memoir from the drowned continent that was once western communism.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e, author, \u003cem\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlanet of Slums\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Navigating the Zeitgeist\u003c\/em\u003e is an odyssey of a communist navigating the 20th century and continuing into the next. It is a gripping narrative, both for the story itself and the author’s way of telling it, disarmingly honest from start to finish. It is an internal understanding of the revolutionary movement, all the more necessary at a time when the sheer existence of a communist subjectivity has become an incomprehensible phenomenon, buried by the discourse of the victors. Helena Sheehan weaves a rich tapestry combining the personal with the political, the experience of everyday life with cultural, social and intellectual history. More than a memoir, this book makes a compelling call for radical reflection and action.\" Stathis Kouvelakis, author, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Marxism and Postmarxism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Helena Sheehan’s memoir of the last decades of the twentieth century captures the intense political passions of international communism at a crossroads. The conflicting pulls of criticism and commitment, adaptation and co-optation, are vital struggles to make sense of and shape the world. \u003cem\u003eNavigating the Zeitgeist\u003c\/em\u003e is more than the autobiography of a brilliant philosopher, lover, mother, and organizer. It’s the autobiography of the left.\" Jodi Dean, author, \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Horizon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCrowds and Party\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Helena Sheehan’s journey from working class Irish America to the new left, Irish republicanism and the communist movement is a fascinating one. Along the way we encounter the Catholic Church, the movement against the Vietnam War, the Official IRA and European communism during the 1970s. Sheehan’s recollections not only provide a personal and political perspective on the people and ideas that shaped much of the modern left; her vivid portraits of many of the individuals involved are indispensable for anyone seeking to understand these movements and their times.\" Brian Hanley, author, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBoiling Volcano\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An absorbing, thought provoking, candid, and inherently fascinating memoir of a troubled life in troubled times, \u003cem\u003eNavigating the Zeitgeis\u003c\/em\u003e is especially and unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections in general, and Marxism and Feminism supplemental studies lists in particular.\" \u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42007836098653,"sku":"9781583677278","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/81aypAdPLHL._SL1500.jpg?v=1713552215"},{"product_id":"national-liberation-socialism-and-imperialism","title":"National Liberation, Socialism and Imperialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeveral of Lenin's basic theoretical essays on nationalism and the right of nations to self-determination are brought together in this volume. 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A must-read for those interested in truth and justice.\" \u003c\/span\u003eProfessor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC, University of Minnesota and Queen’s University Belfast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\"A brilliant, long-needed, investigation into one of the most notorious episodes of the Northern Ireland “Troubles”, one that the British security state has gone to desperate lengths to cover up. 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And why was another Wolfe Tones song, ‘Celtic Symphony’, at the centre of a ‘confected controversy’ and media frenzy after the Irish women’s soccer team were videoed singing the chorus in their dressing room in October 2022?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’ is the starting point of Stan Erraught’s powerful account of the place of popular music, particularly ‘rebel songs’, in Irish society and politics. Erraught tells us about the origins and political significance of a wide range of popular music, from traditional and contemporary folk, through show bands, rock, punk, and hip hop. The book also looks at attempts to counter the popularity of rebel songs through the official adoption of the Cranberries song ‘Zombie’ at some sporting events. The use of popular music as the soundtrack of various Northern Ireland Office campaigns is also critically reviewed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe band Kneecap, ‘rapping for the most part in Irish and unabashedly republican in their politics’, are discussed at length, given that they are ‘the most popular and influential rap act to emerge from Ireland this century’. While there are calls to ‘defund’ Kneecap – an approved grant was personally vetoed by Kemi Badenoch as Business Secretary – they have received a ‘glowing reception’ by mainstream commentators. This contrasts with The Wolfe Tones: ‘How come a bunch of septuagenarians with banjos and whistles can cause such apoplexy?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe book concludes with a discussion of the rise of the far right in Ireland and the part music has to play in the struggle against racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"sqsrte-small\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-small\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eStan Erraught is from Dublin and currently lectures and writes on popular music and the music industry at the University of Leeds. In former lives he was a guitar player and songwriter, a producer, a stage manager, and a stagehand. 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Picking sides in that scrap is easy … until you read this book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMáirtín Ó Muilleoir, former Lord Mayor of Belfast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e In the time of the Great Famine, people of all political stripes hailed Lord George Hill as an exemplary landlord for his ‘improvements’ in north-west Donegal. Yet, within a decade, priests, a journalist and the people who were his tenants exploded Hill’s reputation with a series of extraordinary allegations ultimately investigated by a select committee in Westminster. 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\u003cbr\u003e 3 Conceptualising the national question \u003cbr\u003e 4 The second Comintern congress \u003cbr\u003e 5 Loyalism and socialism: the problem in Belfast \u003cbr\u003e 6 Unheeded pleas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Second Comintern Congress to the Formation of the CPI\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘Virulent Bourgeois Terror’ \u003cbr\u003e 2 Vying for Moscow’s ear \u003cbr\u003e 3 The tide turns \u003cbr\u003e 4 Roddy Connolly and the third Comintern congress: myth and reality \u003cbr\u003e 5 Connolly’s secret mission \u003cbr\u003e 6 Another failure \u003cbr\u003e 7 Bold initiatives or daily struggles? \u003cbr\u003e 8 Division, dissent, and the birth of the Irish Communist Party \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 \u003cstrong\u003eFrom Truce to Civil War\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘Not yet in touch with the masses’ \u003cbr\u003e 2 Rubbish disposal: quality before quantity? \u003cbr\u003e 3 Purging old comrades \u003cbr\u003e 4 Cross-channel animosity \u003cbr\u003e 5 A parting of the ways \u003cbr\u003e 6 Communists and the Treaty \u003cbr\u003e 7 Class struggle continues as the unemployed take to the stage \u003cbr\u003e 8 ‘20,000 members in the next six months’ \u003cbr\u003e 9 The road to civil war \u003cbr\u003e 10 Revolutionary guns and ‘reformist’ soviets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Communist Party in the Civil War\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 ‘Prepared to fight as well as talk’ \u003cbr\u003e 2 The Borodin-Connolly programme \u003cbr\u003e 3 Connolly’s ‘big proposition’ \u003cbr\u003e 4 Liam Mellows and the communist programme \u003cbr\u003e 5 Repression intensifies \u003cbr\u003e 6 Connolly’s apologia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 \u003cstrong\u003eTurn to the Class\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 The fourth Comintern congress and its aftermath \u003cbr\u003e 2 Connolly’s solo run \u003cbr\u003e 3 The CPI’s first annual conference, January 1923 \u003cbr\u003e 4 McLoughlin’s bid for peace \u003cbr\u003e 5 The CPI’s second conference \u003cbr\u003e 6 Connolly resigns \u003cbr\u003e 7 Another round of struggle \u003cbr\u003e 8 The CPI’s third conference \u003cbr\u003e 9 The prisoner issue, again \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 \u003cstrong\u003eLarkin’s Return and the Demise of the CPI\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Wasps and aliens \u003cbr\u003e 2 A losing battle \u003cbr\u003e 3 What is to be done? \u003cbr\u003e 4 Breaking resistance \u003cbr\u003e 5 Last throw of the dice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3 Communist Politics in the Larkin Era 1924–28\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Irish Worker League 1923–24\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Desperate times \u003cbr\u003e 2 The labour movement splits \u003cbr\u003e 3 CPGB hostility ramps up \u003cbr\u003e 4 Larkin at the fifth Comintern congress \u003cbr\u003e 5 Larkin at the third RILU congress \u003cbr\u003e 6 Larkin’s return: triumph and treachery \u003cbr\u003e 7 Bolshevising Larkin \u003cbr\u003e 8 Agreement in Moscow \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Failure of ‘Bolshevisation’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Old wine in new bottles? \u003cbr\u003e 2 Winning friends and influencing people \u003cbr\u003e 3 Party time? \u003cbr\u003e 4 The ‘Lansbury affair’ and its aftermath \u003cbr\u003e 5 Bust-up in Battersea \u003cbr\u003e 6 Larkin’s man in Moscow \u003cbr\u003e 7 To break or not to break? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Workers’ Party of Ireland 1926–27\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 A missed opportunity? \u003cbr\u003e 2 Fianna Fáil and the Irish left \u003cbr\u003e 3 The WPI and the Comintern \u003cbr\u003e 4 Larkin at the seventh plenum of the ECCI \u003cbr\u003e 5 Defying Moscow \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 \u003cstrong\u003eLarkin’s Pyrrhic Victory\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Resisting repression \u003cbr\u003e 2 For Fianna Fáil, against Labour \u003cbr\u003e 3 Building a Larkin bypass \u003cbr\u003e 4 United front – with whom? \u003cbr\u003e 5 Unlucky Leckie \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 \u003cstrong\u003eLarkin Breaks with Moscow, Summer 1928\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Larkin at the ninth plenum of the ECCI \u003cbr\u003e 2 Back to the hustings \u003cbr\u003e 3 Carney at the fourth RILU congress \u003cbr\u003e 4 Yet more grievances \u003cbr\u003e 5 The final straw \u003cbr\u003e 6 The sixth Comintern congress \u003cbr\u003e 7 ‘I would rather be a Trotskyite …’ \u003cbr\u003e 8 Post Mortem on Larkin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConclusions\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliography\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndex\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67650638413917,"sku":"9798888908891","price":49.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/CommunistPoliticsinIreland1916_1945vol1.jpg?v=1792095438"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/collections\/ireland.png?v=1651955480","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/ireland.oembed?page=3","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}