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Arrested in 1917 for their anti-conscription campaign during the First World War, they were subsequently deported to Russia in the 1919 1920 Red Scare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough they were initially optimistic about returning to Russia in the midst of social revolution, over the next two years Goldman and Berkman would come face-to-face with the contradictions of \"the dictatorship of the proletariat\" as they witnessed the persecution of Russian anarchists, the suppression of revolutionary labor movements, and the brutal annihilation of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. The two anarchists quickly learned that the Bolshevik Party's dictatorship was not the embodiment of the workers' revolution, but was in fact \"the very antithesis of revolution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough their first-hand accounts of the situation in Russia, Goldman and Berkman reminded revolutionaries everywhere that \"the state whatever its name or form is ever the mortal enemy of liberty and popular self-determination\" and that true social revolution can never be managed or manipulated by political parties seeking state power, but must emerge from the creative self-activity of working people themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new volume collects selected writings by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e and Alexander Berkman that recount their experiences in Russia from 1920 to 1922. Famous essays like \"Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists,\" \"The Prisons of Russia,\" and \"There Is No Communism in Russia\" are collected here alongside immortal pamphlets like \u003cem\u003eThe Crushing of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Russian Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Kronstadt Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon after his arrival in Paris in 1909, when he became editor of the newspaper l'anarchie. In these articles Serge develops and debates his own radical thoughts, arguing the futility of mass action and embracing \"illegalism.\" Serge's involvement with the notorious French group of anarchist armed robbers, the Bonnot Gang, landed him in prison for the first time in 1912. Anarchists Never Surrender includes both his prison correspondence with his anarchist comrade Émile Armand and articles written immediately after his release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also includes several articles and letters written by Serge after he had left anarchism behind and joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1919. 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Stone called one of the “moral figures of our time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I can’t think of anyone else who has written about the revolutionary movement in this century with Serge’s combination of moral insight and intellectual richness.” —Dwight Macdonald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“To me he has seemed a model of the independent intellectual in Europe between the wars: leftist but not dogmatic, political yet deeply involved with issues of cultural life, and a novelist of very considerable powers.” —Irving Howe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" title=\"Victor Serge\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.” —Erich Fromm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia’s revolution and Spain’s agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.” —I.F. Stone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude toward the truth. . . . His life and its choices demonstrate an exemplary truth to which he was prophetically sensitive and which we should now accept as axiomatic. Institutions can be defended by lies, revolutions never.” —John Berger, \u003cem\u003eNew Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVictor Serge (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles living in Brussels. As a young anarchist firebrand, Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. In 1919, Serge joined the Bolsheviks. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (\u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eConquered City\u003c\/em\u003e) and a history (\u003cem\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published two collections of his translations, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Anger: Ultra-Revolutionary Writing in France from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCommunards: The Story of the Paris Commune of 1871 as Told by Those Who Fought for It\u003c\/em\u003e. He is currently working on translations of further unpublished works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guérin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Greeman is best known as the translator and prefacer of five of Victor Serge’s seven novels, most recently \u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press). He is a founding member of the libertarian socialist Praxis Center in Moscow and Secretary of the Victor Serge Foundation, which supports the Victor Serge Libraries in Moscow and Kiev and underwrites translations and publication of Serge’s books in Russian and Arabic. Greeman has published literary, political, and biographical studies of Serge in English, French, Russian, and Spanish as well as prefaces to French editions of Serge’s books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Victor Serge\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Mitchell Abidor\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-031-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175200141405,"sku":"9781629630311","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/b_anarchists_never_surrender.jpg?v=1654987842"},{"product_id":"birth-of-our-power","title":"Birth of Our Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is \"burning at both ends.\" Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants, and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerge’s “tale of two cities” is constructed from the opposition between Barcelona, the city “we” could not take, and Petrograd, the starving, beleaguered capital of the Russian Revolution besieged by counter-revolutionary Whites. Between the romanticism of radicalized workers awakening to their own power in a sun-drenched Spanish metropolis to the grim reality of workers clinging to power in Russia’s dark, frozen revolutionary outpost. From “victory in defeat” to “defeat in victory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin’s dictatorship over the revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Nothing in it has dated. . . . It is less an autobiography than a sustained, incandescent lyric (half-pantheist, half-surrealist) of rebellion and battle.” —\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Surely one of the most moving accounts of revolutionary experience ever written.” —Neal Ascherson, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Probably the most remarkable of his novels. . . . Of all the European writers who have taken revolution as their theme, Serge is second only to Conrad. . . . Here is a writer with a magnificent eye for the panoramic sweep of historical events and an unsparingly precise moral insight.” —Francis King, \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Intense, vivid, glowing with energy and power . . . A wonderful picture of revolution and revolutionaries . . . The power of the novel is in its portrayal of the men who are involved.” —\u003cem\u003eManchester Evening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the finest romances of revolution ever written, and confirms Serge as an outstanding chronicler of his turbulent era. . . . As an epic, \u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e has lost none of its strength.” —Lawrence M. Bensky, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Victor Serge\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles living in Brussels. As a young anarchist firebrand, Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. In 1919, Serge joined the Bolsheviks. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (\u003cem\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eConquered City\u003c\/em\u003e) and a history (\u003cem\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e), published in Paris. 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Neither would be found in Soviet or Western academic literature of the Revolution.” \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most coherent and comprehensive personal accounts of the Russian Revolution, of the nature of the Bolshevik State from its birth in 1917 through to its suppression of both the Kronstadt uprising of 1921 and of the Makhnovist peasant movement in the Ukraine between 1918 and 1921.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/stuart-christie\" title=\"Stuart Christie\"\u003eStuart Christie\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyMTEyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/granny-made-me-an-anarchist-general-franco-the-angry-brigade-and-me\" title=\"Granny Made Me an Anarchist\"\u003eGranny Made Me an Anarchist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVoline (Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, 1882–1945), writer, educator, poet, and anarchist, was an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution. Exiled by the Tsarist tribunal, then sentenced to death by Trotsky and rescued amid protests, he never ceased to live up to his chosen nom de guerre based on the Russian word for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIain McKay is an independent anarchist writer and researcher. He was the main author of An Anarchist FAQ as well as numerous other works, including \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition, he has edited and introduced \u003cem\u003eProperty Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eDirect Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e; and Kropotkin’s 1913 book \u003cem\u003eModern Science and Anarchy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRudolf Rocker (1873–1958) was one of the most prominent writers, speakers, and activists of anarchism’s classical period. 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Drawing on his own decades of experience as an anti-imperialist, Lauesen shows how dialectical materialism can be employed as a method to understand the past five hundred years of capitalist history, how contradictions internal to European capitalism led to colonialism and genocide in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as all humanity was brought into a single exploitative world system. The globalized capitalist system has developed through successive and changing principal contradictions, decisively impacting regional, national, and local contradictions. This has in turn given rise to new reactions, interacting with and modifying the principal contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdentifying the principal contradiction is indispensable for developing a global perspective on capitalism. This methodology is not just a valuable tool with which to analyze complex relationships: it also tells us how to intervene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e is a longtime anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989, he was a full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements by both legal and illegal means. He worked occasionally as a glass factory worker, mail carrier, and laboratory worker, in order to be able to stay on the dole. In connection with support work, he has traveled in Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Philippines, and Mexico. 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He is currently a member of International Forum, an anti-imperialist organization based in Denmark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Torkil Lauesen\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Translated by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-989701-03-4\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 157 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175312076893,"sku":"9781989701034","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/theprincipalcontradiction_cover3.jpg?v=1654988475"},{"product_id":"1917-revolution-in-russia-and-its-aftermath","title":"1917: Revolution in Russia and its Aftermath","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Russian Revolution's centenary year Black Rose Books presents a collection of three books by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e, Alexander Berkman and Ida Mett that provide eyewitness accounts of its triumphs, disappointments and horrors. Following their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, Goldman and Berkman were greeted as heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia, with Berkman describing their arrival as the \"most sublime day of my life\". Why then, barely two years later, did both decide to leave Russia for good? 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It is the first authentic insight into the complex dimensions of the revolution. Its authors use their own experiences of working and fighting in the region to construct a picture of hope for Middle-Eastern politics and society, and reveal an extraordinary story of a battle against the odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Knapp is a historian of radical democracy, Cofounder of the Campaign Tatort Kurdistan and member of NavDem Berlin. His research focuses on the Kurdish issue and the construction of alternatives to capitalist modernity. His research has taken him to the Middle East, where he has studied the Kurdish Liberation Struggle and the PKK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnja Flach is an enthnologist and member of the Rojbîn women's council in Hamburg. 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Formerly living and co-founding the Tatort Kurdistan Campaign in Germany, now he lives in North Kurdistan and is politically involved in the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, particularly in water struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Written by long-time activists of the Kurdish freedom movement, this book is the first authentic insight into the complex dimensions of Rojava's radical revolution' - Dilar Dirik, author and activist of the Kurdish Women's Movement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'The Kurdish revolution of Democratic Autonomy is of enormous importance for the future of the world. 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A careful and detailed account that is filled with personal narrative, it is both easily accessible and very informative' - John Holloway, Professor of Sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla, author of Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'A deeply insightful contribution to understanding the Kurdish movement's achievements in Rojava' - ROAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Gives a profound insight' - Firat News Agency\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'A comprehensive and readable guide to the complex situation. This hugely exciting and important book has wider lessons for feminists, ecosocialists and others who want to create an anti-capitalist alternative' - Green Left Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Provides excellent background information about this important but little understood struggle' - The Monthly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Note    \u003cbr\u003eForeword by David Graeber\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: On the Road to Til Koçer\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Undertaking a thorough and systematic analysis of evolving political, social, and economic dynamics, he reveals how China’s failed experiment with socialism laid the groundwork for its more recent explosive capitalist growth. But he also shows that the transition to capitalism was neither inevitable nor its victory final. Highly recommended!” Eli Friedman, professor of international and comparative labor at Cornell University and author of \u003cem\u003eInsurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“What we in the western world take for granted and consume—clothes, computers, watches, mobile phones, etc.—depends largely on work and workers in today’s China. Yet work and workers in China have been almost invisible on the two sides of the Atlantic over the years. This book opens a window on the times and circumstances that ordinary women and men in China have gone through since the late 1940s. Ralf Ruckus unfolds a story of advancements, defeats, repressions, and revolts for better standards of living, individual and collective rights, freedom of expression and residence, dignity. This book will be indispensable to those who are not satisfied with grand geopolitical overviews about China, and who want to look closely into the People’s Republic of China’s past and current trends.” Ferruccio Gambino, veteran Italian activist, coeditor of the journal \u003cem\u003ealtre ragioni\u003c\/em\u003e, and lecturer on international migrations at the University of Padua\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It is striking, with everything that has been written about contemporary China, how few works put the Chinese working class, in reality the key to China’s situation, front and center. Ralf Ruckus’s book is an excellent corrective to this lack. The Chinese working class, by its location in the world’s workshop, will shake the world as the Russian working class did in 1917, hopefully with a happier outcome.” Loren Goldner, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Notes \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This highly original book traverses a range of contexts that will appeal to readers interested in nature and meaning of transition from socialism to capitalism in China. Of interest to both China experts and leftist activists, this timely book will help readers better understand both the complex history of the Communist Party of China and the contemporary nature of class struggle. Innovative in method and surprising in its findings, this superb book will prove to be a landmark work in advancing the field of Chinese labor history.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzMyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/andrej-grubacic\" title=\"Andrej Grubacic\"\u003eAndrej Grubacic\u003c\/a\u003e, professor of anthropology at CIIS–San Francisco and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eLiving at the Edges of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“While there is renewed interest in socialism the world over, there seems to be consensus that socialism has not yet been realized. Even if this is true, it is curious how little time the socialist left spends on studying movements that claim to clear the path towards it. This is why \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Road to Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading. Authored by a seasoned labor activist and scholar whose knowledge about working-class struggles in China is second to none, this book helps us answer some of the crucial questions of our time: Is there a way to socialism? Have we advanced on it? How do we reach its end?” —Gabriel Kuhn, author of Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRalf Ruckus has been active in social movements in Europe and Asia for decades and publishes texts on social struggles in China and elsewhere. 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North Korea is still shrouded in mystery, and there are no clear plans for the future... Can we trust either side to bring about peace? And if so, how?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis provocative insider's account blasts apart the myths which paint North Korea as a rogue state run by a mad leader. Informed by extraordinary access to the country's leadership, Glyn Ford investigates the regime from the inside, providing game-changing insights, which Trump and his administration have failed to do. Acknowledging that North Korea is a deeply flawed and repressive state, he nonetheless shows that sections of the leadership are desperate to modernise and end their isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith chapters on recent developments including the Trump \/ Kim summit, Ford supports a dialogue between East and West, whilst also criticising Trump's facile attempts. Talking to North Korea provides a road map for averting a war in North East Asia that would threaten the lives of millions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SJCTmuVbzU?si=AVUqvUh7gG5nlXZU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlyn Ford is Director of Track2Asia, a representative on Labour's National Policy Forum and a member of the Labour Party's International Committee. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTalking to North Korea\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2018) and \u003cem\u003eNorth Korea on the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2007). He has visited North Korea almost 50 times as an MEP amongst other professional capacities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An insightful and provocative analysis.\" William Ury, co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of \u003ci\u003eGetting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House, 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A timely, perceptive, and penetrating analysis of North Korea. This is a must for those who are interested in contemporary North Korean affairs.\" Chung-in Moon, Distinguished University Professor, Yonsei University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With almost fifty visits to the DPRK, Glyn Ford is one of the top European experts on the Korean Peninsula. Readers, whatever their political views, will find much to stimulate their thinking regarding one of the most important political-security issues of our time.\" Jeffrey D. Feltman, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With direct access to North Korean government officials and a lifetime of observation and analysis of the country, Glyn Ford has an insight into the country like no other. A strongly recommended impartial read, revealing previous political tricks and failures of 73 years of miscommunication and stagnation... and a possible path out of this mess.\" Nicholas Bonner, Founder of Koryo Tours\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Glyn Ford is a very rare case of a Westerner who has both political experience in the West and first-hand experience of dealing with North Korea. His book shows a possible way out of the continuous crisis through slow-motion change—the only way which might work.\" Andrei Lankov, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003eMap of North Korea\u003cbr\u003eCountry Leaders, 1990-2018\u003cbr\u003eChronology Since 1900\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNote on Asian Names\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: The Pyongyang Paradox\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Roots of the Present Crisis: Understanding North Korea’s History\u003cbr\u003e2. Drawing the Iron Curtain\u003cbr\u003e3. Kim’s Korea\u003cbr\u003e4. Famine, Markets, Refugees and Human Rights: The Kim Jong II Era \u003cbr\u003ePart II: Continuity and Change\u003cbr\u003e5. Kim Jong Un\u003cbr\u003e6. Daily Life in North Korea\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Diplomatic Stage\u003cbr\u003e7. The Nuclear Factor\u003cbr\u003e8. Foreign Affairs: Between Rapprochement and Standoff\u003cbr\u003e9. Conclusion: After Singapore \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography and Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40239885385821,"sku":"9780745337852","price":28.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745337852.jpg?v=1656389220"},{"product_id":"nestor-makhno-and-rural-anarchism-in-ukraine-1917-1921","title":"Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject one such struggle, the anarcho-communist peasant revolt led by Nestor Makhno in left-bank Ukraine, locating it in the context of the final collapse of the Empire that began in 1914.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1917 and 1921, the Makhnovists fought German and Austrian invaders, reactionary monarchist forces, Ukrainian nationalists and sometimes the Bolsheviks themselves. Drawing upon anarchist ideology, the Makhnovists gathered widespread support amongst the Ukrainian peasantry, taking up arms when under attack and playing a significant role - in temporary alliance with the Red Army - in the defeats of the White Generals Denikin and Wrangel. The Makhnovist movement is often dismissed as a kulak revolt, or a manifestation of Ukrainian nationalism; here Colin Darch analyses its successes and its failures, emphasising its revolutionary character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 100 years after the revolutions, this book reveals a lesser known side of 1917, contributing both to histories of the period and broadening the narrative of 1917, whilst enriching the lineage of anarchist history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Utilising numerous sources, some only recently available, Colin Darch produces an admirably lucid account of complex events, supported by penetrating analysis' - Gary Littlejohn, author of 'A Sociology of the Soviet Union' (1984)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A timely and welcome contribution. Detailed and balanced, Darch's narrative succumbs to neither a romanticisation nor demonisation of Makhno. Readers will encounter a multifaceted Makhno attempting to navigate his movement through the furies of revolution and civil war' - Sean Patterson, author of 'Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917-1921'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Before Rojava, before Spain, there was Ukraine. Darch's brilliant study recovers the intertwined stories of the anarchist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE2NTUwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/nestor-makhno\" title=\"Nestor Makhno\"\u003eNestor Makhno\u003c\/a\u003e, factory worker and son of freed serfs, and the revolution that swept Ukraine. This highly recommended study of an epic time shows another revolution was possible’ - Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Economic \u0026amp; Industrial Sociology, Rhodes University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColin Darch is a fellow of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa. He is the co-author of Freedom of Information in the Developing World (Oxford: Chandos, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Maps\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eThe Deep Roots of Rural Discontent: Guliaipole, 1905–17\u003cbr\u003eThe Turning Point: Organising Resistance to the German Invasion, 1918\u003cbr\u003eBrigade Commander and Partisan: Makhno’s Campaigns against Denikin, January–May 1919\u003cbr\u003eBetrayal in the Heat of Battle? The Red–Black Alliance Falls Apart, May–September 1919\u003cbr\u003eThe Long March West and the Battle at Peregonovka\u003cbr\u003eRed versus White, Red versus Green: The Bolsheviks Assert Control\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Act: Alliance at Starobel’sk, Wrangel’s Defeat, and Betrayal at Perekop\u003cbr\u003eThe Bitter Politics of the Long Exile: Romania, Poland, Germany, and France, 1921–34\u003cbr\u003eWhy Anarchism? Why Ukraine? Contextualising Makhnovshchina\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Reframing of Makhno for the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40317806772317,"sku":"9780745338873","price":36.38,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745338873.jpg?v=1658116252"},{"product_id":"red-valkyries-feminist-lessons-from-five-revolutionary-women","title":"Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women (hc)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Valkyries\u003c\/i\u003e explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. 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The five figures analyzed were fighters who pursued the feminist cause through their full engagement in revolutionary political struggle.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRed Valkyries\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating alternative history of the feminist movement, told from the perspective of the east rather than the west. The women Ghodsee profiles are committed socialists who realise that women’s liberation is incompatible with capitalism, and who also frequently struggle against the centralisation of power within their own countries. 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Ghodsee lifts up the immense contradiction between thefuture-oriented social hopes of these revolutionaries, these exiles from the future, and the grip ofthe social conventions of the present.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/vijay-prashad\"\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWashington Bullets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Until the late 20th century, you could pay close attention in school, graduate from a prestigious university with a degree in history and still never find out who Harriet Tubman was. Outrageous, right? But due to capitalist ideology and Cold War hangover, you could still do all that and never learn about Alexandra Kollontai or Inessa Armand, or any of history’s great Communist women. Kristen Ghodsee’s riveting account of these complicated, imperfect and inspiring lives is an outstanding corrective to our miseducation, one that’s long overdue.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiza Featherstone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny and politically illuminating, Ghodsee writes with the clear-sighted directness of the revolutionary women she describes. Women’s sexual, political and daily emancipation were the eye of the socialist storm for Kollantai, Krupskaya, Armand and Lagadinova. Ghodsee's book breathes new life into their stories of how to create a world without patriarchy.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Armstrong, Smith College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kristen Ghodsee’s new book is a well-documented and immensely personal guide to the 20th-century East European socialist women’s movement. The author extracts from silence and saves from oblivion five women who have made an attempt to change not only their own, personal history, but also political, social and cultural history of women in Europe and worldwide. It is a story about a communist revolution in which women played a significant role, creating and implementing the project of a better world for all people. Reflections on the past are not, however, used to celebrate it nostalgically, but to draw conclusions for the future—how to act to build an alternative to the hegemony of capitalism and nationalism. This well-written, passionate story about the “red Valkyries” shows that socialism is not a song of the past, but still valid and long-awaited response to the challenges of the present world. Ghodsee argues that the history is not over, but rushes forward. Speeding up, however, it needs signposts to avoid falling into the abyss. 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Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin’s Bolshevik experiment, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445174448221,"sku":"LML2","price":19.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1424_Living_My_Life_-_volume_2_-_Emma_goldmanLARGE.jpg?v=1661174802"},{"product_id":"emma-goldman-living-my-life-vol-1","title":"Emma Goldman: Living My Life, Vol 1","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003eEmma Goldman’s autobiography. 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Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin’s Bolshevik experiment, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445174480989,"sku":"LML1","price":19.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1425_Living_My_Life_-_volume_1_-_Emma_goldmanLARGE.jpg?v=1661174807"},{"product_id":"my-disillusionment-in-russia","title":"My Disillusionment in Russia","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Disillusionment in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in 1923 by Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Co. The book was based on a much longer manuscript entitled \"My Two Years in Russia\" which was an eyewitness account of events in Russia from 1920 to 1921 that ensued in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which culminated in the Kronstadt rebellion. Long-concerned about developments with the \u003ci\u003eBolsheviki\u003c\/i\u003e, Goldman described the rebellion as the \"final wrench. I [Goldman] saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch to Goldman's dismay, only upon receiving the first printed copies of the book did she become aware that (1) the publisher had changed the title, and (2) the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including an Afterword which Goldman felt was \"the most vital part\" of the book. Sympathetic to the initial \"Russian Revolution\", the (complete) book is nonetheless a strong and impassioned left critique of the \u003ci\u003eBolshevik Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e as well as Lenin's New Economic Policy—an \"all-powerful, centralized Government with State Capitalism as its economic expression.\" The complete book is also critical of Marxian theory which Goldman describes as \"a cold, mechanistic, enslaving formula.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter much back and forth with the publishers, the missing portions of Goldman's original manuscript were published in a second (American) volume \u003ci\u003eMy Further Disillusionment in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e (also titled by the publisher) in 1924. In the preface to the second \"volume\" of the American edition, Goldman wryly observes that only two of the reviewers sensed the incompleteness of the original American version, one of whom was not a 'regular' critic, but a librarian. A complete version of the complete manuscript was published in England with an introduction by Rebecca West, also with the title \"My Disillusionment in Russia\" (London: C. W. Daniel Company, 1925).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445174546525,"sku":"DISILLUSION","price":19.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1426_My_disillusionment_in_russiaLARGE.jpg?v=1661174811"},{"product_id":"remember-kronstadt-one-hundred-years-on","title":"Remember Kronstadt: One Hundred Years On","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"\u003e\u003cbig\u003eA century ago, Lenin's communists turned their guns on rebelling sailors once hailed as the \"pride and glory\" of the Bolshevik Revolution. This is the story of those true revolutionaries, one told by an anonymous poster on Libcom and the other a UK based anarchist paper called Wildcat, written in 1991. \u003c\/big\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"\u003e\u003cbig\u003eFrom the pamphlet: \u003c\/big\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"\u003e\u003cbig\u003e\"A hundred years ago the end of the Russian Revolution came about as the Bolshevik forces under Trotsky and Lenin ordered the slaughter of the revolutiuonaries of Kronstadt. The two articles contained in this booklet tell that story, and serve as stark reminders as to why anarchists believe revolution can never succeed when imposed by a supposedly revolutionary government.\"\u003c\/big\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445174644829,"sku":"9781914567032","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1428_remember-kronstadt-one-hundred-years-onCROPPEDlarge.jpg?v=1661174820"},{"product_id":"the-kronstadt-commune","title":"The Kronstadt Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of the 100th anniversary of the “October Revolution” where the Bolsheviks seized control of a popular uprising, there can still be found those who celebrate the events as a victory of “workers control.” Ida Mett’s account was among the first to expose such illusions. The sailors of Kronstadt had been instrumental in aiding the Bolsheviks to power, but by 1921 they had become disillusioned with the direction that events were taking. Frustrated by worsening economic conditions and by the Bolsheviks increasingly brutal attempts at centralising power, the sailors and soldiers of Kronstadt put forward a series of demands designed to win back the control and autonomy that had been promised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kronstadt uprising of 1921 was one of the most important yet often overlooked events of the Russian civil war. The bloody suppression of the rebels by the ‘government of the workers and peasants’ marked the final blow to any hopes of a genuine popular revolution based on democratic self-management. Ida Mett dispels the myths of the Bolsheviks and provides a dramatic and engaging account of the events that made clear the true nature of the ‘proletarian’ dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in French in 1938, and in English by the libertarian socialist group ‘Solidarity’ in 1967, this contemporary account which includes documents from the actual participants has been restored and revived for the next generation of social revolutionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445174874205,"sku":"9781914567056","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1433_the-kronstadt-commune-by-ida-mettCROPPEDlarge.jpg?v=1661174841"},{"product_id":"essential-works-of-lenin-what-is-to-be-done-and-other-writings","title":"Essential Works of Lenin: \"What Is to Be Done?\" and Other Writings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"row-fluid\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-pane active\" id=\"tab1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmong the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. 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Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney was assassinated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWalter Rodney’s Russian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e collects surviving texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar es Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the editorial aid of Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight, Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a broad range of subjects—the Narodniks, social democracy, the October Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism—Rodney articulates a distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary theory and history with the people in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Any reader will find a wealth of useful arguments and information here.” \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"byline\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Walter Rodney\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--quote\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could have not been more wrong.” Angela Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--info-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual \u003cstrong\u003eWalter Rodney\u003c\/strong\u003e emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed twentieth-century Jamaica’s most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Benjamin\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor at Kennesaw State University and a Board Member of the Walter Rodney Foundation (WRF), where he edits of the peer-reviewed journals \u003cem\u003eSouth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eATL\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the Coeditor of \u003cem\u003eGroundings\u003c\/em\u003e, the WRF publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/robin-d-g-kelley\" title=\"Robin D.G. Kelley\"\u003eRobin D.G. Kelley\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of US History at UCLA. 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In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e\"One of the most astute commentators on the art scene today.” \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Groys combines revelatory analysis with philosophical questions that go to the heart of cultural production today.” Iwona Blazwick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A timely intervention in present debates about the legacy of communism [and] a provocative addition to Groys’ brilliantly paradoxical body of work.” \u003cem\u003eArt Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Groys has claimed a defining role in the reception of the Russian avant-garde … \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Postscript\u003c\/em\u003e presents Groys’s attempt to advocate the communist idea against its own historic assumptions.” \u003cem\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoris Groys\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU. 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James developed a theory of State-capitalism that became the cornerstone of their intellectual and political work through the rest of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40845308657757,"sku":"9781608469338","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781608469338-f_large-86e2de10bdfbecbda4d123cd5c6bcc50.jpg?v=1673024362"},{"product_id":"october-the-story-of-the-russian-revolution","title":"October: The Story of the Russian Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eMulti-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. 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Intervening in long-standing historical debates, but told with the reader new to the topic especially in mind, here is a breathtaking story of humanity at its greatest and most desperate; of a turning point for civilization that still resonates loudly today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChina Miéville on the Russian Revolution:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-tvCfiLzee8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“This gripping account is a re-enactment of the Russian Revolution … His writing can be as passionate as that of the poets of the time: Alexander Blok, Mikhail Kuzmin, Marina Tsvetaeva, to mention some of those quoted here. Miéville’s own special effects are of a piece with them.” \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville is an ideal guide through this complex historical moment, giving agency to obscure and better-known participants alike, and depicting the revolution as both a tragically lost opportunity and an ongoing source of inspiration.” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly (★ \u003ci\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“When one of the most marvelously original writers in the world takes on one of the most explosive events in history, the result can only be incendiary” Barbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“To give a new generation of readers a fresh account of the great revolution, incorporating all the post-1989 archival discoveries and scholarly research, is a singularly daunting task. To render it in vivid, oracular prose, moving across the pages with the gathering force of a hurricane, is something that only China Miéville could achieve.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Elegantly constructed and unexpectedly moving.” Sheila Fitzpatrick, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville presents the action with his novelist’s eye … An intriguing march to revolution, told here with clarity and insight.” \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“There are delightful grace notes here over and above a brisk and perceptive narrative.” Stuart Kelly, \u003cem\u003eScotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Cinematic and vivid.” \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Readers will be satisfied that \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e gives them the literary equivalent of bearing witness to world history.” \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“It’s as if John Reed, author of the classic piece of revolutionary journalism, \u003ci\u003eTen Days That Shook the World\u003c\/i\u003e, woke from a decades-long sleep to tell the story of 1917 once again.” \u003cem\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBest Summer Books of 2017\u003c\/i\u003e” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville sifts through the extraordinary disagreements, debates, and debacles that accompanied the Russian reds on every step of the road to revolution … He's especially evocative when he chronicles the scenes on the chaotic streets. But much of the value of October comes in his mastery of how the intricacies of human decision-making play out in Petrograd, Moscow, and beyond.” \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“An exciting account of the revolutionary moment … well-argued and elegiac” \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“[An] engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century.” \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, Miéville provides an introduction to one of the seminal events of the 20th century — the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and the establishment of the world’s first communist state 100 years ago this year … It has all the makings of a novel, and Miéville’s narrative builds toward its crescendo as the Bolsheviks prepare to take power.” \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville’s understanding of the intricacies and underlying absurdities of party politics is unmatched…A rich and compelling book.” \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“This is a very fine book—in some ways, I believe, the best work that China Miéville has produced since the three thick volumes of the Bas-Lag trilogy. Indeed, \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e bears, in certain respects, a deeper affinity to those novels than to anything else he has published since; and it thus provides a convenient opportunity to take stock of the Miéville oeuvre to date … That [\u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e] is an excellent work of art there is no doubt whatever.” Carl Freedman, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville, known for his extravagantly weird science fiction and fantasy, is a virtuosic storyteller; here he conjures a society convulsing on the verge of total transformation while staying squarely within the lines of the historical record. Reading this blow-by-blow account of revolution now, when political life is stranger than any fiction, is galvanizing.” Roger White, \u003cem\u003eArtsy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“There are workers, there are peasants, there are soldiers, there are parties, there are tsars, there are courtiers. Each of them bears his or her class position, his or her economic and other concerns, but it is the political field itself, how it hurls its protagonists into combat, combat with its own rules and norms, its own criteria for success and failure, that is front and center here. This may be the most textured, most concrete, account of what political contest and political combat, literal and metaphoric, feels like.” Corey Robin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e’s dramatic narrative makes the case that the effort is still worth it—that we must dare to dream, even if we risk conjuring more nightmares in this darkening world.” Alci Rengifo, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“As an outstanding piece of literature, China Miéville’s \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the same shelf as John Reed’s eyewitness classic Ten Days That Shook the World, but even more it belongs in the hands of activists who will be shaking the world in the twenty-first century.” Paul Le Blanc, \u003cem\u003eInternational Socialist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“There is interest in reading the story of ‘that violent and incomparable year’ told by one who hopes against hope that it could happen again.” Rob Doyle, \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“China Miéville’s literary retelling—made to feel like a novel, but scrupulously sourced to real events—captures the vertigo of 1917’s encounter between massive historical forces, plunging us back into the heart of a far-reaching social upheaval, in which time flowed backward and forward even as it marched inexorably forward toward a future that was radically unknown.” David Sessions, \u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Even though you know the ending, this is a compulsive page-turner that makes the period come alive in rich, colourful detail. Although he is better known for his science fiction, Miéville’s eye here fleshes out both the spirit of revolution and the horrors that followed. His feelings are evidently complex, which leads to a narrative that draws out elements often left out of more traditional renderings of the Revolution.” \u003cem\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A century on, the nature of the Russian Revolution remains hotly contested, both within and outside of leftist circles. Miéville, a master storyteller, makes a powerful case in his first nonfiction work that the Bolsheviks’ October success should not be disavowed as the onset of disaster but looked to as an inspirational moment in a grand narrative of human liberation.” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“The story is old but Miéville retells it with verve and empathy. He brilliantly captures the tensions of coup and counter-coup and the kaleidoscope of coalitions that formed and then broke.” \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“An inspirational account that lends itself to troubled times.” \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, by the British author China Miéville, is a gripping account of the Russian Revolution that offers the pleasures and rewards of a great novel … The book has vividly drawn characters, high drama, suspense, and an irresistible narrative momentum that sweeps the reader along from the first page to the tragic—but not inevitable—conclusion … a masterful work.” George de Stefano, \u003cem\u003ePop Matters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Miéville’s account of the events of 1917 in Petrograd is fast-paced, well-written, and eminently readable. In Miéville's telling the Russian revolution of exactly a century ago comes alive. This is the book's primary accomplishement: to recreate the atmosphere of the time trhough a dramatic retelling of osme of the events.” Grover Furr, \u003cem\u003eSocialism and Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“China Miéville’s October writes an accurate history of the Russian Revolution almost as if it was science fiction – like an alternate history that actually happened, which is how it strikes us now - and achieves a vivid depiction of a gigantic social upheaval without losing sight of agency and decision at every level of the process.” Ken MacLeod\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChina Miéville\u003c\/strong\u003e is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. 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