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Especially comprehensive in its treatment of Cambodia, it provides a trenchant — and healthy — critique of news media coverage that has usually been as tendentious as that dealing with the early years of U.S. military intervention in Indochina.\" —George Kahin, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Noam Chomsky\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Edward S. 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From the 1894 Tonghak Uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese resistance, a direct line is traced to the popular opposition to U.S. division of Korea after World War Two. The overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960, resistance to Park Chung-hee, the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, as well as student, labor, and feminist movements are all recounted with attention to their economic and political contexts. South Korean opposition to neoliberalism is portrayed in detail, as is an analysis of neoliberalism’s rise and effects. With a central focus on the Gwangju Uprising (that ultimately proved decisive in South Korea’s democratization), the author uses Korean experiences as a baseboard to extrapolate into the possibilities of global social movements in the 21st century. Previous English language sources have emphasized leaders—whether Korean, Japanese, or American. This book emphasizes grassroots crystallization of counter-elite dynamics and notes how the intelligence of ordinary people surpasses that of political and economic leaders holding the reins of power. It is the first volume in a two-part study that concludes by analyzing in rich detail uprisings in nine other places: the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia. Richly illustrated, with tables, charts, graphs, index, and footnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"George Katsiaficas has written a majestic account of political uprisings and social movements in Asia—an important contribution to the literature on both Asian studies and social change that is highly-recommended reading for anyone concerned with these fields of interest. The work is well-researched, clearly-argued, and beautifully written, accessible to both academic and general readers.\" —Prof. Carl Boggs, author of The Crimes of Empire: The History and Politics of an Outlaw Nation “This book makes a unique contribution to Korean Studies because of its social movements’ prism. It will resonate well in Korea and will also serve as a good introduction to Korea for outsiders. By providing details on 20th century uprisings, Katsiaficas provides insights into the trajectory of social movements in the future.” —Na Kahn-chae, Director, May 18 Institute, Gwangju, South Korea “In Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Katsiaficas continues to develop his unique perspective on social movements that he first enunciated in books on the global insurgency of 1968 and autonomous movements in Europe in the 1970s and 80s. Finally, for the first time in English, we now have a comprehensive overview of the remarkable waves of popular uprisings that have taken place in South Korea in the 20th century. With this volume, Katsiaficas challenges the Eurocentrism of social movement scholarship and provides a radical reappraisal of the role of mass popular uprisings in contemporary history.” —Eddie Yuen, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Katsiaficas is author or editor of eleven books, including The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968, the first book to place sixties movements in their worldwide context. Together with Kathleen Cleaver, he co-edited Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party. His book, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, was co-winner of the 1998 Michael Harrington Award for best new book in political science. In 2010, the May Mothers’ House—widows and mothers of men killed in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising—awarded his service and commitment. A longtime activist for peace and justice, he was a student of Herbert Marcuse and twice granted Fulbright fellowships. Currently, he is based at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: George Katsiaficas\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-457-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 480 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175089942621,"sku":"9781604864571","price":40.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1009_asiaskorea3_0.jpg?v=1654987347"},{"product_id":"decolonizing-anarchism-an-antiauthoritarian-history-of-indias-liberation-struggle","title":"Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the achievement of a nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the anarchist vision of an alternate society closely echoes the concept of total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological planes. Decolonizing Anarchism facilitates more than a reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism; it also supplies insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is title #3 in the Anarchist Interventions series co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maia Ramnath offers a refreshingly different perspective on anticolonial movements in India, not only by focusing on little-remembered anarchist exiles such as Har Dayal, Mukerji and Acharya but more important, highlighting the persistent trend that sought to strengthen autonomous local communities against the modern nation-state. A superbly original book.\" —Partha Chatterjee, author of \u003cem\u003eLineages of Political Society: Studies in Post-colonial Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Ramnath] audaciously reframes the dominant narrative of Indian radicalism by detailing its explosive and ongoing symbiosis with decolonial anarchism.\" —Dylan Rodríguez, author of \u003cem\u003eSuspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\nMaia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and dancer\/aerialist living in New York City. She is the author of The Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire—in many ways a companion volume to this one. 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How do political activists build power and critical analysis in their daily work for change?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrounded in struggles in Canada, the United States, Aotearoa\/New Zealand, as well as transnational activist networks, Organize!: Building from the Local for Global Justice links local organizing with global struggles to make a better world. In over twenty chapters written by a diverse range of organizers, activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of dynamic strategies for struggle. From community-based labor organizing strategies among immigrant workers to mobilizing psychiatric survivors, from arts and activism for Palestine to organizing in support of Indigenous Peoples, the authors reflect critically on the tensions, problems, limits, and gains inherent in a diverse range of organizing contexts and practices. The book also places these processes in historical perspective, encouraging us to use history to shed light on contemporary injustices and how they can be overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in accessible language, Organize! will appeal to college and university students, activists, organizers and the wider public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge, Devlin Kuyek, Kezia Speirs, Evelyn Calugay, Anne Petermann, Alex Law, Jared Will, Radha D’Souza, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Norman Nawrocki, Rafeef Ziadah, Maria Bargh, Dave Bleakney, Abdi Hagi Yusef, Mostafa Henaway, Emilie Breton, Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Rachel Sarrasin, Dolores Chew, David Reville, Kathryn Church, Brian Aboud, Joey Calugay, Gada Mahrouse, \u003ca title=\"Harsha Walia\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, Mary Foster, Martha Stiegman, Robert Fisher, Yuseph Katiya, and Christopher Reid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This superb collection needs to find its way into the hands of every activist and organizer for social justice. In a series of dazzling essays, an amazing group of radical organizers reflect on what it means to build movements in which people extend control over their lives. These analyses are jam-packed with insights about antiracist, anticolonial, working-class, and anticapitalist organizing. Perhaps most crucially, the authors lay down a key challenge for all activists for social justice: to take seriously the need to build mass movements for social change. Don’t just read this exceptionally timely and important work—use it too.” David McNally, author of\u003cem\u003e Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To understand the world, you have to try to change it. That's what the authors of this fine set of essays and meditations have taken to heart. The result? Some of the best insights on power, organizing, and revolution to be found.” Raj Patel, author of\u003cem\u003e The Value of Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAziz Choudry is assistant professor of international education in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University. He is coauthor of \u003cem\u003eFight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants\u003c\/em\u003e (Fernwood, 2009), and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eLearning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has over two decades experience working in activist groups, NGOs, and social movements in the Asia-Pacific and North America as a researcher, educator, and organizer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJill Hanley is assistant professor in the McGill School of Social Work, where she teaches community organizing, social policy, and applied research. Her research focuses on access to social rights for precarious status migrants and the organizing strategies used by migrants to access these rights. She is cofounder and an active member of Montreal’s Immigrant Workers Centre. She is coauthor of Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Shragge teaches at the School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, in Montreal. He remains active in grassroots organizations and he is coauthor of \u003cem\u003eFight Back Workplace Justice for Immigrants\u003c\/em\u003e (Fernwood 2009) and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eContesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing\u003c\/em\u003e (Rutgers 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175101804637,"sku":"9781604864335","price":33.68,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1081_organize_3_0.jpg?v=1654987429"},{"product_id":"asias-unknown-uprisings-volume-2-people-power-in-the-philippines-burma-tibet-china-taiwan-bangladesh-nepal-thailand-and-indonesia-1947-2009","title":"Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen years in the making, this magisterial work—the second of a two-volume study—provides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the 1980s remain hardly visible. Through a critique of Samuel Huntington’s notion of a “Third Wave” of democratization, the author relates Asian uprisings to predecessors in 1968 and shows their subsequent influence on uprisings in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. By empirically reconstructing the specific history of each Asian uprising, significant insight into major constituencies of change and the trajectories of these societies becomes visible. This book provides detailed histories of uprisings in nine places—the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia—as well as introductory and concluding chapters that place them in a global context and analyze them in light of major sociological theories. Profusely illustrated with photographs, tables, graphs, and charts, it is the definitive, and defining, work from the eminent participant-observer scholar of social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Through Katsiaficas’s study of Asia’s uprisings and rebellions, readers get a glimpse of the challenge to revolutionaries to move beyond representative democracy and to reimagine and reinvent democracy. This book shows the power of rebellions to change the conversation.” —Grace Lee Boggs, activist and coauthor of\u003cem\u003eRevolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/em\u003e “In Asia’s Unknown Uprisings, George Katsiaficas inspires readers with an exciting yet scholarly examination of the rise and interlinking of mass revolutionary waves of struggle.” —Bill Fletcher Jr., coauthor of\u003cem\u003eSolidarity Divided\u003c\/em\u003e “George Katsiaficas has written a majestic account of political uprisings and social movements in Asia—an important contribution to the literature on both Asian studies and social change that is highly-recommended reading for anyone concerned with these fields of interest. The work is well-researched, clearly-argued, and beautifully written, accessible to both academic and general readers.” —Carl Boggs, author of\u003cem\u003eThe Crimes of Empire: The History and Politics of an Outlaw Nation\u003c\/em\u003e “George Katsiaficas is America's leading practitioner of the method of 'participant-observation,' acting with and observing the movements that he is studying. This study of People Power is a brilliant narrative of the present as history from below. It is a detailed account of the struggle for freedom and social justice, encompassing the different currents, both reformist and revolutionary, in a balanced study that combines objectivity and commitment. Above all, he presents the beauty of popular movements in the process of self-emancipation.” —James Petras, professor of sociology at Binghamton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout George Katsiaficas\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Katsiaficas is author or editor of eleven books, including The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968, the first book to place sixties movements in their worldwide context. Together with Kathleen Cleaver, he co-edited Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party. His book, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, was co-winner of the 1998 Michael Harrington Award for best new book in political science. In 2010, the May Mothers’ House—widows and mothers of men killed in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising—awarded his service and commitment. A longtime activist for peace and justice, he was a student of Herbert Marcuse and twice granted Fulbright fellowships. Currently, he is based at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: George Katsiaficas\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-488-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 520 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175115731037,"sku":"9781604864885","price":40.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1163_asiasunknown3_0.jpg?v=1654987521"},{"product_id":"our-mother-ocean-enclosure-commons-and-the-global-fishermen-s-movement","title":"Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ocean today is a central protagonist in the ongoing battle for life on earth. It is the site of a violent clash between the right to live and the right to profit, as corporate interests enclose the ocean’s vast common of living riches through tourism and industrial fishing—distorting landscapes, depleting fish stocks, and destroying barriers to protection against climate disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the Fisherman’s Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its central role in the struggle against neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, the Fisherman’s Movement has been one of the ocean’s closest and most impassioned protectors, raising key questions concerning the relationship between work and the safeguarding of common resources, the provision of community needs and environmental limits of the devastating industrialization of our oceans. While a remarkable political awareness has spread over the last 40 years around questions of food, agriculture and land, the issues of the sea have remained concealed, despite the protracted struggles between fish workers and those who oversee the sector and the exploitation of the ocean’s resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this crucial intervention, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese offer the ocean to the land-locked history of food sovereignty movements led primarily workers in the global South against dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDalla Costa and Chilese draw attention to the polyvalent functions of the ocean as a source of food, medicine, raw materials, biodiversity and culture—and as a site of human labour and livelihood threatened by vast enclosures through industrial fishing and tourism. This book is an urgent reminder that the ocean is today the site of a heroic struggle for the preservation of life on earth. It points crucially to impassioned sectors of the movement of movements that endure in the global South, and details the stakes of the struggles and its outcomes on land and at sea as central for the future of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa has for decades been a central figure in the development of autonomy in a wide range of anticapitalist\u003cbr\u003e\nmovements. Her seminal coauthored book The Power of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Women and the Subversion of the Community\"\u003eWomen and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/a\u003e, has been\u003cbr\u003e\ntranslated into six languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Chilese is a political sociologist at the University of Padua, where she devotes her study to the question of ecology,\u003cbr\u003e\ngiving special attention to the marine environment, the impoverishment of the fisheries, and the analysis of social problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The emergence of [the] fisher as part of the movement against neoliberal globalization is beautifully understood in this book. I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.\" —George Katsiaficas, activist and author, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsia’s Unknown Uprisings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is no apocalyptic randiness in this amazing account of the horror. Instead, we get a call as rigorous as passionate for what we all need to do now. The authors distill for the reader the almost overwhelming documentation they used in their very solid exploration of the subject, covering almost every aspect of it, and share their insights in an elegant and direct style. The World Fishers Movement, brilliantly described here, the biggest fishers movement in history, begins to do for Mother Ocean what Via Campesina, the biggest farmers movement in history, is doing for Mother Earth. In resisting the new enclosures, hundreds of millions of people are thus attempting to stop the devastating activity of corporate capital, in order to sustain their ways of life and ours. They need both our awareness and our action. This is the book we need for both.\" —Gustavo Esteva, author of \u003cem\u003eGrassroots Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is indeed a timely one. With climate change and the exhaustion of natural resources the patriarchal\/capitalist civilisation seems to be coming to an end. The authors remind us that Mother Earth and Mother Ocean are indeed the source of all life on our planet. Without earth no life; without oceans and water, no life. The authors criticize that the vital connection between humans and the sea, between humans and the earth has been disrupted by capitalist\/patriarchal exploitation. The victims of this explotation are among others all the small coastal fishermen who lose their livelihood. However, the authors do not stop by only analysing these problems but show how people everywhere fight against this destruction. I warmly recommend this book to all who are concerned about future life on this planet.\" —Maria Mies, author of \u003cem\u003ePatriarchy and Accumulation on a World-Scale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Subsistence Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese sound an eloquent warning about the precarious state of not only the planet’s fisheries but of the health of the world’s oceans themselves. They foreground the dilemmas facing fishermen’s movements in various continents, caught as they are between economic imperatives, the need to fish sustainably, and the pressures of multinational capitalism. This book is a thoughtful and necessary call to action.\" —David Gullette, Simmons College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through overfishing, industrial aquaculture, and poisoning, capitalism is killing ocean life—upon which all of life on Earth depends—but the people who are most directly threatened by this destruction are fighting back, and the rest of us urgently need to join their struggles. That is the story that unfolds in this remarkably detailed but compact book by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese. To date, awareness of the killing has been mostly limited to the environmental movement. At the same time, awareness of the ways in which capitalism has been slowly destroying traditional communities of those who live by, on, and with the seas has been mostly limited to the peoples of those communities and, in the case of indigenous fishing communities, a few anthropologists. This book not only illuminates the interrelationships between these two patterns of destruction, but also highlights the emergence of a worldwide movement of resistance on the part of some of those most directly threatened.\" —Harry Cleaver, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging and critical effort by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese, who bring attention to the concerns, questions, and struggles relating to the seas and their remarkable social, economic, cultural, and ecological importance to human beings. This appealing book not only questions our relation with the sea but aims to raise consciousness about the way we live our lives and the ecologic problematic we all face globally. Stressing the ‘polyvalence of the vital functions which the ocean represents,’ the authors explore how the relation of humans with the sea has become one of depredation and destruction for commercial purposes. The book deals with the implications of industrial fishing, aquaculture, aquafarming, and marine pollution, thus exploring not only the appalling consequences and damage for the marine and coastal ecosystems, but for the small communities all over the world whose livelihoods depend on the sea and who have been affected by this approach to the sea as a ‘usable object.’ It is in this context that the authors brilliantly relate the path of the movement of fishermen, a movement born in the seventies in India that has now spread all over the world. Under the banner of food sovereignty, this movement fights the neoliberal predatory assault and view of sea life as mere products, while struggling to establish a different relationship with the sea, a sustainable relationship with this source of life that ensures the protection of both the small coastal communities who ‘have always lived on the sea and of the sea’ and the sheltering of the beauties, habitats, and ecosystems of our mother ocean.\" —Massimo Modonesi, professor of history, sociology, and Latin American studies,director of the Department of Sociology of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Monica Chilese\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173007\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175213674589,"sku":"9781942173007","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/our_mother_ocean_cover_image.jpg?v=1654987904"},{"product_id":"no-gods-no-masters-no-peripheries-global-anarchisms","title":"No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms","description":"\u003cp\u003eWas anarchism in areas outside of Europe an import and a script to be mimicked? Was it perpetually at odds with other currents of the Left? The authors in this collection take up these questions of geographical and political peripheries. Building on recent research that has emphasized the plural origins of anarchist thought and practice, they reflect on the histories and cultures of the antistatist mutual aid movements of the last century beyond the boundaries of an artificially coherent Europe. At the same time, they reexamine the historical relationships between anarchism and communism without starting from the position of sectarian difference (Marxism versus anarchism). Rather, they look at how anarchism and communism intersected; how the insurgent Left could appear—and in fact was—much more ecumenical, capacious, and eclectic than frequently portrayed; and reveal that such capaciousness is a hallmark of anarchist practice, which is prefigurative in its politics and antihierarchical and antidogmatic in its ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopublished the with Institute for Comparative Modernities, this collection includes contributions by Gavin Arnall, Mohammed Bamyeh, Bruno Bosteels, Raymond Craib, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Geoffroy de Laforcade, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, Steven J. Hirsch, Adrienne Carey Hurley, Hilary Klein, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" title=\"Peter Linebaugh\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e, Barry Maxwell, David Porter, Maia Ramnath, Penelope Rosemont, and Bahia Shehab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Broad in scope, generously ecumenical in outlook, bold in its attempt to tease apart the many threads and tensions of anarchism, this collection defies borders and category. These illuminating explorations in pan-anarchism provide a much-needed antidote to the myopic characterizations that bedevil the red and black.” —Sasha Lilley, author of \u003cem\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This wonderful collection challenges the privileging of Europe as the original and natural laboratory in which anti-statist ideas developed as well as the belief that anarchism and Communism could not intersect in fruitful ways. Drawing on non-Western locations (from Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia) its authors demonstrate how antiauthoritarian movements engaged with both local and global currents to construct a new emancipatory politics—proving that anarchy and anarchism have always been global.” —Barry Carr, La Trobe University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This magnificent collection of essays coincides with an awakening of interest in global anarchism. A quirky, exciting, and imaginative collection, No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries is bound to become a cornerstone of reference for activists and academics.” —Andrej Grubacic, chair of the Anthropology and Social Change Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Ranging from Kabylie to Oakland, Cairo to Peru, and across the uneven span of a century and a half, these essays register an ongoing and collective effort to deprovincialise our image of anarchism—a movement long buried in cliché and caricature by friends and enemies alike. In these pages, the reader will encounter some of the ways in which the dreams of the dead might dispel the nightmares that continue to plague the brains of the living.” —Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRaymond Craib teaches in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. Recent essays include “Sedentary Anarchists,” in Bert Altena and Constance Bantman, eds., Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies and “The Firecracker Poet: Three Poems of José Domingo Gómez Rojas” (with original translations of Gómez Rojas’s poetry) in New Letters: A Magazine of Writing \u0026amp; Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarry Maxwell teaches Comparative Literature and American Studies at Cornell University, where he helped to put together the Institute for Comparative Modernities. He has written about Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Kenneth Burke, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, David Hammons, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Nathaniel Mackey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Raymond Craib\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Barry Maxwell\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-098-4\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 408 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":40175220392029,"sku":"9781629630984","price":39.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/noperipheries.jpg?v=1654987920"},{"product_id":"is-china-an-imperialist-country","title":"Is China an Imperialist Country?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether or not China is now a capitalist-imperialist country is an issue on which there is some considerable disagreement, even within the revolutionary left. This book brings together theoretical, definitional and logical considerations, as well as the extensive empirical evidence which is now available, to demonstrate that China has indeed definitely become a capitalist-imperialist country. Indeed, the issue is raised of whether the current world imperialist system is in fact in the early stages of bifurcating into two competing imperialist blocs, one led by the United States and the other led by China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIs China an Imperialist Country?\u003c\/em\u003e contains extensive data on:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe size and nature of the present Chinese capitalist economy; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe massive and rapidly growing export of capital from China, to Africa and around the world; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe very rapid expansion of the Chinese military for the purpose of ‘protecting’ China’s foreign investment; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ethe dangerous and growing contention between China and other imperialist powers, especially the United States. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis data is analyzed and interpreted in a Maoist framework, in order to decipher some of the implications of the past hundred years of Chinese—and world—history, for those who seek the overthrow and end to capitalism and imperialism in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders who wish to correspond with the author, NB Turner, please write to \u003ca href=\"mailto:nbturner14@gmail.com\"\u003enbturner14@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: N.B. Turner et al.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-75-9\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 173 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175220719709,"sku":"9781894946759","price":23.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/china_cover1.jpg?v=1654987921"},{"product_id":"brics-an-anticapitalist-critique","title":"BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa on a global stage has upset the dominance of the United States as the world's only superpower. But can they chart a path toward a more just global economy? This collection, which brings together leading political economists from around the world, argues that the BRICS are actually amplifying some of the worst features of international capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book aims to fill a gap in studies of the BRICS grouping of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). It provides a critical analysis of their economies, societies and geopolitical strategies within the framework of a global capitalism that is increasingly predatory, unequal and ecologically self-destructive — no more so than in the BRICS countries themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn unprecedented detail and with great innovation, the contributors consider theoretical traditions in political economy as applied to the BRICS, including \"sub-imperialism,\" the World System perspective and dynamics of territorial expansion. Only such an approach can interpret the potential for a \"brics-from-below\" uprising that appears likely to accompany the rise of the BRICS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Elmar Altvater, Baruti Amisi, Patrick Bond, Omar Bonilla, Einar Braathen, Pedro Henrique Campos, Ruslan Dzarasov, Virginia Fontes, Ana Garcia, Ho-fung Hung, Richard Kamidza, Karina Kato, Claudio Katz, Mathias Luce, Farai Maguwu, Judith Marshall, Gilmar Mascarenhas, Sam Moyo, Leo Panitch, Bobby Peek, Gonzalo Pozo, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/vijay-prashad\" title=\"Vijay Prashad\"\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/a\u003e, Niall Reddy, William Robinson, Susanne Soederberg, Celina Sørbøe, Achin Vanaik, Immanuel Wallerstein and Paris Yeros.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Ana Garcia\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Patrick Bond\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781608465330\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 320 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175227797597,"sku":"9781608465330","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/brics.jpg?v=1654987949"},{"product_id":"a-screw-fell-to-the-ground-selected-poems-by-xu-lizhi","title":"A Screw Fell to the Ground: Selected Poems by Xu Lizhi","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn September, 2014 Xu Lizhi threw himself from a Foxconn workers’ dormitory building in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. At 24 years-old, a migrant worker and poet; Lizhi’s Poetry paints a bleak snapshot of working life in China today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chapbook,《一颗螺丝掉在地上 》许立志诗选 ‘A Screw Fell to the Ground: Selected Poems by Xu Lizhi’, featuring 10 chilling poems and a short biography of Xu Lizhi. Translated to English by Nào collective, each poem is offered in both Mandarin and English, this chapbook offering just a small glimpse into the misery of working life in China today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Xu Lizhi\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 33 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Sirens of a Violent Storm\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sirens of a Violent Storm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175232909405,"sku":null,"price":5.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/ascrewfell.jpg?v=1654987971"},{"product_id":"maoism-and-the-chinese-revolution","title":"Maoism and the Chinese Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaoism and the Chinese Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e offers the novice reader a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history. It covers the early years of the Chinese Communist Party, through decades of guerrilla warfare and rapid industrialization, to the massive upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. It traces the development of Mao Zedong’s military and political strategy, philosophy, and statecraft amid the growing contradictions of the Chinese revolutionary project. All the while, it maintains a perspective sympathetic to the everyday workers and peasants who lived under the party regime, and who in some moments stood poised to make the revolution anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the ongoing “people’s wars” in the Global South, to the radical lineages of many black, Latino, and Asian revolutionaries in the Global North, Maoist politics continue to resonate today. As a new generation of activists take to the streets, this book offers a critical review of our past in order to better transform the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In Maoism and the Chinese Revolution, Elliott Liu provides a dual service: first, he offers a critical history of Maoism that is both comprehensive and concise; second, he teases out the main lessons of that history and poses the question of how and what we are to learn from it. It is an auspicious beginning to a badly needed debate.” —André Moncourt, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Army Faction: A Documentary History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“How did a great revolution, carried out under the red flag and led by people who claimed, and believed themselves, to be communists, give rise to a monster slave state that may prolong the life of the capitalist system globally? By presenting information about events in China and engaging seriously with Mao Zedong as philosopher and strategist, Elliott Liu shows that the outcome did not result from the triumph of Mao’s ‘capitalist road’ opponents within the bureaucracy but was inherent in a project that sought to transform China into a capitalist society without relying on the traditional bourgeoisie. Liu has contributed to the discussion of what, if anything, in the Maoist tradition can be useful to those seeking to build a new society.” —Noel Ignatiev, author of \u003cem\u003eHow the Irish Became White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElliott Liu is a political organizer in New York City. 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History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been–a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world’s greatest scientific minds–in India. This is a universe where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions and Christianity is merely a historical footnote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson renders an immensely rich tapestry. Rewriting history and probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power, and even love on such an Earth. From the steppes of Asia to the shores of the Western Hemisphere, from the age of Akbar to the present and beyond, here is the stunning story of the creation of a new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kim-stanley-robinson\" title=\"KIM STANLEY ROBINSON\"\u003eKIM STANLEY ROBINSON\u003c\/a\u003e boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. 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Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the lumpen\/proletariat, that most dramatic, most elusive of maybe-­or-­maybe-­not “classes.” This matters because the revolutionary movement and the lumpen have a much longer and more involved relationship than we’ve fully owned up to. Whether revolutionaries think it’s good or not, the lumpen are going to play a big part in everyone’s future. No better place, then, to start remaking the tool of theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCriminalization is a basic condition of our paradoxically growing yet collapsing, glittering but increasingly decaying late capitalism. Shaping the zone of the poorest and most exploited in postmodern society, the zone of the dispossessed that everyone knows of. Here it’s often called the inner city or the rez. Same same as elsewhere it’s called the favela or the ghetto, the bantustan or banlieue. Every capitalist nation or society has its own name for it; it’s always different and always the same, because it is where the dispossessed have to gather, to live and struggle to survive. It’s where criminality is out front and where the lumpen\/proletariat are mass produced as jagged fragments or strata of “partial-­class.” While the lumpen fall from all classes, it is in these zones of the dispossessed that they reach an open and mass character. That they themselves can take over the life of parts of the neighborhood and make it “home.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of this enduring culture and criminalization of the zone, lumpen\/proletarians are constantly being made in larger and larger numbers even in the most technologically advanced and affluent nations of imperialist “civilization.” Of all the classes of capitalist society, it is the lumpen\/proletariat that has the most outdated theory attached to it. Just scraps of theory, really. Still pictured by many socialists as a small and marginal maybe-­or-­maybe-­not “class,” wretched and largely unimportant to revolutionary change. But today the lumpen have become major players in the political crises of both left and right. This is something that has to be picked up, no matter how white-­hot to the touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai’s ground-breaking, \u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen\/Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e, is our first major exploration of this most controversial and least understood “non-class” in revolutionary politics. It is an attempt to unknot the puzzle.  It encompasses the threads of criminality as well as gender, of breaking social boundaries and eating the bitterest of class politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt all times, the author interrogates the forming of left theory on this “dangerous class” by the highway flare  of his own experiences, and more importantly the mass violent liberation wars of the 1950s-1960s. This is not a memoir, though, but an explanation of how anti-capitalist class theory is hammered out while red-hot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the day Marx \u0026amp; Engels’ \u003cem\u003eCommunist Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003efirst lit up the “dangerous class” of jumbled criminals and outcasts on the far margins of society—those stickup-boys and sex workers and thieves and mercenaries whom they named the lumpen\/proletariat–radicals have been uncertain what their role should be, and even how they should be discussed.   In no other area of the class structure has there been such widely divergent anti-capitalist viewpoints. Who are allies, who are enemies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile great 20th century rebels of the capitalist periphery from Mao Z to Huey Newton forced the sharp evolution of left work with the lumpen, the general uncertainty has only persisted.  Confusing not only our immediate practice but even larger anti-capitalist theory about class politics. Sakai’s work comes at a time when there has been renewed interest in politically locating the lumpen—as they assume a larger and larger role at the cutting edge of world upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory \u003c\/em\u003eis not only novel for its subject but in its approach.  The author shows how the vulgar “socialist” picture of noble working people on one side of a divide and unsavory criminals and outcasts on the other, has never been true.  But, rather,  that the emerging outcast lumpen\/proletariat and the new capitalist lower working class that they painfully grew out of—were both criminalized at birth in the rise of euro-capitalism. In all this, Sakai follows the actual “non-class” development of the lumpen in capitalism alongside the development of left theory on these declassed elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory \u003c\/em\u003estarts with the paper of that name, on the birth of the modern lumpen\/proletariat in the 18th and 19th centuries and the storm cloud of revolutionary theory that has always surrounded them.  Going back and piecing together both the actual social reality and the analyses primarily of Marx but also Bakunin and Engels, the paper shows how Marx’s class theory wasn’t something static. His views learned in quick jumps, and then all but reversed themselves in several significant aspects.  While at first dismissing them in the \u003cem\u003eCommunist Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003eas “that passively rotting mass” at the obscure lower depths, Marx soon realized that the lumpen could be players at the very center of events in revolutionary civil war. Even at the center in the startling rise of new regimes.  Like his was at times almost a post-modern understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lumpen-mao1.jpg\" style=\"width: 359px; height: 417px; float: left;\"\u003eThe second part consists of the detailed paper \u003cem\u003eMao Z’s Revolutionary Laboratory and the Role of the Lumpen Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e. This, too, is ground-breaking work. If the major revolutionary theory we have about the lumpen was first roughly assembled in 19th century Europe, these ideas weren’t put to the test then. As Sakai points out, the left’s euro-centrism here prevented it from realizing the obvious: that the basic theory from European radicalism was first fully tested not there or here but in the Chinese Revolution of 1921-1949. Under severely clashing political lines in the left, the class analysis finally used by Mao Z was shaken out of the shipping crate from Europe and then modified to map the organizing of millions over a prolonged generational revolutionary war. One could hardly wish for a larger test tube, and the many lessons to be learned from this mass political experience are finally put on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are also two lively Addendums:  The first is an informal correspondence, a back and forth of questions raised by an early draft of The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory, between the book’s editor and J. Sakai. It starts with the question of how to place the traditional gay community in this? The second Addendum is a reprint of J. Sakai’s 1976 covert intelligence paper, \"U.S. Experiment Using Black “Gangs” to Repress Black Community Rebellions\" (circulated under the earlier title “The Lumpenproletariat and Repression”). There is both an extensive Foreword explaining the politics and circumstances that led to this paper, as well as an Afterword explaining how the education paper was used and some critical reaction to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the U.S. As he explains about the path that led him to writing Settlers, his first book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then.  It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley (sent by my family after flunking out of school in Chicago). Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation.  The wife lost it and screamed, \"People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nHave been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as Settlers was finished. Even then i didn't believe there was any audience for it, and planned to only photocopy fifty copies of my typed draft for internal education in the underground black liberation army coordinating committee. Comrades with more sense than myself insisted that we publish it as a book if only for the liberation movement. Over the years, we took it through three editions, but finally it's time to hand it on to new publishers. Remember only, i wrote this with my life.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. Sakai\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-90-2\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 308 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175253553245,"sku":"9781894946902","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/2021cover-dangrousclass-mao1-amazon.jpg?v=1654988066"},{"product_id":"late-victorian-holocausts","title":"Late Victorian Holocausts","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLate Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants’ lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Davis has given us a book of substantial contemporary relevance as well as great historical interest … this highly informative book goes well beyond its immediate focus.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Amartya Sen, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Davis’s range is stunning … He combines political economy, meteorology, and ecology with vivid narratives to create a book that is both a gripping read and a major conceptual achievement. Lots of us talk about writing ‘world history’ and ‘interdisciplinary history’: here is the genuine article.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—Kenneth Pomeranz, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Divergence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mike Davis\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781784786625\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 480 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175257256029,"sku":"9781784786625","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/latevictorianholocausts.jpg?v=1654988081"},{"product_id":"the-movements-of-movements-part-1-what-makes-us-move","title":"The Movements of Movements: Part 1: What Makes Us Move?","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection capture something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Makes Us Move?\u003c\/em\u003e, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in Turkey, and many others. It draws on the rich reflection that took place following the huge wave of creative direct actions that had preceded it, from the 1990s through to the early 2000s, including the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Battle of Seattle in the United States, and the accompanying formations such as Peoples’ Global Action and the World Social Forum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Jai Sen, who has long occupied a central position in an international network of intellectuals and activists, this book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change—be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Taiaiake Alfred, Tariq Ali, Daniel Bensaid, Hee-Yeon Cho, Ashok Choudhary, Lee Cormie, Jeff Corntassel, Laurence Cox, Guillermo Delgado-P, Andre Drainville, David Featherstone, Christopher Gunderson, Emilie Hayes, Francois Houtart, Fouad Kalouche, Alex Khasnabish, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Roma Malik, David McNally, Roel Meijer, Eric Mielants, Peter North, Shailja Patel, Emir Sader, Andrea Smith, Anand Teltumbde, James Toth, Virginia Vargas, and Peter Waterman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Possible futures right now in the making become legible in how The Movements of Movements doesn’t shy away from the complex and unsettling issues that shape our time while thinking through struggles for social and ecological justice in the wider contexts of their past and present.” —Emma Dowling, senior researcher in Political Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection offers a thought-provoking opportunity to parse multiplicities and recent directions in global justice organizing. Jai Sen’s framing in this book sets us up to take stock of two decades of social and political movement in terms of dynamic motion—not only as strategy and organization, but as kinaesthetic experience, embodied transformation through space and time. This agile cluster of contributors leads us through the cumulative dialectic of Zapatismo, altermondialisme, and their various permutations and relations in resistance to global capitalism, guiding the steps of the social dance repeatedly back to earth from the ethereal spaces of hypermobile globality to place feet on the ground in the most deeply rooted sites of embedded struggle.” —Maia Ramnath, author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Anarchism \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Haj to Utopia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Edited by Jai Sen, who has long occupied a central position in an international network of intellectuals and activists in movement, this is an important contribution to a developing internationalism that doesn’t assume that the North Atlantic left has all the answers for the rest of the world and which recognizes that emancipatory ideas and practices are often forged from below. The essays here range across the globe, look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global. This book will be useful for activists and intellectuals in movement—be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations—around the world.”—Richard Pithouse, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJai Sen, associated with the India Institute for Critical Action: Centre in Movement (CACIM), is an activist, researcher, and author on and in movement. He has intensively engaged with the World Social Forum and contemporary emerging movements on a world scale, as moderator of the listserv WSMDiscuss and as coeditor of several books including \u003cem\u003eWorld Social Forum: Challenging Empires \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWorld Social Forum: Critical Explorations\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Jai Sen\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-240-7\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 688 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175274491997,"sku":"9781629632407","price":24.96,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/the_movements_of_movements1.jpg?v=1654988158"},{"product_id":"we-are-anarchists-essays-on-anarchism-pacifism-and-the-indian-independence-movement-1923-1953","title":"We Are Anarchists: Essays on Anarchism, Pacifism, and the Indian Independence Movement, 1923–1953","description":"\u003cp\u003eM.P.T. 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Acharya’s work demonstrates the global reach of anarchism in the interwar period and gives us a more complete and nuanced understanding of Indian anticolonial struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Ole Birk Laursen has done us a valuable service in tracking down and collecting the work of M.P.T. Acharya, scattered across countries, decades, and publications, and not least placing this work in well-researched context.… This is a treasure chest that will enrich our picture of both global anarchist and South Asian radical history.” —Maia Ramnath, author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With this collection of writings—many made available in English for the first time—Ole Birk Laursen recovers the extraordinary life and writings of M.P.T. 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It offers an unprecedented analysis of supply chain capitalism through case studies from around the world that are beautifully written and carefully researched.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Takes us straight into these crucial nodes of labor struggle. Choke points in global supply chains are revealed as spaces of hazard and calculation, violence and negotiation, victory and loss, passion and organisation.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Brett Neilson, Research Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University\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: Forging Workers’ Resistance Across the\u003cbr\u003eGlobal Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness\u003cbr\u003ePART I - Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World’s Choke Points \u003cbr\u003e1. Labor and Social Movements’ Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure - Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith\u003cbr\u003e2. Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector - Andrea Bottalico\u003cbr\u003e3. Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism - Peter Cole\u003cbr\u003ePART II - Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation \u003cbr\u003e4. Worker Militancy and Strikes in China’s Docks - Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu\u003cbr\u003e5. “Work Hard, Make History”: Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California’s Warehouse and Distribution Industry - Ellen Reese and Jason Struna\u003cbr\u003e6. Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland - Amazon workers and supporters\u003cbr\u003e7. Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker\u003cbr\u003ePART III - Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports\u003cbr\u003e8. Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai - Johnson Abhishek Minz\u003cbr\u003e9. Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! - Dimitris Parsanoglou and Carolin Philipp\u003cbr\u003e10. Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaíso - Jorge Budrovich Sáez and Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela\u003cbr\u003e11. Logistics Workers’ Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Pekin Bengisu Tepe\u003cbr\u003ePART IV - New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain \u003cbr\u003e12. “The Drivers Who Move This Country Can Also Stop It”: The Struggle of Tanker Drivers in Indonesia - Abu Mufakhir, Alfian Al’ayubby Pelu, and Fahmi Panimbang\u003cbr\u003e13. Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California’s Logistics Sector - Sheheryar Kaoosji\u003cbr\u003e14. Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point - Carlotta Benvegnù and Niccolò Cuppini\u003cbr\u003e15. 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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. 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Dying for an iPhone allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism’s deepening crisis on workers.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone\u003c\/em\u003e is rigorously researched, the culmination of the authors’ near decade-long project…. The authors conducted interviews with workers, managers, officials, labour rights activists and others, and supported and cross-referenced the information they gleaned from these meetings with innumerable other documents.... The book is a brilliant addition to labour studies, and evidence of how good academic writing can be. It should be read by all.\" \u003cem\u003eBritish Journal of Industrial Relations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With the potential relocation of factories, terrible working conditions and workers' struggles against them will only be replicated elsewhere. 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Drawing on interviews with both workers and managers, it will make you look twice at your phone.\" Alec Ash, \u003cem\u003eThe Wire China\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003epowerfully shows that international attention and consumer awareness are not enough momentum for systemic change. The solution lies in empowering workers themselves to participate at the factory level. Indeed, international solidarity is more important than ever to support workers in finding representation to hold responsible parties accountable.\" Geoffrey Crothall, \u003cem\u003eChina Labour Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"While the book tells the story of the strategic exploitation of a million-strong workforce, at its heart are the individual struggles of the workers themselves, conveyed in their lyrics, poetry and statements. 'Each screw turns diligently \/ but they can’t turn around our future,' writes one. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has said that his mission, and that of the company, is 'to serve humanity'; \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003ecalls into question that aim and the ethics of our globalized economy as a whole.\" Emily Kenway, \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003eis deeply researched, comprehensively annotated and fuelled by anger.\" Mike Cormack, \u003cem\u003eSouth China Morning Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone\u003c\/em\u003e, by sociologists Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, tackles head-on the unsavoury practices associated in the Chinese factories that produce Apple’s bestselling product.\" Oliver Farry, \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003ebalances heartbreaking worker interviews with carefully compiled employment and financial data from Apple and Foxconn to present a compelling case against the tech giant and its suppliers.\" Jenny, Hamilton, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A damning indictment of Apple’s labor and supply practices....Chan, Selden, and Ngai persuasively argue that the relationship between Apple and shadowy Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn epitomizes the brutality of globalized late-stage capitalism....The authors merge deep dives into data with chilling testimonials from workers, including some who attempted suicide....[The authors] harness disturbing and varied evidence, including anecdotes, corporate communications, and first-person accounts, creating a compelling exposé of what lies behind one of the most recognizable icons of consumerism....A valuable contribution to an overdue discussion about technology and privilege.\" \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003eis far and away the most comprehensive account of the lives and working conditions of the people who produce what is perhaps the iconic commodity of the 21st century—the iPhone. But it is much more than that. We also see how Apple and Foxconn, working within a neoliberal trade regime promoted by the US, Taiwanese, and Chinese governments alike, transcended national boundaries to develop a brutally exploitative system of labor discipline. It is an incisive account of the social dislocation, but also the resistance, wrought when capitalists of many nations unite against workers. Global in outlook while still presenting fine-grained and highly engaging accounts of workers’ lived experiences, this book is a shining example of public scholarship.\" Eli Friedman, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eChina on Strike\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Critical, accessible, and rigorously researched, this book offers the most comprehensive analysis of Foxconn, the world's largest electronics factory: its bleak landscape, dire consequences, and inspiring efforts to change it for the better.\" Jack Linchuan Qiu, author of \u003cem\u003eGoodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When reading chapters describing the assembly line experience of workers, and the scientific management system, I could only compare it to the chapter in Marx’s \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e, when we are taken into the hidden abode of production. \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003eis truly a great achievement to present such incisive description and analysis in a highly readable and accessible form.\" Jeffery Hermanson, International Union Educational League\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Holding a sleek new iPhone in our hands it is difficult to imagine the brutal work lives of the people who assemble our smartphones. In \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003eJenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai make this reality visible. Drawing on in-depth field work and a deep knowledge of the global electronics industry, the authors demonstrate not only the steep human cost of our love affair with smartphones, but also the fierce struggles by Chinese workers to improve their working conditions.\" Nicole Aschoff, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003etakes readers deep inside the dark Satanic mills of Foxconn’s industrial empire. Drawing on the words of the workers themselves, the book offers an invaluable portrait of the Chinese working class as it pumps blood (sometimes literally) into the productive heart of world capitalism.\" —Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of \u003cem\u003eLogic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deep dive into exploitation and labour struggle in the world of high-tech electronics manufacturing in China during the past decade. \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003eis an expose of the human suffering behind the brands. Everyone should read this.\" Hsiao-Hung Pai, Taiwanese journalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone \u003c\/em\u003eis an absolutely necessary read for anyone seeking to understand the realities of modern-day capitalism. Contrary to the mythology of Silicon Valley, this carefully researched book explains why companies like Apple owe their success more to exploitation than to innovation.\" Wendy Liu, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sobering investigation into the human, social and environmental costs of producing the devices we have come to rely on, a process in which both corporations and we, the consumers, are complicit.\" Nick Holdstock, author of \u003cem\u003eChasing the Chinese Dream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jenny Chan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Pun Ngai\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mark Selden\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781642591248\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 300 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175335833693,"sku":"9781642591248","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/dyingforaniphone.jpg?v=1654988641"},{"product_id":"pangayaw-and-decolonizing-resistance-anarchism-in-the-philippines","title":"Pangayaw and Decolonizing Resistance: Anarchism in the Philippines","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe legacy of anarchist ideas in the Philippines was first brought to the attention of a global audience by Benedict Anderson’s book \u003cem\u003eUnder Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. 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His book addresses the crucial questions of liberation: who are the agents and what are the means?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a sterile case study, Pangayaw and Decolonizing Resistance is the start of a new paradigm and a must-read for those interested in decolonization, anarchism, and social movements of the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Isabelo de los Reyes and Mariano Ponce: good men now mostly forgotten even in the Philippines, but crucial nodes in the infinitely complex intercontinental networks that characterize the Age of Early Globalization.” Benedict Anderson, author of \u003cem\u003eUnder Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“For these anarchists, while they may come from different interest groups, they all form the same basic principles of ‘true’ anarchism: that anarchism values the capacity of the individual to organize itself; that anarchism sees the role of the individual as a tool that contributes to a larger community; that anarchism is about mutual aid, directly helping any soul in need; and that anarchism is about the belief that humans are wired to pursue the common good, regardless of an authority figure.” Portia Ladrido, \u003cem\u003eCNN Philippines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“What impressed me most about Bas Umali’s essay on the ‘Archipelagic Confederation’ is that, in setting forth an anarchist alternative for the Philippines, Bas Umali created an original synthesis of the communitarian anarchism of people like \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e and traditional communal forms of organization in the Philippines, pioneering the development of a postcolonialist anarchism, building on the lived and shared experiences of the dispossessed. 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This book belongs in every Southeast Asian anti-capitalist toolkit.” Mark Mason, US domestic and foreign policy analyst\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBas Umali is a longtime organizer living in Metro Manila. He has been involved with digital and physical infoshops, mobile education initiatives, climate crises campaigns, natural disaster relief programs, and bringing solar technology to marginalized communities. Bas has worked for an NGO concerned with rainforest rehabilitation and driven Grab and Uber vehicles. 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This book would make an excellent introductory text in university undergraduate courses.\" Peter Zarrow, author of \u003cem\u003eChina in War and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAfter Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEducating China\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force re-narration of modern China’s revolutionary moments. Written with uncommon grace and lucidity, Karl invites readers to rethink China’s past as lived creations of the present and explorations of possible futures. 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His account of the ruinous effects of post-9\/11 anti-terror laws is instructive and applies far beyond the Indian context.” Nermeen Shaikh, Cohost of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Now!\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this chilling account of the uses and abuses of the law by agencies of the state, Arun Ferreira describes the harrowing treatment faced by political prisoners in an Indian prison today. Alongside, he provides a deeply moving story of the bonds of solidarity that develop between prisoners from widely separated groups and social strata. This is a very different Discovery of India that demands our attention.” Partha Chatterjee, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“While the rightward-plummeting Indian state uses harsh incarceration and charges of ‘anti-national’ to demonize minorities and silence any critics, social justice and human rights activists, journalists, or intellectuals who dare to challenge the cruelly iniquitous realities behind its development propaganda or contradict a brazenly dishonest partisan news media, new waves of resistance rise against India’s ever more openly triumphalist ethnonationalist-majoritarian violence, both physical and administrative. Anyone aware or affected should get the chance to hear from courageous people like Arun Ferreira; his stunning memoir reveals the poignant human texture as well as the political implications of his prison experience. The need for such bearing of witness has only grown more timely. For readers in the West concerned about the rise of global fascism, and especially young readers in the South Asian diaspora seeking connections between their political\/cultural contexts, accounts such as this one are crucial.” Maia Ramnath, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrior information of officers’ transfers was crucial to predicting our treatment in prison and was often the subject of discussion. Due to archaic prison rules, the subjective whims of prison officials ruled our lives. The power of these officials permeated every aspect of our lives. For instance, only the jailer of the yard could permit an inmate to write more than the single letter per month stipulated in the manual. These discretionary powers made daily life in prison extremely arbitrary. While one jailer would allow a visit to the library, another would ask for the superintendent’s permission to be obtained. While one would allow books and magazines to arrive by post, the other would not. The same went for the superintendent of the prison. While one superintendent encouraged me to pursue academics, his replacement created numerous obstacles. Hence, a reasonable officer on duty was an essential condition for a relatively peaceful incarceration. Transfers of officers would always upset this status quo and force one to get attuned to the desires and tastes of the new man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe new jailer assigned to our yard in place of Taksande was a young man who was very soon nicknamed Dabangg. Like the Bollywood character he was named after, this officer regularly trotted around the yard with his sleeves rolled up, swinging his baton. This became even more pronounced if a female jail employee or inmate was in sight. Dabangg would, at the slightest opportunity to prop up his macho image, immediately move into action and pounce fiercely on the nearest hapless victim. This would also be with an eye on making a quick buck from those concerned. A mobile phone unearthed, contraband seized, an urgent message to be passed on or cash to be received meant that Dabangg would collect protection money from all those concerned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf someone needed to be taught a lesson in discipline, Dabangg would not hesitate to unleash his belt. His style of quick action and apparent justice through such dealings made him popular with many inmates, especially the ones who could pay. Each jailer has his own set of cronies, inmates who would do the deals for extracting money from the victim. When a particular jailer ruled, his cronies had a free hand. 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This is a tale of renewal: in the future we will all need to carry much, much more, and we really need to make light of it.\" Sina Queyras, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Ariel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Iron Goddess of Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of fierce, mad genius. Composing with equal parts chaos and precise form, Larissa Lai weaves the English language, the love letter and the haibun, historic violence and contemporary geopolitics, pop culture references, unrelenting rage and wicked humour into a polyphonic storm of meaning and emotion, like an ancient sorcerer bending the elements with many arms. With seemingly effortless virtuosity, the author spins us through a kaleidoscopic view of how empire building, occupation and revolution shape the individual and collective soul. No poetry lover, activist, historian or spiritual seeker could possibly fail to fall to their knees before Lai's Iron Goddess. Take heed, readers. These are the words of a master.\" Kai Cheng Thom, author of \u003cem\u003ea place called No Homeland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIron Goddess of Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e confronts a nightmarish inventory of the costs of human desire and ambition. Yet Lai's 'poethic' vision thrives by a poetry of grand imagination and sonic depth. Hidden scenes of unjust histories are spun out from modern life's random narratives of fanfare toward the stabilizing richness of epiphany. Here is mourning and celebration as Lai deals hard-won blows to the limiting strictness of reason. Here we emerge with better names for common things in their hypnotic globe of urgent transformation.\" Canisia Lubrin, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dyzgraphxst\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVoodoo Hypothesis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lai allows a tumble of history to seethe through Iron Goddess of Mercy. The high energy of her playful, cutting prose poetry is counter-posed with restful, concluding lyrics, with the two becoming one in a short sequence of visual poetry at book's end. A full banquet of poetic synthesis, serving up 'the long now' and 'the wide I' - a very satisfying poetry collection.\" Joanne Arnott, author of \u003cem\u003eHalfling Spring\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dear reader, I'm always impressed by the power of Lai's imagination to dislocate us from reality in order to reattach us more meaningfully. Neither her worlds nor her words behave as they should. She liberates everything she touches to recombine with whatever it pleases. Billie Jean King can live next to Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean. ' Strands of Indigenous, Black, and Asian movements merge into recombinant DNA. 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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. He edits gongchao.org and blogs on naoqingchu.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ralf Ruckus\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629638379\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175371157597,"sku":"9781629638379","price":30.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1149_communist_road_to_capitalism_web.jpg?v=1654988934"},{"product_id":"the-indian-ideology","title":"The Indian Ideology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most populous democracy. Even critics of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the “Idea of India” correspond to the realities of the Union?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an iconoclastic intervention, Marxist historian Perry Anderson provides an unforgettable reading of the Subcontinent’s passage through Independence and the catastrophe of Partition, the idiosyncratic and corrosive vanities of Gandhi and Nehru, and the close interrelationship of Indian democracy and caste inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Indian Ideology\u003c\/em\u003e caused uproar on first publication in 2012, not least for breaking with euphemisms for Delhi’s occupation of Kashmir. This new, expanded edition includes the author’s reply to his critics, an interview with the Indian weekly Outlook, and a postscript on India under the rule of Narendra Modi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerry Anderson is the author of, among other books, \u003cem\u003eSpectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe New Old World\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Anderson is unanswerable when he points to a consistent Indian pattern of silence, evasion, and distortion about India’s military occupation of Kashmir and its attendant regime of extrajudicial execution, torture, and detention. Many readers will be struck by the evidence Anderson adduces of the insidious dominance of upper-caste Hindus in every realm of social and political life and by his portrait of the primordial politics of caste and religion, which have enshrined a patrimonial state built on nepotism and dynasty worship. Admirers of Gandhi and Nehru will encounter many awkward facts, especially regarding their roles in the partition of India, a calamity usually blamed on British colonial administrators and Indian Muslim leaders.” Pankaj Mishra, \u003cem\u003eForeign Affairs \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Exposes some substantial faultlines in recent Indian writing about India and with some justice question the emerging concensus around India’s democratic successes.” David Arnold, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Anderson’s essays are well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology.” Yahya Chaudhry, \u003cem\u003eJacobin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“He is right to ridicule the theological casuistry of much writing on Gandhi which strives, unconvincingly, to prettify the Mahatma’s bewildering inconsistencies and ingrained conservatism. On target, too, is his censure of smug bromides about the wholly tolerant and unifying nature of Hinduism. And his scepticism towards India’s claim to be a postcolonial democracy uniquely untainted by repression, emergency powers and other dark arts of territorial “unity” is also timely.” Maria Misra, \u003cem\u003eProspect\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Perry Anderson’s new book, \u003cem\u003eThe Indian Ideology\u003c\/em\u003e, is a magnificent achievement. It is a product of his ability, near-unique in today’s world of ideas, to distill a country’s history and politics into a few thousand words that are at once combative and informative.” Mihir S Sharma, \u003cem\u003eBusiness Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Anderson’s dance of destruction has also opened up new avenues of self-knowledge in the Subcontinent. We would do well to engage with it calmly and honestly.” Namit Arora, \u003cem\u003eHimal Southasian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“For the Left, Anderson’s critique raises a number of questions that it leaves tantalizingly unanswered. If democracy, secularism, and national unity as they are enshrined in liberal nationalist thinking are values that the Left must give up, where does that leave us? What could or should replace the “Idea of India”? What are the implications of this analysis for our understanding of the subcontinental state system and for the future of struggles for national self-determination and social emancipation? The Indian Ideology offers few answers to these questions, but is an excellent conversation starter.” Nagesh Rao, \u003cem\u003eRadical Socialist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A clear summary of the fight for independence, partition and its consequences. For this alone, it is worth reading.” Rahul Patel, \u003cem\u003eSocialist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Once in a while in any field of study, a book appears that can be called path breaking in terms of the quality of its critical review of the existing body of knowledge in that field and setting a new research agenda. This is one of those books in the field of Indian\/South Asian studies.” Pritam Singh, \u003cem\u003eSocialist Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Perry Anderson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781788732710\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":40175375581277,"sku":"9781788732710","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/indian_ideology_9781788732710.jpg?v=1654988969"},{"product_id":"sinews-of-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula","title":"Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle East \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities -iron ore, coal, oil- arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels China's manufacturing comes primarily from the Arabian Peninsula. Much of the material shipped from China are transported through the ports of Arabian Peninsula, Dubai's Jabal Ali port foremost among them. China's 'maritime silk road' flanks the Peninsula on all sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of what the making of new ports and shipping infrastructures has meant not only for the Arabian Peninsula itself, but for the region and the world beyond. The book is the account of how maritime transportation is not simply an enabling adjunct of trade, but central to the very fabric of global capitalism. The ports that serve maritime trade, logistics, and hydrocarbon transport create racialised hierarchies of labour, engineer the lived environment, aid the accumulation of capital regionally and globally, and carry forward colonial regimes of profit, law and administration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Laleh Khalili’s fascinating new book opens the window on another world, hidden in plain sight, a shadow world of ports and container ships that holds a key to the often violent workings of contemporary capitalism. To read \u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade\u003c\/em\u003e is to understand the truth of Derek Walcott’s observation that ‘the sea is history.’” Adam Shatz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Laleh Khalili is our Ismael, taking us on a fascinating journey under the surface of war and trade, into its world of infrastructure, the chains that bind humanity because of capitalism’s maddening search for the white whale of endless profit. 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They have played and continue to play a vital role in framing racial labour hierarchies, accumulating capital in specific hands, and reinforcing colonial regimes of profit, law and administration. Both lucid and nuanced, the book offers a masterful study in the ways that violence and security as well as licit and illicit trade, get negotiated in and by these ports. This is one of those rare pieces of academic research that is at once readable and accessible for the lay public while also making a genuine contribution to the relevant historical scholarship.” Ian Urbina, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this long awaited book Laleh Khalili makes brilliant contributions to every subject she touches: maritime history, labor history, military history, and the history of global capitalism. Readers will delight in the book’s originality—there is truly nothing else like it.” Markus Rediker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Laleh Khalili] gives a nuanced account of many seas and lands. Written with meticulous attention to historical details, Khalili maps global capitalist trends that drew the shores of the Arabian Peninsula into global markets, bringing commodities, labour, pilgrims and adventurers to mark the history of a region that only began to attract attention with the discovery of oil. This book takes us back to old maritime trade, ports and people who shaped the history of the region. Much of this history is still very relevant to the present.” Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this extraordinary work, Laleh Khalili takes us on an epic journey that is at once painfully timely and powerfully timeless. Centering this story of imperial trade and war on the Arabian Peninsula, Khalili illuminates how the very making of land and legal categories, the transformation of borders, the political and economic rights of workers, and entire planetary ecologies are remade through the ruthless impetus to move cargo and commodities overseas. The scale of this book is breathtaking but the story is intimate and expertly crafted, moving from entire coast lines to city streets and singular bodily movements. This is a poetry of place that exposes the power and violence of circulatory infrastructures of war and trade, while always insisting that another maritime world is possible.” Deborah Cowen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Vividly evocative … rich in detail, [Khalili brings] the subject matter to life with powerful immediacy.” David Wearing, \u003cem\u003eTribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Analysis of how international systems actually work, like Laleh Khalili’s study of maritime trade, uncovers a different world. The comforting phrases of international affairs in the face of policed seas, oligopolistic firms in strategic alliances with national governments, military-backed colonial dependencies and surveillance hegemony are mere fantasies distracting us from the realities of power and capital.” —Times Literary Supplement “Little has been written about the sea trade in the Gulf. Laleh Khalili’s latest book explores the complex realities that drive this massive economy.” \u003cem\u003eopenDemocracy \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Powerful and unconstrained conceptual and poetic tools establish the shorelines of Khalili’s sea, then, and it is here that global capitalism takes its tightly woven place … Sinews is a stimulating read and a surefooted introduction to the subject, with deep pockets of research.” \u003cem\u003eThird Text \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Detailed and enjoyable.” \u003cem\u003eInternational Socialism \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A book that is both enlightening and incisive in its critical commentary of shipping and capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula.” \u003cem\u003eSocialist Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“As Laleh Khalili shows in her meticulously researched book, the amphibious histories of trade, resources, and labour are inseparable from the power plays of imperialism and war.” Louis Brehony, \u003cem\u003eJadaliyya \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Sinews offers one of the most outstanding recent investigations into the hard-to-narrate infrastructure of modern ports and their place in the patterns of global conflict and commerce. Khalili’s deft and forensic investigation brings into focus how the region was shaped and in turn shaped the global energy economy in the age of oil. 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Karl, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Gregor Benton and Feng Chongyi’s edited collection of translations of the poetry of the Chinese Revolution offers a fascinating glimpse into an understudied body of what the editors call ‘Red poetry in the classical style.’ Invoking forms of cultural authority long associated with the practice of governance, these poems translate the lived experience of political upheaval, disappointment, and despair into classical poetic idioms in an era when such traditions were subject to increasingly intensive criticism. As a result, these poems present a radically unfamiliar lyric history of the Chinese revolution. Accompanied by lively editorial contextualization, a generous annotated selection of the poetry of Zheng Chaolin, in particular, is a revelation—offering measured but pointed political commentary on everything from rapidly shifting political circumstances inside China, to Soviet science fiction novels and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis. In Benton and Chongyi’s hands, an intimate, impressionistic, and extraordinarily affecting biography emerges of this neglected dissident poet who spent much of his life in prison for a singular commitment to a ‘revolution without breaks or interruptions.’” Christopher S. Chen, UC Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is an outstandingly original work that offers penetrating insight into the many-sided relationship between making revolution and writing poetry in the Chinese classical tradition. The translations are wonderfully sensitive. Each poem is superbly contextualised and meticulously annotated. A truly great work.” Stephen A. 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The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. In \u003cem\u003eBetraying Big Brother\u003c\/em\u003e, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. 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Leta Hong Fincher’s account of a powerful network of activists is a foundational text on feminism in contemporary China, rich with scholarship and a grasp of history. It is a book to inspire and to guide all of us who insist on fighting the patriarchy globally.” Mona Eltahawy, author of \u003cem\u003eHeadscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A provocative, sharp-edged account of Beijing’s push to cajole women to marry and fix the country’s sagging birth rates. A must-read for students of feminism.” Mei Fong, author of \u003cem\u003eOne Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Writing with rigor, passion, and indignation, Hong Fincher introduces a group of Chinese feminist activists who refuse to be intimidated by China’s powerful patriarchal state. Offering a detailed account of the women’s critiques of increasing gender inequality in China, \u003cem\u003eBetraying Big Brother\u003c\/em\u003e is a singular account of a Chinese—and now global—movement that will not be silenced” Rebecca E. Karl, author of \u003cem\u003eMao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Fincher focuses on the history of a small group of female activists known as the Feminist Five , who have been hounded by the authorities for innocuous acts such as trying to hand out stickers on International Women’s Day. She argues persuasively that the activism the five awakened is already challenging the authoritarian state, with more and more women taking control of their bodies and rejecting ‘China’s patriarchal institutions of compulsory marriage and child-rearing.” Keith B. Richburg, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eBetraying Big Brother\u003c\/em\u003e, Leta Hong Fincher unlocks a fundamental truth: the subjugation of women is a key feature of authoritarian power. But in telling the harrowing story of the detention of China’s Feminist Five, she may also have discovered the strongman’s Achilles’ Heel: a broad-based feminist movement poses an existential threat to a patriarchal state.” Rebecca MacKinnon, author of \u003cem\u003eConsent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In her vivid and comprehensive work on China’s emerging feminist movement, Leta Hong Fincher explores the coming of age of a generation of young activists in an authoritarian state increasingly hostile to social protest. A must-read for all seeking to understand China’s feminist activists, hear their voices, and experience the day-to-day reality of their lives.” Carl Minzner, author of \u003cem\u003eEnd of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In Hong Fincher’s estimation, the official hostility toward feminists in China as part of a global rise of authoritarianism and backsliding of democracy will affect not only China’s women but its economic future and will have worldwide repercussions. This is a fascinating and earnest book.”\u003cem\u003e Publisher’s Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In clear, concise chapters, Fincher, whose previous books include \u003cem\u003eLeftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China\u003c\/em\u003e, lays out the origins of the movement and its exponential growth, as well as the Chinese government’s violent attempts to extinguish it. The US president may be walloping China via trade war, but Leta Hong Fincher argues that the most existential threat to Xi Jinping’s regime comes from within.” Claire Landsbaum, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBetraying Big Brother\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the [feminist] movement has risen on social media and taken root abroad and in cities like Guangzhou. Hong Fincher argues that the Chinese Communist Party relies on patriarchal crackdowns for its post-Soviet survival—and, further, that ‘anyone concerned about rising authoritarianism globally needs to pay attention to what is happening in China.’”  \u003cem\u003eHarvard Magazine \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Hong Fincher explains that far from a small movement on the fringes of Chinese society, feminism is on the rise, from the burgeoning and ongoing #MeToo movement, to increasing calls for protections for survivors of domestic violence … to protests against workplace discrimination.” Esther Wang, \u003cem\u003eJezebel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eBetraying Big Brother\u003c\/em\u003e, journalist Leta Hong Fincher examines the feminist movement that’s rising in mainland China, and explores how the Feminist Five continue to covertly educate other women to confront and resist the country’s sexist policies.” Evette Dionne, \u003cem\u003eBitch Media\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Brings the clash between China’s grassroots women’s movement and the state’s manipulation of women to life. Hong Fincher explores the struggles of young feminist activists who are detained and vilified for seemingly innocuous campaigns—handing out stickers warning against sexual harassment on public transport, or parading through the streets in soiled wedding dresses to protest domestic violence … A pertinent primer for anyone who wants to understand the aftermath of China’s one-child policy, and the country’s fledgling feminist movement.” Katrina Hamlin, \u003cem\u003eReuters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In her sprawling and detailed recent book, \u003cem\u003eBetraying Big Brother\u003c\/em\u003e, Fincher aims to tell the story of the women’s rights movement in China through their saga. 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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":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745337852.jpg?v=1656389220"},{"product_id":"struggle-in-a-time-of-crisis","title":"Struggle in a Time of Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pp-book__the-summary\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssays from the Global Labour Column which highlight the role of labour in the fightback against neoliberalism.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core of resistance against capitalism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt provides insights into the dynamics of neoliberalism and its persistence and stimulates debates about the continued impact of the economic crisis, focusing on labour as both a victim and a crucial social force which can push for an alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamples of the subjects it covers include the Indonesian Sportswear Industry, Chinese construction companies in Africa, mining in South Africa, job quality in Europe, globalised 'T-shirt economics' and the marketisation and securitisation of UK international aid, amongst many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Global Labour Column, managed by the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development research programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, is part of the Global Labour University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicolas Pons-Vignon\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Researcher with the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the editor of the \u003cem\u003eGlobal Labour Column\u003c\/em\u003e and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eStruggle in a Time of Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMbuso Nkosi\u003c\/strong\u003e is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He serves as the co-editor of the Global Labour Column journal and is co-editor of Struggle in a Time of Crisis (Pluto, 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Mbuso Nkosi \u003cbr\u003ePart I: Understanding the Crisis \u003cbr\u003e1. Planet Earth Is Wage-led! - Özlem Onaran\u003cbr\u003e2. From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics - Thomas I. Palley \u003cbr\u003e3. State Funding of Research and the Narrowing of Economics in the U.K. - Fred Lee \u003cbr\u003e4. Globalisation and Taxation: Trends and Consequences - Ilan Strauss\u003cbr\u003e5. T-shirt Economics: Labour in the Imperialist World Economy - Tony Norfield\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Europe in Turmoil \u003cbr\u003e6. Greece in the Deadlock of the Troika's Austerity Trap - Giorgios Argitis\u003cbr\u003e7. The ECB's Misleading Understanding of the Euro Crisis - Carlo D'Ippoliti\u003cbr\u003e8. Europe's Lost Decade: Paths out of Stagnation - Hansjörg Herr\u003cbr\u003e9. The Crisis, Structural Reform and the Fortification of Neoliberalism in Europe - Christoph Hermann\u003cbr\u003e10. The Economic Crisis and Job Quality in Europe: Some Worrying Trends and Worse May Be to Come - Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Exploring Alternatives\u003cbr\u003e11. Tackling Unemployment and Growing Public Debt - Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury\u003cbr\u003e12. Tax for Equity (T4E): Getting Wages Back on Track - Frank Hoffer\u003cbr\u003e13. The State as the Employer of Last Resort - Cédric Durand and Dany Lang\u003cbr\u003e14. 'We are Steaming Ahead': NUMSA's Road to the Left - Interview with Karl Cloete\u003cbr\u003e15. Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Towards a New Progressive Consensus - João Antônio Felício\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Resisting Exploitation and Neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e16. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Outcome? - Carol Jess\u003cbr\u003e17. Right to Work and Michigan Labour - Roland Zullo\u003cbr\u003e18. A Site of Struggle: Organised Labour and Domestic Worker Organising in Mozambique - Ruth Castel-Branco\u003cbr\u003e19. Constructing an Anti-Neoliberal Analysis to Arrive at Truly Alternative Alternatives - Salimah Valiani \u003cbr\u003e20. The 2012 Strike Wave, Marikana and the History of Rock Drillers in South African Mines - Paul Stewart\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Good Samaritans? Institutional Responses to Labour Right Abuses\u003cbr\u003e21. Where is Decent Work in DfID Policy? Marketisation and Securitisation of U.K. International Aid - Phoebe V. Moore\u003cbr\u003e22. The National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil: A Useful Tool for Unions? - Lisa Carstensen and Siobhán McGrath \u003cbr\u003e23. Better Work or ‘Ethical Fix’? Lessons from Cambodia’s Apparel Industry - Dennis Arnold\u003cbr\u003e24. Putting Workers' Agency at the Centre in the Indonesian Sportswear Industry - Karin A. Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa\u003cbr\u003e25. Rana Plaza: Private Governance and Corporate Power in Global Supply Chains - Tandiwe Gross\u003cbr\u003ePart VI: 'Workers of the World, Unite': Challenges and Opportunities of Transnational Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e26. Rank and File Participation and International Union Democracy - Vasco Pedrina\u003cbr\u003e27. Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity - Andreas Bieler \u003cbr\u003e28. Modelling a Global Union Strategy: The Arena of Global Production Networks, Global Framework Agreements and Trade Union Networks - Michael Fichter\u003cbr\u003e29. Trade Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism - Ronaldo Munck\u003cbr\u003e30. Chinese Construction Companies in Africa: A Challenge for Trade Unions - Eddie Cottle\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40240104046685,"sku":"9780745336213","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745336213.jpg?v=1656394769"},{"product_id":"chinas-engine-of-environmental-collapse","title":"China's Engine of Environmental Collapse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pp-book__the-summary\"\u003eAuthoritarianism, capitalism and destruction: why China is leading the world to ecocide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion, China is leading the charge. The nation's CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new coal-fired power plants faster than renewables. The country's lakes, rivers, and farmlands are severely polluted yet China's police state can't suppress pollution, even from its own industries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to explain these contradictions. Richard Smith explains how the country's bureaucratic rulers are driven by nationalist-industrialist tendencies that are even more powerful than the drive for profit under 'normal' capitalism. In their race to overtake the US they must prioritise hyper-growth over the environment, even if this ends in climate collapse and eco-suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith contends that nothing short of drastic shutdowns and the scaling back of polluting industries, especially in China and the US, will suffice to slash greenhouse gas emissions enough to prevent climate catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Smith wrote his PhD thesis on China’s economic reforms and has written extensively Chinese issues for \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMonthly Review, Real-World Economics Review, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eEcologist\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also written essays collected in \u003cem\u003eGreen Capitalism: The God that Failed \u003c\/em\u003e(2016) and in The Democracy Collaborative’s \u003cem\u003eNext System Project\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). Smith is also a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change.\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\n\u003cp\u003e'Tracing China's environmental collapse to the Communist strategy of growth at all cost, this book deepens our understanding of China's massive impact on human sustainability. A bold, independent and necessary voice!'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'In this brilliant and strikingly original book, which has no equivalent in the existing literature on China, Richard Smith argues that the present hybrid bureaucratic-collectivist capitalist Chinese economy, driven by 'blind growth' and consumerism, is as unsustainable and ecocidal as its Western capitalist rivals. For both, the time for half measures has passed: only ecosocialism can save the planet, i.e. humanity,  from environmental collapse.'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e, author of 'Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to the Capitalist Catastrophe' (Haymarket, 2010)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Compassionate and powerful, Richard Smith envisions a new Chinese Dream through achieving a harmonious coexistence between human and nature. The book argues for a 21st Century ecosocialist democracy by calling for a \"better mode of life\" in China and the world.'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A work of real insight. Richard Smith penetrates the defences of a fiercely autocratic regime to reveal how China’s predatory development strategy is imperilling not just itself but our entire planet.'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e William F. Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Australia and Singapore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e'Analysing the relationship between the Chinese elite and capitalism is not simple … Smith is pointing us in the right direction'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e The Ecologist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A useful primer for leftists on China’s role in the current ecological crisis'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e New Bloom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Stunning'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Counterpunch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40240113025117,"sku":"9780745341576","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745341576.jpg?v=1656394885"},{"product_id":"the-end-of-imagination","title":"The End of Imagination","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe End of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new collection begins with her pathbreaking book \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living--\u003c\/i\u003epublished soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things--\u003c\/i\u003ein which she forcefully condemned India’s nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to displace countless people from their homes and communities. \u003ci\u003eThe End of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e also includes her nonfiction works \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWar Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublic Power in the Age of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, which include her widely circulated and inspiring writings on the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the need to confront corporate power, and the hollowing out of democratic institutions globally.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNjg3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/arundhati-roy\" title=\"Arundhati Roy\"\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/a\u003e is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. 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With an unfailing charm and wit that makes her writing constantly enlivening to read, her analysis of our grotesque world is savagely clear, and yet her anger never obscures her awareness that beauty, joy, and pleasure can potentially be part of the life of human beings.\"\u003cbr\u003eWallace Shawn\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40365685342301,"sku":"9781608466191","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781608466191-f_medium-ae5177efd42d1039247c1305a804cda6.jpg?v=1659535355"},{"product_id":"the-doctor-and-the-saint-caste-race-and-annihilation-of-caste-the-debate-between-b-r-ambedkar-and-m-k-gandhi","title":"The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. 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In doing so she makes the case for why Ambedkar’s revolutionary intellectual achievements must be resurrected, not only in India but throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNjg3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/arundhati-roy\" title=\"Arundhati Roy\"\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/a\u003e is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Junot Díaz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time . . . courageous, visionary and erudite . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Doctor and the Saint\u003c\/em\u003e puts a spotlight on the great B. R. Ambedkar, who is wrongly overshadowed by Gandhi. 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A PDF version of this journal can also be downloaded \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pingkianjournal.wordpress.com\/\"\u003efrom https:\/\/pingkianjournal.wordpress.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume 7, Number 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Resisting the Second Coming of the Marcos Dictatorship\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIssue Editors\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeeches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Reading Books and Censorship\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCaroline Hau\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Time of a Critic\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNeferti X.M. 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Cosme\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiterary\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMula Tore patungong Shopee: Ilang Libro at Dagling Rebyung Panlipunan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTilde Acuña\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven Poems\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFelino S. Garcia Jr.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCall for Papers\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe cover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Epic pandemic flail” (Tilde Acuña, 2022) Mixed media.\u003cbr\u003eSince the COVID-19 pandemic began, there have been popular and persistent calls for the administration under Rodrigo Duterte to opt for a medical rather than a militaristic solution to the health crisis. Instead of heeding the people’s demands, his cabal of incompetent and cold-blooded officials (mostly retired generals) took the dreadful state of affairs as an opportunity to consolidate power, plunder resources, and reign with impunity—characteristic of bureaucrat capitalism, that serves the interests of landlords, compradors, and imperialists. In response, the artwork alludes to gruesome deaths and their heavy consequences depicted in feudal nether regions of dark fantasy series and games, which compete with the Duterte regime’s criminal negligence and fascist reaction versus the ongoing health crisis, the health workers, and the Filipino people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRESISTING THE SECOND COMING OF THE MARCOS DICTATORSHIP\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Philippines appears to be in a state of never-ending crisis. From COVID-19 to Marcos Jr., our country is not lacking in viruses that affect the lives of millions of people. As of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected 3,688,941 Filipinos and killed 60,455 people (Reuters, 2022). The government’s inept and militaristic response led to thousands of new COVID cases, with rates reaching as high as 21,819 new infections a day at the peak of the pandemic in January 2022 (Magsambol, 2022), even amidst the vaccine roll-out. Instead of mass testing and efficient contact tracing, we experienced brutal and ill-prepared lockdowns whose primary effect was preventing the working class from securing an income. Instead of health experts and doctors leading the COVID-19 response, we had generals and military men leading the pandemic task force. Instead of strengthening our healthcare infrastructure, we watched in horror the extent of corruption when the Senate probed billions of pesos in ghost deliveries by Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp (Romero, 2021). Jeepney drivers begged on the street for lack of livelihood and government support (Luna, 2021). Medical frontliners like Honeyleen Casumpang, a nurse from Negros Occidental, died buried in debt after being infected by COVID-19 twice (Espina-Varona, 2021). Healthcare workers receive a pittance, while Duterte’s response to nurses asking for higher pay was to encourage them to enlist in the Philippine National Police (Esguerra, 2020). Instead of being treated as a healthcare crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic was used as another means to clamp down on dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the majority of Filipinos trapped in their homes because of brutal lockdowns, the Duterte administration launched a series of attacks on freedom and democracy. It compelled its allies in Congress to deny ABS-CBN a franchise to operate, causing thousands to lose their jobs and repressing another critical voice of integrity in a substantially eroded public sphere (Madarang, 2022). It railroaded the passage of the Anti-Terror Law, emboldening state forces to continue targeting government critics and opposition figures (Amnesty International, 2020). It facilitated the removal of allegedly “subversive” books from the libraries of state universities and colleges in an offensive attack against academic freedom (de Vera, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven with the Duterte administration’s total failure at handling the pandemic, Sara Duterte and her running mate, the late dictator’s son Ferdinand Marcos Jr., won as Vice-President and President in the 2022 elections. It was a bitter victory, borne of an elaborate and well-funded machinery of disinformation and outright lies, voter suppression and intimidation, and the decades-long failure of our nation to hold the Marcoses to account. Scroll through social media platforms like Facebook or TikTok and one enters another world, where the most outlandish lies are treated as infallible truths to justify the return of the Marcoses to Malacañang. There, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. is the proud recipient of gold from the Tallano royal family. Bongbong was prophesied by Nostradamus to lead the Philippines to a new golden age. And that President Cory Aquino secretly masterminded the assassination of her husband. One’s first reaction is to weep at the magnitude of deception and nonsense. Thirty-years of neoliberal education has failed to provide Filipinos with basic critical faculties but prioritized instead the production of submissive workers for export. The international market demands workers who do not question orders or the drastically unequal economic system which depends on their labor, and the Filipino educational system is more than happy to produce graduates who fit that criteria. This has also led to the gutting of courses which do not immediately fulfill the needs of global capitalism, such as Filipino and history. With the election of Marcos Jr., educators face an unprecedented challenge to protect the teaching of history and defend it from Marcosian attempts to erase the crimes of Martial Law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe May 9, 2022 elections have enough irregularities to question the integrity of the results. There was rampant vote-buying, red- tagging, the presence of 1,800 malfunctioning vote-counting machines (Kontra Daya, 2022), intimidation from police and military forces, and well-documented cases of violence and killings (dela Peña, 2022). If we were a country like Venezuela or Bolivia, the United States would have already organized a coup d’etat and Western media would be running stories 24\/7 about the beleaguered Filipino people. But because we’re the Third World ally of both American and Chinese imperialist powers, we experience nothing but congratulations from global superpowers for our “free and fair elections.” Truth and human rights are secondary to maintaining the hegemony of global capital and the cheap labor upon which it rests on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe articles in this issue of PINGKIAN confront the twin catastrophes of the pandemic and the resurgence of a Marcosian fascism in the Philippines. During such times of intensity, one might ask: what is the purpose of academic work? Of research? Are we writing while the world around us crumbles? One is tempted to cite the perennially quoted Bertolt Brecht (2019) poem: “In the dark times\/ Will there be singing?\/ There will be singing.\/ Of the dark times” (p. 660). The lines provide us with alternative lens of understanding the world, and ways forward from the seemingly inescapable doom-and-gloom. In their essays, Caroline Hau and Neferti X. M. Tadiar compel us to reevaluate the value of reading, libraries, while Edel Garcellano teaches us to resist, at a time when state forces are hellbent on stamping out modes of knowledge deemed too radical or subversive. There are essays on E. San Juan Jr., the disinformation and propaganda network of the Marcoses, a critical perspective on the cholera pandemic of 1903, deeply humane poems on the deeply inhumane series of lockdowns. They’re not songs about dark times, but offerings of thought and scholarship, new perspectives on old problems because prevailing perspectives appear to have damned us to even worse problems than before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editors would like to thank the academics, independent scholars, and researchers for contributing to this issue of PINGKIAN. We thank readers for their continued patronage of this journal. And we hope that Pingkian will be part of our political education, and that while we continue singing and writing about dark times, we also continue organizing and mobilizing against the terror. See you in the streets!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLakan Umali, Francisco Jayme Paolo A. Guiang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReferences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eBrecht, Bertolt. (2019). \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(T. Kuhn \u0026amp; D. Constantine, Translator). Liveright Publishing Corporation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ede Vera, Sherwin. (2021, November 14). Opposition mounts against removal of ‘subversive’ books in libraries. \u003cem\u003eRappler\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/opposition-mounts-\"\u003e\/www.rappl\u003c\/a\u003ee\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/opposition-mounts-\"\u003er.com\/nation\/opposition-mounts-\u003c\/a\u003e against-removal-subversive-books-libraries\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edela Peña, Kurt. (2022, May 20). Int’l observers: May 9 PH vote falls short of free, fair election standards. \u003cem\u003ePhilippine Daily Inquirer. \u003c\/em\u003ehttps:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1600309\/intl- observers-may-9-ph-vote-falls-short-of-free-fair- election-standards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEsguerra, D.J. (2020, August 3). “Want higher pay? Join the police force, Duterte tells nurses. \u003cem\u003ePhilippine Daily Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1315808\/want-higher-pay- join-police-force-duterte-tells-nurses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEspina-Varona, I. (2021, September 20). A nurse’s story: Twice infected, P60,00 in debt, and no special risk pay. \u003cem\u003eRappler\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/nurse-story-twice-\"\u003e\/www.rappl\u003c\/a\u003ee\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/nurse-story-twice-\"\u003er.com\/nation\/nurse-story-twice-\u003c\/a\u003e infected-covid-19-in-debt-no-special-risk-pay\/.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuna, F. (2021, August 16). LTFRB aid and subsidies not reaching transport workers, jeepney drivers say. \u003cem\u003ePhilippine Star\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/\"\u003e\/www.philst\u003c\/a\u003ea\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/\"\u003er.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e headlines\/2021\/08\/16\/2120389\/ltfrb-aid-and-subsidies- not-reaching-transport-workers-jeepney-drivers-say.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMadarang, C. (2022, May 5). ‘Kapamilya forever’: Tributes pour in on 2nd anniversary of ABS-CBN shutdown. \u003cem\u003eInteraksyon\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\/interaksyon.philstar.com\/trends- spotlights\/2022\/05\/05\/216558\/tribute-abs-cbn-2nd- anniversary-shutdown\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagsambol, B. (2022, January 7). Philippines tallies 21,819\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003enew COVID-19 cases, 40% positivity rate. \u003cem\u003eRappler\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\/ \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/coronavirus-cases-philippines-\"\u003ewww.rappler.com\/nation\/coronavirus-cases-philippines-\u003c\/a\u003e january-7-2022\/.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilippines: (2020, July 3). Dangerous anti-terror law yet another setback for human rights. Amnesty International. https:\/\/ \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/07\/philippines-\"\u003ewww.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/07\/philippines-\u003c\/a\u003e dangerous-antiterror-law-yet-another-setback-for- human-rights\/.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReport: VCM breakdown in 2022 polls much worse compared to previous ones. (2022, May 9). Kontra Daya. https:\/\/ kontradaya.org\/report-vcm-breakdown-in-2022-polls- much-worse-compared-to-previous-ones\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReuters COVID-19 Tracker: Philippines (2022, May 23). \u003cem\u003eReuters\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/world-coronavirus-tracker- and-maps\/countries-and-territories\/philippines\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRomero, P. (2021, December 4). Pharmally made P3 billion ghost deliveries – senators. \u003cem\u003ePhilippine Star\u003c\/em\u003e. https:\/\/www.philstar. com\/headlines\/2021\/12\/04\/2145556\/pharmally-made- p3-billion-ghost-deliveries-senators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenzon, C. (2022, May 12). 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