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Together these two works represent the principal themes that run through James’s life: implacable hostility toward all “condescending saviors” of the working class, and undying faith in the power of ordinary people to build a new world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It would take a person with great confidence, and good judgment, to select from the substantial writings of C.L.R. James just two items to represent the 'principal themes' in James' life and thought. Fortunately, Noel Ignatiev is such a person. With a concise, but thorough introduction, Ignatiev sets the stage and C.L.R. James does the rest. In these often confusing times one way to keep one’s head on straight and to chart a clear path to the future is to engage the analytical methods and theoretical insights of C.L.R. James. What you hold in your hands is an excellent starting point.” —-John H. Bracey Jr., professor of African-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and co-editor of\u003cem\u003e Strangers \u0026amp; Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks \u0026amp; Jews in the United States.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“C.L.R. James has arguably had a greater influence on the underlying thinking of independence movements in the West Indies and Africa than any living man.” \u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“It remains remarkable how far ahead of his time he was on so many issues.” \u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the West Indies, C.L.R. James is honored as one of the fathers of independence. In Britain he is feted as a historic pioneer of the black movement. He is generally regarded as one of the major figures in Pan-Africanism, and a leader in developing a current within Marxism that was democratic, revolutionary, and internationalist. His long life and impressive career played out in Trinidad, England, and America. For the last years of his life, he lived in south London and lectured widely on politics, Shakespeare, and other topics. He died there in 1989. Noel Ignatiev wrote \u003cem\u003eHow the Irish Became White\u003c\/em\u003e, recently reissued as a Routledge Classic. He co-edited \u003cem\u003eRace Traitor\u003c\/em\u003e (winner American Book Award 1997), and edited\u003cem\u003e Lesson of the Hour: Wendell Phillips on Abolition and Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: C.L.R. 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Through documents by and about the George Jackson Brigade, as well as the introduction by Daniel Burton-Rose, this book sheds light on events that have until now been far too obscured.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Dan Berger, author of O\u003cem\u003eutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e; editor \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"Daniel Burton-Rose's documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade offers the reader a rare first-hand account of a militant movement's attempt to communicate and refine the intent of its actions. The volume focuses on the 1970s, when revolution seemed imminent to those engaged in 'the struggle.' 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The Brigade's use of international and historical revolutionaries as points of reference, also makes this book an valuable resource for a wide range of issue relevant to studies of the past, present, and sadly, the future.\" \u003c\/em\u003e” —Candace Falk, Ph.D., Director of The Emma Goldman Papers, and Editor of\u003cem\u003e Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVolume 2, Making Speech Free, 1902-1909\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\"The popular image of the 70s urban guerrilla, even on the left, is that of the student radical or New Left youth activist kicking it up a couple of notches. Daniel Burton-Rose’s documentary history of the George Jackson Brigade is an important corrective in this regard. The Brigade, rooted in prison work, white and black, straights, bisexuals and dykes, was as rich a mixture of the elements making up the left as one could perhaps hope for. We all have much to learn form the Brigade’s rich and unique history.\"\u003c\/em\u003e ” —André Moncourt, Co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Army Faction: A Documentary History.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A deep dig into the victories and errors of this important yet often overlooked revolutionary group. 'Information a hundred times more powerful than any bomb.'\" \u003c\/em\u003e—G. 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A number of Rashid's essays written as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC are also included in this book. For more about Rashid, including links to his writings available online, please visit his website at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.rashidmod.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson has put together an outstanding compendium of political essays and letters that addresses many of the critical issues of today. His intra-prison correspondences with his comrade, Outlaw, is a rewarding study in the determined and ingenious maneuvers that prisoners have to go through to politically educate and organize themselves – and others around them. As a result, just reading the book itself provides one with the basic foundation of a political education.\" — from the Afterword by Sundiata Acoli, New Afrikan political prisoner of war\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Your mission (should you decide to accept it) is to buy multiple copies of this book, read it carefully, and then get it into the hands of as many prisoners as possible. I am aware of no prisoner-written book more important than this one, at least not since George Jackson’s Blood In My Eye. Revolutionaries and those considering the path of progress will find Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s Defying The Tomb an important contribution to their political development.\" — Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The correspondence of Rashid and Outlaw, carried on within the tenuous cracks of a supermax prison, offers the reader a compelling blend of psychological insight, political analysis, and passion for learning. Their defiance in the face of oppression is matched by their broad human solidarity. As they grapple with ideas, they also think as organizers, probing the dispositions and motivations of their fellow prisoners. Their struggle for justice is informed by a commitment to reason.\" — Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kevin Rashid Johnson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-39-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 386 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175075491933,"sku":"9781894946391","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_893_defying3_0.jpg?v=1654987243"},{"product_id":"in-the-crossfire-adventures-of-a-vietnamese-revolutionary","title":"In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh's Communist Party). 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Co-edited by Van's close friend and collaborator, Hélène Fleury, and acclaimed situationist author and translator Ken Knabb, the book includes seventy color and black and white illustrations, reproducing many of Van's paintings as well as numerous documentary photographs. \u003cem\u003eIn the Crossfire\u003c\/em\u003e belongs on the shelf of every serious scholar of Vietnamese history, and is sure to be a compelling read for anyone interested in the revolutionary history of the twentieth century and beyond. Ngo Van was born in a peasant village in Vietnam in 1912. As a young man he moved to Saigon and became involved in underground struggles against the French colonial regime. In the aftermath of World War II, as most of his comrades were being murdered by Ho Chi Minh's Communist Party, Van escaped to France, where he became a factory worker, a painter, and a historical scholar. 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This exercise is also about us, and about some of the things that We need to understand and to change in ourselves and our world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout James Yaki Sayles\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the revs that he most considered his teachers—Malcolm X and George Jackson—James Yaki Sayles grew up poor and found his maturity in prison, the place that Malcolm called “the Black man’s university.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child of Chicago’s South Side streets, Yaki always just thought of himself as a blood, “just another nigger doing a bit” (to borrow the laconic words of one of the Pontiac state prison revolt defendants). And it was in the prison movement that he found his place in the battlefield. Although he made revolutionary theory his work, his life was rooted in a time of urban guerrillas and the armed struggle. Which makes his writing much more difficult to read, but with a warning of danger and commitment that is so often missing in these neo-colonized times between the storms…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki soon became a leading activist in the small prison collectives in his state. First in the Stateville Prisoners Organization, which quickly grew into the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization. There were groups in Stateville, Pontiac, and Menard prisons, as well as individual members in other prisons outside Illinois and rads on the street. Yaki also became an influence in less public organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing he never became was well-known. There were definite reasons for this. In part, because Yaki was a very private person who rarely talked about his inner life or childhood, and who never wanted to write about his own past to a curious public. Becoming a radical celebrity was not anywhere in his plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaki was also unknown because of the role he chose for himself. Much of his writings were not for the public, or even the community as a whole. Most of them were cadre teachings. Typically, Yaki wrote and spoke as a teacher for those already New Afrikan revolutionaries who were cadre. Those who had accepted the responsibility of being organizers and local teachers themselves. Although he was often repeating or underscoring basic political lessons, sometimes these were almost technical discussions. Craft discussions. In the same way that young Five-percenters proudly talk about, “i can do the math,” “i know the numbers.” And as such his words weren’t meant to be entertaining, and rads often complained of finding them as hard to read as some textbook. Far from easy reading. 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To help guide the study by newer rebels of this complex and difficult reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i got out of Folsom \u0026amp; one of the first things i got was a kalishnikov ak-47, 7.62x39 … Needless to say, without the requisite consciousness, the gun \u0026amp; i soon parted company. The gun fell into the hands of invading pigs \u0026amp; i fell in the same hands. Was sent back to a cell … That’s when i got at the ’rad Atiba Shanna [aka James Yaki Sayles] \u0026amp; told him i’d been captured and why. He said, ‘i’d rather have one cadre free than 100 ak-47’s.’ It took me years to overstand \u0026amp; appreciate that one sentence. 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The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then – explosively – the radical student movement and countercultural revolt of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was from this revolt that the Red Army Faction emerged, an underground organization devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany, in the view of establishing a tradition of illegal, guerilla resistance to imperialism and state repression. Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF between 1970 and 1977, from Andreas Baader’s prison break, through the 1972 May Offensive and the 1975 hostage-taking in Stockholm, to the desperate, and tragic, events of the “German Autumn” of 1977. The RAF’s three main manifestos – \u003cem\u003eThe Urban Guerilla Concept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eServe the People\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack September\u003c\/em\u003e – are included, as are important interviews with \u003cem\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ele Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e, and a number of communiqués and court statements explaining their actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding the background information that readers will require to understand the context in which these events occurred, separate thematic sections deal with the 1976 murder of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, the 1977 Stammheim murders, the extensive use of psychological operations and false-flag attacks to discredit the guerilla, the state’s use of sensory deprivation torture and isolation wings, and the prisoners’ resistance to this, through which they inspired their own supporters and others on the left to take the plunge into revolutionary action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both mainstream and movement sources, this book is intended as a contribution to the comrades of today – and to the comrades of tomorrow – both as testimony to those who struggled before and as an explanation as to how they saw the world, why they made the choices they made, and the price they were made to pay for having done so. For more on this book check out the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.germanguerilla.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGerman Guerilla\u003c\/a\u003e website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[Projectiles for the People] is a highly accessible rendition of a story of struggle that puts us into both the thought and the action. That placement conveys more than a sense or understanding of the RAF’s praxis. It transmits a connection in a visceral way. Not since reading Ten Days that Shook the World have I been so drawn into a political narrative. Reading like a historical thriller notwithstanding, Projectiles lets us see a rare confluence of theory and practice of which anyone who aspires to make revolution should be aware. The RAF may no longer be with us, but it has prepared the ground for and can yet aid the current movement for the most equitable social reality in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential. Nowhere else has the RAF’s life, times, and legacy been so clearly laid out.” — Bill Dunne (political prisoner since 1979)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book about the Red Army Faction of American-occupied Germany is one that should be read by any serious student of anti-imperialist politics. “Volume 1: Projectiles for the People” provides a history of the RAF’s development through the words of its letters and communiqués. What makes the book especially important and relevant, however, is the careful research and documentation done by its editors. Their effort makes this work far more than a collection of communiqués. From this book you will learn the mistakes of a group that was both large and strong, but which (like our own home-grown attempts in this regard) was unable to successfully communicate with the working class of a “democratic” country on a level that met their needs. While the armed struggle can be the seed of something much larger, is also another means of reaching out and communicating with the people. Students interested in this historic era would do well to study this book and to internalize both the successes and failures of one of the largest organized armed anti-imperialists organizations operating in Western Europe since World War II.” —Ed Mead, former political prisoner, George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Starting in the Sixties, a new revolutionary strategy began to plague the capitalist metropolis—the urban guerilla. Warfare once waged by peasant armies in the countryside of a Cuba, a China, or a Guinea-Bisseau, was suddenly transfered to small cells of ex-students in the imperialist centers of Berlin, Rome and New York. No urban guerrillas became more famed or more demonized than West Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF). We knew their signature bold actions in the headlines: from the damaging bombing of the u.s. army V Corps headquarters in Hamburg in 1972, in response to Washington’s mining of Hanoi’s harbor in an escalation of the Vietnam War, to the kidnapping and later execution of the head of the West German industrialists association, in an effort to negotiate for the release of revolutionary prisoners. But we never heard their political voices. Since the RAF’s political statements, debates and communiqués were untranslated and unavailable in English even within the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now, at last, a significant documentary history of the RAF has come into the spotlight, complete with a readable account of the postwar German New Left from which it emerged. Even better, this work was done by editors\/translators who reject the obedient capitalist media’s trivializing of the RAF as “pathological” death-wishing celebrities. In their hands, the words of the RAF are revealed as serious responses to the failure of parliamentary reformism, trade-unionism and pacifism, to stop the solidification of Germany’s own form of a neofascist capitalism (lightly cosmeticized with a layer of that numbing “consumer democracy”). The young RAF fighters hoped for liberation in their dangerous experiment but were willing to accept tragic consequences, and their story is emotionally difficult to read with eyes open. Controversial as the RAF was, their systematic torture in special “anti-terrorist” facilities stirred worldwide unease and even protest. In fact, those special prisons were the eagerly studied forerunners for the u.s. empire’s own latest human rights abuses, from Guantanamo to the domestic “maxi-maxi” prisons. We all and the RAF are much closer than the capitalist public wants to believe. It is all here, in this first volume of the Red Army Faction documentary histories, and we should thank all those who worked on this book.” —J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Clear-headed and meticulously researched, this book deftly avoids many of the problems that plagued earlier attempts to tell the brief but enduring history of the RAF. It offers a remarkable wealth of source material in the form of statements and letters from the combatants, yet the authors manage to present it in a way that is both coherent and engaging. Evidence of brutal—and ultimately ineffective—attempts by the state to silence the voices of political prisoners serve as a timely and powerful reminder of the continued need for anti-imperialist prisoners as leaders in our movements today. At once informative and inspirational, this is a much-needed contribution to the analysis of armed struggle and the cycles of repression and resistance in Europe and around the world.” — Sara Falconer, Toronto Anarchist Black Cross Federation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Armed struggle was one of the most controversial yet widespread phenomena of the worldwide revolutionary upsurge in the 1960s and 1970s—and the Red Army Faction was a centerpiece of this strategy in the imperial West. This valuable documentary history gathers RAF primary documents with an impressive set of contextual essays, providing the raw material necessary to understand the strategies and consequences of attacking from within the belly of the beast.” —Dan Berger, author of \u003cem\u003eOutlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Of all the revolutionary organizations to have been forged by the so-called sixties generation, the German Red Army Faction has been perhaps the most mythologized and maligned. Here at last is their story, told in their own words through “official” communications, comprehensively assembled and available for the first time in English translation. 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Or: What would—or could—it mean to “win”?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Valery Alzaga and Rodrigo Nunes, Colectivo Situaciones, Stephen Duncombe, Gustavo Esteva, The Free Association, Euclides André Mance, Michal Osterweil, Sasha Lilley, Kay Summer and Harry Halpin, Ben Trott, Nick Dyer-Witheford, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a foreword by John Holloway and an extended interview with Michal Osterweil and Ben Trott of the Turbulence Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions. 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Sometimes we won—and this is what makes the \u003cem\u003eWhat Does It Mean to Win?\u003c\/em\u003e anthology such a powerful vision of the possible and the seldom-seen present. The authors of this book connect some of the more remarkable events of the last decade—in Oaxaca, in the banlieus of Paris, in the crises of neoliberalism—into a constellation of possibilities and demands, demands on the world but also demands on the readers, to think afresh of what is possible and what it takes to get there. As one author begins, ‘The new movements embodied and posited deliberate reactions to the practical and theoretical failures of previous political approaches on the left.’ This is the book about what came after the failures, and what’s to come.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/rebecca-solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Turbulence Collective\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 2006, the Turbulence Collective has produced a series of text-based political interventions. Each has focussed on a particular problematic: our ability to measure success, the issue of visibility, the question of how we think about the future. 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Well-researched and written with style, it will inform and alarm readers. Daniel Francis brings together the skills of the historian with those of the storyteller to deliver a cautionary tale that is as much about the present as the past.\" Mark Leier, director of Centre for Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University and author of \u003cem\u003eBakunin: The Creative Passion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\"Francis presents a vivid picture of sharp class and political struggles across Canada during the early 20th century … The details make for compelling reading.\" \u003cem\u003ePeople's Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Canada's greatest myth-buster has done it again, with this trenchant account of how, following World War I, immigrants to Canada suddenly found themselves branded \"enemy aliens\" and the focus of a nasty wave of anti-socialist paranoia. 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Sakai\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894820-26-4\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 32 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175096954973,"sku":"9781894820264","price":5.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1001_wrbc_3_0.jpg?v=1654987390"},{"product_id":"truth-and-revolution-a-history-of-the-sojourner-truth-organization-1969-1986","title":"Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural transformations as it struggled to find its footing in a rapidly changing world. The unorthodox political agenda of the Sojourner Truth Organization represents a small but powerfully resonant thread running through this arc of history. Drawing on detailed archival research and oral interviews, Truth and Revolution skillfully combines social and intellectual history approaches to shed light on both the theory and the practice of STO. Perhaps most famous for its theoretical formulations of white skin privilege, the group also developed a novel analysis of class consciousness that reflected its commitment to an autonomist Marxism. In all the major arenas of its work—factory organizing, anti-imperialist solidarity, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist struggles, among many others—STO combined a strategic assessment of the urgent tasks facing an activist left with a theoretical sophistication that merits sustained attention. Historian Michael Staudenmaier also includes a final chapter linking the legacy of STO directly to the challenges facing twenty-first century radicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few revolutionary initiatives formed out of the struggles of the 1960s left such a profound intellectual and political legacy as the Sojourner Truth Organization. This deeply researched, balanced, and remarkable history shows how STO's practice intersected with its ideas, not only in relatively well-known campaigns attacking white-skin privilege but in shopfloor organizing and anti-imperialist solidarity as well.\" — Dave Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference \"Michael Staudenmaier has uncovered a crucial story of the New Left, one that has escaped the attention of most scholars of the era. The members Sojourner Truth Organization would have never have been content with today's so-called online organizing. They went directly to the shop-floor to argue for a better world, where the 'white blindspot' was opened to new visions of solidarity and progress. Staudenmaeir's skilled prose and meticulous research critically honors this history and draws lessons for us today.\" — James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times “Truth and Revolution is a guided tour of the worker militancy, revolutionary nationalist upsurge, and new social movement eruptions of the last forty years. Best of all, Staudenmaier breaks it all down for today’s social movements. Not to be missed.” — \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Staudenmaier is a veteran of anarchist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist movements, and is now a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives in Chicago with his wife Anne, and their two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Michael Staudenmaier\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849350976\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 387 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175106523229,"sku":"9781849350976","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1075_truthrev3_0.jpg?v=1654987449"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-pan-african-revolt","title":"A History of Pan-African Revolt","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus \u003cem\u003eThe Black Jacobins\u003c\/em\u003e) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. Robin D.G. Kelley’s substantial introduction contextualizes the work in the history and ferment of the times, and explores its ongoing relevance today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A History of Pan-African Revolt is one of those rare books that continues to strike a chord of urgency, even half a century after it was first published. Time and time again, its lessons have proven to be valuable and relevant for understanding liberation movements in Africa and the diaspora. Each generation who has had the opportunity to read this small book finds new insights, new lessons, new visions for their own age…. No piece of literature can substitute for a crystal ball, and only religious fundamentalists believe that a book can provide comprehensive answers to all questions. But if nothing else, A History of Pan-African Revolt leaves us with two incontrovertible facts. First, as long as Black people are denied freedom, humanity and a decent standard of living, they will continue to revolt. Second, unless these revolts involve the ordinary masses and take place on their own terms, they have no hope of succeeding.” Robin D.G. Kelley, from the Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I wish my readers to understand the history of Pan-African Revolt. They fought, they suffered—they are still fighting. Once we understand that, we can tackle our problems with the necessary mental equilibrium.” C.L.R. James\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kudos for reissuing C.L.R. James’s pioneering work on Black resistance. Many brilliant embryonic ideas articulated in A History Of Pan-African Revolt twenty years later became the way to study Black social movements. Robin Kelley’s introduction superbly situates James and his thought in the world of Pan-African and Marxist intellectuals.” Sundiata Cha-Jua, Penn State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A mine of ideas advancing far ahead of its time.” Walter Rodney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When one looks back over the last twenty years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of.” E.P. Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“C.L.R. James has arguably had a greater influence on the underlying thinking of independence movements in the West Indies and Africa than any living man.” Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout C.L.R. James\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the West Indies, C.L.R. 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Such are the difficulties, contradictions, and antagonisms; and in the solution of them society moves forward and men and women feel they have a role in the development of their social surroundings. It is in this movement that we have the possibility of a good life.\" —C.L.R. James, from \u003cem\u003eModern Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C.L.R. James. Originally delivered in 1960 as a series of lectures in his native Trinidad, these writings powerfully display his wide-ranging erudition and enduring relevance. From his analysis of revolutionary history (from the Athenian City-States through the English Revolution, Russian Revolution, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956), to the role of literature, art, and culture in society (from Charlie Chaplin to Pablo Picasso, via Camus and Eisenstein), to an interrogation of the ideas and philosophy of such thinkers as Rousseau, Lenin, and Trotsky, this is a magnificent tour de force from a critically engaged thinker at the height of his powers. An essential introduction to a body of work as necessary and illuminating for this century as it proved for the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When one looks back over the last twenty years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of.” E.P. Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“C.L.R. James is one of those rare individuals whom history proves right.” Race Today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"C.L.R. James has arguably had a greater influence on the underlying thinking of independence movements in the West Indies and Africa than any living man.” Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It remains remarkable how far ahead of his time he was on so many issues.” New Society\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“C.L.R. James has a special place in the history of Third World revolutionary movements. He combines Caribbean nationalism, Black radicalism, a once Trotskyist blend of revolutionary anti-imperialism, and the European classic tradition in an individual and potent mix. A mine of richness and variety.” Times Educational Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the West Indies, C.L.R. James is honored as one of the fathers of independence. In Britain he is feted as a historic pioneer of the black movement. 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A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AK’s, bats and beat downs … it was in the belly of the beast (prison) that ‘Monster’ underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug ‘Monster’ and emerging through a re-birth as ‘Sanyika Shakur,’ a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist.” — from the Foreword by Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of writings by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, formerly known as Monster Kody Scott, includes several essays written from within the infamous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit in the period around the historic 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strike, as well as two interviews conducted just before and after his release in Black August 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShakur rejects the easy answers and false solutions of the neocolonial age—integration and racism, the colonial-criminal mentality and subservience to imperialism—as the “oppo-sames” that they are. Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist (neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within. Defending the legacy of New Afrikans’ historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression. \u003cem\u003eStand Up, Struggle Forward\u003c\/em\u003e also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. As such, they provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement continues to be used as a tool of political repression against thousands of prisoners in California today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead one of the essays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"entry-title\"\u003eStudy and Struggle: An Overstanding\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Sanyika Shakur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWho Are We\u003c\/em\u003e, those of us who would build a national ‘black’ prisoners organization? There is much hard evidence to show that as each day passes, more and more ‘black’ prisoners identify themselves as \u003cem\u003eNew Afrikans\u003c\/em\u003e and work on behalf of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe New Afrikan Independence Movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e” (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eNotes from a New Afrikan P.O.W., Journal, Book Three\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"more-5604\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the expanse of a couple of decades, We’ve seen the political consciousness of prisoners grow in proportion with their overstanding of what it actually means to be a prisoner in amerikkka, but also as nationals of captive nations held in partial paralysis by u.s. imperialism. Prisoners have slowly begun to take an objective view of the matrix of u.s. colonialism from a dialectical perspective that informs Us that the settler government holds, dominates and exploits both external\/internal colonies. And that the old facade of “disadvantaged minorities” is giving way to the stark reality of submerged nations here under the blurry veneer of a so-called “united states.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis developing consciousness springs from a Revolutionary Nationalist overstanding of social development. Informed by even the most rudimentary application of dialectical materialism, one is easily drawn to the reality of New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and the Indigenous People being submerged and colonized – whole nations existing under the false patina of amerikkkanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater Our overstanding of this reality, the less We are believing in, or relying on, the old obviously false social construct of “race” to define Ourselves and other oppressed people. Color, or “race” as a binary term to describe the shallow differences between humans – which has no scientific basis in reality – is not a deep enough, not sound, or reasonable enough, overstanding We can see to explain, confront and resolve Our problems. It’s been said that “the color of freedom in amerikkka is green.” This tells Us something about the false construct of “race,” no? It hints at the \u003cem\u003efact\u003c\/em\u003e that under the rubble of “race” is bedrock. And that bedrock, that solid foundation, is economics. Is capitalism. We can’t even discuss, or We shouldn’t even discuss, “racism” without mentioning and combining it with capitalism. For capitalism built around it the social construct of “race” as a motto, a defense and a justification for prolonged activity. Capitalism is the \u003cem\u003ematerial \u003c\/em\u003emanifestation; “race” is the \u003cem\u003eshadow\u003c\/em\u003e, or immaterial reality of what’s casted – as a consequence of the original form. It’s not that it’s wholly unreal. We can \u003cem\u003esee \u003c\/em\u003eit. The shadow, i mean. We can even feel it, but it is but a reflection. We’ll exhaust Ourselves to the point of madness trying to combat it alone without applying destructive force to the material thing that it reflects. To be “anti-racist” is to be anti-capitalist. We become anti-racists by not using binary terms constructed to promote and sustain “race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Any attempt to destroy ‘racism’ without an explicit link to the struggle against capitalism ultimately serves only to reinforce ‘racist’ ideology and to shield capitalism from attack.  On the other hand, an attempt to combat capitalism without an explicit link to anti-racist discourse and struggle allows capitalism to use the belief in ‘race’ held by oppressed peoples and appeal to the ‘racism’ of citizens of the oppressive state, thus undermining all revolutionary initiative. This combat also requires that we begin to de-link ourselves from the use of language that reinforces and reproduces racial ideology, e.g. the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ in references to the identity of peoples.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrade Owusu Yaki Yakubu, \u003cem\u003eMeditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Our developing consciousness, which is necessarily New Afrikan, Revolutionary and Nationalist, We are needing new tools, new language, new ideas, means and ways to re-build Ourselves into a coherent whole for movement and struggle. We are talking about cadre development. This will come about only through arduous study and struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, here’s the basic thing: if you are calling yourself a New Afrikan, then you are at once saying that you are \u003cem\u003enot \u003c\/em\u003ean amerikkkan (of any stripe). You are rejecting the reactionary\/colonial identity placed arbitrarily on you by the enemy culture. You are implying that you are a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. Further, this means that you overstand that a \u003cem\u003eNew \u003c\/em\u003eAfrikan Nation exists and has existed, in north amerikkka, at least since 1660. Now, “nation” here is not to be confused with a \u003cem\u003estate \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003egovernment\u003c\/em\u003e. A nation is a cultural\/custom\/linguistic social development that is consolidated and evolves on a particular land mass and shares a definite collective awareness of itself. New Afrika, as a distinct entity, a total working-class \u003cem\u003enation\u003c\/em\u003e, has existed since 1660 here. The nation was given shape, name, general laws and a creed in 1968, with the founding of the Provisional Government by over 500 New Afrikan nationalists. Established at this historical convention was, The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, Code of Umoja (New Afrikan Constitution) and The New Afrikan Creed. A President, Vice-Presidents, People’s Center Councils and a People’s Revolutionary Leadership Council were elected to designate New Afrikan Population Districts, set up registration for a New Afrikan census, etc. This was the forming of a \u003cem\u003estate\u003c\/em\u003e, an organized body designed to coherently give shape and form to the already long existing New Afrikan nation. So, We are not trying to “create” a nation – the nation exists. We are trying to agitate, educate and organize the nation for land, independence and socialism. This can only be realized through revolution. And despite what We’ve recently seen in North Africa with their “Arab Spring,” We are under no illusions about Our struggle here being a protracted, long drawn out, revolutionary war. And, truthfully, necessarily so. We have a lot of cleansing to do after having been existing so close to the seat of world power for so long. We overstand Our level of contamination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are talking about being ideologically consistent. About pushing a particular line. Again, i want to go to the Comrade Yaki because his instructions are profound:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Angolan, Russian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, Cuban, Korean, Tanzanian – these are nationalities. Our nationality is New Afrikan. We don’t refer to ourselves as ‘black’ because We don’t base our nationality (nor our politics) on ‘race’ or color or a biological element of our being. Social factors are the primary determinations of our national identity (and Our politics)”.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the same reason, We don’t call ourselves “black” is also why We don’t call ourselves “African-American,” or “Negro,” “colored,” etc. These are \u003cem\u003echains, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich tie us to the plantation, to the colonial system. These are terms that substantiate, promote and sustain the colonial mentality and thus our oppression. Again, Comrade Yaki’s words instruct:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The ‘Native,’ the ‘Negro,’ the ‘colored,’ the ‘black’ and the ‘African-American’ have no identity apart from that given them by the colonizer – that is, not unless they RESIST colonialism, which entails: 1) their maintenance of an identity that is separate and distinct from that of the colonizer; 2) they begin to develop a NEW identity, through the process of ‘decolonization’ – through having remained separate and distinct, colonized people aren’t who they were prior to colonization and they can’t return to the past. Colonization has arrested their independent development, distorted who they are, and now they must become a NEW people during the process by which they regain their independence.”  (emphasis in original)\u003cbr\u003e– \u003cem\u003eMeditations…\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet’s go a bit into this. Those who are calling themselves “African-Americans” are doing so for two real reasons. First, of course, there is an inherent overstanding that runs thoroughly through the New Afrikan nation that We are not \u003cem\u003ereally \u003c\/em\u003eamerikkkans. That We are in fact a people\/nation unto Ourselves. This used to be widely overstood with little notion of anything to the contrary. \u003cem\u003eNeo-\u003c\/em\u003ecolonialism has worked obsessively to change this awareness. The rapid de-colonization (“de-segregation”) of the nation, beginning in the late 50s, ushered in a new (neo) more thoroughly, and dare i say, \u003cem\u003erevolutionary\u003c\/em\u003e, form of control and exploitation: \u003cem\u003eneo-colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e. “Blacks” took over from “Negroes” to lead the masses into an integrated lockstep with capitalism, while they (the misleaders) were awarded nominal positions in local and regional government posts. Because the bourgeois media postulated these class enemies as being “successful,” in a new and improved amerikkka, it fostered  an image (crafted by Madison Avenue) that anybody could make it. “Now that segregation is over, you can grow up to be anything you want.” Except free, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more integration (which was supposed to mean “freedom and equality”) We got, the worst Our predicament became. The more bourgeois “freedom and equality” We struggled to obtain, the more critical our existence became, the stronger the “black” bourgeoisie got – compounded a hundred times by the u.s. ruling class. The stronger the “black” bourgeoisie became, the more Our revolutionary leadership was attacked, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. The more this became so, the worse the hoods got. The worse the hoods got, the more street orgs began to proliferate. More dope, more guns, more pigs – more prisons. This is what the losing of a sense of self brings. Integration \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eneo-colonialism. And it’s reactionary nationalism. But it would be unfair to say it’s not \u003cem\u003eprogress\u003c\/em\u003e. It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eprogress – it’s just not progress in \u003cem\u003eOur \u003c\/em\u003einterest. We are moving forward, but it is towards Our annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “black” bourgeoisie worked in tandem with its masters to keep the chains on New Afrika. They overstood the strong Nationalist sentiment that ran through the nation. So in order to placate this sentiment and please their masters, the “black” bourgeoisie introduced the term “African-American.” A split personality that straddled an ocean and a colonial existence. But because our “leaders” said it was right and “after all” the masses said, “We are Africans” – Voila!  This, of course, is not scientific or a reflection of any real reality. It is a term used to maintain a colonial relationship with New Afrika – now being run by remote control through the antics and colorful animation of the “African-American” bourgeoisie. You see them in the Congressional Black Caucus, the higher echelons of the Prince Hall Masons, in the persons of Oprah, Jesse, Al Sharpton, Robert Johnson, etc. etc. They’ve been appointed by the u.s. ruling class to lead the masses – into a neo-colonial marriage with amerikkka. The “African American” bourgeoisie is conjoined (face to ass) with the u.s. ruling class and no surgery short of protracted people’s war will lose them and free Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe masses, by and large, are innocently confused – they can be redeemed. It is Our job as cadres to do that. Which is why it is so important to study and struggle – to build up your revolutionary ideological, philosophical and theoretical overstanding so as to be able to distinguish the real from the false. The righteous from the reactionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our vision must be emphasized in opposition to the imperialist and neo-colonialist perspectives. Our vision demands that We stress the need to establish New Afrikan state power as the PREREQUISITE for the long term resolution of colonial violence, bad housing, miseducation, poor health, no jobs, etc. At present, the orientation underlying mass struggle is primarily neo-colonialist. We ask the u.s. government to do things for Us. Our struggle is AGAINST the u.s. government, to secure the power to prevent it from doing things to us and so that We can do things for ourselves, under our own government. Each issue that the masses struggle around must be infused (by the people’s vanguard) with the idea than none of our problems can be solved until We achieve national independence.”\u003cbr\u003e– Atiba Shanna, \u003cem\u003eVita Wa Watu: A New Afrikan Theoretical Journal, Book 12.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing then, i’d like to simply emphasize the need to study and struggle. Study Revolutionary Nationalism and struggle around the issues that are affecting Us. And, too, it’s a beautiful thing to see more prisoners becoming conscious of themselves as New Afrikans. This too is a prerequisite to getting free. Change your mind and you can change your conditions. Overstanding and appreciating the reality of one’s situation gives one a greater sense of appreciation for other oppressed nationals in the same or similar predicaments. I’m gonna fall out with a quote by Comrade Yaki that pretty much sums it all up – Though first, I’d like to send a clenched fisted salute to all the comrades in Canada that make 4SM possible, as well as to Comrade Jaan Laaman, for his outstanding editorial work and his continuous revolutionary commitment. We feel you!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone claiming to attack racism while claiming that racism is the only thing wrong with this system, is either terribly confused or an outright enemy of the people and their interests. If We truly wanna get rid of racism, We have to overthrow capitalism … first.”\u003cbr\u003e– Comrad Yaki, \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRe-Build\u003cbr\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003cbr\u003ePelican Bay SHU – 47ADM*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*47 years after the death of Malik (Malcolm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i love his book \u003cem\u003eMonster\u003c\/em\u003e, because his military approach in things sets it up. One time there was a shooting in my block, and i asked the brother: ‘What do you think you are doing? Here, read this!’ And i gave him a copy of Monster. He took it real serious. Sanyika can reach people i can’t. Checking out his newest book, i’m glad he’s on our side.” —  Hondo T’chikwa, Spear \u0026amp; Shield Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Pentagon knows that the most famous soldier of his times never wore their uniform, but fought on the oppressed streets of L.A. Now, Sanyika Shakur is still a soldier for his people, but is a revolutionary teacher as well. His words here, his politics, are uncompromising as iron.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“i thought i’d wait a long time after \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e for a new work that would provide a major building block to rebuild the movement. But here it is. 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Wayne Price’s political insights also offer a framework through which anarchists can understand and use Marx, while remaining anarchists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is an insightful primer that sidesteps the typical anarchist vs. Marxist debates. Price presents Marx’s theory as an as-yet-unsurpassed explanation of contemporary capitalism, one that will aid in the task of overcoming the market and ushering in an era of collective, participatory control of the economy, inspired by anarchist political and ethical traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWayne Price is a long-time writer, theorist, and activist on the Left. He has been involved in a series of revolutionary libertarian-socialist organizations and has been active in dissident caucuses in teacher unions, human rights organizing, and the antiwar movement, from the Vietnam war to today. 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First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e500 Years of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Black Liberation Army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When \u003ce\u003e“When \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/e\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. On the subject of his own past, and the writing of \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e, he has said:\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley. Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. The wife lost it and screamed, \" People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e was finished. Even then i didn't believe there was any audience for it, and planned to only photocopy fifty copies of my typed draft for internal education in the underground black liberation army coordinating committee. Comrades with more sense than myself insisted that we publish it as a book if only for the liberation movement. Over the years, we took it through three editions, but finally it's time to hand it on to new publishers. Remember only, i wrote this with my life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175156166749,"sku":"9781629630373","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/2_settlers.jpg?v=1654987710"},{"product_id":"turning-money-into-rebellion-the-unlikely-story-of-denmark-s-revolutionary-bank-robbers","title":"Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark’s most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most captivating chapters from the European anti-imperialist milieu of the 1970s and ’80s; the Blekingegade Group had emerged from a communist organization whose analysis of the metropolitan labor aristocracy led them to develop an illegal Third Worldist practice. While members lived modest lives, over a period of almost two decades they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTurning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers\u003c\/em\u003e is the first-ever account of the story in English, covering a fascinating journey from anti-war demonstrations in the late 1960s via travels to Middle Eastern capitals and African refugee camps to the group’s fateful last robbery that earned them a record haul and left a police officer dead. The book includes historical documents, illustrations, and an exclusive interview with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0NTM5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/torkil-lauesen\" title=\"Torkil Lauesen\"\u003eTorkil Lauesen\u003c\/a\u003e and Jan Weimann, two of the group’s longest-standing members. It is a compelling tale of turning radical theory into action and concerns analysis and strategy as much as morality and political practice. Perhaps most importantly, it revolves around the cardinal question of revolutionary politics: What to do, and how to do it? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is a fascinating and bracing account of how a group of communists in Denmark sought to aid the peoples of the Third World in their struggles against imperialism and the dire poverty that comes with it. The book contains many valuable lessons as to the practicalities of effective international solidarity, but just as importantly, it is a testament to the intellectual courage of the Blekingegade Group.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Zak Cope, author of \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The story of how some pro-Palestinian activists become Denmark’s most successful bank robbers is more exciting than any thriller.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Åsa Linderborg, \u003cem\u003eAftonbladet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I am convinced that they never even took a nickel for themselves.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Jørn Moos, chief investigator in the Blekingegade Case\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Editor\/Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e is an Austrian-born author and translator. Among his publications with PM Press are \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics \u003c\/em\u003e(2010) and \u003cem\u003eAll Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Gabriel Kuhn\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-316-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175156887645,"sku":"9781604863161","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/b_turning_money.jpg?v=1654987713"},{"product_id":"the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control-1917-1921-the-state-and-counter-revolution","title":"The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921: The State and Counter-Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as a pamphlet in 1970, Maurice Brinton's \u003cem\u003eThe Bolsheviks and Workers' Control\u003c\/em\u003epresents a concise yet brilliant historical critique of revolutionary Russia from the year 1917 to 1921, from the Bolshevik's ascension to state power, up to--and in the aftermath of--Lenin and Trotsky's lethal suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis small volume offers a critical understanding of the history of the Russian Revolution that has too often been obscured by romanticized Leninist revision. With devastating documentation and attention to detail, Brinton's writing exposes the Bolshevik counter-revolution and its hostile resentment toward the self-mobilization of the Russian working class. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, Brinton's work illuminates crucial distinctions between workers' self-management of industry and workers control (an alternate idea coined by the Bolshevik dictatorship). In this way, his work asserts and defends the revolutionary idea that the working class itself can govern the affairs of society, outside of the authority of any state power or ruling class whatever its name or form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Maurice Brinton\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-0985890919\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 176 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: On Our Own Authority!\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"On Our Own Authority!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175166259293,"sku":"9780985890919","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/bolsheviksworkerscontrol.jpg?v=1654987753"},{"product_id":"marxs-capital-illustrated","title":"Marx's Capital Illustrated","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital. Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though first published in 1867, Capital remains keenly relevant. Society continues to run on investment and profit, labor and technology. And predictions that once might have seemed rash—global economic crisis, societies nearing bankruptcy—are now simply facts. Capital remains the fullest attempt to explain these facts, and Marx's Capital Illustrated brings this attempt to vibrant life, proceeding all the way from the ABCs to the pertinence of Marx's theory of crisis for today's global woes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFresh, funny, and copiously illustrated, this book is for everyone who wants better insight into Capital and capitalism. Readers of Marx, unite! You have found your starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavid Norman Smith has published widely on capitalism, charisma, authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, genocide, and critical theory. Among other works, he is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarx's Capital Illustrated (Haymarket, 2014)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarx's World: Asia, Africa, the Americas,and Capital Accumulation in Karl Marx's Late Manuscripts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Yale University Press, forthcoming). He teaches sociology at the University of Kansas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Valuable...in some respects more so than all the interpretations and popularizations I have read.\" –– C.L.R. 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In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator’s army and overthrow the dictatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuerrilla Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che’s corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e text—revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175189164125,"sku":"9781644211465","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/GuerrillaWarfareAuthoritative_Revised_NewEdition.jpg?v=1760282525"},{"product_id":"divided-world-divided-class-global-political-economy-and-the-stratification-of-labour-under-capitalism-second-edition","title":"Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePurchase of this book comes with free download of the ebook files (MOBI \u0026amp; EPUB). If you only want the ebook, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/divided-world-divided-class-global-political-economy-and-the-stratification-of-labour-under-capitalism-second-edition-copy\"\u003eclick here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to ‘false class consciousness’, ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. Rather, these and related forms of bigotry are concentrated expressions of the major social strata of the core capitalist nations’ shared economic interest in the exploitation and repression of dependent nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates not only how redistribution of income derived from super-exploitation has allowed for the amelioration of class conflict in the wealthy capitalist countries, it also shows that the exorbitant ‘super-wage’ paid to workers there has meant the disappearance of a domestic vehicle for socialism, an exploited working class. Rather, in its place is a deeply conservative metropolitan workforce committed to maintaining, and even extending, its privileged position through imperialism. The book is intended as a major contribution to debates on the international class structure and socialist strategy for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second edition includes new material such as data on growing inequality between the richest and poorest countries; data illustrating rising real wages in Imperial Britain; explication of the concepts of value, monopoly capital and unequal exchange and their ramifications for the global class structure; discussion of social imperialism on the left; responses to critiques surrounding the thesis of mass embourgeoisement through imperialism; as well as further information on a range of subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dr. Cope presents a thought provoking study of the political economy of the world system by focusing on the concept of a global labour aristocracy. Within the world system, which has also been described as a global apartheid system by some, enormous differences exist between workers’ wages and living conditions, depending on where the workers are located. The author details how a global labour aristocracy in core countries benefits at the expense of workers in periphery countries. The mechanisms supporting such a situation are identified as exploitation, imperialism and racism. The book is a valuable contribution to globalization critique.” — Gernot Köhler, Professor (retired) of Computer Studies at the Department of Computing and Information Management, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Wage System: A Study of International Wage Differences\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGlobal Economics: An Introductory Course\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How can we link the division between the poor and the rich people in one and any country and the division between the rich and poor nations together into an analytical framework? The answer lies in the concept of ‘the embourgeoisement of the working people’ of the rich core countries and the fact that colonialism and national chauvinism have gone hand in hand so as to breed a ‘labour aristocracy’. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about fairness. Zak Cope brings together brilliantly the concepts of nation, race and class analytically under the umbrella of capitalism, by situating racism in the class structure and by locating class in the context of the global economy.” — Mobo Gao, Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a surprising book. At a time when confusion about Globalization surrounds us, Zak Cope pulls us towards what is fundamental. He outlines the 19th \u0026amp; 20th century recasting of the diverse human world into rigid forms of oppressed colonized societies and oppressor colonizing societies. A world divide still heavily determining our lives. Working rigorously in a marxist-leninist vein, the author focuses on how imperialism led to a giant metropolis where even the main working class itself is heavily socially bribed and loyal to capitalist oppression. Much is laid aside in his analysis, in order to concentrate on only what he considers the most basic structure of all in world capitalist society. This is writing both controversial and foundational at one and the same time.” — J. Sakai, author of \u003cem\u003eSettlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Divided World Divided Class is valuable to a wide audience, especially those unfamiliar with the history of imperialism, the unequal exchange paradigm, and its impact on class structure. It should be a wake-up call to advocates for the exploited classes of the global South as they attempt to develop a twenty-first-century praxis, and as they engage with advocates for workers in the global North—without denying activists in the global North a role in helping to change the world in favor of the exploited peoples of the world. It reaffirms, with an impressive breadth and depth of evidence and argument, that the Northern workers must help fight for democratic sovereignty in the global South—even if it appears to be against their material interests to do so.\" — Professor Timothy Kerswell, University of Macau, Department of Government and Public Administration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eKersplebedeb Statement on Zak Cope's About Face (Aug. 16 2024)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTLDR: Zak Cope has renounced his former anti-imperialist views and has embraced “the West,” zionism, and the legacies and ongoing realities of colonialism and imperialism. Kersplebedeb Publishing stands by Zak’s previous work and is saddened to see him now embracing the structures of oppression, exploitation, and genocide which he previously had stood against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLONGER VERSION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe at Kersplebedeb Publishing were surprised to learn (to say the least) that Zak Cope, author of \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e—which we published two editions of in 2012 and 2015, respectively—has had a dramatic change of opinion on seemingly every aspect of political economy in the last year (he implies that it was sparked by the events of October 7, 2023). In the \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics \u003c\/em\u003e(2024), which Cope edited and to which he contributed two chapters, he describes his “personal and intellectual commitment to free markets, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law and the conservative and classical liberal values that uphold the same.” He declares his support for “the people of... Israel in their just struggle to overcome the imperialist and totalitarian forces bent on their destruction.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite this description of the opponents of the zionist state as “imperialist,” it is not clear whether Cope—who has been mainly known as a prominent theorist of anti-imperialism and defender of the theory of a global labour aristocracy—now thinks imperialism does not exist or just that it is a good thing. He compares foreign direct investment from the Global North into the Global South to “people who spend less than they earn... loan[ing] to those who spend more than they earn.” He denies that there is anything morally problematic in this relationship, arguing to the contrary that “free trade can and has led to historically unprecedented reductions in poverty rates worldwide.” He states that “Europe’s industrialization and economic take-off was largely endogenous, driven by technological innovation, entrepreneurship, liberal institutions, and scientific culture,” while “Colonialism and the slave trade played a relatively minor role.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope now espouses right-wing shibboleths, such as the historically ignorant view that Nazi Germany was socialist (!) or that a domination of the social sciences by Marxism and postcolonialism (“the academic study of the cultural, political, and economic legacies of colonialism and imperialism,” as he defines it) has “seriously curtailed academic freedom.” He derisively refers to the concept of “European, Western, and ‘White’ oppression, exploitation, and racism,” a use of scare quotes implying that he views the entire concept of whiteness as being of questionable analytic utility, at a minimum. (Elsewhere, he uses scare quotes on “First World” and “Third World,” as well as “core” and “periphery.”) He approvingly cites Thatcher’s aphorism about socialism being broken by its dependence on an exhaustible supply of “other people’s money.” He rejects the labour theory of value and calls “counter[ing] anti-capitalism with reasoned, fact-based, and historically grounded argument... one of the most urgent cultural and political challenges of our time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a footnote, he “retract[s]” \u003cem\u003eDivided World \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Wealth of Some Nations \u003c\/em\u003e(which he published with Pluto Press in 2019) for the reason that they are “based on Marxist views that are outright false or misleadingly one-sided.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe share Cope’s desire to make a clear distinction between his past work and his output today and going forward—barring a second 180° degree rotation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCope’s argument in \u003cem\u003eDivided World Divided Class\u003c\/em\u003e and similar writings was nothing more nor less than an assertion of the humanity of the people of the Third World (or Global South) and an attempt to explain their dehumanization in the realm of ideas (racism and national chauvinism) by reviewing their position in the realm of economics, as those who produce most of the world's enormous wealth yet receive scarcely any of its benefit. If there was a weakness to his approach, it was his reliance on a lot of numbers and statistics and math (themselves often the mystifying product of bourgeois economics) to show what could be illustrated much more simply and clearly in more concrete terms. 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I found myself thinking about the famous phrase, attributed to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, to the effect that ‘...the truth is always revolutionary.’  To which I would add, no matter how challenging it may be to address it.” -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Divided\u003c\/em\u003e; syndicated columnist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A long overdue second appearance as it was singularly the most outstanding contribution in the checkered history of the anti-revisionist movement in Britain … an exciting, fertile exploration to developing the need to make concrete and relevant the general theses adopted in the 1960s.” -- Sam Richards, \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism Online\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Biel teaches political ecology at University College London and is the author of The New Imperialism and The Entropy of Capitalism. 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By translating and presenting for the first time many letters previously overlooked by other volumes, this collection greatly expands what the English-speaking world knows of him, both politically and personally. These extracts from his pre-prison correspondence—with his wife and her sister, international communist leaders, and fellow Italian revolutionaries—show his most important ideas at their beginnings, and give a well rounded picture of Gramsci's political, intellectual, and emotional development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party, and among the twentieth century's most influential theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection of Gramsci's early correspondence provides new insight into his life and work. 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