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The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter"What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns." --Wilfred Owen, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and...
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Praktischer Idealismus: Der Kalergi-Plan zur Zerstörung der europäischen VölkerBei dem Tiefstand des Blut- und Geistesadels war es nicht zu verwundern, da eine dritte Menschenklasse provisorisch die Macht an sich ri die Plutokratie. Die Verfassungsform, die Feudalismus und Absolutismus abl ste, war demokratisch; die Herrschaftsform plutokratisch. Heute ist Demokratie Fassade der Plutokratie: weil...
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Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of AusterityTo put it plainly then: the vast majority of people tasked with creating our media simply lack the sensibilities that have always driven artistic innovation. The 2010s have been a double-edged decade. Socioeconomic factors have led to the widespread and increased disenfranchisement of poorer...
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International Relations TheoryThis book is designed as a foundational entry point to International Relations theory. As a beginner's guide, it has been structured to condense the most important information into the smallest space and present that information in the most accessible manner.The first half of the...
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The Flechas: Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965-1974In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast...
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Ib Skills: Individuals and Societies - A Practical GuideFrom IB Publishing, in cooperation with Hodder Education. Help students to understand the key and related concepts and build the skills they need to reach the highest level of the assessment criteria. IB Skills is an innovative new series of resources for years 4...
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Durruti in the Spanish RevolutionDurruti was the ultimate working-class hero: carrying the future in his heart and a gun in each pocket. Abel Paz's magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of Spanish anarchism."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of SlumsAK Press has commissioned an elegant, new and unabridged translation...
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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of CrimeCriminal exploits, secret agent intrigue, and clever -disguises fill the pages of Francois Eugene Vidocq's memoirs. A legendary figure in history, Vidocq is known as the first detective and an inspiration to great writers such as Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Edgar Allen...
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Categories of Revolutionary Military PolicyAn educational exploration of the concepts of military doctrine, strategy, tactics, operational art, bases of support, guerilla zones, liberated territories, and more. A study of what has been tried in the past, where different strategies worked, and where they failed, all from a perspective...
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People Without Government: An Anthology of AnarchyThis text seeks to show that anarchy, as the absence of government, is neither chaos nor some Utopian dream, but a system which has characterized much of the human past.Author: Alex ComfortPublisher: Kahn & AverillPublished: 12/31/1998Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.45h x 5.41w x...
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People's War: New Light on the Struggle for South AfricaMore than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it...
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To Kill a NationDrawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.Author: Michael ParentiPublisher: VersoPublished: 08/17/2002Pages:...
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Anarchism in Latin AmericaThe available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of ngel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is one of the...
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Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of LiberalismTaking Sides is more than a book; it's a politic aimed at the heart of every radical struggling against a racist state. --Luis A. Fernandez, author of Policing DissentTaking Sides is a critical response to divisive debates within current movements against police violence and...
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Arab Spring, Libyan WinterThe Arab Spring captivated the planet. Mass action overthrew Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far corners of the Arab world, from Morocco to Bahrain. It seemed as if all the authoritarian states would finally be freed,...
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The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for RecognitionThe Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by frequent episodes of ethnic cleansing, mass dispossession,...
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The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: 1300-1700First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shaping Ethiopian history. This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's development,...
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Subaltern Studies and the PostcolonialInspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of 'history from below'. Later on, the project shifted from its...
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The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald TrumpThe rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's...
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Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al ShabaabThe East African group Al Shabaab is one of the century's most successful violent jihadist movements. Now over a decade old, its staying power has defied local and international efforts to destroy it, including US drone attacks and an African Union force. It also...
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