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The FBI, COINTELPRO, And Martin Luther King, Jr.: Final Report Of The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence AThe final report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, describing the decade-long effort by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit and "neutralize" the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover considered the civil rights movement to be "Communist", and did everything...
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Twelve Who Don't Agree: The Battle for Freedom in Putin's Russia"Portraits of a group of mostly young Muscovites . . . Some of Panyushkin's] sketches are political fables of inspiring selflessness and courage" (Star Tribune). In Twelve Who Don't Agree, journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles twelve Russians from across the country's social spectrum, including: a...
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Ebonics Is GoodAuthor: Abdul Karim BanguraPublisher: CognellaPublished: 09/02/2010Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781609279011
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies)Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often-neglected laboring majority. Employing a blend of economic, social, and...
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin AmericaBananeras] is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged.--Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and ResistanceWomen banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives....
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the sixties and seventies. An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from G ran Hugo Olsson's...
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an AnalogyIn Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today's movement for justice in Palestine. Contributors include Andy...
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Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Nature and the Social OrderFrom the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects provides a scathing critique of orthodox views and government policy, and outlines other paths that can lead to better understanding an...
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Theories of Ideology: The Powers of Alienation and SubjectionThe emergence of ideology theories marked a re-foundation of Marxist research into the functioning of alienation and subjection. Going beyond traditional concepts of 'manipulation' and 'false consciousness', they turned to the material existence of hegemonic apparatuses and focused on the mostly unconscious effects of...
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Keywords: The New Language of CapitalismKeywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators...
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Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State ResilienceSyria has been at the center of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent and murderous repression by the Assad regime. Eight years on, Joseph Daher analyzes the resilience of the regime and...
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Reminiscences of LeninNadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a founding member of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924. As both his closest political collaborator and personal confidant, Krupskaya offers invaluable insights into the life and thought of...
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Lessons of OctoberIn this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the Bolshevik Party in leading Russian workers...
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US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: Essays on a New RealityThe Electoral College's selection of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States continues to shock on many levels. A transition from the first African American president to someone who made racism a cornerstone of his campaign is one element. Another is that...
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1905In January of 1905, thousands of Russian workers, led by a priest on the payroll of the Tsar himself, marched to the gates of the Winter Palace with the intention of humbly petitioning their ruler for an eight hour work day. They were met...
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Revolution TodaySusan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life?Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of...
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Marxism and Social MovementsMarxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social-movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements. Exploring struggles on six continents over...
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Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary SyndicalismDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the trade union movement. Committed to destroying capitalism through direct industrial action and revolutionary trade union struggle, the movement raised fundamental questions for activists...
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Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle EastWhile the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region's political economy over recent decades. In this...
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The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation"A compelling explanation of the deep-seated mechanisms at work in the international credit system" from the coauthor of Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank (Counterfire).For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for...
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