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Reading Afghanistan: Books to help you understand the quagmire | rabble.ca
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Richard Seymour, a young British writer, rips the humanitarian veil off of this apologia for imperialism, and traces its long history -- everybody from the infamous, inebriated turncoat Christopher Hitchens, to born-again Canadian Michael Ignatieff, to John Stuart Mill (whose 'defense of liberty' proved less than vigorous when it came to colonial subjects) gets taken to task for their warmongering in Seymour's tour de force debut, The Liberal Defense of Murder.
CPUSA Online - African American Communist: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
"W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He encountered socialist ideas while he was studying in Germany, where he occasionally attended rallies of the German Social Democratic Party. A pioneer of U.S. sociology and prolific author, Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was the first editor of its journal the Crisis."
The End of Poverty? « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
"The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting o
In Defence of Marxism - Austrian Marxists organise solidarity event with Iranian workers
"On the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution Marxists in Austria organised a public meeting to discuss what really happened in 1979, explaining how what was a genuine workers' revolution was hijacked by the Islamic fundamentalists due to the lack of
New DVD Screening: Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War - Friday, January 31 | Revolution by the Book : The AK Press Blog
"Shutdown is an action-packed documentary chronicling how DASW successfully organized effort to shut down a major US city and how they failed to effectively maintain the organization to fight the war machine and end the occupation of Iraq."
FRSO: Build a Fighting Workers Movement « The Marxist-Leninist
"The following is a new pamphlet on class struggle unionism from the Labor Commission of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It helps give the lay of the land in the labor movement in the U.S. today and gives some particular guidance to communists intend
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Central Committee: Theses on Socialism « The Marxist-Leninist
"The following is a document summing up the experience of revolution and counter-revolution in the USSR submitted by the Central Committee f the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to the Party’s 18th Congress. I am posting the theses here as an important Mar
Expose Yourself to Marx: Seattle General Strike Feb 6 1919
"On the morning of February 6, 1919, Seattle, a city of 315,000 people, stopped working. 25,000 union members had joined the 35,000 already on strike."
Palestine Inside Out: an Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi
"How the “peace process” has made life impossible for ordinary Palestinians."
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
This documentary about the struggle of the ANC is such a great piece of work. Everyone should find 2 hours in their day to watch this.
"Through a chronological history of the South African liberation struggle, this documentary cites examples of the way
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
"Throughout, Ahmed not only considers the Islamic texts in which central ideologies about women and gender developed or were debated but also places this discourse in its social and historical context. Her book is thus a fascinating survey of Islamic deba
flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » (re)thinking walking: Walk One
Oddly enough, the achievement of Sacagawea is not so much that she did what she did–but that she did it while existing at the same place so many of us are at today–disabled, gendered, criminalized, abused, raped, in pain, absent of family and far away fro
The Urban Agriculture of Havana - Monthly Review
"Over the last fifteen years, Cuba has developed one of the most successful examples of urban agriculture in the world. Havana, the capital of Cuba, with a population of over two million people, has played a prominent, if not dominant role, in the evoluti
Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria | World news | The Guardian
"During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem. In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the
ei: George Habash's contribution to the Palestinian struggle
One year ago, today.
"I lived more than half of my life in the US and I never felt the alienation that I felt on the day I read George Habash, the Palestinian revolutionary who passed away last week, labeled as a "terrorism tactician" in a front page obi
Socialism or Zionism: tale of two grandads|24Jan09|Socialist Worker
"The rise of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s was resisted not by Zionists but by the Communist Party, which recruited heavily among Jewish immigrants already steeped in socialist tradition.
The majority of Jews saw the links between racial opp
Why Cuba Still Matters - Monthly Review
"the fact that Cuban socialism has survived the extraordinary rigors of the “Special Period” and is still functioning nearly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall should give pause for thought. Even the prolonged incapacity of Fidel Castro and hi
В День памяти В.И. Ленина к Мавзолею пришли тысячи граждан. Г.А.Зюганов: Никакого надругательства над мемориалом героев советской эпохи на Красной площади мы не допустим! - KPRF.RU
"Speaking to reporters, GA. Zyuganov drew their attention to the huge number of people who came to Red Square. So Leninist ideals are not only alive but have new vibrancy.
Обращаясь к журналистам, Г.А. Зюганов обратил их внимание на огромное количество л
Biblical Views: Breaking the Trend of Biblical “Breaking News” | Biblical Archaeology Review
"In the current issue's Biblical Views column, Dr. Craig Evans warns us of the media's tendency to sensationalize announcements that concern the Bible, Jesus or Christian origins. He maintains that such treatment of subjects of dubious worth will harden t
Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought edited by Arif Dirlik, et. al.
"Here, distinguished contributors from a variety of disciplines offer a critical reevaluation of Mao Zedong's thought in light of post-Mao developments in Marxism in general, and Chinese Marxism in particular. Conceptually, the essays share common ground
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