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Series: Hand on the Sun Paperback Tariq Mehmood 9781988832586 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

This new and expanded edition of Tariq Mehmood's first novel, first published by Penguin Books in 1983, charting the experience of the second generation migrants to the UK. Set in the declining textile industry of the North of England, it is a raw story of pain and anger at the relentlessness of British racism, from the street to the state - a story of an unquenchable desire for justice, and reclaiming human dignity. A dignity that is wrapped around new questions of Identity, a crossroad between religion, language, history and resistance. It is... + Read More
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Series: Episodes From a Colonial Present Paperback Daniel Bendix 9781990263460 $53.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

Postcolonial critique deconstructs global inequality in its epistemic and material dimensions. This collective comic project illuminates everyday life's coloniality as well as the decolonising potential of everyday struggles in the spaces, discourses and practices of so-called 'global development'.
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Series: From Citizen to Refugee Uganda Asians Come to Britain New Introduction Paperback Mahnood Mamdani 9781990263514 $20.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2022

In his introduction to this third edition, Mahmood Mamdani reflects on the lessons since the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. How come, he asks, over 90% of residents of the country, brown or black, would not want to return to the days and years before the 1972 expulsion? The expulsion cannot just be understood as an event that occurred in 1972. He concludes, tere is no one Asian legacy. There are several, and they are contradictory. Not all are legacies we would like to wipe out from our collective memories. Some we would like to build on; oth... + Read More
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Series: Slave King Rebels Against Empire - A Novel Paperback Basem L. Ra'ad 9781990263521 $34.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2023

Slave King recreates a major slave revolt in Sicily led by a Syrian magus turned leader, circa 140-132 BCE, decades before Spartacus. He forges a coalition of slaves, farmers and herders to defeat Roman armies and establish an egalitarian entity. The novel uses biased ancient sources but challenges them to speak for the oppressed and present alternative cultural-historical perspectives. Among its chapters are scenes of exorcism, ancient marriage customs and a play.
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Series: Religion, Politics and Society A Progressive Primer Paperback Karim F. Hirji 9781990263125 $57.00 RELIGION Dec 15, 2022

Written by Karim F Hirji, a retired professor of Medical Statistics,Religion, Politics and Societyfocuses on the four major global religionsâ€"Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islamâ€"together with minor religions like the Ahmadiyya, Confucianism, Sikhism, Seventh Day Adventism and Traditional African Religion as well as on Secularism, New Age beliefs and the ancient Paleolithic and Neolithic era belief systems to explore the origin, spiritual import and social function of religion in human society. Utilizing the canons, beliefs, practices,... + Read More
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Series: Singing to Liberation Songs of Freedom and Nights of Resistance in Indian Universities Paperback Suddhabrata Deb Roy 9781990263491 $25.00 HISTORY Mar 01, 2023

Cultural Resistance in India has a rich and long history - right from the days in which the British ruled over the country. Protest music occupies a central position in the organisational fabric of contemporary Indian progressive and revolutionary politics. Cultural organisations such as Indian People's Theatre Association and JANAM, have been crucial parts of the progressive movement in the country, along with martyrs such as Safdar Hashmi who was killed by the hooligans appointed by the then ruling party in 1989 while attempting to put up a t... + Read More
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Series: White Saviorism in International Development Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences Paperback Themrise Khan 9781990263187 $30.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023

Given the growing interest in understanding the meaning, manifestations, analyses and implications of racism in North/South relations, White Saviorism in International Development seeks to remedy the shortcomings of the development studies literature on the prevalence of White Saviorism in Western development initiatives in the Global South. The volume comprises theoretical chapters, testimonies, stories and lived experiences from 19 contributors from across the Global South. With sensitivity and intelligence, these practitioners and academics ... + Read More
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Series: Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse, The Paperback Charles Reitz 9781990263446 $43.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 2022

Inspired by the revolutionary legacy of Herbert Marcuse's social and political philosophy, this volume appeals to the energies of those engaged in a wide range of contemporary social justice struggles: ecosocialism, antiracism, the women's movement, LGBTQ rights, and antiwar forces. Marcuse argued that U.S.-led globalized capitalism represented the irrational perfection of waste and the degradation of the earth, resurgent sexism, racism, bigoted nationalism, and warlike patriotism. The intensification of these regressive political tendencies to... + Read More
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Series: Settler Colonialism Paperback Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9781990263507 $27.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 01, 2022

Settler Colonialism examines the genesis in the USA of the first full-fledged settler state in the world, which went beyond its predecessors in 1492. The text originates from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2021) "Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
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Series: Mental health and Human Rights in Palestine The Lfe of Gaza's Pioneering Psychiatrist Dr Eyad Sarraj Paperback Wasseeem el Serraj 9781990263378 $29.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2022

This is a biography of the life of Dr Eyad El Sarraj, Gaza's pioneering psychiatrist and founder of the Gaza Community Mental Healthcare Programme, written by his son, Wasseem El Sarraj. It is also a history of Palestine with a focus on Gaza. Eyad's life was intimately intertwined with Palestine's struggles so his choices and reactions reflected many of the major historical moments of the last 70 years. The book is an effort to provide a perspective on how the forces around him impacted his life, and how he took control of what he could achieve... + Read More
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Series: International Brigade Against Apartheid Secrets of the People's War That Liberated South Africa North American and East Africa edition Paperback Ronnie Kasrils 9781990263415 $37.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2022

We hear for the first time from the internationalist secretly working for the ANCâ€™s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in neighbouring states and within South Africa, helped infiltrate combatants across borders, and smuggled tons of weapons into the country in the most creative ways. Driven by a spirit of international solidarity, they were prepared to take huge risks and face great danger. The internationalists reveal what motivated th... + Read More
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Series: Insurrectionary Uprisings A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence and Decolonization Paperback Wende Marshall 9781988832999 $46.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 04, 2022

Insurrectionary Uprisings is a compendium of essays that explore what it will take to win a world based on love and justice. From historical writing, including Thoreau, Gandhi and Arendt, to essays that address the multiple crises we face in the 21st century, the volume brings together authors and thinkers from around the globe. With an emphasis on the quotidian violence of racial monopoly capitalism and Western imperialism, Insurrectionary Uprisings insists that the possibility of revolutionary nonviolence rests, in part, on decolonization and... + Read More
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Series: Nigeria and the Challenge of Federalism Paperback Ike Okonta 9781990263392 $16.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2022

The book identifies three key moments in NigeriaÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s experience with federalism and makes the argument that a complex and socially-diverse country like Nigeria can only be successfully governed by a truly federal arrangement, and not the present unitary contraption that has only delivered poverty, social unrest and the powerful centrifugal forces that are now threatening the very existence of the country itself. The time has come, write Ike Okonta, to convene a conference with sovereign powers to design a federal constitution fo... + Read More
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Series: Mutiny of Morning A Black Appropriation of Heart of Darkness Paperback Nikesha Breeze 9781990263354 $41.00 POETRY Jan 26, 2022

Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and spiritual road map. The resulting poems are sizzling purifications, violent restorations of integrity, pain, wound, bewilderment, rage, and, sometimes, luminous generosity. his is a work of Reclamation. The author, Ni... + Read More
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Series: Life Histories from the Revolution Three Militants from the Kenya Land and Freedom Army Tell Their Stories Paperback Karigo Muchai 9781990263132 $29.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 13, 2022

In the early 1970s, Donald Barnett -- who worked with Karari Njama to produce Mau Mau From Within (published by Daraja Press) -- also worked with three militants of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army to enable them to tell the story of their experience in fighting for freedom and against British colonialism. These rarely acknowledged militants were Karigo Muchai, Ngugi Kabiru and Mohamed Mathu. Their stories were published in 1973 by LSM Information Center (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada) as part of a series entitled Life Histories of the Revo... + Read More
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Series: Racism, Capitalism, and COVID19 Pandemic Paperback Zophia Edwards 9781990263316 $17.00 MEDICAL Oct 25, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting nonwhite racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, are race neutral or willfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. This piece seeks to understand how the unremitting super-exploitation of Black and other nonwhite racialized labor in the core and the periphery persisted throughout the COVID-19 crisis through the lens o... + Read More
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Series: Agroecología Abolicionista, Soberanía Alimentaria y Prevención de Pandemias Paperback Maywa Montenegro de Wit 9781990263293 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 04, 2021

COVID-19 ha expuesto la naturaleza racializada de los sistemas alimentarios, pero también potencialmente otorga oportunidades para construir de nuevo. Maywa Montenegro explora una serie de averías, desde cadenas de suministro fracturadas hasta infecciones incontroladas entre trabajadores de alimentos esenciales, entre comunidades negras, marrones e indígenas atravesadas por el virus a lo largo de viejos surcos de opresión racial y de clase. Ella rastrea los orígenes probables de COVID-19 a los sitios de derrame forjados por la expansión agroind... + Read More
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Series: Social Media and Capitalism People, Communities and Commodities Paperback Suddhabrata Deb Roy 9781988832890 $31.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 28, 2021

Technology is one of the central elements of contemporary human life. The world as one knows it today is a space increasingly mediated by technological interventions, be it in the field of contemporary cultural expressions or political, organizational forms. Social media has played an important role in this transformation. Gone are the days when social media was merely a conduit for conversations. Today, it is a diverse field of operations spanning advertising mechanisms, branding processes and even direct commercial exchanges between users: th... + Read More
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Series: El Significado Revolucionario de la Revuelta de George Floyd Paperback Shemon Salam 9781990263286 $20.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 24, 2021

No hubo nada más que oscuridad en la primavera de 2020 cuando la pandemia de Covid-19 se enfureció y cerró la economía. Pero mientras que los manifestantes de derecha exigieron el fin del cierre de emergencia, un conflicto mucho más grande se estaba gestando bajo la superficie. Una rebelión exploto en Minneapolis en respuesta al asesinato policial de George Floyd, y durante la rebelion una estación de policía fue tomada y prendido fuego. Después de esto la revuelta se extendió rápidamente por todo los Estados Unidos. Los manifestantes saquearon... + Read More
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Series: Fanon Today Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth Paperback Nigel C. Gibson 9781990263019 $42.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 07, 2021

Frantz Fanon died sixty years ago in December 1961. In less than a decade, from 1952 to 1961, he wrote three books (Black Skin White Masks, (1952), A Dying Colonialism (1959) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961)) that have become recognized as classics of decolonization. After nearly four years working at Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in colonial Algeria, he officially joined the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) and began working full-time for the Algerian revolution while continuing his work as a psychiatrist in Tunis, where he opene... + Read More
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Series: Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture Could Agriculture Prevent Further Pandemics? Paperback Pandemic Research for the People 9781988832975 $20.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 16, 2021

Pathogens repeatedly are emerging from a global agrifood system rooted in inequality, labor exploitation, and unfettered extractivism by which communities are robbed of their natural and social resources. A crisis-prone economic system that prioritizes production for profit over meeting human needs and ecological preservation is organized around intense monocultural production that, along the way, allows the deadliest of diseases to emerge. The Pandemic Research for the People (PReP) focuses on how agriculture might be reimagined as the kind of... + Read More
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Series: Transforming the World, Transforming Ourselves An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Paperback Brian Murphy 9781988832937 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 04, 2021

This book is for all those - community workers, adult educators, social activists of every kind - who want to overcome pessimism and play a part in changing society in the direction of peace, justice and dignity for all human beings. As author Brian Murphy-- the independent analyst, organizer, educator and writer, and former staff member of the social justice organization, Inter Pares--points out, many of us are pessimistic about our ability to change the world when confronted by destructive political and corporative forces and the destruction ... + Read More
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Series: Aporias de Moçambique Póscolonial Estado, Sociedade e Capital Paperback Boaventura Monjane 9781988832739 $32.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 09, 2021

Este livro escrutina o impacto significativo da independ√™ncia em diferentes sectores da sociedade moçambicana. Quarenta e cinco anos após a independ√™ncia, Moçambique conheceu várias transformaç√µes. O Moçambique pós-colonial é hoje, em muitos aspectos, diferente do Moçambique colonial. No entanto, existem muitas quest√µes permanentes relativas a essas transformaç√µes e ao seu impacto na maioria do povo moçambicano. Ao salientar as contradiç√µes de todos os processos políticos e sociais em Moçambique pós-colonial, neste livro levantamos quest√... + Read More
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Series: Lenin150 (Samizdat) Expanded edition Expanded edition Paperback Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn 9781988832876 $53.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 18, 2020

For all the official historiographic efforts at forging a mythologised image of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov as the austere, no-nonsense, professional revolutionary, the really existing flesh and blood Lenin understood and appreciated that the most materialist action an individual must carry out without fault to metabolise the struggle for communism is to breathe. Not just biologically respire but consciously breathe. Breathe for oneself and breathe for and with others. If it is indeed our desire to breathe new life into the long choking red star, a... + Read More
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Series: Decolonization and Afro-Feminism Paperback Sylvia Tamale 9781988832494 $45.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 10, 2020

Why do so many Africans believe they cannot break the "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" cycle? Six decades after colonial flags were lowered and African countries gained formal independence, the continent struggles to free itself from the deep legacies of colonialism, imperialism and patriarchy. Many intellectuals, politicians, feminists and other activists, eager to contribute to Africa's liberation, have frustratingly, felt like they took the wrong path. Analyzed through the eyes of Afro-feminism, this book revisits some of the fundamenta... + Read More
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Series: Jackson Rising The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black SelfDetermination in Jackson, Mississippi Paperback Kali Akuno 9780995347458 $27.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 11, 2017

Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in this collection of essays Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Self-Determination in Jackson Mississippi. Undeterred by the uncertainty, anxiety and fear brought about by the steady deterioration of the neoliberal order over the last few years, the response from Black activists of Jackson, Mississippi has been to organiz... + Read More
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Series: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Kenya Paperback Zarina Patel 9780995347472 $20.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 09, 2017

At the turn of the twentieth century, the print media in India was highly developed and very active in the country's liberation struggle. Hence South Asian migrants who came to Kenya were well aware of the importance of the press in advancing the anti-colonial campaign. The first Indian-owned newspaper in Kenya was the African Standard which Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee established in 1901 in his fight for equal rights. That paper continues to serve Kenyans today as The Standard. Nationalist Indians started several newspapers but were dogged by fina... + Read More
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Series: Tishio La Ukombozi Ubeberu na Mapinduzi Zanzibar Paperback Amrit Wilson 9780995222328 $33.00 HISTORY Nov 01, 2016

Tishio la Ukombozi examines the role of the Umma Party of Zanzibar and its leader in the turbulent years of the Zanzibar revolution of the 1960s that was perceived in those Cold War years as a threat to the interests of the US and Europe. Based on declassified US and British documents, in-depth interviews and information released by WikiLeaks, Amrit Wilson offers an insightful and compelling analysis of the struggle against neo-colonialism as it played out in Zanzibar and what is now Tanzania. She introduces the reader to the movement that buil... + Read More