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Haymarket Books Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of the 20th century. As stated by historian J. Arch Getty, 'Lenin deserves a lot of credit for the notion that the meek can inherit the earth, that there can be a political movement based on social justice and equality.' Putting this belief into practice, Leninism was the application of Marxist ideas that led the 1917 fight for liberation and political independence among the working classes in Russia. Now Paul Le Blanc weighs in on the fierce controversy surrounding Lenin's life, personality and ideas.
£15.98
Haymarket Books Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past: Essays on Marxism and History
Neil Davidson explores classic themes in historical materialism and Marxism as he explains concepts such as the moments of transition from the dominance of one mode of production to another (industrialisation), the process of social revolution which has always accompanied these transitions (unionisation) and the problem of nationalism, both as a theoretical challenge to Marxism's capacity for historical explanation and as a practical obstacle to socialist consciousness. Holding Fast to an Image of the Past is a fresh take on the history of Marxism.
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Haymarket Books Schtick
Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents. It is a sweeping exposition on Jewish-American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory and inventive glory. Exploring how Jews shed minority status in America - in his own family and in culture and politics at large - up-and-coming poet Kevin Coval illustrates a people's transformation out of diaspora, landing on both sides of the colour line. Coval has been described as a new, glowing voice in the world of literature' by Studs Terkel.'
£13.06
Haymarket Books Weaving Transnational Solidarity: From The Catskills To Chiapas And Beyond: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 24
Weaving Transnational Solidarity from the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond analyzes the grassroots, economic justice work of three groups-two Mexican organizations, Jolom Mayaetik, Mayan women's weaving cooperative, and K'inal Antzetik, NGO in the highlands of Chiapas, and an informal, international solidarity network. The book provides scholar-activist, ethnographic case study data which contributes to understanding collective organization, and indigenous rights.
£25.45
Haymarket Books The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
Amy Goodman and her colleague Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, 'Breaking the Sound Barrier', for King Features Syndicate in 2006. Following the success of Goodman's book of the same name, The Silenced Majority gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power - and refusing to be silent.This fascinating collection pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into political issues facing readers today.
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Haymarket Books Lessons For Our Struggle
Francis Fox Piven, a celebrated political thinker and activist, offers a concise introduction to her award-winning writings on imperialism, voting and poverty as it relates to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Piven offers a clear historical context to the current struggles around economic disparity, poverty and imperialism and relates them to the labour, civil rights and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era. Through examining the past, Piven presents the immense future possibilities of the Occupy Movement.
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Haymarket Books Crisis, Politics And Critical Sociology: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 17
Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology draws upon the work of contemporary sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems. This peer-reviewed volume offers insights into our current reality by exploring the content and consequences of power relationships under capitalism and by considering the spaces of opposition and resistance to these changes that have defined our new age.
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Haymarket Books On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation
In working together on two challenging new documentaries - South of the Border and the forthcoming Untold History of the United States - Oliver Stone, the filmmaker, engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a hard-hitting conversation on the politics of history. Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten - or buried - episodes of history. From the U.S. intervention against the Russian Revolution to the connections between Presidents and the Saudi royal family, no stone is left unturned and no topic is sacred in this insightful exchange.
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Haymarket Books Women And Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital
Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain without equal rights while feminist thought has shifted steadily rightward. This fully updated collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focused on both gender and class, with a new chapter on the stirrings of a new movement today.
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Haymarket Books L-vis Lives: Racemusic Poems
L-vis lives! A poetic journey of artists past and present who use and misuse Black culture, L-vis traces the story of an American archetype, from Elvis Presley to Eminem. All aspects of this cultural phenomenon - both positive and negative - are taken into account in Kevin Coval's fascinating and deeply moving collection. In this original poetry collection, Kevin Coval combines and re-imagines Elvis Presley, Eminem, the Beastie Boys and other artists who have used and misused black culture into a contemporary 'L-Vis' character.
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Haymarket Books Politics And Philosophy: Niccolo Machiavelli And Louis Althusser's Aleatory Materialism: Historical Materialism, Volume 23
Often portrayed as an aloof philosopher, Louis Althusser's work on Niccolo Machiavelli reveals Althusser's deep commitment to political practice. Seeking to challenge the prevailing views on Althusser, Mikko Lahtinen argues that the French thinker cannot be understood from a purely philosophical perspective.
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Haymarket Books Palante: Young Lords Party
In 1969, a group of young Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York, taking inspiration from the Black Panthers. Palante, the first book by and about the radical organisation, is brought back into print with new introductory material. Capturing the spirit and actions of the 1960s, Palante features political essays by the group's original members, oral histories of their lives and more than 75 photos of their membership and actions.
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Haymarket Books Witnesses To Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record: Historical Materialism, Volume 21
The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this volume, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading international Marxists, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus and David Ryazanov.
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Haymarket Books Race And Ethnicity: Across Time, Space And Discipline: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 2
Race and ethnicity, much like water and air, are all around us. Yet, race and ethnicity remain impervious to many. In this book, scholars were encouraged to contemplate, evaluate and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity from radically different perspectives. This process required them to evaluate their own assumptions and those of their respective disciplines. The scholars attempt to free themselves from the disciplinarian blinders that often fresh insights. They go past the ideological constraints that limit discourse by disciplinarian boundaries or myopia.
£32.73
Haymarket Books The Revolution Besieged: Lenin 1917-1923 (vol. 3)
When Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the revolution's leaders remained steadfast in their commitment to spreading their successes across all of Europe
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Haymarket Books Transforming Globalization: Challenges And Oppotunities In The Post 9/11 Era: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 3
This volume examines the emergence of the movement of resistance that has arisen to challenge neoliberal forms of globalization. The authors describe how workers, environmentalists, human rights activists and a wide variety of other groups have joined together to protest against institutions such as the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. By providing a collection of social scientific analyses, this volume significantly advances our understanding of what is probably the most important progressive movement of our time.
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Haymarket Books Future Of Religion, The: Toward A Reconciled Society: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 9
In the midst of the increasing antagonism between religion and secularity, the sacred and the profane, faith and reason - currently described in terms of the clash of civilizations' - is religion any longer relevant or meaningful in the globalizing development of modern subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, family, society, state and history? If so, how and to what end? This book gives expression to the research of international scholars as they wrestled with these issues during the Future of Religion courses held at the Inter-university Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia.'
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Haymarket Books Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer
In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses personal and political topics he could never before address in public. Toer is best known for his novels comprising the Buru Quartet and is widely considered a strong candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Fascinating...endlessly sad.' - Noam Chomsky'
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Haymarket Books Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
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Haymarket Books Can I Kick It?
“Can I kick it?” “Yes you can!” —A Tribe Called Quest Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin’s work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwin’s poetry samples and re-purposes pop-culture—from Back to the Future to Prince, Missy Elliot to Dominique Wilkins—in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to live.
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Haymarket Books Why Bad Governments Happen To Good People
A sharp witted indictment of the US's broken political system, and a democratic, emancipatory vision for a socialist alternative. The election of Donald Trump has sent the United States and the world into uncharted waters, with a bigoted, petty man-child at the head of the planet's most powerful empire. Danny Katch indicts the hollowness of the US political system that led to Trump's rise and puts forward a vision for a real alternative: a democracy that works for the people.
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Haymarket Books Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience
Syria 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 the failings of the uprising, while also taking a closer look at the counter revolutionary processes that have been undermining the uprising from without and within.
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Haymarket Books Utopia And The Dialectic In Latin America Liberation: Studies in Critical Social Science Volume 78
Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept of utopia can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed under the impact of the French Revolution, further developed by such thinker-activists as Marx, Lenin and Raya Dunayevskaya. The study concludes by discussing a dialectic of philosophy and organization in the context of Latin American liberation.
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Fordham University Press Flesh and Spirit: Confessions of a Young Lord
Chronicles a Black Puerto Rican man’s odyssey and transformation from an incarcerated gang member to the Co-Founder of the Young Lords Party. Growing up fatherless and poor, Felipe Luciano didn’t yearn for wealth or dream of becoming a famous actor or athlete. He was tired of being poor and ached to be a man, to reach that point of sagacity, courage, and independence that would signal to the world that he was now a warrior, ready to fight the battle for truth and justice, to slay the dragon of evil, whatever that might be. In Flesh and Spirit, Luciano paints a vivid portrait of his life in New York City as a member of the city’s Latino community as well as his pivotal role in the Young Lords and The Last Poets. Luciano’s memoir begins when as a teenage Brooklyn gang member he is convicted of manslaughter. This pivotal moment changes the trajectory of his life. The American kid raised on Davy Crockett and Superman TV tales emerged from the womb of prison into a harsh, new monochromatic black/white world without the benefit of rose-colored glasses. It was a painful shattering of all his childhood beliefs and the realization that he was a poor Black Puerto Rican in white America clutching onto values that didn’t work. The only flotsam in this churning sea of ’60s social turmoil was college, poetry, revolutionary activity, and sometimes God. After getting an education, Luciano went on to become an acclaimed poet and political activist who advocates for the Latino population of New York City, for the kids growing up in the same circumstances he did. Sparing no one—not the revolutionaries, the Revolution, nor the author himself—Flesh and Spirit is written with honesty and humility to help guide young people of color and other Americans through the labyrinths of ideology, organization, missteps, false paths, and phony societal promises. Featuring archival photographs by Michael Abramson reproduced from Palante: Voices and Photographs of the Young Lords, 1969-1971 © 2011 Haymarket Books.
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Haymarket Books Marxism And The Party
The question of party organisation has been a central concern of Marxists for more than a century. Marxism and the Party dispels the myths about 'democratic centralism' and demonstrates that the kind of socialist party that Lenin built had nothing in common with the Stalinist despotism that replaced it. John Molyneux examines the contributions made by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky and Antonio Gramsci. He takes as his central theme the concern of these revolutionaries with the party's relationship with workers.
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Haymarket Books From The Vanguard To The Margins: Workers In Hungary, 1939 To The Present: Selected Essays By Mark Pittaway: Historical Materialism, Volume 66
From the Vanguard to the Margins is dedicated to the work of the late British historian, Dr Mark Pittaway (1971-2010), a prominent scholar of post-war and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Breaking with orthodox readings on Eastern bloc regimes, which remain wedded to the 'totalitarianism' paradigm of the Cold War era, the essays in this volume shed light on the contradictory historical and social trajectory of 'real socialism' in the region.
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Haymarket Books Democracy At Work: Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises
The world is undergoing vast social, economic and political transformations. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, it is clear that people are seeking out new forms of democracy. A new historical vista is opening before us. Democracy at Work is a manifesto for this time, calling for a democratic alternative based on workers directing their own workplaces. Written by America's leading socialist economist, Richard Wolff, the book offers an alternative viewpoint to the views of mainstream economists and pundits.
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Haymarket Books Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump
In 1990, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far right movement. It told their story from the inside out, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, police reports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this "fringe" culture were too powerful—and too much a part of American culture—to be ignored or dismissed.When the book 's prescience about the dangers of the racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a second edition of Blood in the Face was released with a new introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled Blood in the Face), have earned cult followings.In the past 25 years, Ridgeway 's final warning—that the "fringe was becoming part of the fabric" of American politics and culture—has come to chilling fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism, the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump with the thunderous support of white nationalists.
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