Liberation School Course description: The U.S. economy is experiencing an intense economic crash. Despite what mainstream pundits say, the crash isn’t just the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this course, we’ll get at some of the root causes of the crisis by collectively studying the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of…
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Popular Resistance School
The Popular Resistance School will provide political education to help you understand the moment in which we live and how to challenge the power structure effectively. This web-based school will cover strategy and tactics, detailed analysis of key issues and skills-building videos. This eight-week course covers basic social movement theory including models of power, stages…
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
Introduction to Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai A uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements, Settlers was first published in the 1980s. Written by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book established itself as…
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement The struggle against fascism is a widely accepted part of the revolutionary struggle, but even the most radical activists often sound like liberals when explaining the hows and whys of anti-fascism. Or else use the word in such a way that it has only a vague meaning…
Frantz Fanon: A Dying Colonialism
Frantz Fanon: A Dying Colonialism Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks….
Franz Fanon: Towards the African Revolution
Franz Fanon: Towards the African Revolution This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some…
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” —Combahee River Collective Statement The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist…
Living Fanon: Global Perspectives
Living Fanon: Global Perspectives Frantz Fanon has influenced generations of activists and scholars. His life’s work continues to be debated and discussed around the world. This book is an event: an international, interdisciplinary collection of debates and interventions by leading scholars and intellectuals from Africa, Europe and the United States. Nigel C. Gibson and the…
Franz Fanon: Alienation and Freedom
Alienation and Freedom by Frantz Fanon and Steven Corcoran Franz Fanon’s political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth…
Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition, from W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral by Reiland Rabaka Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois’s Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka’s Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies…
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Stokely Carmichael By any measure, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) fundamentally altered the course of history. Published at the fifth anniversary of Carmichael’s death, this long-awaited autobiography fills a yawning gap in the American historical record as it chronicles the legendary civil rights leader’s…
Guerrilla Warfare: A Method by Ernesto Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara Guerrilla Warfare: A Method Written: September, 1963 First Published: unknown Source: The Che Reader, Ocean Press, © 2005. Translated: See also: Alternate Translation Transcription/Markup: Ocean Press/Brian Baggins Copyright: © 2005 Aleida March, Che Guevara Studies Center and Ocean Press. Reprinted with their permission. Not to be reproduced in any form without the…
