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…
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Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism
Kwame Nkrumah, 1965 Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism Introduction The neo-colonialism of today represents imperialism in its final and perhaps its most dangerous stage. In the past it was possible to convert a country upon which a neo-colonial regime had been imposed — Egypt in the nineteenth century is an example — into a…
Mini Manual of the Urban Guerrilla Carlos Marighella
Carlos Marighella Mini Manual of the Urban Guerrilla The Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla is a book written by Brazilian politician and guerrilla fighter Carlos Marighella in 1969. It consists of advice on how to disrupt and overthrow an authoritarian regime, aiming at revolution.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement Barbara Ransby One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives. A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned…
Black Power: Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton
Black Power: Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton Black Power: The Politics of Liberation is a 1967 book co-authored by Stokely Carmichael and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton. The work defines Black Power, presents insights into the roots of racism in the United States and suggests a means of reforming the traditional political process for the…
Kwame Nkrumah: Class Struggle in Africa
Kwame Nkrumah Class Struggle in Africa Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution.
Aime Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism Discourse on Colonialism (French: Discours sur le colonialisme) is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in Francophone literature. Césaire first published the essay in 1950 in Paris with Éditions Réclame, a small publisher associated with the French Communist Party (PCF). Five…
The Mechanisms of Neo-colonialism
Kwame Nkrumah, 1965 Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism The Mechanisms of Neo-colonialism IN order to halt foreign interference in the affairs of developing countries it is necessary to study, understand, expose and actively combat neo-colonialism in whatever guise it may appear. For the methods of neo-colonialists are subtle and varied. They operate not only…
The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah
Author: Ama Biney Kwame Nkrumah remains a towering figure in African history. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent campaign of civil disobedience, he led what is now the nation of Ghana to independence in 1957. Nkrumah made Ghana a beacon of hope for not only Ghanaians but also people of African descent throughout the world. The…
Burn Down the American Plantation: Call for a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement
Burn Down the American Plantation: Call for a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement The foundation of the political conflict today does not begin with the rise of the far right, but is situated in the context of the US Civil War—a war that never actually resolved the social contradictions at the heart of American society. Slavery has…
Kwame Nkrumah: Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare – A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution
Kwame Nkrumah, 1968 Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare – A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution Opening with a diagnosis of present-day imperialist and neocolonialist intervention in Africa and the repressive role of racist-settler minority governments, the author explains why the armed phase of the African Revolution became necessary. …
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth-1965 Franz Fanon “Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon’s classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between…
