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Soft cover. Zustand: New. The first socialist state in history lasted only seventy years. This is a very small period of time in the scope of world history. Its achievements have been pilloried its demise being the greatest argument against its achievements. But merely because it disappeared does not mean that it was without merit. It provides us with the assurance that a workers and peasants' state can exist, that it can create policies to benefit the vast masses of the people rather than merely the rich, that it can heal and educate rather than merely starve and kill. Red October is an invitation to rediscover the importance of the Russian Revolution, to explore how it faltered and to nudge us to consider the ghosts of that revolution in our own movements today.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. In 1921, there was a peasant rebellion in Malabar in present-day Kerala. The British colonialists attempted to give it a communal colour, since most peasants were Muslim and the landlords Hindu. This narrative suited the landlords and served their interest. In our own times, forces of Hindutva have adopted the same communal narrative and are attempting to write the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 out of the history of the Freedom Struggle. History, however, is the result of a complex interplay of several factors. The early communists and some secular nationalists understood the rebellion to have a class character, but which would be manifest due to the land tenure system set in place in Malabar with religious and caste characteristics. This volume collects six of the definitive Communist voices from 1921 to 2021 that challenge the attempt to communalise the Moplah Rebellion; instead, they offer fact-based, materialist analyses that foreground the class character of the agrarian revolt, the way in which class intersected with other social identities (of religion and caste) in the unfurling of the rebellion, and the national and international shape of the rebellion. Together, these writings give the lie to the Hindutva narrative and assert the importance of rational, secular, and evidence-based history writing.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Chavez. That was their cry. Chavez. It was enough. Hugo Chavez's speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from our own histories and is for our own people. The Bolivarian Revolution bravely put forth a path to liberation for Venezuela and the continent, declaring socialism as the only way of defeating capitalism and imperialism. And the socialism Chavez proposes finds its roots in the legacy of Venezuelan and South American struggles for independence from imperialism. From Simon Bolivar, to revolutionary Cuba, to Indigenous leaders who knew their vengeance would come centuries later, Chavez weaves history and theory to present a socialism that emerges from the people a heroic creation of its own. Chavez left behind thousands of hours of speeches, and this book collects seven of them, presenting his theories, perspectives, and his visions of 21st century socialism. An almost encyclopedic blend of songs, stories, and dreams of the Venezuelan people, his words are a tool for young people seeking to understand the ideas of Chavismo and the Venezuelan process of building socialism in Latin America.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. There was terrible violence in North East Delhi in the last days of February 2020. Fifty-four people were killed, many were wounded, and a large number of people lost their livelihoods. No one denies the fact of the violence. What is disputed is who is responsible for the violence and how the violence must be described. In nine sharp and insightful essays, leading writers, activists, artists, journalists, and a jurist analyse the course of events, fix culpability, diagnose the condition of our republic, and reflect on larger questions of history and culture which have brought us where we are. This volume also contains a detailed fact-finding report on the violence, which shows that these events were triggered by the political agenda of the RSS/BJP; in particular the BJP's losses in the Delhi elections, its determination to put an end to the anti-CAA protests, and to teach all dissenters, and minorities in particular, a lesson. The aim was also to demonize the anti-CAA protests and criminalize all protests. To call the political violence of February 2020 anything other than a pogrom is to misunderstand what happened. Delhi's Agony significantly increases our knowledge and understanding of the forces of Hindutva that are inimical to the interests of India.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. This small book is a collection of fables. Four brilliant artists and writers confront four strongmen. Eve Ensler, the American playwright (The Vagina Monologues), goes beneath the skin or should we say orange hair of US President Donald Trump. Danish Husain, the Indian storyteller and actor, finds himself telling us the story not only of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi but also of the ascension of the extremism of the Sangh Parivar. Burhan Sonmez, the Turkish novelist, ferrets about amidst the bewildering career of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ninotchka Rosca, the Filipina feminist novelist, unravels the macho world of Rodrigo Duterte. Their essays do not presume to be neutral. They are partisan thinkers, magical writers, people who see not only the monsters but also a future beyond the ghouls. A future that is necessary. The present is too painful.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. It was an incredible sight 40,000 poor farmers and landless labourers walking over 200 kilometres, from Nashik to Mumbai. They captured the city's imagination and left it with an enduring memory. They outsmarted far more powerful adversaries. They made the deaf hear and the blind see. This book documents one of the more inspiring struggles of our time the fight of the kisans of Maharashtra against a government committed to money more than people. How did it come about? What were the causes that led to it? How much work did the All India Kisan Sabha put into this extraordinarily disciplined, democratic and dignified protest? Ashok Dhawale, one of the main leaders of the march, writes a lengthy and detailed essay that is analytical as well as gives a rich sense of the nuts and bolts of the march. Sudhanva Deshpande's Afterword profiles some of the organisers who made the march possible. This slim, readable volume, with stunning photographs reproduced in full colour, also contains a Preface by P. Sainath, India's most important chronicler of agrarian conditions and rural distress over the past three decades.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. In the first years after the 1917 Russian revolution, a bold new cry was heard around the world, 'Liberate the Colonies!' It was voiced in Moscow by Marxists combating tsarist oppression of Asian peoples. It came from the world of Communism, which launched a great International for a global freedom struggle. It came from the colonies, where activists such as M.N. Roy, Ho Chi Minh, Tan Malaka and others worked to break the chains of empire. Over the decades, anti-colonial freedom movements transformed the face of the world. This book portrays how this movement took shape. Pioneer revolutionists from oppressed countries, in their own words, pinpoint the movement's weaknesses, debate its problems, and develop a global strategy and programme. Among other things, the book highlights how in 1920, at a conference in Baku, women won the right to comradeship with men on an equal basis; revolutionary leaders from Asia convinced the Moscow government to combat chauvinist abuses of Soviet power; and V.I. Lenin and M.N. Roy the old strategist of Russia and the young rebel of India debated and reached a common framework for unity in the freedom struggle. This precious historical record is vitally important to all those who seek a socialist future.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Poet Ho Chi Minh, who punches from Vietnam to all humanity. No cannon will erase the furrow of your rice field. The right to live in peace. So sang Victor Jara, the legendary Chilean singer-poet, on behalf of millions around the world who were inspired by the heroism of the Vietnamese people, and by their leader, Ho Chi Minh. Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh / We shall fight, we shall win! For a revolutionary whose name is immortalised in songs and slogans worldwide, astonishingly little of Ho Chi Minh's writing is available to a global readership. This volume seeks to fill that gap in some measure. It is often said of Ho Chi Minh that he was not a theorist and that he did not leave behind a corpus of theoretical texts. This is a narrow and false judgment. Ho Chi Minh did not have the time to set out a major theoretical treatise on the nature of the Vietnamese Revolution, but the texts he left behind a fraction of them collected in this volume help us to understand the theory that enabled him to lead the Indochinese Communist Party and then the Workers Party to victory against imperialist aggression and to start the process of constructing socialism in Vietnam.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface: The South also exists: an Indian glance at Latin America/Vijay Prashad. Introduction: from resistance to offensive: NACLA and Latin America/Teo Ballve. 1. Openings: Strategic challenges for Latin America's anti-neoliberal insurgency/Gerardo Renique. 2. Latin American feminism: gains, losses and hard times/Maruja Barrig. 3. The making of a transnational movement/Guillermo Delgado-p. 4. Timely demise for free trade area of the Americas/Laura Carlsen. I. A new left rising?: 1. The Kirchner factor/Andres Gaudin. 2. Chavistas in the halls of power, Chavistas in the streets/Jonah Gindin. 3. Venezuela: defying globalization's logic/Steve Ellner. 4. Is Venezuela the New Cuba?/Teo Ballve. 5. Paraguay's Enigmatic president/Peter Lambert. 6. Brazil takes Lula's measure/Emir Sader. 7. The Uruguayan left and the construction of hegemony/Raul Zibechi. 8. Evo Morales turns the tide of history/Luis A. Gomez. II. Indigenous movements: 1. Bolivia de Pie!/Teo Ballve. 2. The roots of the rebellion: insurgent Bolivia/Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson. 3. The roots of the rebellion: reclaiming the nation/Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. 4. A seat at the table/Chris Jochnick and Paulina Garzon. 5. A sense of possibility: Ecuador's indigenous movement takes center stage/Jennifer N. Collins. 6. Autonomy and resistance in Chiapas/Richard Stahler-Sholk. 7. Zapatismo and the emergence of indigenous feminism/R. Aida Hernandez Castillo. 8. Incas, Indios and Indigenism in Peru/Shane Greene. 9. Beset by violence, Colombia's indigenous resist/Mario A. Murillo. 10. Rethinking indigenous politics in the era of the "Indio Permitido"/Charles R. Hale. III. Grassing the roots: 1. Brazil's landless hold their ground/Harry E. Vanden. 2. Testimony of an MST settler: Romilda Da Silva Vargas/Sue Branford and Jan Rocha. 3. Homeless movement builds momentum/Nicholas Watson. 4. Making a people's budget in Porto Alegre/Hilary Wainwright. 5. Multinational gold rush in Guatemala/Benjamin Witte. 6. Stories from the Borderland/David Bacon. 7. Worker-Run Factories: from survival to economic solidarity/Raul Zibechi. 8. Another world is possible: the ceramics of Zanon/Raul Zibechi. Acknowledgements. Index. "From the laboratory of neoliberalism- popularly known as "globalization"-- Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread its devastation, robust and thoughtful opposition emerged in response-- in the recovered factory movement of Argentina, in the presidential elections of indigenous leaders and radicals like Chavez and Morales, against the privatization of water in Bolivia. Across Latin America, people have built social movements that are starting to take back control of their countries and their lives. In Dispatches from Latin America, 28 authors report on 11 different countries from Mexico to Argentina, together mapping the contemporary political and social terrain. This collection offers us a riveting series of accounts that bring new insight into the region's struggles and victories. With shrewd analysis rendered in accessible language, dispatches lays plain the complex and vitally important conditions unfolding in 21 century Latin America." (jacket).

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. It is time to rethink how we understand the Arab world. The myriad revolts and revolutions of the so-called Arab Spring unleashed forces of emancipation and spirits of social justice that swept across the region with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and joy. As these epochal movements faced violent devolutions and frustrating detours, horizons of transformation remained in question. But there is no doubt that like so many dictators, the old regimes of perception about the Arab world have been toppled. Dispatches from the Arab Spring offers modes of analysis inspired by the methodology of revolt. It provides a comprehensive reintroduction to the entire region, not just those countries and spectacles that most captivated the media. This book weaves comprehension of new forms of domination and resistance into the whole cloth of social history, political geography, cultural creativity, global political economy, and power politics. The study of the Arab world is no longer limited to grasping the intractability of imperial or colonial or bellicose pasts: it is turning to recognize the exciting imminence of global futures. The book collects writings by some of the world's most respected intellectuals who have turned their attention to the region. They are deeply aware of the national and local dynamics, schooled in the world of detail-where the devil lurks but so does hope. Dispatches from the Arab Spring lays out a tentative map for the future, hewed of a comparative agenda for introducing the region to students, the public, and researchers, for tracking new actors, structural economic formations, and political possibilities. A truly global history that examines the prospects of a worldwide power shift from North to South. PAUL AMAR is associate professor in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism; Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (edited with Diane Singerman); New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics; Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries; and The Middle East and Brazil. VIJAY PRASHAD is the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author, most recently, of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South.

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