Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership And People’s War by Patrick Chabal

This book tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau’s nationalist movement, became one of Africa’s foremost revolutionary leaders. In less than twenty years of active political life,... Read more »

Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams

First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a African community’s struggle in North Carolina to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.... Read more »

Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth by James Yaki Sayles

The terms and concepts Franz Fanon uses in The Wretched of the Earth are often uncommon and underutilized in everyday organizing. As a result, many people have difficulty fully understanding his analysis... Read more »

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins

Caroline Elkins, a historian at Harvard University, has done a masterful job setting the record straight in her epic investigation, Imperial Reckoning. After years of research in London and Kenya, including interviews... Read more »

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

This book is an account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille and became the model for the anti-colonial movements from Africa to... Read more »

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

This books is a must read and there is no blurb which can describe George Jackson’s prison writings. We instruct each of you to ignore the illogical and mediocre write ups that... Read more »