Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87 by Thomas Sankara

Under Thomas Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink... Read more »

Dancing With Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance by Donaldo Macedo & Lilia I. Bartolomé

One of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the U.S. is the specter of an “ethnic and cultural war”—a code phrase that engenders our society’s licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing with... Read more »

Matigari A Novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Matigari ma Njirũũngi (which means in Gĩkũyũ “the patriots who survived the bullets”—the patriot who survived the liberation war, and their political offspring), descends the mountains victorious after fighting in the long independence... Read more »

Destroy This Temple: The voice of Black Power in Britain by Obi Egbuna

Most of this book was written in Brixton Prison, where the author was held in custody for six months pending trial at the Old Bailey on the charge of masterminding a plot... Read more »

A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey

Neoliberalism–the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action–has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world... Read more »

A History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James

This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Africans to resist oppression and the negative effects of imperialism and colonization as viewed... Read more »

Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The international outcry over Ngũgĩ’s detention without trial by the Kenyan authorities reached him even in Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison. With great accomplishment, he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of the... Read more »

Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral by Amilcar Cabral

Through an examination of political economy, culture, and colonial society, Cabral sets forth a blue print on how the colonized masses can start the process of decolonization and creating an entirely new... Read more »

February 1965: The Final Speeches (Malcolm X speeches & writings) by Malcolm X

This book is a must to understand Malcolm X and his political objectives. In Malcolm X’s own words, the last two weeks of his life, this book proves to be insightful, most... Read more »

Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America by Ward Churchill

Pacifism, the ideology of nonviolent political resistance, has been the norm among mainstream North American progressive groups for decades. But to what end? Ward Churchill challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in... Read more »