Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

In this volume, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o summarizes and develops a cross-section of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which uses a combination of imagery, language, folklore, and character to... Read more »

Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual by Walter Rodney

In 1974, Walter Rodney visited the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia. With the institute’s members, he discussed his own political and intellectual development and exchanged views on the role... Read more »

We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings by Jalil A. Muntaqim

What does it mean to be an “anti-racist”? We know you probably have a lot of answers to this question, but first off let us properly define racism. Racism is merely the... Read more »

Essential Works of Lenin: “What Is to Be Done?” and Other Writings by Vladimir Lenin

Say what you want about Vladimir Lenin, but what cannot be denied is his skills as a astute researcher and polemicist (skills that come in handy as a revolutionary). The Essential Works of... Read more »

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer by Reinhard Sander

Cumulatively the interviews reproduced here trace the trajectory of the author’s intellectual engagement with his times. This is a reader where Ngũgĩ reveals his thoughts and analysis of various African freedom movements,... Read more »

We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87, 2nd Edition by Thomas Sankara

In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, Pan-Africanist revolutionary Thomas Sankara explains how the peasants and workers of the West African country Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) established a... Read more »

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 »

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83 by Bruce Marcus & Michael Taber

These are the speeches of Maurice Bishop, prime minister of Grenada during the 1979-83 revolution. In 1983 the workers’ and farmers’ government was overthrown by a coup. Bishop, the central leader of... Read more »

To Die for the People by Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton has long been a hero to revolutionaries throughout the world. This new release of a classic collection of his writings and speeches traces the development of Newton’s political thinking,... Read more »

Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz by Russell Maroon Shoatz, Quincy Saul, Fred Ho & Matt Meyer

During a lengthy incarceration spent mostly in solitary confinement, Russell Maroon Shoatz has developed into a prolific writer. This first published collection of his accumulated works showcases his sharp and profound understanding... Read more »