Foundations of Leninism is compiled from a series of lectures delivered by Joseph Stalin at Sverdlov University in 1924, shortly after Lenin's death. Stalin distills Lenin's contributions to Marxism into a unified framework of "Marxism in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution." Covering method, theory, strategy, the national and colonial questions, the peasantry, the Party, and Lenin's distinctive "style of work," the text outlines the principles of revolutionary politics. Foundations of Leninism quickly became one of the most influential manuals of Marxism-Leninism as it guided the Soviet state, shaped communist movements worldwide, and remains relevant today for revolutionary movements that continue to seek the end of imperialism. This edition includes a foreword and afterword by Clyfford DuMarais, author and editor for the Revolutionary Education and Action League (REAL). REAL is an organization based in Central Florida dedicated to uniting Theory and Action to develop class consciousness among American workers. Source: Publisher Foundations of Leninism was a 1924 collection made by Joseph Stalin that consisted of nine lectures he delivered at Sverdlov University that year. It was published by the Soviet newspaper Pravda. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9798992417418

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: foreign language press

Year: 2020

Pages: None

Cataloged: Sept. 3, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

"I am standing over the ruins of a house in Gaza City, peering at the horizon." These are the opening words of this book, which is being published while Gaza, where the author lives, is being annihilated. But 'Decolonising the Palestinian Mind' is not about the 2023 genocidal attack on Gaza. It is a sharp critique of the Oslo surrender, the Bantustans created by imperialism in the name of a two-state solution, and a recognition that the tokenisation of the Palestinian struggle and emancipation have become ordinary conduct on the part of organisations historically dedicated to the liberation of Palestine. Haidar Eid builds on the work of Edward Said, who Palestinians treasure for his relentless truth-telling of their realities. Decolonising the Palestinian Mind calls for a consciousness change in a new period of unprecedented pressure on Palestinian culture, identity, and futures. The cover of this book features a painting by Malak Mattar, a Gazan artist who began making art during the 2014 war on Gaza. Her work foregrounds women, and she uses vibrant colours to depict images of peace and hope. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9789392018367

ISBN-10: 9392018363

Language: English

Publisher: LeftWord Books

Year: 2023

Pages: 105

Cataloged: Sept. 2, 2025, 2:45 p.m.

The worst form of slavery is to willingly offer yourself on the auction block, get bought and pretend you are free. This is what participation in the mechanism called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is. This publication by the No REDD in Africa Network aims to demystify REDD and REDD-type projects, and all their variants, and show them for what they are: unjust mechanisms designed to usher in a new phase of colonisation of the African continent. From examples presented, it is clear that REDD is a scam and the polluters know that they are buying the 'right' to pollute. The No REDD in Africa Network warns that REDD may be the ultimate wedge to crack open the door for the invasion of the African continent with genetically modified crops and trees. Furthermore, REDD threatens to take over soils, water (blue carbon) and entire eco-systems. It may also rekindle the culture of colonial plantation agriculture infamously called cash cropping'. In Africa, REDD is emerging as a new form of colonialism, economic subjugation and impoverishment, and must be stopped. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781519104472

ISBN-10: 1519104472

Language: English

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2015

Pages: 114

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 3:02 p.m.

Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves ahd written what caalled slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other ear, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780451627261

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: mentor book

Year: 1986

Pages: 518

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 2:58 p.m.

Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem -- the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban... Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780451047373

ISBN-10: 0451047370

Language: English

Publisher: New American Library

Year: 1965

Pages: 429

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

"'BLACK PROTEST is by far the fullest documentary history of three and one-half centuries of Blackican protest and agitation available at the price. The editor provides intelligent commentary throughout, and the book pulls no punches. Its message is neither hopefull nor threatening, but realistic; and among the realities is that Blacks have tried virtually everything to secure their right--petitions, the vote, court action, demonstrations, marches, appeasement, threats, nonviolence, violence, alliances with whites, black nationalism--and still, for some reason, in this democracy, have been resisted, put off and denied. This is the essence of American Black history, both protest and oppression.' - Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times" -- Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780449308417

ISBN-10: 0449308413

Language: English

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Year: 1968

Pages: 576

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 2:51 p.m.

A stinging critique of Western Marxism, counterposing its complicity with imperialist logic against a resurgent anti-imperialism Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation—characterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-communism—is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core, including those affiliated with the Frankfurt School, French Theory, and operaismo, as well as Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, and Slavoj Žižek, among others. His critique also has wide-reaching implications for trend-setting discourses inspired by this coterie of intellectuals, from postcolonial and decolonial theory to subaltern studies and beyond. Far from being a negative undertaking, however, this book is grounded in the positive project of reigniting anti-imperialist Marxism. As a complement to the Italian edition of Western Marxism, this first-ever English translation also features the unprecedented publication of a major lecture that demystifies “Western Marxism” and its role in imperialists’ efforts to denigrate the achievements of actually existing socialism. Raising the stakes of what it means to produce critical theory, Western Marxism will surely provoke wide debate and a reevaluation of hallowed canons. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781685900632

ISBN-10: 1685900631

Language: English

Publisher: Monthly Review Press

Year: 2024

Pages: 352

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 5:19 p.m.

In this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama’s presidential election team, presents stunning new research that illuminates just how deep and jagged these racial fault lines continue to be. He has surveyed battleground voters from 2008 through the 2016 primary season tracking racial aversion and its impact over the course of the Obama presidency. Given the heightened racial aversion as a consequence of the first non-white male living in the White House, the rise of Trump was a predictable backlash. The election of the nation’s first Black president does not mean that we live in a post-racial society; it means that we are now at a critical historical tipping point demographically and culturally in America—and this tipping point is indeed the wolf at the door for many anxious white Americans who are now politically behaving accordingly given this perceived threat. The panicked response of the waning white majority to what they perceive as the catastrophe of a Black president can be heard in every cry to “take back our country.” This panic has resulted in the elevation of an overt and unapologetic racist as the nominee of one of America’s major political parties.

ISBN-13: 9781621343608

ISBN-10: 162134360X

Language: English

Publisher: Water Street Press

Year: 2016

Pages: 218

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Born on a slave ship enroute to the West Indies, orphaned by the age of two and taken to England by his owner, Ignatius Sancho rose from servitude to include among his friends noted artists, writers, actors, and prominent politicians. Sancho first gained celebrity when one of his letters appeared in the novelist Laurence Sterne's Letters (1775) and, inspired by the editor's desire to show "that an untutored African may possess abilities equal to a European", two volumes of Sancho's letters were published shortly after his death. The literary quality and the historical importance of the letters endure, revealing a man of sensitivity, intellect, and charm, while also presenting an unusual chronicle of the times. Sancho offers young men fatherly advice on their futures; writes flirtatiously to young women; relates the joys and sorrows of family life; swaps literary jokes; and comments perceptively on the issues of the day. His thoughts on race and politics -- including his criticism of British imperialism in India, the complicity of Africans in the slave trade, and the blatant racism that flourishes in his adopted homeland -- will be of particular interest to twentieth-century readers. While some letters may have been abridged because of the original editor's concerns about public sensitivities, they remain a powerful testament to the injustices of racial discrimination. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780140436372

ISBN-10: 0140436375

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year: 1998

Pages: 336

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 2:46 p.m.