From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work. Source: Publisher Women, Race and Class is a 1981 book by the American academic and author Angela Davis. It contains Marxist feminist analysis of gender, race and class. The third book written by Davis, it covers U.S. history from the slave trade and abolitionism movements to the women's liberation movements which began in the 1960s. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780307798497

ISBN-10: 0307798496

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Year: 2011

Pages: 288

Cataloged: Nov. 12, 2025, 5:19 p.m.

The militants of Rojava, and the autonomous society they've built, teach us how to kindle hope for the tireless fight against oppression. Drawing on three years living and working in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), journalist Matt Broomfield argues the militant Kurdish movement can help the Western left relearn its commitment to hope in hopeless times. The bloodshed and chaos of the Syrian Civil War have paradoxically produced our generation’s most significant revolution. Firsthand observations from the heart of Rojava’s movement inform Broomfield’s critical engagement with its theory and practice and, inevitably, its compromises and contradictions. In the face of crises set to define the coming century—proxy conflict, resource competition, state collapse, climate catastrophe—the Kurdish movement has produced an unexpected, utopian response: an autonomous society organized outside of the nation-state, run by direct democracy and along feminist and ecological principles, surviving despite overwhelming military opposition. The revolutionary movement of Rojava and its people shed light on struggle, strategy, and endurance—how and why to fight for revolution in the face of nearly impossible odds. Hope Without Hope carries on the long tradition of history, absurdist philosophy, and radical thought that has studied how anti-fascist and anti-colonial movements answer defeat and repression with a revolutionary faith in transformation. Only by understanding this history can we pursue the steadfast work of organizing for long-term revolutionary change in our seemingly hopeless age. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781849355674

ISBN-10: 1849355673

Language: English

Publisher: AK Press

Year: 2025

Pages: None

Cataloged: Nov. 11, 2025, 10:32 a.m.

Kenya's untold history of socialism comes to light in this groundbreaking book by Paul Akello Ogula. The Struggle for Socialism in Kenya recalls the story of the Kenya People's Union (KPU), a socialist party formed in 1966 and banned just three years later by President Jomo Kenyatta. Despite its short life, KPU represented a powerful, nationwide push for uhuru na ujamaa - freedom and socialism. Its inclusive leadership and transformative land and economic policies once threatened to reshape Kenya. Yet today, few know of Odinga, Kaggia, Oneko, or the dozens of leaders from every corner of the country who risked everything for justice and equality. Why has this vital chapter of Kenya's political history been erased? Because it stood on the brink of success. Because its message still resonates. Now, thanks to Ogula's bold research and Vita Books' fearless publishing, this lost history is finally told. The Struggle for Socialism in Kenya is an important addition to the chronicles of two other major suppressed movements that challenged capitalism and imperialism, namely, the Mau Mau and the covert resistance of the December Twelve Movement and Mwakenya. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9789914954104

ISBN-10: 9914954103

Language: English

Publisher: African Books Collective

Year: 2025

Pages: 290

Cataloged: Nov. 7, 2025, 11:38 a.m.

These essays, inspired by Olof Palme's vision, represent the first serious recent attempt to revive North-South debate. Distinguished politicians and academics from both North and South, pay tribute to Palme's memory by reassessing and developing his ideas and offering some new and far-reaching conclusions. The result is a highly stimulating survey of the current international political order, with a strategy for change and a call to action.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Third World Communications / I.B. Tauris

Year: None

Pages: None

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 2:57 p.m.

This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, including 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781844674534

ISBN-10: 1844674533

Language: English

Publisher: Verso

Year: 2011

Pages: 609

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Originally published underground in 1986, Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism remains one of the most incisive and vital anti-imperialist works of its time-a landmark synthesis of theory and revolutionary practice. Written by the Communist Working Group (CWG) in Denmark, the book outlines the foundational political and economic structures of unequal exchange between the imperialist core and the exploited Global South, offering a practical framework for how revolutionaries in the Global North can support global liberation struggles. This new edition from Iskra Books marks the first time since its original publication that the text has been made widely accessible in print. It features a substantial new prologue and epilogue by former CWG member and longtime anti-imperialist theorist Torkil Lauesen, along with a fresh preface from Nemanja Lukic and Henry Hakamäki. The original introduction by Arghiri Emmanuel-the economist most closely associated with unequal exchange theory-has also been preserved. At once rigorous and accessible, this book serves as both theoretical groundwork and practical guide. It traces the roots of imperialist inequality to the exploitation embedded in global trade and capital flows, but more importantly, it outlines what must be done. With piercing analysis, the authors take aim not only at capital but also at the complicity of working classes in the imperialist countries, posing uncomfortable questions for the contemporary Left. This edition reaffirms the political urgency of revolutionary internationalism and provides a framework for understanding the evolving contradictions of global capitalism today. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9798349277337

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: ISKRA BOOKS

Year: 2025

Pages: 238

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 2:42 p.m.

"Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively." An empty street at night. A crowded bus. A lecture hall. All sites of female fear, instilled in women and those who have been constructed female, from an early age. Drawing on examples from around the world - from Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe, Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths, and seductions. She shows how seemingly disparate effects, like driving bans, street harassment, and coercive professors, are the product of the ever-turning machinery of the female fear factory, and its use of fear as a tool of patriarchal subjugation and punishment. Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy's Cultures of Violence is a sobering account of patriarchal violence in the world, and a hopeful vision for the work of unapologetic feminist imaginative strategies across the globe. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781913175153

ISBN-10: 1913175154

Language: English

Publisher: Cassava Republic Press

Year: 2022

Pages: 182

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:57 p.m.

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers is a narrative of women participating in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa. Focusing on their agency, commitment, beliefs and actions, it describes how women got politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle in South Africa and exile. Siphokazi Magadla discusses the forms of military training they received, the combat activities and their transformation as women and soldiers. Magadla also talks about their participation in the South African National Defence Force-led demobilisation process and their contributions to the democratic transformation of the SANDF. By illuminating the different eras and arenas of their participation, this book shows the broadness of the armed struggle against apartheid as a historical truth and as a matter of gender equality and justice for an inclusive and more democratic future. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781003814689

ISBN-10: 1003814689

Language: English

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Year: 2023

Pages: 248

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:38 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: African Gender Institute

Year: 2011

Pages: 153

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:35 p.m.