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JanuaryHistory of the Cultural RevolutionJean DaubierFrom 1966 to 1969, Jean Daubier was a teacher who lived in China during the beginning stages of the Cultural Revolution. He provides his first hand experience as a participant of the Cultural Revolution and documents various factions, stages, and conflicts during the period. As the western media sought to demonize the mass politicization of the Chinese masses, Daubier dispels many of the myths and misrepresentations of the Cultural Revolution. He highlights the importance of the mass political engagement of the Chinese people and motivations for the Cultural Revolution as a method to correct mistakes and combat rightist and ultraleft revisionism. This text provides a sobering look at the factionalization and the disorganized nature of the students within the revolutionary movement. Overall, it provides critical assessment of the successes and failures of the Cultural Revolution within China.
A history of the Chinese cultural revolution_ -- Jean Daubier; Transl_ from the French by Richard Seaver; -- History a_ polit_ science, New York, -- 9780394718439 -- 93e28c3ed179d618f3945d5dc3d9ad6b -- Anna’s Archive.pdf
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January Divided World, Divided ClassZak CopeDivided World, Divided Class is a text written by academic Zak Cope that covers the historical development and motivations of First World workers, or the labor aristocracy, an "ascendant section of the working class" that benefits from the imperialist exploitation of the Third World. He first covers the historical background of chauvinism that develop in relation to the economic system, from mercantile capitalism and colonialism to present-day imperialism, how the labor aristocracy and its (chauvinistic) culture was created, as well as the current global division of the world into the core, semiperiphery and periphery. This text compares the labor of the Global North and South, discusses how imperialism causes the difference in purchasing power between the two groups, and provides economic calculations of super profits extracted. Cope covers the cultural and historical background that led to the formation of the labor aristocracy in Great Britain, u.s., and Germany, then touches on fascism and its historical formation. Finally, he shares his analysis of the social ills in western society due to capitalism, that the labor aristocracy fails to reject imperialism, and that real international solidarity requires holding up interest of Third World workers rather than First World workers.
Divided_World_Divided_Class_Global_Political_Economy_and_Zak_Cope.pdf
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February Migration as Economic ImperialismImmanuel Ness In Migration As Economic Imperialism, Immanuel Ness offers a rebuttal to the claiming of labor migration as a source of socioeconomic development for the Global South. He exposes how the labor migration and remittances system upheld by neoliberal institutions serves to maintain the underdevelopment of countries in the Global South and facilitates the exploitation and isolation of migrants working in the Global North. Ness hones in on the characteristics of different nations' labor export systems, how militarization, trafficking organizations, and government policies work in tandem with each other to restrict the mobility of migrant workers and prevent them from returning to their home countries. Readers are asked to be critical of unregulated immigration and its consequences for communities in the Global South under an international imperialist system.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6-mJDccTbJTZDg9xpGWeycPYFIuuzCA/view?usp=sharing
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February The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third WorldVijay PrashadThe Darker Nations recounts history during the period of the Cold War from the perspective of the global South. Prashad restores the memory of the Third World, not just as a collection of overexploited nations, but as a group of nations who attempted to build political power outside of the spheres of influence of the US and Soviet Union. From the League Against Imperialism conclave in 1927 Brussels to the 1955 Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, Prashad documents the forgotten and perhaps hidden history of Third World movement-building, including the many active Communist and other progressive factions involved. The Third World and Non-Aligned Movement ultimately came to their demise in the 80s, as the US and its Western European allies became the hegemonic powers in the world. From direct political intervention to IMF-driven globalization, this book shows us how agents of imperialism can quickly degrade revolutionary nationalism into a reactionary form of cultural nationalism if we do not have a principled defense against it.http://archive.eclass.uth.gr/eclass/modules/document/file.php/SEAD394/%CE%8E%CE%BB%CE%B7%20%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1%204%3A%20%CE%A8%CF%85%CF%87%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82%20%CE%A0%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9%20%CE%A4%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82%20%CE%9A%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82/The%20Darker%20Nations_A%20People%27s%20History%20of%20-%20Vijay%20Prashad.pdf
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March The Communist NecessityJ. Moufawad Paul The Communist Necessity discusses the need to distinguish between revolutionary science, based on the necessity of communism, and movementism, based on "new" theories of utopian communist dreams and horizons. It emphasizes a return to revolutionary communist theories and methods of analysis of the current conditions to enact revolution (i.e., Scientific Socialism). This text provides a thorough critique of all shades of movements such as affinity groups, protest politics, and "new" idealist theories of revolution. https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S04-The-Communist-Necessity.pdf
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March Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be RebornDomenico LosurdoThis text describes the fatal errors that "western marxism" has made in the 20th century. Western marxist thinkers of this time often dismissed anti-colonial movements that were happening at the time and failed to adapt ideology to the conditions at the time. A key figure that perpetuated this ideology for western marxists was Michel Foucault. Foucault's idea that all forms of power are "evil" negates all anti-colonial, national liberation struggles that have happened in the third world. This ideology has influenced so many western thinkers into thinking that socialist states are "authoritarian" making them side with imperialism rather than socialism. By analyzing all of these western thinkers, Losurdo reveals that they all erase anti-colonial movements from history and neglect to recognize the destruction that colonialism has committed towards oppressed peoples around the world. This book shows that anti-colonialism and socialism are interconnected and if one is erasing national liberation struggles from history, they are inherently anti-communist. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17VnkAHhDG3YNpocobpOzPLmDDcGSs-KB/view?usp=drive_link
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AprilReading in Al-Mushtarak: A System for Democratic SocialismIbrahim AllawiReading in Al-Mushtarak was written by Ibrahim Allawi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Iraq - Central Command, as a "return to the source" in Islamic, Arab society and its influence on the development of Islamic philosophy and Scientific Socialism. This text covers the ideological and theoretical framework of understanding how to build a democratic, cooperative future within Iraq based on marxism and Islam. After observing the failures of socialist construction within the Soviet Union, Allawi created a theoretical framework of a socialist society within Iraq based on early Islamic governmental structures. https://www.iskrabooks.org/_files/ugd/ec1faf_676933fc648c4de8852117a118d90679.pdf
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April Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous ResistanceNick Estes Our History is the Future covers the traditions, history, and development of Indigenous resistance from the Indian Wars, the building of the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement and the Occupation of Wounded Knee, and the #NoDAPL Protests resisting pipelines being built at Standing Rock and Fort Berthold reservations. This text weaves together the previous and ongoing history of amerikan settler colonialism and the resistance movements for Native sovereignty and survival. #NoDAPL provided a living example of what building an Indigenous society can be without the confines of amerikan settler colonial capitalism.
Nick Estes - Our History Is the Future_ Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (2019, Verso) - libgen.li.pdf
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MayNight-Vision: Illuminating War & Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain Butch Lee and Red RoverNight-Vision (1993) provides a critical, queer feminist understanding of the transition from imperialism into neo-colonialism on a worldscale. In this text, Lee and Rover deconstruct the neo-colonial conceptions of race, gender, nationality, and class by laying bare the reality that race and gender are inextricably linked to class - that race and gender function as a class based on its relation to production and the core or periphery. This text challenges the common questions of "Who is the proletariat?" and "Who are the revolutionary classes?" by highlighting that world proletariat are truly women and children forced into gendered labor in the periphery (i.e., garment workers, computer chip workers, etc.). https://readsettlers.org/night-vision/night-vision.pdf
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JuneChe: A Revolutionary LifeJon Lee AndersonChe Guevara : A Revolutionary Life is a comprehensive text telling the complete story from childhood to his final hours. The text is split into three parts; "Unquiet Youth", "Becoming Che," and "Making a New Man." "Unquiet Youth" discusses how Che was born in Argentina and went to medical school. Shortly after graduating he set off on a motorcycle trip with his good friend Alberto Granado that politicized him because he saw the conditions people were facing due to colonization and capitalism. After his trip, he dedicates himself as a revolutionary and meets Raul Castro in Mexico City who introduces him to Fidel Castro. "Becoming Che" covers the Cuban Revolution and their triumph to victory on January 1, 1959 in Santa Clara. Anderson describes in detail each phase of the revolution and how they liberated the oppressed masses on the island. Finally in "Making the New Man" Che sees the Cuban Revolution as just the beginning, he makes it his mission to liberate all of Latin America. Che starts to train revolutionaries in Cuba and takes the revolution abroad first to the Congo to lead a guerrilla force with Congolese fighters after Patrice Lumumba's death and then back to Latin America in Bolivia where he was killed by the CIA. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RjgvhSPFzAtI0BnH5byV9ejvesZhHTX5/view?usp=drive_link
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JulyThomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso RevolutionThomas SankaraUnder Sankara's leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa mobilized peasants, workers, women, and youth to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations on the land; to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and solidarize with others engaged in that fight internationally. Sankara speaks as an outstanding revolutionary leader of working people and youth the world over.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Il1-_34ya2Nbh0hekOAE0jcjPYTQWoik/view?usp=sharing
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AugustBasic Politics of Movement Security J. SakaiBasic Politics of Movement Security (2012) is transcribed discussion from J. Sakai on the politics of movement security, politics, and considerations for how to navigate the movement in the current moment. The text includes an article from a organizer who experienced state repression and infiltration during the anti-G20 summit in Toronto. J. Sakai provides questions and considerations to organizers on the importance of security and the need for politics to be in command. This text provides a non-prescriptive background and outline of what security, organization, and mistakes in organizations that allows for detrimental infiltration and state repression.https://redyouthnwa.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/basic-politics-of-movement-security.pdf
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September Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American CommunistHarry Haywood Harry Haywood's autobiography, "Black Bolshevik," is a classic text outlining his experiences struggling within the Communist Party u.s.a for the right to self-determination for all New Afrikan (Black) people in the amerikan Black Belt. He charts the course of his life from his initial politicization as a communist, his experience in the Soviet Union, his life in the communist party, and his struggle against the communist party's revisionist and right wing development. This text provides an intimate story of one of the most influential theorists in the development of the Black Belt Thesis and the formulation of New Afrikan (Black) self-determination and self-governance in the Black Belt. Additionally, Haywood outlines the effects of right-wing revisionism as the main threat for the liberation of all oppressed people within the so-call u.s. His direct experiences within the communist party illustrate the pitfalls of aligning your organization with americanism and settler patriotism. https://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/Harry-Haywood-Black-Bolshevik.pdf
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OctoberPassing it OnYuri KochiyamaPassing it On (2004) is an autobiographical account of Yuri Kochiyama's life from her political organizing to her family. Yuri discusses her experiences from growing up in a Japanese community in LA, living in an internment camp, raising her family in New York, and developing her political life. Her story shows a multifaceted person who cared deeply about her community and all oppressed people within the so-called u.s. She dedicated her time to building coalitions, writing to political prisoners all over the country, and contributing to the direct action movements for the liberation of Puerto Rico, Peru, and the Republic of New Afrika.
dokumen.pub_passing-it-on-a-memoir-2004100253-0934052379-0934052387.pdf
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NovemberBlack Against EmpireJoshua Bloom and Waldo E. MartinBlack Against Empire is one of the most comprehensive texts on the history of the Black Panther Party to date. Bloom and Martin provide an in-depth analysis of the major phases of the Party’s political development, from the initial development of its revolutionary ideology and practice of policing the police in the late 60s, to its ideological divide and eventual demise in the 70s. Throughout, the authors detail how the Party rose to national influence, developed programs in service of community, countered intense state repression, and attracted a broad spectrum of allies both at home and abroad. The text spans across the development of prominent Party individuals like Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, to important events at the city level in LA, Chicago, and New Haven, and finally to Party influence on domestic and global politics, to this day.https://dialecticalartist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/black-against-empire-the-history-and-politics-of-the-black-panther-party-by-joshua-bloom-waldo-e.-martin-.pdf
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