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Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).
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Hope Without Hope
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.
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Stalin and Mao
China’s ascent to the ranks of the world’s second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed, the Chinese revolution was a carbon copy of its predecessor, until Mao became aware, not so much of the failures of the Russian model, but of its inability to adapt to an overcrowded third-world country. Yet, instead of correcting that model, Mao decided to go further and faster in the same direction. The aftershock of an earthquake may be weaker, but the Great Leap Forward of 1958 in China was far more destructive than the Great Turn of 1929 in the Soviet Union. It was conceived with an idealistic end but failed to take all the possibilities into account. China’s development only took off after—and thanks to—Mao’s death, once the country turned its back on the revolution. Lucien Bianco’s original comparative study highlights the similarities: the all-powerful bureaucracy; the over-exploitation of the peasantry, which triggered two of the worst famines of the 20th century; control over writers and artists; repression and labor camps. The comparison of Stalin and Mao that completes the picture, leads the author straight back to Lenin and he quotes the observation by a Chinese historian that, “If at all possible, it is best to avoid revolutions altogether.\"
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Revolution, defeat and theoretical underdevelopment : Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia
The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies--Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism , and anti-imperialism-- still with us, if diffusely. They attempt to overcome the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, and of \"real existing socialism\", in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.
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Youth, nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed
Sékou Touré to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, and until his
death in 1984, Sékou Touré ruled with an iron fist. What would it have been like
to participate in Guinea's changing political fortunes? Jay Straker invites readers
to reconsider the sources, stakes, and ramifications of Guinea's nation-building
experience. By engaging official political tracts, state and popular newspapers,
education journals, novels, poems, plays, photographs, and personal histories,
Straker offers an alternative view of the uneven effects of the state's attempts to
reshape popular attitudes, social practice, and youth consciousness. Showing how
visions of ideal youth played into the workings of revolutionary power, Straker
creates a captivating and intense history that uncovers the ambitions that drove
militant socialist-revolutionary politics in Guinea.
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