Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

Formats Available

.PDF

A call to transform Israel into a secular democracy by a leading writer -- This book is absolutely fundamental for those who reject the unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel -- a confusion which is the basis for systematic manipulation by the imperialist power system. It convincingly argues in favour of a single secular state for Israelis and Palestinians as the only democratic solution for the region. Zionism creates a terrible contradiction that eats away at the soul and conscience of the Jewish people. The problem is that you can't have a democratic state for just one people while excluding the others. It is just a logical impossibility. The notion of democracy derives from universal ideals based on universal human rights; it cannot exist where there is a systematic inequality, and all the more so when these others are those who have been dispossessed by Zionism.

Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?

Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?

Formats Available

.PDF

Examines the Zionist colonization of Palestine and how the State of Israel was formed.
"Places the history of Zionism and Israel in the perspective of European expansion and colonialism in the Third World and upholds the view, accepted by most Arabs, that Israel is indeed a 'colonial-settler state' imposed by force on an unwilling Palestinian population . . . . [P]rovides abundant documentation . . . . Recommended generally for libraries with Middle East collections."-Choice
Index, Annotation, Maps

Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

Formats Available

.PDF

How to Read Donald Duck is a Marxist political analysis by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart on what they perceive is cultural imperialism in popular entertainment, published in Chile in 1972. Written in the form of essay (or, in the authors’ words, a “decolonization manual”), the book is an analysis of mass literature, specifically the Disney comics published for the Latin American market. It is one of the first social studies of entertainment and the leisure industry from a political-ideological angle, and the book deals extensively with the political role of children’s literature.

Kevin B. Anderson, Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Kevin B. Anderson, Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Formats Available:

.PDF

In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by the well-known political economist which cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with our conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well.   Marx at the Margins ultimately argues that alongside his overarching critique of capital, Marx created a theory of history that was multi-layered and not easily reduced to a single model of development or revolution. Through highly-informed readings on work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond.

Minutes of the Congress of the Peoples of the East Baku (September 1920)

"The Congress of the Peoples of the East held in Baku in September, 1920 holds a special place in the history of the Communist movement. It was the first attempt to appeal to the exploited and oppressed peoples in the colonial and semi-colonial countries to carry forward their revolutionary struggles under the banner of Marxism and with the support of the workers in Russia and the advanced countries of the world." 

--Tom Kemp, Forward to the Congress of the Peoples of the East-Baku (1920)

Available in marxists.org 

PDF (Link 1)

PDF (Link 2)

Free .pdf books by native authors!

• Custer Died for Your Sins- An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader
• From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995 by Ward Churchill
• Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle for American Indian Liberation by Ward Churchill
• Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization by Ward Churchill
• Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law by Ward Churchill
• The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz- Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970’s by Ward Chruchill
• The Case of Leonard Peltier by Arthur J. Miller and Pio Celestino (zine)
• 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (zine)
• Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? (zine) 
• Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples by Andrea Smith (article)
• Headdress (a small zine on native appropriation)
• Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century (zine)

Colonialism/Postcolonialism (1998)

Colonialism/Postcolonialism (1998)
Ania Loomba
Libro completo, Routledge
InglĂŠs
Estado de la copia: 4/5
Link de descarga

Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature

Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature
Formats Available

.PDF (Link I)
.PDF (Alternative Link)
Read Online

“Setting himself against the growing tendency to homogenize “Third World” literature and cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major theoretical statements on “colonial discourse” and “post-colonialism,” dismantling many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term “Third World,” and of the conditions under which so-called “colonial discourse theory” emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles.”
Excerpt:
The brief discussion of ‘Marx on India’ in Chapter 6, the shortest in the book, is occasioned here formally by Edward Said’s attack on Marx in Orientalism precisely on the issue of India, but I also had some other aspects in mind. Polemical dismissals of Marxism, without any detailed engagement with Marx’s thought, are now a fairly common feature of French poststructuralism and of the straightforwardly right-wing ideas which have arisen in its wake. There has been, since The Order of Things, a pose of weariness and wry contempt. This is duplicated, then, in the whole range of Anglo-American literary poststructualisms — and not only literary, nor only poststructuralisms — where one routinely encounters a dense system of mutual citations and invocations of Foucault and/or Said which portrays Marx as an Orientalistic enthusiast of colonialism. A striking feature of this portrayal of Marx as an Orientalist, based as it is on some journalistic observations about India, is that it never even refers to how those same observations may have been seen by India’s own anti-imperialist historians. The key fact about the post-colonial history of the so-called Third World is that each nation-state came under the dominance of a distinct national bourgeoisie (existing or emergent) as it emerged from the colonial crucible and was then assigned a specific location in the international division of labour as it is organized by imperialism, so that the period has come to be characterized not by greater unity but by increasing differentiation and even competitiveness among these states.

Frantz Fanon, A Dyning Colonialism (1994)

Frantz Fanon, A Dyning Colonialism (1994)

Formats Available

.PDF

An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression.