Stirring novel of armed class warfare ... Berlin workers' battle to march through the streets on May Day 1929

Barricades in Berlin

Neukrant

Banner Pr

<p>Chinese Studies, Political Studies, History, Far-Eastern &amp; Asian History &amp; Studies</p>

And Mao Makes 5: Mao Tsetung's Last Great Battle

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

America in Decline: An Analysis of the Developments Towards War and Revolution in the U.S. and Worldwide, in the 1980s

Lotta, Raymond

Business & Money

<p>America in Decline: An Analysis of the Developments Towards War and Revolution, in the U.S. and Worldwide, in the 1980s</p>

America in Decline: An Analysis of the Developments Towards War and Revolution, in the U.S. and Worldwide, in the 1980s

Of Primeval Steps and Future Leaps: An Essay on the Emergence of Human Beings, the Source of Women's Oppression, and the Road to Emancipation

Skybreak, Ardea

Science & Math

Bobby Sands was twenty seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish Republican Activities. He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty sixth day of his hunger strike. Bobby Sands gained world-wide recognition due to his hunger strike which he refused to abandon, defiantly withstanding political and moral pressure. He also embarrassed the British establishment by being elected as MP to Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. One Day in My Life was written on sheets of toilet paper with biro refills in a small filthy cell covered with excrement. It is more than just Bobby Sands's story - it is the story of his comrades who suffered similar oppression and abuse in the hell that was Long Kesh prison outside Belfast. It is a book about human bravery, endurance, courage and determination against a backdrop of suffering, anguish, terror and harassment. This book, which documents one day in the life of Bobby Sands, will live on as a constant reminder of what should never have happened. And what shall hopefully never happen again.

One Day in My Life

History

Sands, Bobby

Europe

Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919

HAFFNER, Sebastian

Americas

Democracy: Can't We Do Better Than That?

Avakian, Bob

Is democracy, or "true" democracy, the pinnacle of human social organization? Is the fundamental goal of socialist revolution the broadening and deepening of democratic institutions? Bob Avakian argues that there is something far more subversive, something far more liberating, than democracy. "Democracy: Can't We De Better Than That?" is a major work of Marxist political theory that dissects the fundamental positions and arguments of democratic theory, and that confronts the "crowning achievements" of democratic society. Avakian posits the following theses: democracy is not an end in itself but a means to an end; it is part of the superstructure of society and conforms to and serves a particular economic base; it arises in certain historical conditions and is generally associated with the bourgeois epoch, it never exists in abstract or pure form but always has a definite class character and is conditioned by the fundamental relations between classes; and, finally, democracy has a distinctive role to play in the socialist transition period but will wither away, with the state, with the achievement of communism, and be replaced by qualitatively higher forms of political organization and participation. Avakian examines the notion of democracy as it was developed in ancient Greece and Rome, and subjects the democratic theory of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Paine, and Mill to detailed analysis. He explores the ideological underpinnings of the modern theory of totalitarianism and goes on to critique current western Marxist and Soviet conceptions of the relationship between democracy and revolution. In concluding his study, Avakian sketches the transformative possibilities of socialist revolution, while, at the same time, considering the problems and tensions intrinsic to making such a revolution. "Democracy: Can't We Do Better Than That?" compels one to rethink the structures and possibilities of social organization; its practical and programmatic import is immense. Not all readers will agree with its conclusions, But no one who reads this work will quite be able to view democracy through the same prism again.

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