This is the autobiography of Aris Anagnos, who participated in the great anti-Nazi resistance during World War II and went on to become a celebrated human rights organizer and philanthropist. Anagnos tells a political history from the 1930s through 1968. This is completed by an interview with Eric Mann in which he completes the story of his journey until today focusing on his work as a U.S. ally of the people of El Salvador and Nicaragua. Beautifully written in non-fiction narrative Aris Odyssey brings to life a man of principle and achievement who can tell his own story with the perspective of an historian and the charm of a novelist. Aris Anagnos in his own words The British and Churchill had the ultimate goal of destroying the Soviet Union. He wanted the war to be prolonged, forcing the Soviet Union to fight against the Germans even longer alone suffering 20 million casualties. Then the British fought the anti-fascist resistance in Greece. They feared a democratic post-war government in Greece. There was the battle of Athens which lasted 33 days and the British bombed the working class of Athens, something the Germans hadn t done. Carolyn and I observed in Eastern Europe in 1968 that socialism had accomplished the harmonious political and economic co-existence of diverse nationalities in Yugoslavia, had brought democratic egalitarianism in Bulgaria, free health care for all in Romania and the adjoining countries, was proceeding with intense reconstruction in the Soviet Union and succeeded to have a complete absence of beggars in Hungary. When I began to make some money in real estate people asked, How can a Marxist like you be interested in making money? I always replied, The revolution needs money. Often the choices we make are not the choices we want, they re the choices we re given.

The Passionate Odyssey of Aris Anagnos

Aris Anagnos

Frontlines Press

Dispatches from Durban is a book of firsthand commentaries by long-term organizer and movement strategist Eric Mann written during the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Mann, a front line organizer for CORE, SDS, the United Auto Workers and the LA Bus Riders Union, analyzes the U.S. walkout at WCAR, the strategic significance of the Reparations Movement and the Palestine struggle for self determination, the South African Left’s lessons for a reconstructed U.S. Left, the United Nations and NGOs as sites for international movement organizing, an organizer’s assessment of the current challenges of U.S. imperialism, and Post September 11 movement strategies to challenge the Bush &amp; Democrats’ War Against the World. 
Mann has been a major voice on the U.S. Left and movement organizer for nearly four decades. He is the author of Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson; Taking on General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open; and L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Policy, Organizing and Action.

Dispatches From Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies

Politics & Social Sciences

Eric Mann

Sociology

From the author's introduction: "The central objective of this Letter is to reinforce the historical perspective, rooted in centuries on struggle by the Black Liberation Movement, of four interrelated strategic demands--land, reparations, full democratic rights, and the right of self-determination."

Letter in Support of a Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Katrina's Legacy focuses on the centrality of the Black Liberation Movement the entire U.S. Left and programmatic proposals supporting a new reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

Katrina s Legacy is a history-based essay on revolutionary strategy at the intersection of the Black, Third World, and Climate Justice Revolutions. It roots the cause of the Climate Catastrophe in the social development of the Christian, European/U.S., feudal, capitalist, imperialist worldview. 
Katrina s Legacy challenges white environmentalism and proposes an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, climate justice revolutionary strategy. Mann challenges the pretensions and lies of Western civilization and roots his work in the Indigenous, Black, and Third World rejections of white settler state barbarism. 
Katrina s Legacy upholds the humanity, hope, and right of self-determination of Third World people and movements. 
Katrina s Legacy is a tribute to the resiliency, determination, and resistance of Black people of New Orleans and is a plea to demand the Effective Right of Return of 100,000 Black People back to New Orleans. One key chapter is: Ten Reasons Why Katrina s Legacy Was a Genocidal Climate Crime. 
Katrina s Legacy is rooted in the work of the author at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The chapter What Are We Going to do About the United States challenges President Obama s plans and pretensions in Paris and offers a programmatic alternative with real demands in the real world. 
Katrina s Legacy teaches Black Revolutionary History, Environmental and Climate Studies, Urban Sociology, Revolutionary Strategy Tactics, and Organizing and Social Movement Studies.

Katrina's Legacy: The Black Nation and the People of the World Confront the US Imperialist White Settler State and its Genocidal Climate Crimes

Politics & Government