Originally published in 1972, Eusi Kwayana's The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics, offered profound lessons for class struggle in a multiracial society. Many decades later, Kwayana's work remains urgently relevant. 
 A product of Guyana, and a classic of Caribbean radical history, The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics examines the struggle of Afro-Guyanese mine workers in what was the soon-to-be nationalized bauxite industry, as they faced off against the racism and sexism of the Canadian-owned aluminum firm, ALCAN, the class collaboration of the Guyana Mine Workers Union (GMWU), and the hostility of Forbes Burnham's government toward their self-organization and self-emancipation. Through these events, Burnham's regime -- which initially claimed to be a patron of global African solidarity, cultural renewal, and a cooperative society -- began to reveal itself as a collaborator with the empire of capital, an oppressor of Black workers, and a promoter of racial insecurity in Guyana. 
 Kwayana's work leads us to reconsider the nature of representative government and electoral politics. Black power, for Kwayana, began to transcend the notion of a Black ruling elite s equal opportunity to enter the rules of hierarchy. Through engagement with Guyana s bauxite workers, Black Power became synonymous with Black workers control. This new edition includes an introduction by Matthew Quest, and an appendix of rare ASCRIA (African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa) documents and writings by Kwayana, spanning this period of Guyanese history from 1972 to 1974. This new material documents Kwayana's fight against government corruption, his participation in Guyana s cooperative movement, and his facilitation, in 1973, of a multiracial rebellion of landless sugar workers.

The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics

Business & Money

Eusi Kwayana

Matthew Quest

Economics

On Our Own Authority! Publishing

Originally published as a pamphlet in 1970, Maurice Brinton's The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control presents a concise yet brilliant historical critique of revolutionary Russia from the year 1917 to 1921, from the Bolshevik's ascension to state power, up to--and in the aftermath of--Lenin and Trotsky's lethal suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. This small volume offers a critical understanding of the history of the Russian Revolution that has too often been obscured by romanticized Leninist revision. With devastating documentation and attention to detail, Brinton's writing exposes the Bolshevik counter-revolution and its hostile resentment toward the self-mobilization of the Russian working class. Additionally, Brinton's work illuminates crucial distinctions between workers' self-management of industry and workers control (an alternate idea coined by the Bolshevik dictatorship). In this way, his work asserts and defends the revolutionary idea that the working class itself can govern the affairs of society, outside of the authority of any state power or ruling class whatever its name or form.

The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921: The State and Counter-Revolution

History

Maurice Brinton

Military

Kimathi Mohammed, a Michigan based activist who was a native of Savannah, Georgia deserves to be recognized as among the most original political theorists of the Black Power movement in the United States. "Organization & Spontaneity," originally published in 1974, was a response to key contradictions of the late 1960s and early 1970s Black freedom movement, manifested in the Black Panther Party and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. In contrast to many political thinkers of the Civil Rights and Black Power era, Mohammed's work emphasized the self-organization of ordinary African Americans and their liberating, self-directed activism. Mohammed placed forward his critique of would-be Black vanguards at a time when most prominent Black Power activists--even the socialist advocates among them--were beginning to embrace electoral politics and systems of patronage which would ultimately suppress any independent Black political power. "Organization & Spontaneity" anticipated new obsta

Organization and Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the US Today

Politics & Social Sciences

Patricia West

Kimathi Mohammed

Modibo Kadalie

Social Sciences

The Commune: Paris, 1871, is a new collection of critical reflections on the Paris Commune by classic anarchist and libertarian-socialist authors like Louise Michel, William Morris, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin,Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman and Maurice Brinton. These writings seek the illuminate the place of the Commune within the global history of working people's resistance to exploitation and domination, and investigate its implications for the future of revolutionary struggle. Compiled and edited with a foreword by Andrew Zonneveld.

The Commune: Paris, 1871

Voltairine de Cleyre

Peter Kropotkin

Louise Michel

Mikhail Bakunin

Alexander, Berkman

William, Morris

Europe

Ida B. Wells was a teacher, journalist, and newspaper editor who led the most dynamic anti-lynching campaign in American History. Wells’s work exposes how the public murder and mutilation of Black bodies by mob justice stood side by side with a degrading culture based on racial stereotypes and strict gender roles that institutionalised fear in everyday life. In doing so, Wells challenged the intersection of white supremacy, patriarchy, and the meaning of 'civilization' in the early-20th century. Newly edited and introduced by Matthew Quest, Lynch Law in Georgia &amp; Other Writings is a selection of Wells’s anti-lynching pamphlets that shifts how we have come to understand this great activist thus far. These pamphlets reflect a transition from seeing lynching and race riots as responses to Black middle class aspirations toward viewing them as attacks on the potential of insurgent Black workers who defended and organised themselves for emancipation. Published by On Our Own

Lynch Law in Georgia & Other Writings

Ida B. Wells

Americas

Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity is a collection of selected essays by Lenni Brenner and Matthew Quest investigating the historical response of African American freedom movements to the colonial settler state of Israel and its role in American imperialism in the Middle East. Through nuanced discussions of racism, capitalism, imperialism, and state power, these writings help to clarify one of the most controversial legacies of Black liberation in the United States. Among other topics and controversies, Brenner and Quest provide independent analysis of Stokely Carmichael, James Forman, the Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, Harold Cruse, the Nation of Islam, Israel s relationship to Apartheid South Africa, and the recent conflict between Alice Walker and the Anti-Defamation League.

Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity

Lenni Brenner

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, the Russian Jewish immigrants who were once called "the two most notorious anarchists in the United States" by the New York Times, were the most outstanding revolutionary activists of their generation. Arrested in 1917 for their anti-conscription campaign during the First World War, they were subsequently deported to Russia in the 1919 1920 Red Scare. Although they were initially optimistic about returning to Russia in the midst of social revolution, over the next two years Goldman and Berkman would come face-to-face with the contradictions of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" as they witnessed the persecution of Russian anarchists, the suppression of revolutionary labor movements, and the brutal annihilation of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. The two anarchists quickly learned that the Bolshevik Party's dictatorship was not the embodiment of the workers' revolution, but was in fact "the very antithesis of revolution." Through their first-hand accounts of the situation in Russia, Goldman and Berkman reminded revolutionaries everywhere that "the state whatever its name or form is ever the mortal enemy of liberty and popular self-determination" and that true social revolution can never be managed or manipulated by political parties seeking state power, but must emerge from the creative self-activity of working people themselves. This new volume collects selected writings by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman that recount their experiences in Russia from 1920 to 1922. Famous essays like "Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists," "The Prisons of Russia," and "There Is No Communism in Russia" are collected here alongside immortal pamphlets like The Crushing of the Russian Revolution, The Russian Tragedy, and The Kronstadt Rebellion. Selections from Emma Goldman's memoir, My Disillusionment in Russia, are also included, as well as many other documents and manuscripts.

To Remain Silent is Impossible: Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman in Russia

Emma, Goldman

In 1933 the German Zionist Federation sought Hitler s patronage: "Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration even of a government fundamentally hostile to Jews. . . . Boycott propaganda . . . currently being carried on against Germany . . . is in essence un-Zionist." Zionism became the only other legal political movement in the Nazi Reich. That same year, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) made the Ha'avara (Transfer) Agreement, undermining the boycott against Nazi Germany. German Jewish emigrants to Palestine had to buy Nazi goods that the WZO sold in the Middle East. In 1937 the Haganah (later the Israeli army) sent an agent to Berlin. They would provide spy intelligence if the Nazis further eased the monetary regulations for emigrants to Palestine. The Zionist-Revisionist movement (today the ruling Likud Party) set up a detachment at Mussolini's naval academy. He personally reviewed them in 1936. They wanted him to replace Britain as Zionism s patron. In 1941, the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (later Likudniks) told the Nazis that they wanted a "Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich," and offered "to actively take part in the war on Germany s side." This is the sordid history documented in Lenni Brenner's Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. This updated edition features a new afterword by the author.

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators

World

"Every man is his own leader and we are leaderless" this was the organizational principle voiced by the Afro-Guyanese bauxite mine workers in the democratic councils and mass assemblies that characterized the bauxite strike of April 1970.  Originally published in 1972, Eusi Kwayana's The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics examines the struggle for workers' control in what was Guyana's soon-to-be-nationalized bauxite industry. Kwayana's account of these events underscores the workers' conviction that "nationalization without workers' control and workers' self-management is a fraud."  This revised second edition includes a biographical sketch of Eusi Kwayana, an introduction by Matthew Quest, and an appendix of rare documents published by ASCRIA (African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa). Over thirty leaflets, pamphlets, essays, editorials, and newspaper articles have been reprinted in this volume, documenting the struggle for workers' self-emancipation in Guyana from the bauxite strike of 1970 to the sugar workers' rebellion of 1974.

David Hinds

How Queer! gathers together fourteen autobiographical essays written not by sociologists or professional activists, but by ordinary bisexual, pansexual, and sexually-fluid people. These writers come from diverse backgrounds, but their personal narratives explore overarching themes of non-monosexual visibility, activism, confrontation with homophobia and religious bias, and endlessly double-edged experiences in the LGBTQ community. These stories help bring understanding to anyone who wants to learn more about gender and sexual identity whether to help define their own journey, to grow their own awareness, or to build solidarity with one another. As a complement to these narratives, Faith Beauchemin offers her own personal commentary in a series of reflective essays, which place the writers' experiences in the context of broader movements for radical social change. Beauchemin argues that a trend toward bisexual erasure in LGBTQ activism is all too prevalent, and functions only to serve the interest of patriarchy, sexism, and homophobia. In contrast to this trend of erasure, the stories collected in How Queer! subvert oppressive hierarchies by highlighting the perspectives and revolutionary potential of people who refuse to fit neatly into the narrow categories of sexual identity that are imposed upon them at every turn.

How Queer! Personal narratives from bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, sexually-fluid, and other non-monosexual perspectives.

Faith Beauchemin

Biographies & Memoirs

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The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics

The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921: The State and Counter-Revolution

Organization and Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the US Today

The Commune: Paris, 1871

Lynch Law in Georgia & Other Writings

Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity

To Remain Silent is Impossible: Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman in Russia

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators

The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics

How Queer! Personal narratives from bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, sexually-fluid, and other non-monosexual perspectives.