Draftees and enlistees — eighteen-year-olds from the South Bronx, factory workers from Buffalo, miners’ sons from Kentucky, unemployed youth from Watts — hate the military and the Vietnam War. They throw a wrench into the Pentagon’s war machine, becoming leaders of the anti-war movement and organizing a union in the conscript military to battle war, racism and their officers. In three other wars — the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 that sparked the Paris Commune; World War I, which sowed revolutions in Germany and Russia; African liberation wars of the 1960s that incited a captains' revolt in Portugal — ordinary soldiers turn their guns around to make revolution. Weaving together letters from servicemen and servicewomen, interviews with GI war resisters and first-hand narratives, memoir and historical research, the author — as participant and historian — highlights the relation between rank-and-file soldier resistance and the struggle for state power.

Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions

History

Catalinotto, John

Military

World View Forum

Cuba stands firm: Speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro on September 5, 1992, at the rally for the 39th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada ... Moncada, el día 5 de septiembre de 1992

Castro, Fidel

A unique book from the 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry, this firsthand account of the only black combatant to survive the raid details the story of this turning point in the struggle against slavery and refutes the notion that African American people did take on the cause for their freedom.

A Voice from Harper's Ferry

Anderson, Osborne

Americas

From the daily instances of police brutality and racial profiling to the government’s callous disregard of poor and mainly African American people in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, this remarkable book identifies the continuing struggles for justice among a society still permeated with the racism, oppression, and economic, political, and social discrimination that resulted from the horrendous transatlantic slave trade. Illuminating the often forgotten history of this diaspora and the legacy of brutal prejudice that stemmed from it, this critical argument discusses the fight for reparations within the United States as well as among the peoples of Africa and the Caribbean.

Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Featuring an insightful look at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) life in Cuba, this chronicle illuminates the progress the country has made from centuries of backward attitudes and oppression to the current state of enlightenment. From the mores of the Colonial period to the roles that Hollywood, the CIA, and Wall Street played in depicting Cuba as a police state” for gays and in reinforcing the oppression, this overview provides a backdrop of the past and illustrates the persecution and exploitation originally planted by Spanish colonialism and further cultivated by U.S. capitalism. Details on the gradual transformation follow as the narrative examines the impact of the political and institutional initiatives taken by Fidel Castro and the Cuban leadership to overcome bigotry and prejudice against LGBT peopleamong them free health care and education, guaranteed jobs and housing, special health care for AIDS victims, and widespread sex education.

Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba

Feinberg, Leslie

Through an examination of current corporate practices, historical evidence, and Marxist theories, this critique reveals the direct correlation between new technologies, globalization, and the dramatic drop in worker wages worldwide and proposes alternatives for dealing with the crisis. The narrative traces the advances in production, communications, and transportation that have enabled transnational companiessuch as Dell Computer, the Big Three” U.S. auto companies, IBM, Liz Claiborne, and Boeingto outsource to many diverse suppliers in numerous countries to make a single product. As a result of this global outsourcing, workers are no longer competing with others within their city, state, or country but with those thousands of miles away and have in essence entered into a worldwide wage competition that consistently lowers the wage floor. Compounding the crippling effects of these practices is the near doubling of the global workforce resulting from the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe’s political systems. Using Karl Marx’s law of wages and other findings, the chronicle maintains that these developments will not only continue to drive down wages but lead to a profound revival of working class struggle. This analysis argues that the only way to reverse these trends is to implement various strategies to fight back, especially regarding the labor-community alliance and class-wide strategies for struggle.

Low-Wage Capitalism: Colossus with Feet of Clay

Business & Money

Goldstein, Fred

Economics

Its theories eerily prescient of modern-day times, this treatisefirst published more than 20 years agoexamines the devastating impact of the scientific and technological revolution on wages and employment in the United States and illustrates how this revolution led to unprecedented levels of exploitation in those countries that received massive U.S. corporate investment. Among its tenets is the position that the phenomenon now known as globalization would dramatically change the composition of the U.S. working class from a highly skilled and highly paid, largely white, male aristocracy” to a composition of a far greater percentage of low-paid black, Latino, and other immigrant workers. The indictment also maintains that rather than bringing Western-style prosperity to the rest of the world, globalization would only intensify the misery in poor countries and bring new levels of unemployment and impoverishment to workers in both the U.S. and other industrialized countries. This polemic further posits that the growing demolition of vast sections of highly paid workers and their sinking to the level of the more oppressed sections spells out a new constellation of internal forces in the working class that will fundamentally alter the relationship between black and white workers.

High Tech Low Pay: A Marxist Analysis of the Changing Character of the Working Class

Marcy, Sam

Giving a voice to those often denied one in the media, this collection of essays and articles covers events in Gaza from the 2005 electoral victory of Hamas, through the siege and Israeli bombing, to the 2010 Israeli commando attack on ships bringing humanitarian aid. The stories told here describe how the Palestinian people of Gaza have withstood siege and war and how their resistance has inspired a worldwide grassroots movement to break the blockade and deliver aid. Contributors include members of the Palestinian community, Israeli soldiers who disagreed with the Gaza war, political activists, and many others. U.S. corporate and government interests in the Middle East and Israel in particular are also analized.

Gaza: Symbol of Resistance

Middle East

Explaining how the recent U.S. economic crisis, which quickly spread around the world, marked a turning point in the history of capitalism, this book contends that the system will not bounce back and will not return to the normal capitalist boom-and-bust cycle. Using youth unemployment as a key measure of stagnation of a system in decline, as well as Marxist analytical tools, it shows how global capitalism has reached a tipping point. Other featured examples demonstrate how capitalism is not only wrecking the environment, but has outgrown the planet and threatens its very existence, nearing a resurgence of global class struggle at levels not seen since the 1930s.

Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High-Tech Era

Explaining how the recent U.S. economic crisis, which quickly spread around the world, marked a turning point in the history of capitalism, this book contends that the system will not bounce back and will not return to the normal capitalist boom-and-bust cycle. Using youth unemployment as a key measure of stagnation of a system in decline, as well as Marxist analytical tools, it shows how global capitalism has reached a tipping point. Other featured examples demonstrate how capitalism is not only wrecking the environment, but has outgrown the planet and threatens its very existence, nearing a resurgence of global class struggle at levels not seen since the 1930s. Explicando c#65533;mo la crisis econ#65533;mica americana reciente, la cual se extendi#65533; r#65533;pidamente por todo el mundo, represent#65533; un punto decisivo en la historia del capitalismo, este libro sostiene que el sistema no se recuperar#65533; y no regresar#65533; al ciclo capitalista normal de auge y contracci#65533;n. Usando el desempleo juvenil como una medida clave del estancamiento de un sistema en declive, as#65533; como herramientas anal#65533;ticas marxistas, demuestra c#65533;mo el capitalismo global ha llegado a un momento cr#65533;tico. Otros ejemplos demuestran la manera en la cual el capitalismo no s#65533;lo est#65533; destruyendo el medio ambiente, sino que tambi#65533;n ha agobiado el planeta y amenaza su mera existencia, suscitando un resurgimiento de una lucha global de clases que no se ha visto desde los a#65533;os 30.

El Capitalismo en un Callejon sin Salida: Destruccion de empleo, sobreproduccion y crisis en la era de la alta tecnologia (Spanish Edition)

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