Books
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Housmans Radical Books, London – Events Newsletter, December 2009
NEWS 1. Best wishes from everyone at Housmans 2. End of the decade sale! EVENTS 3. ‘Change in Putin’s Russia’ with Simon Pirani. 4. Savage Messiah Zine Launch Party 5. ‘Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought’ with Steven Salaita. 6. ‘As Far as The Eye Can Sing’ with Frankie Armstrong. 7. ‘Bending The… Continue reading
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America The Betrayed – Walt Whitman: “Poet of the People” By Richard C Cook
If you want to get an idea of what America once was like, read the poems of Walt Whitman.Whitman was born on Long Island in 1819 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family was poor, but even though he left school at the age of 11 he gave himself an education by reading and… Continue reading
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Trance (Langston Hughes: In Translation) by Edgar Nkosi White
Langston Hughes had many contradictions. An enigma disguised as a poet. His sadness he kept to himself and his laughter he gave to the world. His whole life he was searching for Pushkin even before he knew who Pushkin was. Born in Missouri of a black father who almost instantly abandoned both him and America… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS Radical Books, London – Newsletter of events November 2009
NEWS 1. Peace House 50th Anniversary Celebration and Benefit 2. Housmans Peace Diary 2010 3. End of the decade sale! EVENTS 4. ‘What is Psychogeography Today?’ with Rich Cochrane 5. ‘Bob Dylan & Babylon: Together through Life’ with John Gibbens 6. ‘People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity’ with Howard Clark 7. ‘Songs of the… Continue reading
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Housman’s Radical Books, London – Events Newsletter for October 2009
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Art as Resistance By Dahr Jamail
Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have tough truths to tell, and it has been well demonstrated that the establishment media does not want to broadcast these. Given the lack of an outlet for anti-war voices in the corporate media, many contemporary veterans and active-duty soldiers have embraced the arts as a tool for resistance,… Continue reading
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LONGVIEW: Deer Hunting With Jesus
Much has been said about white working-class voters. But those who’ve been doing all the talking are pollsters and political operatives. As part of our Long View series, ANP traveled to rural Virginia to talk to someone who’s lived the life and knows from personal experience what those voters are thinking — author Joe Bageant.… Continue reading
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Video: Benjamin Zephaniah, “Money”
Video: Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah, born and raised in Birmingham, England, is a poet. Rejecting the appointment as an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003, Zephaniah wrote: Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear that word “empire”; it reminds me of slavery, it… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS, LONDON EVENTS NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2009
CONTENTS: NEWS 1. Housmans online bookshop launched! Over 500,000 titles available… 2. Housmans Peace Diary 2010: Special pre-publication offer EVENTS 3. Last Hours present: Spoonboy, Kelly Kemp and PJ & Gaby Friday 4th September – 7pm till 10pm 4. Greenpeace and Climate Camp present: ‘No New Coal – Stopping Kingsnorth’ Wednesday 9th September – 7pm… Continue reading
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Book Reviews: Immigration Past, Immigration Present: Confronting the Internal “Other” in Europe By Brian McCook
Immigration is now generally acknowledged as a fact of life across the democratic political spectrum within Europe, and a vast array of policies and programs have been adopted over the past decade to integrate “newcomers” into the mainstream. Nevertheless, immigration remains a highly contentious issue within the public consciousness, especially when stirred by a populist… Continue reading
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Book Review: Ecology and Socialism: Inseparable Revolutions
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels famously urged the world’s workers to unite because they had a world to win, and nothing to lose but their chains. Today, the reality of climate change and worsening environmental breakdowns globally adds a further vital dimension to this strident vision of human liberation. We still have a world to… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events, August 2009
Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events, August 2009 Continue reading
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What’s New at Reading from the Left?
Reading from the Left is a non-commercial project to promote socialist pamphlets and books. It provides free chapters from Marxist books, and full texts of Marxist pamphlets, from a variety of publishers. Continue reading
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Who Needs an Islamic State? by Yoginder Sikand
Islamism may be described as a version of Islam predicated on the centrality of the notion of an “Islamic state” whose principal function is to enforce, and rule by, what is conventionally regarded as shariah law. Islamism is far from being the homogenous phenomenon that it is often taken to be. Nor are all versions… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, Events in London during July 2009
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Book Review: In praise of Engels By Michael Fitzpatrick
Hunt provides a comprehensive account of Engels’ life and work. He gives him full credit for his important contribution to the emergence of Marxism, from his collaboration with Marx in The Communist Manifesto of 1848 to his contributions to Capital (including the laborious tasks of editing and publishing Volumes 2 and 3 after Marx’s death)… Continue reading
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Introducing Reading from the Left: New Website Provides Free Downloads of Current Socialist Books and Pamphlets
Reading from the Left features free PDF downloads of pamphlets, reviews and announcements of socialist books, free PDF downloads of book chapters, and in some cases entire books. Continue reading
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Book Review: Alison Frank, “Towards a Great German Oil Empire”
Although the book’s title might seem to imply that Germany waged war in order to secure access to oil, the narrative itself does not suggest that this was the case. On the contrary, the thirst for oil seems to have been as much driven by military success as it was an inspiration for military engagement.… Continue reading
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Book Review: Nancy Jacobs, "Nation-States as Building Blocks"
After one hundred pages of questioning the inevitability of decolonization and neocolonial domination, and of generalizing about Africa, we home in on 1960 to make sense of dozens of territories too durable to be taken apart and powerful enough for a degree of innovation. This raises the worthy question of how all these separate histories… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 